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The man who has a house to rent and the man who wants to rent a house have a "news interest" for each other. Here again the little ads, act as "in troducers," 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. i T 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 i • 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 dt d& vSC <£ dt dt dt dt dt 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. f • ' i' Wf' L-1m ; % I V ■; f *1 § * i * «• 1 J'j'j- v |..... |v.:f •., jj 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.