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SAILS NEAP, GULF
Indiana Must Swerve Course to
Break Distance Record.
WINS THE ENDURANCE TEST.
Pilot and Aide of Aircraft Stilt Flying
Claim They Only Dropped Down
Near Enough to Earth In Tennessee
to Let Down Line and Get Bucket
of Water Other Racers Have All
Been Heard From.
Indianapolis, Juno 8. If the bal
loon Indiana is not disqualified by
touching earth, It has broken tbo
American enduranco record, which has
stood for a year at forty-four hours.
Starting In the national dlstanco race
of the Aero Club of America from this
city Snturday afternoon, two reports
have been received from the Indiana.
The first was that It had touched tho
earth In Tennessee and had taken
on water and proceeded toward tho
south. If tills bo true, tho balloon is
disqualified under tho rules of the in
ternational neronnutjc federation. A
second dispatch, received in this city
and signed by the pilot, Carl Fisher,
and tho aide, Q. L. Bumbaugh, has
stated that they dropped down near
enough to earth to let down a lino and
draw up a bucket of water. Under
tho latter conditions tho Indiana has
not been disqualified and has broken
tho endurance record.
It is not possible, according to avail
able information, that the Indiana has
brokon the distance record of 852
miles, for It wns traveling duo suuth
and would como to tho gulf coast al
most 100 miles short of tho record' es
tablshed by the German balloon Pom
merln, in tho international race last
year, for the James Gordon Bennett
trophy, starting from St. Louis, and
lnndlng at Asbury Park, N. J.
Tho last of the six balloons entered
in tho national distance raco from
which a definite landing report hah
been received Is tho St Louis lit,
which dropped at Kelso, Tenn., having
covered about 340 miles. Albert Lam
bert wns the pilot and H. E. Honey
well tho aide. The other balloons
landed as follows, covering the fol
lowing approximate distances: The
Now York, A. Holland Forbes pilot,
landed at Corinth, Miss., covering 375
miles In 36 hours and 10 minutes;
the University City of St. Louis, trav
eled 341 miles, landing at Blanche,
Tcnn., time 25 hours and 24 minutes;
thp Hoosler, Baldwin pilot, trnvolod
540 alios, landing at Greenbrier,
Tenn. ; the Cleveland, landed at Co
lumbus, Ind., 40 miles, two hours 55
minutes.
GAS ENDS THREE LIVES
Husband Arrested and Wife Kills Two
Children and Self.
St. Louis, June 7. Twelve hours
after her husband, John Glaessor, had
been taken from home by the police
under the charge of embezzlement,
Mrs. Mnrtha Glaessor was found dead
in bed beside the dead bodies of her
children, Arnett, a girl eight years out,
and John, flvp years old. The room
was filled with gas and the police ad
vance the theory that tho mother,
after closing the windows and. doors
of tho room, turned on the gas' which
ended three lives.
It is supposed that the excitement
following the arrest of her husband
pre,yed on Mrs. Glaesser's mind.
Glaesser was released from the hold
over, and the cigar company which
caused his nrrcst said there would bo
no prosecution, as Glaesser had been
punished s verely already. Glaesser
was nat ndv!c-d that his family was
dead when u? left the police stnuon,
hut tho police told him his wife and
babies wern ill.
SHRINERS AT LOUISVILLE
New Orleans and Toledo In Field for
1910 Convention.
Loulevllle, June 8. Many thousand
persons nrrived for the thirty-fifth an
nual convention of Nobles of the Mys
tic Shrine. An excursion up tho Ohio
river, drills by boys and girls of the
Masonic widows' and orphans' home Jn
this city and other entertainments
filled out tho time. New Orleans and
Toledo seen alone in the field for the
1010 convention, while Rochester,,
with an invitation for 1911, has nnto
dated nil competitors.
Lightning Explodes Powder House.
London, Juno 8. A dispatch re
ceived hero from Cracow, 4n Austrian
Poland, says that 500 persons wero
wounded by the explosion of nn army
powder magazine there. Threo sol
diers were killed, forty houses were
wrecked and hundreds of houses dam
aged and many of tho wounded ore
seriously hurt.
Auto Overturns; Four Women Drown.
Knight's Landing, Cal., June 8. An
automobile containing1 Mrs. W. F. Mix
on, Mrs, J. H. Dungan, Miss Merl Dun
gan and Miss Julia Dungan of Wood,
land was overturned here nnd toppled
Into the Sacramento river. All four
women were drowned. The chauffeur
swam to a boat. .
Christian Science Directors Elect.
Boston, June 8. The board of di
rectors of the mother church of Chris
tian Science elected William P. Mc
Kcnzle, president; Stephen A. Chase
of Fall River, treasurer, and Jobn'Y
Dittermoro of New York, clerk, the
latter succeeding-William B. Johnson,
resigned.
SUES FOR LOSS OF HAIR
Judge Quarlea Overrules Demurrer of
Fond Du Lac Drug Company.
Milwaukee, Juno 5. That tt woman
has n perfectly good cause for com
plaint in an action for damages if
sho Iobos her hair by reason of an ap
pllcnUon of chemicals, if tho solution
is advertised as being a hnlr restorer,
was held by Judge J. V. Quarles in the
United States court
Judge Quarles overruled tho de
murrer of a Fond du Lao drug com
pany to the complaint of Mrs. M. L.
Bowman.
Mrs. Bowman, a traveling woman,
sued the drug company and a St Louis
manufacturer of hair dyo for $20,000
damages for tho loss of her hair. She
alleges its loss was caused by the ap
plication of hnlr stain purchased of
the drug company and made by the St.
Louis company. The defendants de
murred on tho ground that tho com
plaint failed to state a sufficient cause
of action.
SELF CURE FOR THE INSANE
Voluntary Patients Have Best Chance,
Says New York Expert.
Atlantic City, Juno 5. Dr. Albert
Warren Ferris, president of tho New
York stnto lunacy commission and
principal speaker before the sixty
fifth annual convention of tho Amer
ican Medico-Psychological association
hero, said that voluntary patients who
choose to immuro themselves in in
snno hospitals while on the borderland
of Insanity wcro doing the greatest
work toward rationalizing tho ideas of
tho public toward brain diseases. He
argued that every patjent brought
back to sanity in a fow months saves
thousands of dollnrs to the state.'
THAW'S PLEA IS DENIED
Young Millionaire Must Stay in Insane
Asylum at Matteawan.
Now York", June 5. Harry K. Thaw
must remain in the state asylum for
tho criminal insane under the decision
rendered by tho appellate division of
tho supremo court in Brooklyn. Thaw's
appeal for a writ of habeas corpus
was dismissed' by tho supromo court
several months ago. He then appealed
to the appellate division, which sus
tained the lower court and dismissed
the wrjt Thaw contended that Jus
tico Dowllng's order committing him
to the asylum after ho was declared
not guilty of tho murder of Stanford
White was Illegal.
DR. CLEMINSONILL.
Prisoner Is on the Verge of a Nervous
Collapse.
Chicago, Juno 5. Dr. Haldane Clem
Inson, who Js being hold by tho police
on tho charge of murdering his wife,
becniho seriously ill. It wns reported
that he is on the verge of a nervous
collapse.
Dr. Francis E. McNamara, Jail physi
cian, said ho believed tho prisoner's
condition was due to the severe grill
he has been put through by the police.
He has been denied tho uso of cigar
ettes at tho county jail. Ho has been
nn Incessant smoker.
WARSHIP SENT TO HONDURAS
Navy Called on to Protect American
Life and Property In Island.
Washington, Juno 5. Wireless tele
grams from American consular repre
sentatives In Honduras Informed the
state department of reported revolu
tionary troubles Jn Ceiba'. Tho Amer
ican gunboat Paducah, at Porto Cor
tez, sailed for Celba In response to a
request for protection to foreign life
and property. Consul Brlckwood, nt
Porto Cortoz, tolegraphed that Ceiba
and Tegucigalpa, tho capital of Hon
duras, seems to be cut off.
Women Fight; Babe Fatally Scalded.
Pittsburg, June 4. In an encounter
between two women nt Herminie, Mrs.
Michael Bratta is said to have hurled
a kettle of boiling water at Mrs. John
Petak, scalding her seriously. Mrs.
Petak's two-year-old child was playing
pn tho floor and received' most of tho
boiling water. Physicians say the
child probably will not recover. Mrs.
Bratta was arrested.
Express Company Trouble.
New York, June 4. Supreme Justice
Guy heard argument nnd reversed the
decjslon on the application of John
L. Dudley, a stockholder in tho United
States Express company, for the ap
pointment of a temporary receiver for
that corporation. Counsel for Dudley
told the court tho trouble was that
the shareholders had' no voice In the
management.
Holly at Head of Millers.
Milwaukee, June 5. W. A. Holly of
Coldwater, Mich., was elected presi
dent of tho Fraternity of Operative
Millers of America nt the closing ses
sion of tho convention. Other officers
ire; First vice president, S. B. Italth
ley of Chicago; second' vice president,
John B. Watklns of St. Louis; sccre-tary-treasurer,
Joseph F. Miller of
Chicago.
Binkley May Have Been Murdered,.
Chicago, Juno 4. Evidence support
ing tho theory that Dr. John T. Bink
ley, Sr., of Evansvjlle, Ind., met his
death at the Wellington hotel here nt
the hands of a robber was adduced at
the coroner's inquest. The evidence
presented did not disprovo the hypo
thesis of suicide, but it materially
weakened It.
New Rival for Bell Telephone.
Charleston, W. Va., June 5. The
Nntlonal Telephone corporation, witn
i capital stock of $15,000,000, was in
:orporated here. It. is understood the
new company expects to become a
rival of the Bell system In Us long dls
'iince bUilzuss.
NEBRASKA NEWS
Farmers to Gather at Hastings
on June 13.
FIRST OF SERIES OF MEETINGS
American Society of Equity's Plans
for Controlling Markets and Estab
lishment of Co-operative Packing
Plants Will Be Discussed Farmers
From All Parts of Nebraska and
Kansas Expected to Attend.
Hastings, Neb., Juno 8. On June 18
a mass meeting of farmers will be
held at Hastings, the purpose of which
will be to discuss the American Socie
ty of Equity's plan of controlled mar
keting of winter wheat and the estab
lishment of co-operative packing
plants as a means of controlling tho
marketing of live stock and live stock
products.
It is expected that farmers from all
parts of Nebraska and Kansas will bo
present. C. O. Drayton, president of
the Natlonnl Union of the American
Society of Equity; Theodore G. Nel
son, president of the National Grain
Growers' association, and J. C. Davis,
national lecturer of tho American So
ciety of Equity, will be present nnd
tnko part in the program. It is also
Ukely thnt Governor Shallenberger
and ex-Congressman Pollnrd will bo
present nnd deliver addresses.
On Juno 19 dolegntes representing
the membership of tho society who
have nlready pledged their grain this
year will meet in executive session for
the purpose of determining how, whon(
where, for what price, etc., the grain
in the pool shall be sold. Only those
who have pledged grain w.111 have a
voice in or be admitted to this meet
ing. This is one of a series of 100 mass
meetings called under the auspices of
the American Society of Equity In
tho ngrlcultural states of tho union for
tho same purpose and will no doubt
be of considerable importance to tho
farmers of Nebraska und Kansas.
EIGHT BOYS TO PRISON
Juvenile Dime Novel Readers and Car
Robbers at Norfolk All Captured.
Norfolk, Neb., Juno 7. Five of the
Norfolk boy bandits, who had fled
from the city, were captured at Chad
ron, where they had broken Into a
Northwestern merchandise car, and
they were sentenced to the Btate in
dustrial school at Kearney until they
become twenty-one years old. They
pleaded guilty at Chadron. The boys
stole high cowboy boots from tho mer
cantile car and, wearing these on the
streets of Chadron, wero easily appre
hended. They were alleged also to
have broken Into a car at Gordon,
Neb., since leaving here.
The boys sent to tho industrial
school are: Vic Little, fifteen; two
sons, fourteen and fifteen, of W. A.
Emery; Guy Storms, thirteen; Chester
Housp, fifteen. The two little Chase
boys are in Jail at Madison awaiting
a similar sentence, nnd Emory Ben
nctt, a one-legged youth of twenty, is
In jail awaiting the district court,
when he may bo sent to the peniten
tiary. This makes eight boys now on
their way to prison.
A Northwestern detective, working
up the case, said twenty merchandise
cars have been robbed in Norfolk dur
ing tho last year.
AUTOMOBILE TURNS OVER
Two Men Suffer Broken Bones and
Every Member of Party Injured.
Shelton, Neb., June 7. A serious
automobile nccldent took plnce one
half mile north of town. F. A. Kim
brough, the owner of the machine, was
taking a party of men, consisting of
Sherman Unger, Frank Lamphor, G.
G, Pratt, Peary Shattuck, Frank Go
blo, all of Prosser, and F. J. Boyd and
Thomas Ellis of Shelton out to the
Melsner ranch, when the machino sud
dsniy turned on its sldo while going
at a high rate of speed.
The fall terribly injured Unger,
breaking his arm and alBo causing a
Berlous scalp wound nnd other bruises.
Kimbrough, the driver, had his collar
bone broken and was otherwise
bruised, nnd not one of the balance of
the eight in number escaped serious
bruises. The machine Is almpst a
complete wreck.
SEVEN INCHES OF RAIN
Much Property Damage at Hebron and
Pleasantdale.
. Lincoln June 8, Seven inches of
rain nt Hebron and four inches at
Pleasantdale caused floods and much
property damage In and near those
towns. Near Pleasantdale 200 feet of
the Burlington railroad track was un
der six feet of water and trains wero
stalled for ten hours. There have been
two washouts on the track, one be
tween Strang nnd' Invale and one west
of McCook. A Burlington freight en
gine with four cars went Into the ditch
on account of the soft track. No one
was injured. The crops in the flooded
district have been washed out badly.
Fourth Suspect In Jail at Omaha.
Omaha, Juno 7. Jack Shelton and
Lillian Stephenson arrived in Omaha
in charge of two deputy United States
marshals and two postofflce inspect
ors. Shelton v ill be charged with be
in? ono of the men who held' up and
robbed the OverlanJ Limited train on
the Union acific and the woman will
he beld as a witness.
TWO 8USPECTS ARE BROTHER8
Shelton and Gordon Thus Known by
Detective MacDonald.
Omaha, June 5. Golden is tjo cor
rect name of the bandit whp? calls
hlniBOlf Gordon, and of SlVeTton, tho
man arrested in Denver, nnd they aro
brothers.
This js the announcement of Detec
tive MacDonald of Spokane, who has
identified all -the robbers.
Shelton probably will In brought to
Omaha in a day or two, though tho
Spokane officers want him to nuawer
for crimes there first. He has been
Identified by MacDonald by photo
graphs of him in Omaha.
The detective has decided to remain
here until tho Denver suspect is
brought to OmahK, when he will try
to give the man's name, record and
other particulars of his alleged crim
inal career in tho northwest.
Torgensen, MacDonald says, would
bring a big reward In the northwest If
returned there. He is said to have
committed a desperato crime thcro
some yenrs ago when a heavy ransom
was placed on his head.
FATHER PAYS SHORTAGE
Cozad Man Turns In to Dawson County
Amount Taken by Son.
Lexington, Neb., Juno 7. The stnto
auditing department, under the super
vision of J. W. Tumes, assistant state
auditor, found that L. C. Parrls, dep
uty treasurer of Dawson county, is
short $1,420.41. His father, II. J. Par
rls of Cozad, turned over the money.
Young Parrls left Lexington over a
month ago, leaving many bills around
town not paid. His wife sold tho fur
niture nud paid' what bills sho could.
Tho father told tho officers, before
turning over the money, that ho would
not Interfere if they prosecuted his
son, but in such case ho would not pay
tho shortage. Young Parrls has beer,
deputy treasurer for a number of
years.
SEARLE SUED FOR FIVORCE
Ex-Auditor's Wife Says He Has Prac
tically Abandoned Family.
Lincoln, June 5. Former Auditor
E. M. Searle, Jr., of Ogalalla Is defend
ant in a suit for divorce filed in tho
district court hero by Mrri. Allco
Searle,, who, with her children, has
been living in Lincoln since Mr. Searle
went out of ofilco.
In her petition Mrs: Searlo charges
unfaithfulness and cruelty. She says
her hubband associated with other
people and refused to go out with
her. She also asset ts he has practical
ly abandoned her and their threo chil
dren, leaving them in Lincoln on an al
lowance while he has been living at
Ogalalla. Sho asks temporary alimony
of $150 a month and $300 nttornoy
fees. When tho dlvorco Is granted
sho asks that the court award her $20,
000 alimony.
AERONAUTS OFF FOR EAST
Lieutenants Lahm and Fulois to Fly
With Wrights.
Omaha, June 5. Lieutenants Frank
P. Liihm and B. D. Fulois, tho aero
nauts connected with tho United
States signal corps, left for Washing
ton to witness and take part In the
aeroplane flights of the Wright brotb
ers.
Lieutenants R. S. Baumburger,
Judge Winter and O. A. Dickinson will
remain at Fort Omaha for several
days yet.
Experimental flights with the cap
tive special balloon are being made
dally at Fort Omaha when tho weath
er Is favorable.
Flag Day June 14.
Lincoln, June 4. Flags will bo un
furled June 14, Instead of June 15, as
set out" in the governor's proclama
tion. It has been tho custom to set
June 14 for this day, but in looking
up tho proclamation issued by Gov
ernor Sheldon, Mr. Furse, private sec
retary to Governor Shallenberger, no
ticed that Juno 15 was the date set
last year, so he followed that. June
15 was tho date last year only because
June 14 came, on Sunday.
State Board of Osteopathy.
Lincoln, June 5. Governor Shallen
berger has appointed tho following to
the stnto board of osteopathy: Dr. J.
M.Kllgore of York, one-year term; Dr.
J. T. Young of Superior, two-year
term; Dr. W. H. Cobble of Fremont,
three-year term; Dr. C. B. Atzen of
Omaha, four-year term, and Dr. E. M.
Cramb of Lincoln, flve-yenr term. Dr.
Atzen is secretary of tho new board
and Dr. Young is treasurer,
Katherine Tlmm Commits 8ulclde.
Omaha, June 5. Katherlno Tlmm,
living at 10G South Eleventh street,
committed suicide by taking an ounco
of carbolic acid. She had' Just returned
from Fremont, where her fathor, Hans
Tiram, lives, and was in compnny of
Charles Williams, a barber from that
city, when she took the fatal dose.
Judge Sears Gravely III in Hospital.
Omaha, June 5. Judge Willis C.
Sears of tho district court is in the
Methodist Episcopal hospital danger
ously ill from lung trouble, it Is be
lieved to be a complication following
an attack of pneumonia.
Crushed to Death In Sod House.
Dickens, Neb., June 7. Mrs. Tib
bels, eighty-two years old, blind and
an invalid for the last year, was in
stantly killed when the walls and roof
of her sod house caved in on her with
out any warning.
Jury Gets Zelbell Case,
Omaha, June 5. -The case of AuguBt
Zelbell, charged with the murder of
his son, went to the Jury following a
closin? argument by County Attorney
English.
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