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VOLsfrj*E XIII., No. 249
ORVILLE WRIGHT BROKE
THE WORLD’S RECORD
Stayed in Air Nearly An
Hour Had Apparently
Perfect Control of the
Machine No Mishap
Marred Event.
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WASHINGTON.—OrviIIe Wright, in
his new aeroplane, shattered all the
world's records for heavier-thau-atr
machines this morning, when he sail
ed over the parade grounds at Fort
Myer for 57 minutes and 31- seconds.
This flight, which surpasses that of
the French aviator, Delagrange, who
made a record one of 31 minutes and
a fraction, over the field of Issy, and
which tops that of the Wrights them
selves by a little more than nineteen
minutes, was made without a hitch,
without a blunder upon the part of
the operator
It was not an official test, and
there was not an officer of the signal
corns on the ground at the time Mr.
Wright, was flying, but the presence of
Augustus Post of the Aero Club of
America and several other experts
will assure the world of the eorrect
ness of the record.
Mr. Wright did not come down to
earth because he could not have;
stayed up longer. The first, thing he I
said, after Mr. Post had shaken hands J
with him, was t.o his chief mechanic, ,
Mr. Taylor, who informed him tha* 1
he had been up within two minutes j
of a full hour.
"Well.” he said, smilingly, “If I had
known that I wouldn't have come
down. I could have stayed up ten
minutes or more if I had wished.”
The flight was made under ideal
conditions. Not a breath of air was
stirring. Mr. Wright came out to the
reservation early, confident, after the
performance of last night, when he
stayed up more than 11 minutes, that
he could do almost anything he pleas
ed with this machine that seems al
most to be a thing of life itself. (
He took his seat in the aeroplane
about 8.15 and at 8.25 it skimmed
down the monorail track and up into
the air obedient to the aviator's will.
Wright was confident, evidentlv, of
his full control of his machine, for
at times he sailed over the utmost
limits of the parade grounds, over
bushes and trees and close to build
irgs which a week ago be seemed
to fear grea'ly. At no time was the
dipping motion to be noticed, such as
marred the airship's progress in the.
previous attempts.
At times Wright would rise to a
height estimated to be 150 feet above
the ground, and then a half lap fur
ther on he would come do- n to
within perhaps 20 feet of the grass.
Toward, the end of the flight the
engine missed Are a few times, but
for more than half of the 57 minutes
the regular clacking of Us exhaust;
came without interruption.
But few persons saw this flight, j
•which will likely stand for some time
—stand at least, it ts believed, until ;
Wright himself complies with the gov- j
ernment's endurance test and stays l
up continuously for one hour.
HOUSE XDBPTED
COMMITTEE'S
REPORT
ATLANTA. Ga—The house this
morning adopted without murh oppo
sition all sections of the conference
committee’s report except that section
which provides for working “over"
by contract. On this section an aye
and no vote was called. As the roU
was called indications were that this
would be adopted also.
The senate voted down the How
ard resolution that it be the sense
of the senate of conference report
be adopted; vote 21 to lfi. Consider
able confusion as to how the senate
will now proceed in further consider
ation of the report since its adoption
by the house.
ELECTRIC CHAIR
IDS ilfl'S
ISSMIT
VtytrOLK. Va—Henry Smith, alias
o*e * Perry, was convicted yesterday
in the Norlotk county court of attack
ing Mrs. Catherine Poweil. 75 years
o. t in the fiome of the woman in Park
Plac*. a suburb of Portsmouth, Au
gust 11 last His punishment was
fixed by the jury at death, and Judge
Btin Immediately thereafter sen
traced him to die in the electric chair
iM Richmond, on October 13 next.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
Local Forecast for Augusta and Viciuity—Fair tonight and Thursday
WATER TWICE
DAILY
Nf
Hereafter the citizens of Augusta
will he supplied with water twice
daily instead of only once as has been
the rule since the freshet put the
pumping station out of commission.
Superintendent John D. Twiggs is
sued a statement today to the effect
that hereafter water would be turn
ed on front 7.30 to 9 o’clock a. m.
and from C. 30 to 8 o'clock p, m.
The change will go Into effect this
afternoon and for the first time In
many days water will bo supplied the
city in the afternoon.
SPEC! RELIEF
FOR IITE PEOPLE
In order to relieve suffering among
white people who will not ask for
aid the general relief committee has
appointed a special committee to in
vestigate special cases and Mr. E. S.
Johnson, secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce, has been made chair
man of the committee. At the ineet
■eg today an appropriation of SI,OOO
was made to furnish funds for this
purpose and the committee instructed
to supplv food and clothing and cash
if reeded. Where families are needing
money and will not accept charity the
general relief committee advises
loaning smalt sums for a short period
of time if the people in question de
sire it.
The committee also decided to
meet only twice a we»k hereafter
unless a special call was made and
consequently the next meeting will
he held Saturday. Thereafter the
meetings will he held every Wednes
day and Saturday until the work is
completed.
The receipts today were small ag
gregating scarcely more than $ 1 no.
and this amount .vns turned over to
Manager E. 11. Hook.
The Associated Charities have
changed their mooting hours from
noon to u o'clock in the afternoon.
Mr. E. S. Johnson, chairman of the
special committee, made his first re
port to the general relief committee
today.
31935 MCE 13
BIST CANNON
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CHICAGO—Open war against the
speaker of the national house of rep
resentatives, Joseph G. Cannon, will
be delivered by the bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal church because
of Mr. Cannon's alleged opposition to
the Littlefield Inter-state liquor ship
ment bill, or to any other legislation
having a similar purpose Eight:.-
of the bishops have united in a sym
posium, which will appear in this
week's issue of the Northwestern
Christian Advocate in which they will
denounce Mr. Cannon's no Cion and
urge the necessity of those who d
sire legislation favoring temperance
to defeat him for re-election
rpakcr.
Hostility to Mr. Cannon began he
May when he refused to accede to
the request to favor the Littlefield
bill made by a committee of twenr
fiv,p representing ihe general confer
ence of the Methodist Eplaeopr
church, then in session in the city o:
Baltimore.
FOR FINE NEW ROKD
JOINT MEETING
A special committee from Aiken
will probably visit Augusta next Wed
nesday with a vN to forming *|e
nlte plans for constructing a splen
did road from Augusta to Aik-.
Plans for the road have already be
mapped out and the work is wall u
der way in manv sections of th
read.
Public subscriptions for a lar.
amount of money needed has alresii
been raised and it is understood th .
Alkrn county will subscribe liberal’
to the road building fund
The construction of the road wi
mean a great thing for Augusta a
weli as Aiken county bt the opinio
of all who ar« In tourh with the p a,
and developments in the matter wih
be watched with great interest. ,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 9, 1908.
NEW PICTURES OF HARRY KENDALL THAW
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WHO IS ALLOWED MANY PRIVILEGES IN JAIL
Here are some new pictures of
Harry Thaw, while he was in cell
in jail at Pughkeepsie, N. Y, He was
allowed a great many privileges and
luxuries. He had a suite of three
cells, furnished for his personal use.
The freedom of eight other cells on
the same corridor. There were pro
tiers, rugs, typewritr, books and pa
pers, use of the telephone, correspond
ence and unlimited tobacco.
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Rather Die Now Than Let
His Brother Be His Slayer
IRWIN. PA. —Rather than allow his brother to commit the crime
Cain. Angelo Manchillo, an Italian of Larimer, according to a remark
able statement made to Irwin surgeons and officers last night, planned
to take his own life.
Manchillo is suffering from three self-inflicted stabs from the ef
fects of which doctors say he cannot recover.
The injured man said that he and his brother Michael had quarreled
and that the latttr had threatened to kill him. Relieving that the threat
would b e carried out. at the first favorable oppcrtiiDlt ., MauchlUo as
si rts he slashed himself, intending that the wounds should be fatai.
EVANS DEFEATED
BY EJL Mil
FORMER GOVERNOR OF SOUTH
CAROLINA LOST IN SECOND
PRIMARY BY ABOUT
22,000 VOTES
CAU6HMAN LOSES
Incumbent Railroad Com
missioner Beaten by Jan.
Cansler Returns arc
Not Completed From Ru
ral Districts.
COLUMBIA. B Reports cover
rig 87,000 of the 90,000 votes probably
act in yes • rday's primary indicate
Ip- nomination of K. It. Smith for
nlted onatoi over John Gary
',w,ns by a majority of 22.500; .ts
lohn E. Swearingen- nephew of Berni
er Tinman for state superintendent
-f education over S. R. Melilrharnp by
majority of 9,400, and of Jatu*-a
,-iter for railroad commissioner
vi-r the incumbent, B. L. Caughman,
r a majority of 700,
Above result* are extremely unlike
'o lie 'ed I- later returns, all
f which will be from small rural
,deduct*
I i ). W# ;B {
CUMMINGS LINES
FOU3EEEB WES
DKB MOI'- KH, I.i -Govrrnor Albert.
It. Cuinming.; mc.is fount* en vote*
this morning of election a* United
.States senator for the unexpired por
tion of Senator Allison's form. This
number will lie reduced by two votes
ii joint ‘-esslori today by the arrival
*,t ReprovttfaUvos O. H Holmes and
Ward Wilson, ptogra, dve, not pres
cut yea-'iday.
Each house voted separately yes
t'rda- afternoon, -ml at noon tods
the joint committee will meat. In
n- ittr i home was there a majority
lor cumi.uws, a"<l otter the journal*,
of the two ho-iM are compared to
day and the fact of no election an
noinie-d, Hi*- convention will proceed
to be lint. A deadlock probably will
result.
The comparision of th* total vote
*if both in us* e gives Cuinmlngs Gi
v*Jes, poit-r 45, Scattering, cast oy
' revol'i i!',' it, Th*- total number of
votes v.iis 152. The total membership
if both homes b 158, but there are
three viicancie:, caused t»> death and
removal.
It is expected that ail 'lie 155 men*
her* will lie pr. n today so to In
tie elected Cummings wl'l have to have
7s vn- •», ot 12 more than It** roeelv
-*1 . irrd".\, with tilt ,u»*i of Repr
sedatives Wilson and Holme*.
OLD 111 KILLED
wife™ HIMSELF
BROOKVILLB, Irid -Jesse Wood
ruff, til! years old, crushed his wife's
skull with a flatiron early Monday
morning, causing her death. He then
fired a bullnl Into Ills own bead and
another into his body and cannot re
cover. The tragedy followed a fam
ily quarrel, and the condition «r
Woodruff's beard and hair Indicate
that the woman made a desperate
struggle. The couple separated sev
era! weeks ago and Iho result of a
dispute over property.
DEATH TRAP CAUSED
TROOBLETOIURERS
CHICAGO A death trap lull It. tiy
boys at play collapsed on Its mak
ers yesterday uf'eninoii, killing one.
ot itiein, fatally injuring a second, and
seriously injuring a third. The dead
boy is Harry llleketts, 15 years old,
son of Thomas llleketts, a contractor.
The tragedy was due l*- the fulling in
of a cave the boys had excavated In
the prairie near llielr homes.
Lotiia Mott, 15 yean., son of Erect
Mo-tt, former mayor of Hammond,
eannot recover, and Clifford Hudson,
11, son of R. W. Hudson, superintend
tin of the Btfitidard Steel company
may die.
HELD FOB MURDER
OF HER GRANDSON
SHEBOYGAN, Wis Mrs, Lixjtie
Lannoye, of Wald- , Wis , was at real
id vestorday charged with the tnur
d--r of hi rda old grandson. It Is
charged she ueld a rag over his mouth
to keep him from crying
NEW YORK*POLICEMAN
COMMITTED SUICIDE
Pecanac He Could Not Be
With Hi* Family Who
Were In the Country.
NEW YORK Despondent because
of his inability to Join his wife and
children, who at a spending their vs
litlon in the country, owing to an
order issued to member* of the po
lice department by Commissioner
Bingham forbidding them to tak*
their annual vacation until after Sep
tern her i, Policeman John J Gordon,
attached to the John Street station,
committed suicide today In hi* home
at. No 317 Cast One Hundred and
Hlxty s- Kind street Bronx, by inhal
ing Illuminating gas.
DAILY AND SUNDAY $6.00 PER YEAR.
NEGRO LYNCHED
BV MOD ID
OXFORD
OXFORD, Miss A mob hammered
its way into jail here last night and
lynched Lawson Patton, a negro who
attacked and then killed a Mrs. Mc-
Mullen yesterday afternoon. Mis.
McMullen's husband, who was a pris
oneV at the jail, sent tho negro, u
trusty to his homo with a message
to his wife, and while there the at
tack was made.
The sheriff abandoned the jail to
keep from tiding forced to give up tho
prisoner, but the molt broke in.
Patton appeared to be drinking, or
under the influence of some drug
win n he called at tho McMullen home
at the outskirts of town. After de
livering the message he refused to
tottve.
Mrs. McMullen suggested to her
daughter that she get the gun and
frighten him away, whereupon the
negro clashed the mother across tho
throat and grabbed the daughter. Bite
escaped and the negro fled Mrs.
McMullen ran about two hundred
yards and dropped dead. The alarm
was given and neighbors and officers
pursued the negro and captured him
in a field.
MRS. SAGE’S GIFT
18 GOVERNMENT
OYSTER hay, N Y President
Roosevelt has made public, through
the executive office correspondence
which has passed between Mrs. Rub
Hell Huge and himself concerning the
transaction whereby Mrs sage pro
Rents to the government for use ns
an addition to the West Point acsd
etity, Constitution Island, which lies
in th' Hudson, opposite West Point.
Mrs Sage's letter of presentation, tn
which she namen Miss Anna Bart
lett Warner, former owner of the is
land, as a joint donor, wtm forwarded
|to the president on September I, and
lq. made Immediate reply to both Mrs.
Sage and Miss Warner.
Mrs. Sage’s Letter
Mrs Sage’s letter to tile president
was In part ns follows:
The President:
Sir: I tHke pleasure In tendering,
ns n gift to the United States front
myself and Miss Anna Rartleii War
mi. "Constitution Island.’' opposite
West Point My attention recently
hat: been called by Captain Peter E
Traub, one of the professors at West
point, to the Importance of adding
(Ids Island to the West. Point reser
vation, and to the unsjurcesHful efforts
of successive administrations of the
military academy and secretaries of
war to Kccure the necessary appro
prlalloiiH to purchase It.
"In historic interest H Is intimately
connected with West Point. It form
od, during the Revolution, a part of
the defenses of tho Hudson river.
Upon It are now Hie remains of some
ten breastworks, commenced In 1775
by order of ihe Continental Congress,
and completed by Kosciusko.”
Mrs. Sage says the island bas been
In the possession of the Warner fam
ily since 1800 and was purchased by
her from Miss Warner under an agree
ment that II should In* offered lo the
govornmeni as a part of the West
Point reservation. She nays the
deeds will be transferred as soon as
proper legislation la enacted for the
reception of the Island by the govern
ment for the purpose named.
President Replies
To this communication President
Roosevelt replied, thanking both Mrs.
Hage and Mlhh Warner In tho name
of till people of the United States,
and n. suing her that the necessary
steps for the transfer of the proper
ty would be speedily made.
Large vs Small Space
A big object, is seen quicker than a small object
An elephant makes more Impression than an ant.
A sledge hammer accomplishes Its purpose when a tuck hammer
would fait.
Wh<n sailors fish for sharks they use In-avv tackle.
The user of large space wor ks in harmony with great natural
laws.
Whin a class advertiser Is sure of th- character of hts audience
he gits right down to lit: selling talk.
And, to deliver the kind of talk that eclinohe* sales, you must
have room.
If you had a process to cure deafness, and wi re permitted to de
scribe your proee.s once to lip thousand deaf people, you would
not give them on<* tenth part of the necessary Information. You
would **f*k for the Immediate and direct sae- by toiling them all
about It
Small -pare Is all right wh-p doubt exists as to th- character of
the audience you are addressing, b-n when you have your audleuca
interested in your goods, strike out. Sell t\*m
Tin- man who can afford to take a page every now and than In bis
hotn*- newspaper, and doesn’t. Is simply trifling with his oppor*
tiinitliM Brains,
You can't advertise inade
quately without somebody
knowing It. You oan't adver
tise adequately without some
body knowing It.
II FIERY RAIN IN
BATTLEJOR LIFE
ONE THOUSAND PIONEERS
BATTLING TO SAVE HOME
WIFE AND CHILDREN IN
MINNESOTA
MANY BURN TO DEATH
Settlers Overcome by Heat
Fall in Pathway of the
Flames and Perish
Hundred Miles Ablaze.
DULUTIf, Minn.—Beneath smoke
obscured skies, tho roar of flaming
forests all about them, tortured by
a rain of blazing sparks, desperate
with Iho knowledge that their wives
mid children, huddled, terrified behind
them, one thousand hardy pioneers
ate hallllng for their lives in tho
burning forests In tho northwestern
part of the state.
Fallen :ln dharvod underbrush,
overcome with smoko and exhaustion,
ilo the bodies of a number of settlors
the exact number at this time un
known, for those who are fleeing be
fore Iho sea of flame that, drives to
ward Lake Superior have no time to
reckon casualties.
Tho fire. Blurting In the nhnpo of a
great orescent, with elongating points,
lias drawn Into Iho shape of a circle,
leaving but a small opening of es
cape of those wito are hemmed tn. If
this opening Ih reached, the survivors
can make for tho lake where refuge
awaits them.
Hlx hundred people in tho village
of (Irand Mara are surrounded by
lire. The Bmoke arches over tho set
tlement and, shadowing the village
as night, rises high in the air as ts
from a chimney. The men are work
ing with the strength of desperation
oil tho very edge of the blazing for
cst, felling trees, plowing ground, do
ing everything possible to check the
j onrush of lire.
Fully too square miles of dense
forest Is a blase. An estimate of the
money Josh Is impossible at this time.
Every train brings refugees to this
city from towns scattered throughout
the region in the path of the fire.
The town of Snowball, about two
miles from Nashwattk, has been de
stroyed The people had no time to
tight the tire nor to save their of
feels.
They fled In terror for refuge here.
The steamer America, with the Unit
ed Stales steamship Oophar, carrying
two companies of naval rnservss.
have been dispatched for the north
shore. Tin- vessels carry provisions,
and will pick up the settlers who
have been driven to the shore of tho
lake.
A heavy palt of smoke covers the
entire copper ri glon. The air Is sti
lling, which indicates the tort pent
those wito are In the burning forests
fighting ror lire ar«. suffering.
Buhl nnfl Niisbwauk, which were
threatened on Sunday, are again in
danger. The wind Is driving the
flames directly toward these towns.
Brooklyn, a small suburb of Hlhblng,
also Is threatened.
There Is little likelihood of the fire
being extinguished until there hail
been a prolonged rain, or It burns to
the water's edge, and exhausts Itself.
HEXRING CHARGES
■STJFFICERS
ATLANTA, Oa - In tho offices of
the prison commission this morning
was begun hearing several charge*
which the commission brought for
violation of the convict lease laws at
camps In Turner and Worth counties.
First case was against W. A. Oroer,
ordinary of Turner county.