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BUT INNOCENT The Awful Fate Fastened Up­

on Young Kan by Circum­stantial Evidence.

BUILTT PARTIES MY BE HUE . 10 SUFFER FOjHHEIR SILENCE Ban Through an Alley In Which

s Murder Had Been Committed,

; , Millie Playing With • Crowd of

Boys on Fourth of Jnljr.

Pittsburg, Aug. 26.—Perhaps the Bt ran seat ease in the history o! al­leged crime lq Pennsylvania will likely reach a climax soon in devel­opments which Attorney S. H. Huse!> ton will bring out in the application for pardon of Fred McDonnell, who has been in the Western Pennsyl­vania penitentiary for about 14 yearr and for a year beforo was loclorl up in the Crawford county jail.

On the evening o( the Fourth o' July, 1894, John McAndrew was mur­dered in an alley ol Titusville. Then wan evidence of a fight. The ••on* dltion of tho alley showed a struggle and all who were engaged must -have exhibited the marks of tho fray.

McDonnell when he was apprehend­ed had not a sign ol mud or blood, but circumstantial evidence, and pos­sibly certain influences, was sufficient to convict him. The who;.a htory has been told how ho was found guil­ty of murder in the first degree and how the1 sentenco of death win com* muted-to imprisonment for life.

The state pardon board bus ones refused his application for freedom. McDonnell has grown from youth to middle age in the penitentiary. Hi has an unblemished record as a pris­oner. Not a blot has ueeu place'! against him on the books.

Woman in tho Cas<\ .Within tho'last week money lias

been contributed voluntarily to secure legal assistance, and the, faulty of McDonnell, who employed Attorney S. H. Huselton In another matte/ year* ago, have requested bim to renew the application, fo* pardon.

It'Is, a case without P. PARALLEL in the state, and before,,It is ended, - per* sonn may, bo involved who have been suspected but for many renfions liav<? not been brought to faco direct ovt-dencc. There is a young woman i:i tb« case—not so y.oung as she was at tlio time of the tragedy, but still comely—and tho other man in tho cas>« Si well as this woman are under surveillance, with a strong probabil­ity that In tho proceeding fcr th<» pardon of McDonnell the real cmvin. al will be compelled to face a elm go similar to that for which McDonnell has suffered for mors than, a seventh o! n century.

Entirely of his own volition Mc­Donnell han just written o letter to Att-;i I'Cj Huselton, telling u, ins cwn •"a\ the story of his only cbunect'on w.ir> tho tragedy. Slnco hu 'n.-ar. Deration he has studied more than ever before in his life. JI«» has le-rrcd spelling and punctuation .v><] Br-methmg o! composition, as uis ict. te- wi.'i show. It is written with q cle:<r hand that might be envlol ly inyone devoted to literature, and it la rtpioduced hers without caaato nj wed. letter or punctuation. At the request of McDonnell's family it is addressed to Mr. Huselton and Is as follows: " :• >

McDonnell's Story. AlleGheny, Pa., Aug. 17, 1909.

B. H. Huselton, Attorney at Law, Pittsburg, Pa.: Dear Sir—That you may become

fully familiar with my case, you have asked me to write down my every movement from 6 o'clock up until the time ot my arrest on the night of July 4, 1S94. Now, that is a mighty hard thing for anyone to do unless be possesses an unfailing memory, as It means the stretching of one's mind back 15 years and more.

About the only things that stand out plainly in my memory are these: My arrest and the experience I had with several youths which led to It.

Titusville upon the day in question was celebrating Independence Day and hundreds of strangers from the surrounding country were there—peo­ple of all classes and* all descriptions. I remember that well, as I do the fact that, during the day, I enjoyed myself immensely, as hundreds of otjhar young people did, firing oft crackers and cannon, watching tho parade, ate.

The biggest part of the afternoon . and evening I passed away by simply Btrolling around with the crowds that were on the streets. About 6 or 6:30, it muBt have been, I had lunch in a little restaurant on North Frank­lin street, after which I wandered around once more. At what time I met and spoke to Johnny McAndrew,

.the boy, who, later on that night, was so cruelly killed, I do not remember, but it was but a few minutes , after the arrival of the train upon which he was a newsboy, the D. A. V. & P.

Were Good Friends, ?..> • y and I were good friends" and

-• I liked him. He was a splendid boy in every way, jolty and full of fun. I met him as he was on his way borne after his day's work. We spoke together for perhaps a minute or two whta we separated, and that t« the last tlmel ever saw htm, When

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next I heard of him he was dead and I was under arrest accused of having killed him.

After Johnny McAndrew left me 1 again strolled around town for some time, and about 8 o'clock I started for the Bast End, where I was in the habit of meeting girl friends of mine. Reaching the Drake Street School, I waited there perhaps an hour with­out seeing my friends. From there I went to the corner of Spruce and Kerr streets, but was again disap* pointed.

Tired, at last, I had just about made up my mind to make my way back up town when I heard voices upon an opposite corner and saw three or four boys, who, before I was able to identify them, began pelting me with firecrackers and torpedoes. Thinking they were in fun. I retailiated in a like spirit, whereat tbey gave a yell 8f~ >>ame running after me; an J t<a

*® /..-o too many for me, even hiK. M>ned to fight, I turned and rat. s "!

I rememtiS?^. .-i down Kerr street to the ark. up the .alley e ways and then juii>».jd a fence on my right and ran through a yard n*id out onto Walnut street. As I reached the street I heard a cry behind me, and thinking it WSB the boys still after me, I darted across the street and into another yard, but I had not gone far when I heard a man's voice call to me to stop, and I did so.

Placed Under Arrest. This man was Mr. Truesdale, I be­

lieve. He grabbed hold of me and asked mo why I had been running and where 1 had been, i explained as I have here. Not quite satisfied, he searched me, but finding nothing on me he let me free.

I afterwards made my wav back up town and It must have been about 9:30 or thereabouts when i reaciml Spring and Franklin streets. It had been my intention all day to attend a dance at Lang's Hall that n'.ght and I now started for that place.

As I passed Freedman's saloon I saw Officer Moran In tho doorway, but naturally paid no attention to him any more than I would have at any other time. I had taken 10 or 15 steps when I heard my name called, and, turning around, Mr. Moran beck­oned to me and I walked back, und as soon as I was near enough In, clutched my arm and told me 1 was to come with him.

Surprised, but not alarmed in the least, as I had done-- nothing wrong, I went with him and was locked ;a the police station. Not until lata next day was I aware of the causa of :ny arrest, and, when I did bear,' I was dumfounded and could not believe they were in earnest. To >ne It seemed .to be a practical joke of some kind that they wero nliy'ng on me. But when I found out for certain that they wero in earnest 1 wa» nearly heartbroken. V -

. In the Same Alley. v „ Young Johnny McAndr.vv was Utile* in > the viary /alley into which I ran when firiit jihased by the ooys from the corner <$j8pruce and K«r- streets and it was because I was sei.'ii run* ning from tho direction u? the eri.'na that led to my arrest.

That is all. I have tried to do as you requested—give you a detailed account of my movements upon tho night of my arrest. I. trust that I have succeeded to your satisfaction. If I have overlooked anything, it you will point it out, I will try and recti­fy it. Truly yours;

fi g —Fred McConnell. The next meeting of the state par­

don board will be held the first Wed­nesday in September, but it is prob­able that Mr. Huselton will n.'t have at. hand all the sensational evldenco which is in prospect, and therefore the presentation may not be made before the October session. It is certain that the board will fr.ee new and amazing features that wero not considered at the former hearing when the pardon was refused.

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PHE OFF Cattle Scabies West of the

Missouri River Are n A Stamped Out.

Washington, Aug. 26.—The secre­tary of agriculture has issued an or­der effective September 1, releasing from quarantine on account of soalbies or mange in cattle that portion of North Dakota lying south and west of the Mississippi river. Up to Oc­tober 1, 1908, the entire state was In quarantine for this disease, but on that date the part north and east of the Missouri river was released, the disease having been eradicated from that section. The work of eradica­tion has been continued by co-opera­tion between the federal and state au­thorities with such good effect that die entire state Is now pronounced free from the disease and the quar­antine is removed from ttie last re­maining portion.

The area still under federal quar­antine on account of this disease com< prlseB the northeastern part of Mon­tana, the southeastern part of Wyom­ing, the eastern portions of Colorado ana New Mexico, the western portions of South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, the panhandle of Tex­as, and a small area in the Extreme southern part of Texas. The federal and Mate authorities are working in these regions, and ti is the policjr of the department of agriculture to re­move its quarantine as rapidly as the disease is eradicated from any con-Blderable area.

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T SYSTEM American Bar Association

Hears Report on Reform of the Judiciary.

MORE ATTENTION FROM THE JUDGES WHJNJEARIN6 CUES

Misconception of Testimony Comes

Largely From the Fact That Judges

Are Indifferent to the Truth of

Statements Made by Counsel.

Detroit, Aug. 26.—At today's ses­sion of the annual convention of tho American Bar association the com­mittee appointed two year's ago to consider the matter of unnecessary costs and delays in litigation, submit­ted a report in which it advocates s gradual but sweeping reform in judi­cial. proceedure. Further, the com­mittee outlined the general principles on which it considered a raorgani'sa* tlon of the Btate courts should event-ually bo effected.

The judicial power of eacn state, "says the report," at least for civil causes, should be vested in one great court of which all tho tribunals should bo branches, departments or divlBlouB. The business as well as the judicial administration of the court should be thoroughly organized so as to prevent npt merely a wast<t of the judicial power, but all need­less clerical work, tl*e duplication of papers and records and the like, thus obviating the expense of ligants and the costs to the public.

"This court should have three chief branches, the county courts, include ing municipal courts, superior court of the first instance, and a single ulti mate court of appeals. All judges should be judges of'the whole court assigned to some branch or locality but eligible and liable to sit in anv other branch when called upon to do so. The supervision of the business administration of .whole court should be committed to some high official of the court who would be responsible for the failure to utilize the judicial power of the state effectively."

The committee suggest that a simi­lar official, who should be a judge and not a clerk, should act in each branch or division and that in like manner the clerical and stenographer force should be under the supervision of a responsible officer with suitable subordinate supervisory officials.

Judges Too Sleepy. The evils oi legal argument based

on misconception of testimony wera touched upon in the address last night of Justice William L. Carpente, of Michigan on "courts of last ap peal," before the convention. Justici Carpenter urged judges to assume a more attentive attitude in court and encourage lawyers to make fair state mentc.

Prof. Harold D. Hazeltine of Em­manuel college, Cambridge university, England, read a paper last night, be­fore the Association of American Law Schools on "legal education in Eng land."

Charles Noble Gregory, dean of the Iowa state university college of law and president of the Association o{ American Law Schools, in his annual address to tho association referred particularly to the growth of law schools throughout the country and tho advance in educational standards. For the latter he gave most of tho credit to the activity of the associa tion. Dean James B. Ames of Har vard law school, and Sir Frederick Pollock of England led in the discus­sion of Prof. Hazeltlne's and Dean Gregory's papers.

A meeting of the committee 6n pa­tent, trademark and copyright law was held this afternoon. It was rec-ommended that the bill for the es­tablishment of a United States court of patent appeals and for other pur­poses, now awaiting enactment by congress, receive the full attention of the committee and active support fo? its passage. The bill has been pend­ing about two years.

EMPIRE BUILDING First Complete Text of' Roosevelt's

African Speech. (By Warrington Dawson.)

Nairobi, B. E. A., Aug. 26.—Believ­ing it contains many points of interest in tho states which it will bo im­possible to transmit by cable, 1 have mailed a copy of the speech deliv­ered by Colonel ROoBevelt at the pub-lie dinner tendered him hera today. It follows:

I think few people outside of Africa realize that there is here under the equator a real white man's country. Before I came here people told me that white children would not do well here, but I have visited the home o! settler after aettler, especially oi these from South Africa, both Brit, ish and Dutch, where I saw- large families of children of every age who had never been out of .the country and were as sturdy as anyone could wish to see them. Of course, there are plenty ot places that are un­healthy. and If yOu follow the career of .a hunter you must now and then get into these places; but there are litrge tracts fit for • fins population

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of healthy and prosperous settlers, and as this is one of tbe few regions of tho vgorld still left which aro fit for n new white- settlement, it would bo a calamity to neglect it

Of course, the settlers must b-3 o! tho right type. Tho frontier Is no place for weak and shiftless people. But the same kind, oV man who <Ud well when, ho went to the far west, to the Rocky mountains and the zreat plains 30 years ago; can do well heie.

Mission of tho Ball. Just as in our own west, the great

railroads were built, not because the country already needed them, but to build up a country which should in the future need them, BO here with you the railroad has been built to develop and build «p tbe country.

I still think that there are ex­cellent openings for capitalists here, but I hope you #111 always keep In mind that P. real White man's coun­try can only be built up by making the opportunities real lavorable for the actual home-makers, the multitude of men who do not expect to make great fortunes, but who do expect as tho reward of hard work to build com­fortable homes foe themselves and their families and ;to see their chil­dren grow up fit and able to Inherit tho land after them.

Another point, gentlemen. To make this a white man's country, remem. ber that not only the laws of right­eousness, but your bwn real and ulti­mate self interest, fdemand that th« black man be treated with justice and helped upward. But I have no pa­tience with the ashtimentalists. The tribes hereabouts ale, of course, hope­lessly Incompetent to better them­selves without white leadership. You must occupy n position ot unques tioned mastery and'leadership, but for your own sakes you must exerciso that leadership and mastery with q Gal 4—Sheehan J fwyp mfwypao deep sense of all?'the responsibility which it entails.

I have a peculiar feeling for thu settlers because t$Ay remind me so much of the men with whom I have worked in our own west. But, I, too, have p. most -profound sympathy for the government officials, for I havo also been a 'government official. I want to seo settler, government o'-flclal and missionary work hand In hand with heartiest accord.

At tho risk ot seeming to preach I want to lay especial stress on two points.

Like Old Western Conditions. . In the first plac^, there is tho sim­ilarity ot your conditions here in •many respects to what I saw in th<i west nearly a generation ago. Thin is especially true] of your failures. In a new country like thir, you havn to make experiments, and that means that you have to make occasional failureB. It is folly to be disheart­ened by thes« fatlures,.

The second thing: I want to stiy as to the individual settler hlmsel!. It. Is the . farmer, the man who grows wheat or cotton, sheeit or cattle, tin man who makes his profit out of wool or meat or a dairy or from somo other product oJ tho soil, upon whose success the permanent success of this country must , depend. Now a farm-er'is business in just as much a sc'.-enco" as any other. Yet in every new country many new people drift in .who seem to think thai men who have never done a stroke of. real man­ual labor for their livini; can sud­denly become successful farmers. A quarter oV r. century ago I met any number o! such men In tho west.

What in most needed hero ia plenty oi men who know tho business farming and havo the flexibility o.' mind necessary, if r. farmer from an old country i« to bo ablo to adap; himself to do well In a new country.

Finally, gentlemen, let tho scienti­fic farnie? and tbo pioneer remember that each is a very short sighted per­son It he cannot learn something from tho other. The pioneer ca>i profit immensely from the government farms, from the experiences of nnm who mako farming r, paying success; and the scientific farmer from tho old world, with his training, needs to remember that in tho harsh condition under which much of the life oi country is led only tho rugged men who havo actually grown up facing similar conditions are fit (0 tamo the country so that others can coni'i in afte; them.

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QFJHE DOUBT Benzoate Opponents Favor Making Food Without Ques­

tion of Unpurity.

NOT EPI TO IHNEGftfl MO SPICES M_» PRESERVATIVE

Dr. Long Made Test of Catsup Pre*

pared From Rotten Vegetables and

Found Benzoate Did Not Preserve

the Waste When Used.

Denver, Aug. 26.—Benzoate of soda as the preservative most commonly used in manufactured food productB was put on trial before the conven­tion of the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments today.

The opposing forces were the gov­ernment's chemical experts including a number of the Remsen referee board, who contended that benzoate was harmless, and some of the 230 state food commissioners and agri­culturalist delegates to the conven­tion. Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson was an interested spectator. Near him sat Dr. Ira Remsen of Bal­timore, Md., Dr. Russell H. Chitten­den of New Haven, Conn., Dr. John N. Long of Evanston, 111., and Dr. Christian H. Herter of New York city, all members of the "referee board" of tbe consulting scientific experts-appointed by President Roosevelt to settle the disputed points in the feder­al pure food law. Each number of the board read a paper upholding their conclusion that benzoate of soda when used in food in moderate quan­tities is harmless. The position taken by Emery and his followers as an­nounced by them is, "if there is any doubt as to the harmfulness of the chemicals in food, the public should have the benefit of the doubt." As showing that benzoate does not cover up the inferiority. Dr. Long said he had made, catsup out of rotten toma­toes, apples, peaches and bananas. In one portion was put vinegar and spices and in another benzoate and the only portion which tasted good was that in which vinegar and spices had been mixed.

George L. Flanders, assistant com­missioner of agriculture of New York state, is named as the probable next president of the association.

Dr. Charles A. L. Reed in attacking the Remsen referee board, declared that tho board is urging the govern­ment to allow the use of benzoate of soda as a food preservative had ig­nored the public welfare.

"The recommendation to Ithe de­partment of agriculture benefited only two elasses of people," asserted Dr. Reed. "These were the manufacturers of benzoate of soda and the manufac­turers of food of such character t'hat It could not be sold without being preserved with the addition of Chem­icals. The public received no benefit, but instead had its own government licensing a food for its consumption which had to be medicated and which otherwise would be fit only for the sewer."

After the convention Secretary Wil­son will make a tour of the western states.

DENTISTS BANGUET

DID NOT WAIT Spanish Leader Took the Initiative at

Melilla. Melilla, Aug. 26.—Expert opinion

has been justified as it has been found impossible to cut the Marchica canal under four months. Gen. Marnia, commandent of the Spanish forces, in not wasting time in vain regrets and decided to commence tbe advance which began today, t.o Restinga along the sea front in intense heat. Tho men, however, appear glad that the long suspense lis ended and that the war has really begun. They display­ed excellent spiirlts and are greatly encouraged by the presence among them of the Duke of Saragossa and the Marquis of Vallecerrato, both of whom are serving as privates and are treated in every respect like the men. The Marquis of Vallecerrato traveled direct from Cambridge university to volunteer.

The concentration of the whole army will occupy several days and it is still uncertain when Gen. Marina will start for the -front. The com­missariat is In good shape, but tho water supply is a serious problem. Two ships for condensing water are hourly expected.

One effect of the failure to con­struct the canal will be to limit tho amount of artillery accompanying the army, especially quick-firing as it is impossible with the existing means of communication to provide them with sufficient ammunition.

IIIIS BEEN FOUND Frank Reidinger of Wauke-

shaw, Wis., is Living on Nebraska Farm.

Waukesha, Wis., Aug. 26.—Frank X. Reidinger, a supposed victim of Mrs. Belle Gunness at LaPorte, Ind., is alive and well on a farm near Freeport, Neb., according to a letter received from him today. Reidinger formerly conducted a farm near Dela-fleld. Wis. This farm which was mortgaged was recently sold under foreclosure, there being a balance ot $661 attar the mortgage! was satisfied. This amount Is held by the clerk of Waukesha county. Reidinger has en­gaged counsel to secure the $561 and alBo the proceedB from fhe sale of live stock and farm products.

MORE LAND < Washington, Aug. 26.—Acting Sec­

retary of the Interior Pierce today designated 50,460 acres more land as. coming within the enUrged home­stead act in the state' o! Montana,, making the total, up to date, 2u,-'iS0,-530 acres so designated in Montana.

American Delegates Were Guests at the Splendid Affair.

Berlin, Aug. 26.—All the American delegates to the dental congress now in session in this city were guests last night at a banquet given at tho W. D. Miller club, which was named after the late Prof. Wllloughby Day­ton Miller, of Ohio, who was dean of the dental Institute of the Berlin uni­versity and privy medical councillor. An international committee on hygiene is being formed in connec­tion with the congress.

WRONG DIAGNOSIS Children Died of Cholera Instead oi

Candy Poisoning. Rotterdam, Aug. 26.—Tho death of

four children supposed to have been caused by poisonous sweets has been found, after a bacteriogical examina­tion, to have been due to Asiatic cholera. One man also died recently from a suspicious illness and four­teen adults and fourteen children are under observation at the Isolation hospitals.

IDAHO VOTED DRY. Boise, Ida., Aug. 26.—Idaho county,

Idaho, voted "dry" yesterday under the local option Iaiw. Canyon county also voted out the saloons by a ma­jority of 1,850. These were the first local option elections In the atate.

; < . GOT THE THIEVES.1

Newark, Ohio, Aug. 26.—Firing a single charge of buckshot at two sup­posed chicken thieves late laBt night Charles Hartshorn instantly killed his nephews, John Weakley and Wil­liam Trace. For a long time Hart­shorn had been missing chickens. Last night, armed with a gun, he kept watch in his orchard on his farm near here. When the two forms ap pea red in the darkness Hartshorn fired.

Powers Have Demanded That Prisoners Be Treated in Civ­

ilized Manner.

Paris, Aug. 26.—The government has instructed its minister in Morro-cco to make common cause with rep­resentatives of other governments at Tangier, who have decided to firmly request the sultan to discontinue tho horrible tortures and multilations of prisoners such as were practiced re­cently on the captured followers of El Roghi.

Many Dead. Fez, Aug. 26.—The cruelty of Mulai

Hafld's men to the followers of El Roghi captured by them has been denounced here, and as a protest th« inhabitants of Taza have refused to recognize the new governor appointed by him. Twenty-five of the prisoners whose hands and feet were severecj havo succumbed.

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BE1RE0F FREAKS Winnipeg Scientist Discusses

the Safe Methods for the

Agriculturalists.

Winnipeg. Aug. 26.—Geological re­search, chemistry, engineering, econo­mic science and agriculture were among the subjects discussed at to­day's session of the seventy-eighth annual convention of the British As­sociation for the Advancement of Science. Both advice and warning were given the farmers of Canada and the United States by Major P. G. Gragis, chairman of the sub-section on agriculture. He said in part:

"One caution I feef it my duty to give as a peculiar rather than scien­tific agriculturist. What ever won­ders are offered in the way of me­chanical adjuncts or mechanical con­trivances, do not let our advisers overlook the paramount consideration of cost which the newer systems may involve. For the extensive farming of a young country, it is above all requisite to remember that expensive methods of cultivation are not as feasible as intensive husbandry of old settled regions.

"Hopefully as we may wait on the chemists' help, I cannot feel that for my own part, I Incline still more con­fidently to the botanist under whose aegis of protection agriculture has been placed by direction of the au­thorities this year. The producer of new and prolific and yet disease per­sisting and frost defying breeds of wheat plants is today more than ever encouraged by what has been done in many lands of late, in the direction of suiting the crop to its environment. Nothing could be a greater boon to wheat. The farmers are handicapped more by a short and irregular supply of summer warmth and the occasional but often untimely invasion of the frost fiend, than the production of the varieties of wheat at once prolific and early ripening and suited to the rela­tively Bcanty supply of moisture of the semi-arid regions. • * • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • * * THE WEATHER * * North Dakota—Generally fair * * tonight and Friday. Warmer to- * * night In south portion. • * UNIVERSITY REPORT. * Temperature for twentv>fenr * * honrs ending at 8:80 today: * * MMaxImnm, .88. minimum, .46; * * Barometer today at 8:80 p. m- • * 2fcS?; yesterday, 2*96. •

REM FOR THE i IND DISIMCE

Latham, the French Aviatort

Make History in Navigation • of the Air.

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MTICS MARK THE DAY'S WORK INJEWS CONTEST

ligees With Machines, Starting Like'

Scared Birds From the Ground, and Other Diversions Indicate the Fl< ture of Aviation.

Rheims, Aug. 26.—The program for today, the fifth day of aviation week, included the continuation of the trials for the grand prize, the De La Cham­pagne endurance test, the lap event, the speed event, a race between the dirigible balloons, and the landing competition for spherical balloons.

Latham in his monoplane, was the first aviator to get away. He an-nounced his intention to make an effort to beat Paulhan's great record for the endurance prize made yester­day of 2 hours, 53 minutes and 24 seconds. Latham started flying at a great height. Sommer, Cockburn, Banau, Varille, DeLagrange and final-' ly Glenn H. Curtiss ,the American! contestant, followed Latham into the; air. Curtiss' purpose was to improve > his record in the speed lap contest and to qualify for one of the six prizes in the endurance contest. He accomplished three rounds in an Im­pressive manner but his Bpeed was disappointing. His total time was 28 • minutes and 54 3-4 seconds. By rounds his showing was as follows: i

8:32 3-5, 9:50 2-5 and 10:36 4-5 sec­onds. In the meantime the other flyers except Latham and DeLagrange had alighted without doing anything. A noteworthy feature was when De­Lagrange. flying low, started to over­take Latham who was still high in the air. There was a pretty race for four minutes. DeLagrange overtaking Latham when he was compelled to descend. La them, after covering seventy kilometres (43.47 miles) was obliged to descend because of trou­ble with his ignition. Ten minutes later he was in the air again racing with another machine.

Broke Itccord. In his second attempt this after­

noon. Latham, the French aviator, broke the world's record for time and distance. He came down after he had covered about 153 kilometres, or SC.01 miles. Tbe previous record for dis­tance was S3.07 miles made by Paul-han yesterday.

Latham started on his second ef­fort today shortly after 2 o'clock. The br.-eze, when he got away, was less than three metres a second, but there were oinnious black clouds on the horizon, and during the aviators' fourth lap, a sharp squall of wind an drain broke over the aerodrome. The spectators did not believe it pos­sible for Latham to ride out the storm, but to their delight he only mounted higher and-took his machine over the tribunes at a height of 300 feet. His time for the first round was 9 minutes, 22 4-5 seconds; tbe sec­ond round, 18 minutes, 51 1-5 sec­onds; third round, 27 minutes and 41 seconds; fourth round, 36 minutes, 15 3-5 seconds; fifth round, 44 min­utes and 4S seconds; sixth round, 68 minutea, 50 4-5 seconds.

OPERATOR DEAD Was One of the Most Expert In the

Country. Chicago, Aug. 26.—John A. Hurley,

one of the best known and most ex­pert telegraphers in the country, was fatally injured at Hammond, Ind., to-day while in the act of boarding a train. Mr. Hurley came to Chicago recently following the failure of a big brokerage firm one of whose branches he conducted. His family live at Brooklyn.

SFEEClMORED AFTER 40 YEARS

Licked and Denounced Prea ch­er Who Abused Masonic

Fraternity. " , :i

La Crosse, Wis., Aug. 26.—Speech­less for forty years, George Purdy, an old soldier living at Dakota, a vll« lage near here, today became so en« raged by attacks upon tho Masonlo body, ot which he is a member, bf John Beach, head of an unique religi­ous organization known as the Born Agains, that he recovered his speech and denounced Beach in vigorous language.

He accompanied this remarkable recovery with physical assaults upon the Rev. Mr. Beach and severely chastised him. . ,

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