AIRSHIP CROSSING ATLANTIC
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Or THE WEEK
8,*r*
FRENCH AIRSHIP
CROSSES CHANNEL
GALE HITS GULF.
West
Indian Hurricane Headed
Florida Coast.*
tor '
FRENCH STRIKE
CALLED CRIMINAL
Atlantic City, N. J.. OcL 17. Sail-
Key West. OcL 15— At 6 o'clock to
—
1
“
mg into a thick fog that hung low
night the wireleaa station here report- |
ed a Weal Indian hurricane centered
over the Atlantic ocean a few minutes
west of Havana and moving with great
. thia ■Mralag, Walter
intensity toward Frogreaao. Yucatan.
m «••»»• g
Wellman, with a rrew of five men, is
The atorm will extend from Florida
tz»nighl believird to be on jm epoch
to Mcxi«"o. Ail wirvhws station* will,
making voyage to Europe in the huge
»
the exception of the local government i
cigar-shaped airship America.
•talion arc disabled. There II in un
Numerous wireless messages were
General Resume of Important Events receivtd during the day, and the latrai Carries Seven Men From Compeigne. confirmed rumor that a liner is ashore Telegraph Wire* Cut and Air Brake*
near Key West.
indicatrd that Wellman is tonight sail
Presented In Condensed Form
Francs, to London, in Si* Hours
Ditablsd Food Supply for
Ntw
The weather bureau station at Sand
ing
through
Die
darkness
off
the
Without
Mishap.
Pari* By Water.
for Our Busy Readers.
Key waa awash and the ment her«
York coasL
««■ught refuge at the lighthouse. The
The men making the flight are Wal
United wireless station waa temporar
ter Wellman, eommaixbr. Melvin t'so
Ixmdon Another chapter was added i ily disabled and the ofierator secured
Paris, OcL 18.—The strike of the
" A world-wide steel trust may aoon Iman, chief engineer and next in com-
._____ _
_. • abandoned his
. . railroad men, which
be a reality.
the instruments
and
threatens to
mand; F. Murray Simmons, navigator; to the history of aviation when the *i__
Taft will urge the development of J- K. Irwin, wirelroa operator; John French dirigible balloon. Clement- quarters when heavy seas began to spread throughout France, was de
The government wireless nounced today by Premier Briand as
Aubert and Albert Ixiui* lx»ud. «aaiat- Bayard, made the voyage from Com come in.
the Alaskan coal fields.
ant engineers.
alone waa in operation.
■ ptegne to Ixindon in the nsnarkable
Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, died sud
• "an insurrection, purely, built upon
The start of the America waa one of
denly of heart failure.
a
journey
nquiring
time
of
six
hours,
English
Coast
Fesls
Storm.
criminal foundations."
the moat dramatic momenta ever oc
Roundly criticised by seven hours by the fastest express
Ixindon The English coast is strewn 1
The San Francisco mural wave is curring here.
The premier de«-larvd that the strike
I people who did not believe that be ' trains snd boats.
driving many crooks out of the city.
Compeignc is 45 with wreckage a* the rcault of a storm waa called while negotiations were go
that haa continued for two days. The ing on for an adjustment of grievances
i would
ever
undertake what was
miles northeast of Paris sod about 195
Immense census frauds are allege«!
( casualty list is a long one. Bodies of and he promised that the instigators of
jthought to be a foolhardy venture. miles by sir route to !x»ndon.
In the c«»unt of Coast cities, and a com
five seamen from the coasting steamer the strike won Id be prosecuted.
Wellman startled th«* whole island by
It was the first occasion on which a
plete investigation will I m * made.
bringing the America out of th>- dirigible balloon has crossed the Eng Cranford were picked up off Hartle-
The river Seine, which in January
Walter Wellman, with five assist- ; , hangar and without ceremony going
puol. It is believed the vessel, which threatened to destroy Paris, looms up
lish channel. Th«.- over-water trip oc
ants, started in hia great dirigible bal ; into the air.
carried a crew of 20, foundered, and in the role of saviour.
The govern
cupied 45 minutes.
loon America, to cross the Atlantic j
For the last 30 days the |mblic hail
that the men were attempting to reach ment has maiie arrangements to rush
The Clement- Bayard, with a crew of
I
oeean.
expectantly awaited some move from
•bora in a small boat when they were f<«d supplice to Paris from the sea,
six, left’Compeigne at 7:15 o'c'oek
loaL
! requisitioning all boats to meet the
New York society women are adopt the Intrepid crew. Day after day It Sunday morning and reached Ixmdon
Some of the wreckage coming ashore crisis «nd ease the food market, which
ing the latest Parisian fad of carrying was announced that a trial flight would at about 1 .15 in the afternoon, making
Indicates that a sailing
_ ship met a like I Is already hard hit.
dolls. They oft« n t|>cnd 825 to flOOl be matle aa soon aa conditiuna were th«- trip without a stop.
Atmospheric
perfect.
fat«-.
Lifeboats
from
many points
The employes of the Eastern and the
for the doll costumes.
conditions were .perfect and the big
It wax about 4 a. m. today that the
were out and in a«>me instances «-ff«-ct- Paris, Lyons A- Mediterranean rail
airship
traveled
with
a
slight
broexc
Adolph Busch, the millionaire brew final decision to go Up was rnsiic by
«d rescues. In other cases they were roads have not to any appreciable ex
behind. The behavior of th« dirigible
er, has Anishad the expenditurv of Chief Engineer Vaniman.
All night
unable to reach diet reused craft.
tent «-»¡«mded to the strike call and
{500,000 in improving and extending he watchnl at the weather bureau, ’and was splendid and the 440 borscfiower
the government's weapon of mobilisa
motor
worked
to
perfection
The
pas
hia famous sunken gardens at Pass i as dawn broke he decided. Rushing
tion has induced acme of those employ
Stsamar Cannot Make Port.
sengers cxjH-rienced no diacomfort and
den a. Cal.
the crew, who slept in the hangar,
ed
on the Northern road to return U>
Tampa,
Fla.
A'
message
from
the
were only troubled by the miat in
Tlie French dirigible ball«»n, the Vaniman called Wellman on the tele crossing the English chsnnel.
wireless station at Key Wcstat 7 ¡20 p. their poata. Nevertheless, the North
Clement-Bayard, flew from Compeign, piwinc at the Hotel Chalfonte, and no
There waa nothing to interrupt the m. re|«>rted the steamship Olivet ju*t ern and Western railroads are prostra
France, to Ix>n<ion in six hours, cro«a- tifi«*d him that the time to start had smooth, swinging motion of the bal outside the bar unable to make port on ted. The call to the colon has been
Ing the English channel and outdis arrived.
loon, which averaged 83 miles an hour. account of heavy *ea*. The wind i* ignored by the large majority and at
With everything ready for the words
tancing ail express trains.
The mas* meetings today the strikers re
An altitude varying from 300 to 700 blowing 60 to 60 miles an hour.
"Let go," the crew climbed into the
iterate«! their determination not to
steamship
Cornu*,
spoken
4(>
miles
feet
waa
maintained,
and
all
along
the
Many arrests have dampened ths ar- I car hanging from the ball«w>n.
In respond to the call.
route over the land the aeronauts w«"st of Tortuga*, is proceiding.
der of the French railroad strikers.
The Anal "good-byes" were said to
Much destruction has been wrought
were cheered by thousands of specta- dications are that the storm is swerv
New York art dealers arc accus«*d of wives, r«lativ«-s and friends and the tors.
ing eastward and will strike the Flor on the Western system, on which the
customs frauds aggregating a million last word to the ground was given.
The balloon made a safe and easy ida coast in the vicinity of Tampa, strikers and their supporters have held
On the board walk and the beach
dollars.
slightly to th<- northwest. The barom up snd derailed trains, blocked tracks,
landing at Wormwood Scrubs.
waa assembled a crowd «■atimat«*d at
■ destroyed signals, ripped up rail* and
The
dirigible
carried
M.
Clement,
J
eter is reading 29.94.
Thomas S. Baldwin waa injur«»«! am! about 6,0i»0. The crowd sttxid in awe
cut telephone and telegraph wires.
hia biplane wrecked in a flight at Iowa as the airship licgan to rise and sail in of the Clcmi-nt Bayard firm, in com
The government has ordered the arrest
mand, Baudery and Leprince, st «-er*
City, la.
GALLERIES
MAY
BE
INVADED
the fog. Then ch«*er after cheer fol
of a score of strike leader* anti in
men; Hebatier, engineer and designer;
Presidents nf two big railroads ar lowed when lbs craft began to disap two mechanics, ami Arthur Philip Du
structions have been issued to the
gued before the Interstate commerce pear in the miat. Within five minutes I’roa, members of the British parlia Wealthy Art Patron* May Have to truo|ia to use aevere measures wher
the ship waa out of sighL
com miss ion for higher freight rates.
ever occasion requires.
Turn Over Treasure*.
ment, rcpr<a«'nting the British parlia
Robert Miller, one of the wirelcw
Thousands of person living in the
mentary aerial defense
committee. (
Extensive frauds have tx-nn discov
New York An anonymoua note sent
operators stationed here, kept calling
Only these seven were aboard, al to William lxM*b Jr., collector tf the suburbs snd employed in Paris massed
ered In the Japancst* navy, and several
the America, but it waa not until
though the airship can acrommudate port of New York, precipitated a sen this evening around the depots. These
prominent commander* have liccn ar-
11:15 a. m. that there was a response.
39 passegners in addition to the crew.
reeted.
sational raid on the Fifth avenue cs they found closed and silent, with mil
Then out of the sir c«me this messsge,
Thv course was by way of Arniena. tabliahment of Duveen Brothers' art itary ami* in front. Then, with true
Over half the children in the fiublic the first ever sent from sn airship at
Abbeville atnd Boulogne, and the bal- galleries and the arrest of two mem Parisian gaiety, they laughingly set
schools of Kansas City have been rec sea:
loon waa steered readily with the aid bers of tbs firm, Benjamin J. and out to walk home, p»-rh»[>s a distance
ommended for treatment for mental or I "Headed northeaat; all
well on of a com [»ase.
Henry J. Duveen, charge«! with con of five or ten miles, or stormed the
physical defects.
board, machinery working fine. Good
The aeronauts experienced some spiracy to defraud the government of tramways, cabs automobiles and other
Präsident Taft has pla<cd hie 0. K. by«.—J. Irwin."
trouble with the varying air currents. more than 11,000,000 by undervalua conveyances.
The losses to commerce already are
on the plans for raising the battleship
. On this account they circled SL Paul’a tion of imports.
Scores of trains have
Maine in Havana harbor, and work
and the Tower bridge twice, dipped
In the event of fines being inifioeed tremendous.
will begin next February.
several times end flew cl««c to the tope or duties recovered from the firm or its been stalled along the roads, many of
of buildings. They passed over th«- members, the informsnt will be in line these carrying fo«d supplies, which
Twenty-two men were discharged by
The pas
houses of parliament and along to for the reward offered by the govern- have become unfit for use.
a California mining company for steal
Fort Dmigc, la., Oct 17. Senator Hyde park, where there was a wild me nt for evidence resulting in such senger* on the steamship Oceanic, who
Ing high grade ore.
It ia believed Jonathan P. Dolliver died at his resi
took the train at Cherbourg for Paris,
i conviction.
8 ho ,<HMI worth has been stolen during dence here at 7 :30 o'clock last night, scramble of spectator*.
are
blocked at Mante-Sur-Seine, about
The dirigible landed safely after de-
If the allcg«*d frau la prove as exten
the past few months.
while ari attending physician, Dr. E. scribing large descending circles.
sive as customs officials have stated, 86 mile* from Paris.
Many Americana have been com
A government cngin«*er at work on M. VanPatton, was examining his
thia reward will probably be between
pelled
to remain in this city or pay
260 MILE FLIGHT MADE.
th<> Alaskan boundary haa discovered a heart with a stethoscope.
8100.000 and 8500,000.
fabulous sums to reach the coast, so
His death followed an acute attack
mountain which he believes is fully
The United States government has
22,000 feet high, which ia nearly 2,000 of stomach trouble, which affected hia Aviator*. With Paitsnger«, Go From warrants out for the remaining m«-m- that they might embark for England.
M. Jaure, leader of the Socialists in
heart. Hia physician annoum'ed that
f«M*t higher than Mt. McKinley.
tier* of the firm, who have art gal-
Paris to Brussels.
death was directly dus to dilation of
I leriaa in the leading capital* of Eu the chamber of deputies, t«day an
President Taft wjHaail for an in the heart.
Paris Henry Wynmalen. the Dutch
swered Premier Briand, charging that
rope.
spection trip to IboÄBhmus of Psnsma
the railroads of the government were
Mr. Dolliver had a«! far re«x>vere«i aviator, and holder of the world's alti
Million*
of
dollars'
worth
of
paint
on November 10, waving Charlcsbm, • his strength aa to be able to walk tude record, and M. LeGagneux. the
reeponaible for the present crisis.
He
S. C., on the er
North Caroline, ab«>ut hia lawn. He had b«*en up all French aviator, each with a passenger, ings and art work have been sold to declared that the scheme of militarisa
millionaire
art
patrons
in
this
country,
convoyed by her
r ship, the M in day, am! at night cntcre«! hia sitting made remarkable tripe in biplanes
and it waa suggested that the customs tion was dangerous, as it was certain
tone.
room for the daily conaultation with from Paris to Brussels. They started officials may invade these art coller- to weaken military discipline and in
an hour and a half apart, in an attempt
crease anti-militarism.
Relief is being tent to the forest fire hia physician.
tlona and temporarily bold the ni «a U t -
The Southwest express had a narrow
The senator informed Dr. VanPatton to win the 180,000 offered by the Auto piece* pending an adjudication of the
Sufferers in Minnesota and Canada.
escape from being wrecked on its ar
that he was feeling much improved and club and the 85, imhi offered by the mu allege«! fraud*.
Coal from the Pacific Coast is to be
The brakes failed
that he tielieved he had about recover nicipality of Paris for a successful
District Attorney Wise said hr I m * rival here today.
given a thorough test by the navy.
ed hia normal atrvngth.
Dr. VanPat flight with s passenger to Brussels and lieved that fraudulent valutiona have to work and subea-quent investigation
showed that the ; air pipe* had been
One death has occur««! in the alums ton cautioned him aUiut becoming anx return.
been carried on systematically for
Wynmalen, after reaching the Bel
cuL The train dashed into the Auster-
of New York from a virulent attack of ious to resume his work and then be
year*.
lit! station at a sjxed of 60 miles an
gan the examination of the heart while gian capital, left almost immedistely
Asiatic cholera.
hour.
It was Stopped just before
the senator was seated in a large Mor on the return trip and arrived safely in
Hurricane
Rages
in
Cuoa.
Roosevelt made a short flight in an
I«eGag-
ris chair. The physician waa counting the evening at SL Quentin.
Havana The provinces of Havana, reaching the Dorsant term in ua.
aeroplane at SL Louie, ami said he en
At Boi* Colomtiee the strikers held
the beats of the senator's heart out neux decided to stop for the night in Malanias and Finer del Rio have been
joyed it immensely.
loud. He was fretjuently interrupted Brussels and will start for Paris early in the grip of the severest storm of up a freight train and, smaahing in the
The Supreme court is now complete hy Mr. Dolliver with the declaration in the morning.
recent years since Thurwiay.
The doors of the ears., freed a cargo of
The distance between the two points
and will begin
hearing imjairtant that he waa unable to hear hia own
highest velocity of wind was HO miles cattle. Heavy consignments of fruit
is about 170 miles ss the crow flics,
cases against the trusts in January.
heart.
an hour. The ram probably waa un- ami vegetables destined for Belgium
and the distance between Brussels and
The
physician
suddently
noticed
that
preeedenta-d, and has wrought great and Northern France are stalled and
Soldiers have almost diasppesred
He shook SL Quentin approximately 80 mils*. damage to sugar cane and tobacco ruined. Prices of fish, eggs, butter
from th«* streets of Lisbon, snd con the heartbeats had ceased.
The daring Hollander therefore cov
Exit from a nd entrance to the port and milk have jumped 25 per cent.
ditions sro rapidly becoming normal his atethoeroi«, thinking that it waa
ered about 250 miles with a passenger.
defective
in
some
way.
Again
apply
have
been chised. Dredges an«l barges The merchants are arranging for the
again.
ing hia instrument he diaroverv«! that On the trip to Brussels both aviators working about the battleship Maine tranaportation of vegetables from the
A bride of four days set Are to the the heart had ceased entirely. Upon made a landing at St. Quentin to re-
suburbs by automobiles.
were comjwlleii to seek refuge,
All
house and tried to burn her husband at looking into the senator's face he dis- pleniah their gasoline.
but one dredge got away safely,
The
Elmhurst. Cal., after they had been covered that he had died, without •
Search for Gold Ended.
crew of the dredge waa rescued.
hrving a family quarrel.
Kraut Scatter* Loafer*.
struggle and without pain.
Ixw Angeles- Two associates. Fuller
Sacramento Quite a crowd of wharf
Willamette valley shippers have!
and Steward, hardly lees known in the
Passes Will Be Limited.
Trepanning Skull Saves.
employes, steamboat men and other*
world of adventure than himself,
Aled a rebate suit with the Interstate
Helena, Mont.- The issuance of Pa
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thrown into a small _____
panic at the
Walla Walla, Wash
After having were
Commerce commission covering exces
reached this city with the personal
sive freight rates during the past ten nearly become insane through pr«waure rity wharf when a barrelof sauerkraut **• by the North«-rn Pacific railroad effects of Dr. Charles P. Holt, of
comfiany h«‘ nee for th will be restricted
on hi» brian cau*«*<l hy an injury to his exploded during the midst of a discus
"'anta Ana, the distinguished journal
year*.
to actual employes, members of the
sion
as
to
what
cauard
the
wrecking
of
skull, while serving in the I’hilippines,
ist, scientist and explorer, who died of
The town ef Rockville, MJ., near
State Railway commission and such
Captain Charles Booker, of Dayton, is the txia Angeles Time* building two
fever, alone in a far off port of Colom
Washington. D. C.. is tired of its rep
contracting
firms
ss
are
engaged
in
the
fully recovered through an operation weeks ago. The exploaion under ordi
bia. South America, with wealth with
utation a* a Mecca for elopers, and
interests of the company.
Announce
which conaistedjof trepanning hie skull. nary conditions waa enough to »trike
in hia grasp. The lure of gold had
ministers will no longer marry couplea
ment to thia effect came from Third
For several years the mind of Captain fear into the hearts of brave men, yet
drawn Dr. Holt to every part of the
unknown to them.
Vice-President
M.
S.
Slade,
of
the
Booker had become more clouded, and to have it come at such a pyachological
globe where the precious metal is
Latest «-atimates of caaualtiea In the so much so that lately he had been al- | moment caused terror to reign for sev Northern Pacific.
found. Hr waa among the first that
The action follows a ruling by the
Minneaota foreta fires place the death moat irresponsible.
invaded Alaska.
The ojieratfon eral minutes. The kraut had been left
Montana Supreme court holding the
list ss high ss 2,000.
waa entirely succesaful.
Captain I in the sun and had fermented.
issuance of railway pase«Mi to be a vio
Argentine Heads Sworn.
A Walls Walla grocery man haa had Booker was wounded by the explosion
lation of the state law.
Thirty Mine Victim* Fonnd,
Buenos Ayrre—Senor Roque Senta
hia 16-year old daughter arrested for of a shell.
Starkville, Colo. Thirty Indies have
Pena and Dr. Vi ctor ino de la Plata
burglarising hia store.
I Two Fall Into Boiling Dye.
Riot* Rule in Nicaragua.
now been removed from the Starkville
were inaugurated respectively as pres
A girl highwayman, dresacl in m«*n'a
New Orleans
New« reached here mine. Many now being brought out
Provo, Utah- Two employee of the ident and vice president of the Argen
clothea, waa captured by an intended from Managua, Nicaragua, that disor are in such an advanced stage of de- Knights Woolen Mills fell into a vat tine Republic.
President Pena de
victim at Wallace. Idaho.
der had broken out anew in the ’capital comfioeltion that they can never be of boiling dye while scuffling on its clared in hie meeaage that his Interna
Twenty-five bodice are brink. H. D. Jonheon died noon after tional policy would be directed with
Taft and Roosevelt have express«! and that frequent rioting was occur identified.
opposite opinions on many points of ring. According to these advices the still in the mines and. according to the being taken out and his companion, friendship toward Europe and fratern
rescuers, have not yet been located.
I John H. Nebaker, cannot live.
the conservation question.
situation had become very critical.
ity for America.
doings of the World at Urge
Told in Brief.
Big Clement-Bayard Dirigible
Makes Splendid Flight
SENATOR DOLLIVER, IOWA,
DIB OE HEART EAILLRE
Employes IFestroy Tracks and
Wreck Trains.