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MADE FATAL FLIGHT Airship Plunges to the Earth Frow Great Height CARRYING ONE MAN TO DEATH Wright's Aeroplane Meets With Se rious Accident, Killing One and Se verely Injuring the Daring Navi- , gator. "Washington, Special. After hav ing" drawn the attention of t lie world "to his aeroplane flights at Fort Myer, and having established new world records for the heavier-than-air fly ing machines, Orville "Wright met with a tragical mishap while making a two-mile flight. The aeroplanist was accompanied ' by Lieutenant Thomas E. Self ridge, of the Signal Corps of the army. Lieutenant Sel ridge was fatally injured and di-jd at 8:10 o'clock at night. Mr. Wright was seriously injured, but is expect ed to recover. Official Investigation. Major George 0. Squier, acting chief sigual officer of the army Fri day morning convened the board of signal officers for the purpose of making an official inquiry into the death of Lieutenant,. Selfridge. Ma jor Charles McK. Saltzman as chair man and Captain Charles S. Wallace and Lieut. Frank P. Lahm Avere the other members present. Major Squier, as acting chief sig nal otlicer, reviewed the finding of the court, which were given out by him as follows: The Findings of the Court. "The board finds that the accident which occurred in an unofficial flight made at Fort Meyer, Va., at about 5:18 p. m., September 17th. 190S, was due to the accidental breaking of a propeller blade and a consequent un avoidable loss of control which re sulted in the machine falling to the ground from a height of about 75 feet. "The board finds that First Lieut ant Thomas E. Selfridge, First Field Artillery (attached to the Sig nal Corps by War Department orders, and assigned to aeronautical duty), accompanied Mr. Wright, by author ity, on the aeroplane for the purpose of officially receiving instructions and received injuries by the falling of the machine which resulted in his death." The signal corps-will proceed with it aeronautical work and it is un derstood that the Wright brothers will be permitted to make their of ficials trials whenever they are ready, without endangering their chance of receiving the contract price of $2-5,-000 for their aeroplane. Chanler the Nominee. Rochester, N. Y., Special. Nomi nating all but one of its candidates by acclamation and adopting a plat form which arraigns the administra tion of Governor Hughes and pledges earnest support to the Denver plat form and candidates, the Democratic State convention nominated as the rhead of its ticket for Governor the State, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, of Dutchess county. John A. Dix, of Washington county, was nominated itor Lieutenant Governor. All oppo sition to Mr. Chanler disappeared af ter a conference of the State leaders, which occupied a greater part of the night. The ticket decided upon by the leaders, with one exception, seemed to meet the approval of all the delegates, and the nominations were made with great enthusiasm un til the office of State Engineer and Surveyor was reached. The confer ence candidate for this office was Phillip P. Farley, of Brooklyn, an an-ti-McCarren man. Senator McCar ren, amid the cheers of his support ers, took the platform "to resent an insult." Suffocated in Tunnel. Detroit, Mich., Special. Two men were suffocated and three others in jured in a fire at the Windsor end of the Michigan Central tunnel lues day morning. When the flames were discovered the two hundred men working in the shaft made a dash for the exits. All reached the air except four. The exact amount of damage is unknown. Testify to Discriminations. Atlanta, Ga., Special. There were only two witnesses examined by Spe cial Examiner Smith, representing the Interstate Commerce Commission in the complaint of four negro bish ops alleging discrimination against their race by several Southern rail roads. The witnesses were II. E. Perry, a negro insurance worker, and A. Graves, a negro real estate agent, of Atlanta. Both told of instances in which they had been refused better accommodations than was furnished by "the railroads, even though they had been willing t3 pay for them. Lockout of Two Hundred Thousand Operatives rroDDie. Manchester, Eng., By Cable. Late Friday night there seemed to be no hope that " a lockout, of 200.000 cotton operatives could be avoided. The wage dispute is of long standing. The em ployers proposed to reduce wages five cent, but they finally consented to put the reduction in force un ""l'janMrv of next year, The ope ralives .voft.1 on the question whether not to accept this offer. KEAYSV G LEANINGS. Oustav Stickley announced his n'an to found a craftsman's village in New Jersey. Roser Foster, reiurnina; from Rus sia, said the country was in a state of anarchy. The Netherlands asked France If phe coulil co-operate in action against Venezuela. Socialists attacked a Catholic priest at Budapest, Austria; fifty of the riot ers were arrested. The secon.i animal vdavground con gress iv. et in New York City, with del egates from sixty cities. The Catholic parade in London railed out enormous crowds, but there was no serious disorder. Governor Maeoon, of Culm, issued a decree fidng November 14 as the date of the Presidential election. Dr. D. Laszlo Detre, of the Univer sity of Budapest, announced a new method of diagnosing tuberculosis. ,Ray C. Ewry, the Olymnic cham pion jumper, was honored by his as sociates at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Premier Denkin has asked the Bri tish Government to send to Austrnli a fleet at least as large as the Ameri can. France will wait until Mulai Hafig shows his ability to govern Morocco peacefully before asking the Powers to recognize him as ruler. Venezuelan insurgent commission ers at Panama said that a strong movement to overthrow President Castro was being organized. The British Foreign Office inti mated that England would not be averse to giving aid in action against Venezuela; Italy will take no action. M. de Reus, the Dutch Minister to Venezuela, said that the letter which caused his expulsion was published without his consent. A blockade of the Venezuelan coast, he added, would be an easy matter. Memorial to Gam Jones. Oklahoma City, Special. Fund are being raised by the Epworth League societies of Oklahoma for the erection of a handsome monument to the memory of the late Rev. Sam V. Jones, the famous Georgia evangelist. Jones' last woik as an evangelist was in this State, and-4ie has thousand? of admirers here. The memorial will cost about $5,000. Southern Railway Officials Promoted. Washington, Special. Randall Cllffton, general freight agent of the Southern Railway, with headquarters in Atlanta, has been appointed as sistant freight traffic manager, vie G. R. Browder, who has been ap pointed member for the South of th uniform classification committee. F, II. Behring, assistant general freight agent with headquarters in Louis ville, has been appointed genera freight agent with headquarters ir Atlanta. The Cholera in Manila. Manila, By Cable. With cholera cases developing at the rate of sixty a day and one-third of them result ing fatally, this week will determine whether the visit of the fleet will be any more than a formal entrance in to the harbor. The authorities are hopeful that the disease will be checked before the fleet arrives so that the programme of festivities may be carried out. Thaw Accepts Service. Pittsbunr. Sneeial Harrv K. Thaw who is seeking relief from his credi tors through the national bankruptcy law, accepted, through one ot his at torneys, A. P. Myer, service of a rule to show cause why he should not be adjudged in contempt of court for failure to attend the creditors' meet ing called last week by Referee Wil liam R. Blair. The service was made upon Thaw in jail last week and was witnessed by his attorney, C. Mor schauser. Dies by His Own Hand. Asheville, N. C, Special. Mr. Jas. II. Osborne, for the past twenty-five years connected with the T. S. Morri son & Co., carriage warehouse of this city and one of the most quiet, un assuming and best known business men in Asheville, committed suicide Fi'.day morning "shortly before 3 o'clock in his apartments in the Y. M. C. A. building on Haywood street. No cause can be assigned for the rash act. Confessed Murderer Arrested. Jacksonville, Fla., Special. Wal ter Ledbetter, a negro tramp, was arrested bv Sheriff Bowden, in the settlement of Marietta, and confess ed to killinc Mrs. Norman and her daughter there Saturday. As soon as the residents of the settlement learned that the negro had been cap tured, there were threats ot a lynch in?, but the ncirro was .safely lodged in the Duval county jail, where he is under guard. A speedy trial is now being arranged for the negro. Forest Fires in West Virginia. Cumberland, Md., Special Re ports are being received of disast rous forest fires in the vicinity of Thomas, Davis, William and other points in West Virginia along the line of the Western Maryland Rail road, Water is very scarce, compli cating the situation. No water has passed over the Dry Fork dam for some time and conditions are serious in that localitv. The smoke is so I dense at Thomas that objects a few jeer distant are lnuisting'viisiiablc. CONVICT LEASE ENDS Georgia Rids Herself of Cruel , System of Long Standing WORK OF SPECIAL LEGISLATURE Governor Smith Signs Bill Which Ends a Regime of Corruption and Great Brutality In the Cracker State. Atlanta, Ga., Special. Just at mid night Saturday night Governor Hoke Smith signed the convict lease bill which hereafter prohibits the leasing of felons except by the consent of the Governor and prison commission. The bill was passed by the Legis lature Saturday after $35,000 had been spent in an extra session, and nearly a month used in discussing the legislation. With the signature of Govenor Smith on the bill as en grossed, Georgia has done away with a system which has been in exist ence ever since 1805. It was to settle this convict lease question that Governor Smith called a special session of the Legislature. He desired that the lease system be absolutely abolished and the bill as passed provides that there will be np leasing of convicts to any contractoi for private gain. It is said these con tractors have made thousands of dol lars out of convict labor in Georgia in the last forty years, men being leased to them at $100 a piece with the proviso of board and sleeping quarters. In the investigation which led to the present legislation there was con siderable testimony to the effect that negro convicts had been whipped by overseers, that in several cases the abuse had resulted in the death of men under the control of the lessee. When the Georgia Legilature as sembled a month ago to consider the question of convict labor, Governor Smith announced that he desired all traces of the lease sysem to be erad icated. The House and Senate disa greed as to how this should be ac complished. The Senate insisted that there should be no leasing after March 31 next. The House wanted the lease system extended to 1911. Finally, however, House and Senate compromised on a measure which permits the use by the State of any convicts not used on State roads, nor by municipalities, nor in State insti tutions. These men may be used as ;he prison commission and Governor sees fit, but as a close friend of Gov- srnor Smith said when it was sug gested this provision might have a "joker." "Governor Smith, you may be sure, is totally opposed to leasing convicts to private individ uals and will never consent to any leases of this kind. The lease system is dead. ' ' Watchman Killed by Robber. Durham, Special. The dead body of Jack Roberson, night watchman of the Carrington Lumber Company, of East Durham, was found Satur day morning in the road between the company's plant and the railroad tracks, cold and evidently having been there several hours. When the alarm was spread, Sheriff Harvvard was one of the first there and made the examination disclosing the way the man died. Two 38 calibre pis tol wounds were found in the body. Suspicion rests uon a colored man, md robbery was the cause of the crime. To Confer on Roads. Washington, Special. America will be officially represented at the International Good Roads Congress to be held in Paris next month, ac cording to an announcement made last week. The French ministry of public, works has issued formal in vitations to all highway authorities of this country and many will prob ably attend. Burglar Shot and Killed. Macon, Ga., Special. City Detec tive Tom Jones at 3 o'clock Sunday morning shot and killed Junior Braid a negro burglar, just after he had burglarized the grocery store of J. C. Vann and attempted to burglar ize the dwelling of Thomas G. Car roll. Mrs. Carroll was aroused by the r.cgro in the house and screamed. He broke through the glass door and ran. The city detective was callled. gave chase and was forced to short the negro, who showed fight when he was overtaken. Roosevelt Appeals for Taft. Oyster Bay, N. Y., Special. -President Roosevelt in a letter to William B. McKinley, chairman of the Re publican congressional committee, made public Sunday, appeals to dis interested citizens to join with the national Republican committee and the congressional, committee in a movement to elect William H. Taft as President and a Republican Con gress to support him. THE NEWSJN BRIEF Items of Interest Gathered B Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FRCM DAY TO DAY I4va Items Covering Events of More or Less Interest at Hono and Abroad. Foreign Affairs. Chancellor von Buelow welcomed the Interparliamentary Union. It is thought that Great Britain and Germany will stand together in preventing extreme measures against Castro by Holland. Sven Iledin, the Norwegian travel er, gave details about his trip through unexplored Tibet. Cardinal Vannutelli, the Papal Le gate departed from London amid the singing of "God save the Pope." The cholera continues to . spread rapidly in St. Petersburg. Andrew Carnegie has written a let ter to the Interparlimentary Union urging universal peace and assert ing that Emperor William could abolish war. The Prince de Broglie has aban doned his wife, an American woman, and their child and says he will sue for divorce on the ground of infidel ity. A case of cholera has developed on the transport Sheridan in Manila and the number of cases at St. Peters burg has doubled in 24 hours. The German Foreign Office has re ceived the French-Spanish note on Morocco in a friendly spirit, but with caution. Lawsr to give the Jews greater freedom are being drafted by the Russian Cabinet. Political. Bryan, in two speeches delivered in Delaware, directly charged the Republicans with relying on the con tributions of the Steel Trust to elect Taft. . A number of Marylanders confer red with Chairman Hitchcock on the sitation in this State. Democratic Vice Presidential can didate Kem began his Western speaking tour. A candidate of the Boston and Maine Railroad was nominated for Governor in New Hampshire. According to the New York Press, Wall street lias picked Chanler as the winner for Governor. Governor Hughes was renominated by the Republican State Convention in New York at the dictum of Presi dent Roosevelt. Bryan made speeches in Delaware and New Jersey, and in an interview at Philadelphia declared Taft was dodging. Efforts for harmony were made in the New York State Democratic Con vention. The Delaware Democratic State Convention nominated a ticket, and the "drys" talk of putting an op position ticket in the field. John Temple Graves, Independence party candidate for Vice President, challenged John W. Kern, his Demo cratic opponent, to a joint debate. The Republicans are represented as feeling confident that they will cerry Nebraska. National Affairs. . The Wright aeroplane was wreck ed at Fort Myer, Virginia, yesterday. Lieut. Thomas Selfridge being fat ally injured and Orville Wright's hip and several ribs being broken. By new methods of economy the battleship fleet will save nearly $100,000 worth of coal on its cruise. Revenue and customs receipts are rapidly increasing, showing an im provement in the country's business. Secretary Metcalf has run up against an old law which limits in crease of navy-yard employes near election time. Miscellanoens. In a sham fight between four sub marines and a cruiser the submarines scored a complete victory. E. H. Harrimau sa.ys he favors ai increase in roil rates, not because ht needs it, but for the reason that it would help the weaker lines. The Great Council, Improved Or der of Red Men, elected officers. Emma Goldman, the woman anar chist, is going on a lecturing tour of Australia. An effort is being made to bring about an affiliation between the En glish union of engincmen and fire men and the American brotherhood The former Western manager of the E. Mcllhenny Canning and Man ufacturing Company, of Chicago, ask ed for a receiver. Judge Pritchard, in Richmond, sustained his findings that the South Carolina dispensary system is illegal. Mrs. Edith Bc-be, widow of a vic tim of the Monoghan mine disaster, committed suicide in Buckhannon. Norfolk has a mysterious child abandonment case. Burton and Conquest, the negroes convicted of rioting in Onacoek, were granted new trials by the Supreme Court. 'GARDEN. FARM and CROP3 SUGGESTIONS FOR THE UP-TO-DATE AGRICULTURIST Raise Sheep. When in doubt, suggests the Board of Agriculture, raise sheep. The state needs them, and there's a lot of money in it for any intelligent and industrious body who really wishes to get back to the soil. Selection of Brood Saws. In selecting brood sows remember that length of body is important i you want prolific breeders. You may select a comparatively compact boar one with a strong back, but a short sow is not desirable. Farmers Home Journal. Sugar Cures Sour Crop. Fowls occasionally suffer from sour crop; that is, when picked up they vomit a quantity of fluid, and the crop feels soft. For this we know of no bet ter remedy than two teaspoonfuls of sugar and baking soda, in a teacupful of warm water. Give two -teaspoon fuls of this once a day, and at the same time supply plenty of grit. In dustrious Hen. Weight of Milk. Milk weighs about eight and a half pounds to the gallon, varying a little according to the percentage of solids. Cream will weigh about eight pounds to the gallon, varying some according to the percentage of butter fat. The richer the cream the less it weighs. Pure butter fat weighs a little less than seven and three-quarter pounds to the gallon. Liquids expaned when heated and contract when cooled. A gallon of milk or cream when heated will be less than a gallon when cooled. Farmers Home Journal. Selecting the Dairy Sire. First he must be bred from dairy stock. He must be an animal that combines the blood of dams with the butter-producing records and be sired by a bull that is noted for his good breeding of producers. A bull that has-tested daughters in the list of high producing cows always comes from right breeding and grand blood lines. Second, I prefer a young bull that has come from a sire and dam that. have made reputations as breeding animals. This means that they will be aged parents. Third, prepotency is essential in a bull that is to help uplift the herd's productivity, especially if the herd be one of grades. Good size, constitutional quality and vitality are three esential points which must not be overlooked when selecting the dairy sire. In Successful Farming. Value of Tile Drainage. Millions of acres of good farming land have been tile-drained with great, benefit thereto, but there are millions of acres more in the country which will be improved, sooner or later by such treatment. In many sections of the country, the experts of the Depart ment, of Agriculture state, the farm ers are growing fair crops; but they do not realize that with tile drainage they could greatly increase their crops. ' Soil drainage is a matter, however, which requires some study of the con ditions. Systems which will perfect ly drain some lands and enable their owners to produce maximum crops are entirely inadequate for other soils. The questions of the area of ground to be drained by a tile line and the depth at which the tiles should be laid are ones which each farmer must consider on his own particular farm. A great many experiments have been made by the government and the experiment stations; but these serve only as a general index, for soils vary and two adjoining farms, or even land in the same farm may require different treat ments. But the subject is worth sttidy ing. Many lands need drainage which appear to be naturally well-drained and the drainage literature of the De partment of Agriculture which will be furnished on application is well worth reading. A well-constructed tile drain age system will last for years and the cost of installation is soon overcome by the increased production of the land. Only recently Ae Department of Agriculture issuea a bulletin describ ing the use of cement on the farm, in which it was shown that concrete tile drains are a means of reducing the expense of a system of drainage. But withal the ingenious farmer can at little expense manufacture his own pipes out of concrete by utilizing a home-made apparatus. In a Wisconsin Experiment Station test in corn growing on comparatively naturally well-drained soil, the yield was more than doubled by tile drain ing, lines 70 feet apart, , while with lines at 40 feet intervals the yield of both corn and roughage was increased over 300 percent. G. E. M., in the In diana Farmer. Raising Horses cn the Farm. New England farms are well adapt ed to the raising of horse3. We have the finest of timothy and clover hay, oats and other horses' feeds. No where are they produced in greater abundance or better quality, and yet. we find that many western horses are brought into the farming districts of New England states and sold to farm ers for farm teams. I believe that all the horses required for farming purposes should be raised on our own farms. I believe that many of the dray, express and general utility horses employed in the villages and cities might be raised profitably on the farms of the East. Farmers who succeed in breeding and developing, fine carriage horses of the trotting and coaching blood are comparatively few. This is a branch of horse breeding that re quires, first of all a genuine love of tho horse, careful training, exacting skill, scientific knowledge and some capital. The splendid standard-bred horses, the fashionable carriage, coach, and trotting horses, are the result of in telligent breeding and handling by ex perienced trainers on farms owned by wealthy men who are themselves horse lovers. These men, and may their number never grow -less, are real pub lic benefactors in the perfection of equine beauty, refinement and speed. From their stables must continue to come the fashionable drivers and teams. Every farmer of moderate means can, if he will, own a pair of sound mares suitable for farm work. From these, if good judgment is exer cised in the use of a stallion, he can, with little trouble, raise a pair of colts yearly, or every other year at least, that with good care and train ing, which every farmer ought to be capable of giving, will develop into saleable farm, draft and general pur pose teams. There is a widely extend ed market for horses of this kind, and the prices of good sound teams gives promise of being high enough to make the raising of horses on the farm rea sonably profitable. Many a promising foal is spoiled through lack of good food or unsuitable feeding, and hap hazard and wrong methods of breeding are not the only cause of such a great number of inferior, weedy and under sized horses being raised by the farm er. In many cases the inferior quality of a horse or its weediness, or its want of size and substance is entirely the result of its breeder not having rearer it in a proper and suitable manner. A young and growing horse requires plenty of nourishment in or-' der that its body may make the fullest possible amount of development, and unless. it gets all the food and all the nourishment which it requires its de velopment is bound to suffer in some way or other. The farmer must, there fore, be careful to see that his young horse stock gets sufficiency of good nourishing food. There is, of course, such a thing as over-feeding young and growing horses with cohnlrated foods, but this can hardly occur in the case of the average farmer. Young horses require to be kept improving and making growth continuously from the day of foaling until ready for breaking in, and for this reason it is necessary that the breeder should take care to keep hi3 foals, yearlings, two year olds and three year olds fully sup plied with an adequate amount of nour ishing food every day throughout the year. J. P. F., in the American Culti vator. Farm Notes. The pigs on rape grow rapidly, and so, too, on alfalfa. In hot days the shade in the pasture is excellent for the hogs. - Stringy or ropy milk is caused very often by drinking stagnant water. Try to arrange to give each horse on the farm a three weelcs' vacation on grass. Keep the stables and the yards clean so that flies and insects have no breed ing places. Give charcoal and some salt now oc casionally for hogs, to keep them in good health. See that all the hogs have plenty of fresh, clean water to drink, es pecially during hot, dry days. After a day's work clean the work horses thoroughly, wash their legs from the knees down and rub dry. Keep the milking stable darkened and screened, and spray the cows every day. It will pay in dollars and cents. Some corn should be fed to the shoats on pasture to make them grow and develop fast. It balances up the protein gained on pasture. Never does a healthy horse. All he needs is good care and good feed. The good care includes, of course, regular exercise. It is just as bad for a horse to be all the time taking medicine as it is for a man. It costs about $10 to keep a breed ing sow a year. If she gives you two litters of eight pigs each year, there should be a clear profit of at least $20 from her, and you have your so left in the bargain. One of the advantages of the pas tures for the pigs is, that they will fill their stomachs on the palatable green stuff, and besides its other quali ties it distends the stomach in the de velopment and make them larger f ot finishing with corn later on. , Morton E. Converse, a philanthropic citizen of Winchendon, Mass., has given $10,000 for a soldiers' memorial building inHiiSdse,, N. H., where hg was born. r
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