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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-08

day filed in the town clerks Office in
the case of the Smith & Gardner Sup
ply company, a Massachusetts firm,
against John Rohan of this city. Prop
erty at the corner of Liberty and Put
nam streets and the adjoining property
on Putnam street were attached. The
papers were served by Constable D. c..
Clinton.
A $500 attachment in favor of H.
Charles Westerman and against Clar-
ence Mann, both OF this city, was also
filed. Property on Fillmore street has
been attached. Constable Lewis Asher
served the papers.
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ROBBED OF NEARLY 5000.
Fate That Befel Man Oh the Eve of Ieay-
ing for Europe.


New York, Oct David Lotus, fif-
ty years old, recently sold a store in
Everett, Mass, with the intention of
s;oing back to Ireland, where he was
oorn. He arrived in New York to-day
and bought draft on Dublin for eS29.
He had also $4,000 IN United States
shotes.
He got drunk in the afternoon and
s.yent to Jersey City. He fell in the
street and was helped TO his feet by
Della Smith and Lizzie Griffin, who
hook him to their home, where he went
10 Sleep He awoke at 10 o'clock to-
hight and found that his money and
Araft were gone. He informed the po-
lice who arrested the women and
Charles Mccormick, who was found in
their rooms. The draft and $50 were
Hound on Miss Smith. The remaining
s. $40 is still missing. The prisoners
ssere locked up, and Lotus is held as a
Witness.
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BAD DAY FOR LUETGERT.
The Evidence of Two Witnesses for the
Defence Almost DESTROYED.

Chicago, Oct. 7.-One more day of ey-
idence and the finish of the Luetgert
murder trial will be in sight. The state
announced to-day that it had but few
more witnesses, and that it would get
through with them without much delay
tomorrow. An adjournment will then
be taken until Monday, when the de-
fence will offer small amount of sur
rebuttal, and the way will be clear for
the arguments of the attorneys, which
will take about a week.
1t was a bad day for the defence. The
evidence of two of their chief witnesses
was almost destroyed. Mary Siemmer-
ing and Charles Williams, Luetgert' s
business partner, were the sufferers.
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Harwich, Mass, Oct. 7.-Horton Ell
bridge, sixteen years of age, attempted
to shoot a man whom he saw with his
mother in the latter's house, firing a
revolver from the outside through a
window. He missed his aim, but evil
IDENTIFY thinking he had shot the man
and fearing the consequences, he shot
himself and died in half an hour.
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Assistant City Attorney Webb last
evening married in his office in the po-
lice building Richard Charles Henry
Lewis of Woodmont and Miss Lydia
Vandeburg of ABS Orchard street, this
city, both colored. Lewis is nineteen
years of age and his dusky young bride
is seventeen. Lewis preferred being
married to going to Jail. He was cap
tured last evening by Detective DON
nelly.
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Two Miners Ki led by Fnnl Air

Hazelton, Pa, Oct. THE bodies of
Lewis and Leon Cholad, Austrians.
aged respectively thirty-one and twen-
ty-three years, were found in the Evans
mine at Beaver Meadow to-day. They
were employed in the night shift and
were overcome by foul air
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At THE Foo ID FAIR.
2,4OO People Attended the Popular Ex.
hibitiOn Yesterday.

2,4OO People Attended the Popular Ex.
hibition Yesterday.
About 2,4OO people paid admission to
the food exposition yesterday and that
number of people went away with
hands and arms full of samples.
Everybody got soap yesterday, not
soft soap, though there may have been
some of that variety too, but a one
pound box Of White Chief soap. It
won't be the blame of those who run
the food exposition if the City of Elms
doesn't become famous for it's virtuous
cleanliness.
Hardly person has left the exposi-
ton but who has taken along some
choice cleansing compounds; it may
have been lavine or pearline or soap
this or soap that or two or more of
these miracle working dirt destroyers.
To-day various articles will be given
away, as on preceding days.
Mrs. Rorer's lectures on cooking yes
terday were interesting and well at
tended.
The musical programme for to-day is
as follows:
Part First.
Corps first time) - .Guilford
2. Oyerture-'Le Cheval de Bronze.
iupit
8. Characteristic-"Gob Frolics''..
4. Boiero-.Isabelia' .... ......... .Langey
). Selection-''Isle of Champagne. -Furst
Part Second.
G. Intermezzo-"Naila" .........:. Delibes
Z. Patrol-"American" .Meacham
8. Oyerture-"Bohemian Girl .Baife
9. Two-Step-"Sambo at the Cake
W1lEf' Marks
10. Descriptive Fantasia-"A Nights
Frolic'' NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Herman
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S94,e45 for Pay of Troops at Hazelton

Harrisburg, Pa, Oct. 7.-Adjutant
General Stewart has issued warrants
for $94 ,245 for the pay of the Third
brigade and the Philadelphia City
Troop for services at Hazelton during
the strike This does not include the
cost of transportation and subsistence.
The militiamen, twenty-five hundred in
number, were on duty from September
IL to October 4.
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M1CHAEL BREAKS A RECORD.
The Welsh Wonder Covers a Mile in ms
SO sec., Paced.

Philadelphia, Oct. Jimmy Michael.
the little Welsh wheelman, on the Will
low Grove track to-day, Clipped 1-5
seconds from the best American record
for one mile paced. The record was
1 :3S is, made by Eddie McDuffie Of
Boston about six weeks ago on the
Charles river track at Boston. Mich
ael's time to-day was 1:36. The fastest
time for one mile was made by ]. S.
Stocks in England about a month ago,
when he covered the distance in 1:35 rs.
Stocks was paced by motorcycles and.
his time was not recognized by the L.
A. W. on account Of the character of
the pacemaker.
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Murder and Suicide.

Flint, Mich, Oct. 7.-Lester L. Burton
murdered his wife at 4 o'clock this af-
ernon by firing three bullets into her
body and finished the tragedy by shoot
ne himself dead. The acts were COM
.nitted in the parlor of the Dayton hotel
lnd caused intense excitement.
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Exodus of Miners from Tennsssoo

Knoxville, Tenn, Oct. Sixty to
eighty families of miners from the Jel-
lico district passed through here this
on their way to the mines at
Corana, Ala. Miners have been leaving
for two months, and there are now verv
few left of the $500 who went on strike
May /, most of them having gone to
and Alabama. The men have
given up all hope of settlement.
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PNEUMd MIiL SYSTEM,
1t is in Operation in New York Between the
Postofiice and Bow ing Green.

office and Bow ing Green.
New York Oct. 1.-THE pneumatic
mail tube service in this city went into
effect to-day. The tube runs between
the postoffice and the produce exchange
sub-station in Bowling Green. Other
tubes will be started shortly to Brook
lyn and the sub-station at Forty-fourth
street and Lexington avenue. The car
riers will hold six hundred letters and
they can be dispatched every ten sec
onds.
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CR 4 RI E.S A. DANA DYING.
The Family Summoned to His Bedside at
Mis Country Home.

New York Oct THE condition of
Charles A. Dana became so much worse
yesterday that the family were sum-
moned to his bedside at his country
home, Desoris Island.
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India Will Not Eeopen Mints to Silver.
Paris, Oct. S.-The European edition
of the New York Herald asserts that
the Indian government declines to re-
open the Indian mints to silver.
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influence of Music on the Hair.

An English statistician has recent
ly been engaged in an original task,
that of studying the influence OF
music on the hair. The Investigator
establishes, in the first place, that
the proportion of bald persons is
eleven per cent. for the liberal pro-
fessions in general, with the excep-
tions of physicians, who appear to
hold the record for badness, which is
thirty per cent. Musical composers
do not form an exception to the rule,
and badness is as frequent among
them as in the other professions. The
cornet-a-piston and the French horn
act with surprising surety and rapid
ity; but the trombone is the depila-
tory instrument par excellence. 1t
will clear the hair from ones head IN
five years. This is what the author
calls "baldness of the fanfares," which
RACES with special violence among reg
imental bands.-Scientifc American.
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description does not fit accurately. 1t
is technically known as an aero-curve,
Or a gliding machine Better still, it
might be called an air coaster, for in
its action it approached very closely to
the motion of those machines known
as roller coasters. The resemblance
is carried still further in the applica-
tion of the principles of operation.
It is one of three sailing machines
invented by Mr.. Chanute, including a
steering apparatus designed by Mr..
Herring. The first machine was based
upon areverse of the principles evolved
in the Lilienthal apparatus. Instead
of the man moving about under the
machine to bring the center of gravity
under the center of air pressure, it
was constructed with a view to bring
ing the center of pressure over the
center of gravity by the aid of wings
moved automatically. This machine
had twelve wings, each six feet long
and three feet wide, and each pivoted
to a central frame. 1t had total
wing surface of 1T square feet, and
weighed thirty-seven pounds.
By process of evolution this ap'
paratus became the machine i'll use al
the present time with which such re-
markable results have been obtained.
Experiments showed many defects IN
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were indescribably thrilling and de-
lightful.
All the flights begin from an emf
nence, the numerous sand hills near
Dune Park offering all the opportuni-
ties desired for starting. Another re-
quisite is that the operator must start
facing the wind, although with pro-
ticiency good results may be obtained
with the machine travelling at an angle
with the wind. Those who have seen
buzzard or most any other large bird
begin a flight from the surface of the
earth will have noticed that the bird
invariably faces the wind and runs q
few steps before rising. For the same
reasons the operator of the Chanute
flying machine must face the wind,
holding the machine over his head,
then run few steps down the side of
the hill on which he stands and finally
give Jump outward into space as
though he never expected to come
down. He will be doing nothing more,
in effect, than he did when he jumped
from the top of fence in boyhood
days with an umbrella over his head.
The wind rushing again>< the lower
sides of the two surfaces of vanished
silk holds the operator suspended,
while the angle at which he holds the
surfaces either impels it forward or
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retards its motion. Sometimes q
strong gust of wind comes along when
least expected and suddenly raises the
machine higher than the starting point.
But for the automatic rudder this
might prove disastrous to the operator.
He would, in all likelihood, turn q
back somersault with the machine and
get badly hurt. Again, a blast of air
from above might strike on the top of
the machine and cause it to shoot down
ward at terrific rate of speed. This
is what happened to Lilienthal last
year, and was the cause of the accident
which resulted in his death.
The line of flight of the machine in
the hands of such skillful operator as
Mr.. Herring may be controlled very
largely. He has demonstrated time
and again his ability to steer the ma
chine in broad curves by simply shift
ing the weight of his body from one
side to another. Last Monday he sue
ceeded in describing compound
curve during a flight of about 800 feet,
and landed with his back almost COM
pletely turned to the wind. 1t has
also beer demonstrated that the ma
chine can be made to travel almost at
right angles with the wind at high
rate of speed.
Flights have been made in all sorts
of winds, the speed of which varied
from ten to twenty-one miles an hour.
The latter wind is higher in it's speed
than any gliding machine was ever
tried in before and tested the steadi-
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Beer and Life Insurance.

Very many persons honestly believe that
beer. drinking Is helpful, and laugh at the
idea that 1t can be in the least harmful.
They say that only fanatics and temper
ance cranks would speak against such an
innocent drink as beer. Such: persons
ought to read what insurance doctors say
about 1t. At a recent convention OF the
doctors the subject Of beer drinking was
thoroughly discussed In q scientific way.
What conclusion did they arrive at? Is
beer good for US to drink, will 1t strengthen
us and proIong our lives? Surely the doc
tors should know. They said that the
habit OF drinking beer Is injurious and
makes persons bad risks for life insur-
ance. Dr.. Rogers, Of the New York Life
Insurance Company, said:
Recently had occasion to make some
study Of what happens among persons en-
gagged In the manufacture OF beer, de-
fined generally brewers. My cases In
cluded not only the workingmen engaged
In the breweries, but also the proprietors
Of breweries. It is curious fact that ths
mortality among the proprietors Is about
as high as among the workingmen, show
Ing that they are all given to copious liba-
tions.
"The mortality Is low among brewers In
early years. Up to forty or thereabouts
brewers seem to be about as good risks as
pretty much anybody else. After forty the
mortality rises very high, and should
say that at flfty-flve or sixty years OF age
about three brewers may be expected TO
die where one average person dies"
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Figures That Tell.

For ten years, 1885 to 1894, the average
death-rate Of the Ancient Order OF Forest
ers, England, was over ten and under eleven
per thousand. For the same period, the
average death-rate OF the Manchester Un-
ity Independent Order OF Odd Fellows was
twelve per thousand. For the same period,
the average death-rate Of the Independent
Order Of Rechabites was little over six per
thousand. The Alliance News calls atten-
tion to these figures and says:
IF the death-rate OF the Ancient Order
Of Foresters for the ten years had been the
same as the death-rate OF the Independent
Order Of Rechabites, there would have been
fewer deaths by ~, ,05S. And notice, that II
the death-rate of the Manchester Unity In
dependent Order Of Odd Fellow for the ten
years had been the same as the Indepen-
dent Order of Rechabites, there would have
been fewer deaths by 39,S07, making to-
gether 81, 1897 Does alcohol poison?"
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Forgot His Promise.

When W. Burns Thomson, known
throughout Scotland as the medical mis-
sionary, was a young man prosecuting his
medical studies, he was assistant chaplain
of the Edinburgh prison. There many
strange and sad experiences IN the lives OF
convicts came, to his knowledge. The fol-
lowing, told by himself and included IN his
biography by Mr.. Maxwell, shows how one
mistake in conduct may prove fatal to
character and even to life itself.
Mr.. Thomson was leaving Calton jail one
afternoon, when the Governor, stepping
from group OF officials, said to him:
"Please wait. We are expecting a heavy
sentence" r... ..
In a short time the gates we're opened
and the police van came In. When the
clatter OF bolts had ceased, prisoner
stepped out Of the van. After glancing for
q moment at the papers handed to him the
Governor whispered to Mr.. Thomson one
word, I'D Deathp' ..".
After the man was taken to his cell the
young chaplain went to see him. When
the Warden had left the cell, the prisoner
looked earnestly at his visitor and said,
$50 you don't know me?"
II do not recall having seen you before"
was the reply.
"But remember you," the prisoner ex-
claimed, 80 bitterly that the chaplain
wondered for moment whether he could
ever have done him an injury. Almost i'm
,mediately the condemned man broke into
paroxysm Of grief, wringing his hands and
crying: ..
"Oh, II had kept my promise! II I had
only kept my promise, I should not be here
to-day -.
He was typical British tar with free
hand and generous heart when he was
sober. Under the influence Of liquor he had
quarreled with his wife and had pushed her
down stairs to her death.
It seems that three years previous to his
trial and conviction for murder he had been
sentenced to thirty days In prison because
OF drunken row. Then he attended the
prison meetings held by Mr.. Thomson, who,
after one Of these gatherings, took the
sailor into his private room, and warned
him earnestly against drink, The murderer
now told the chaplain this and ended his
confession In these words:
"I promised you faithfully that would
give 1t up, and so did for q while, but 1t
came back on me. Since then have been
all around the world, and to think that
am here and that 1t has come to thts!''
Then followed an outburst OF agony and
the plaintive wall, "Oh, II had kept my
promisel'
This for weeks was his remorseful refrain
until the moment Of his execution.
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A PRAYER Of King Alfred.

Lord, who hast wrought all things worthy
and nothing unworthy, to thee call, whom
everything loveth that can love. both those
that know that they love and those who
know not what they love-thou who art the
Father Of that Son who has awakened and
yet awakens US from the sleep OF our sins
and warneth US that we come to thee. For
every one fails who fees from thee, and
every one rises who turns to thee, and every
one stands who abides in thee, and he
dies who altogether forsakes thee, and
he, quickens who comes to thee and he
lives indeed who thoroughly abides in
thee. Thou who hast given US the power
that we should not despond in any toll, nor
in any Inconvenience, as is no wonder, for
thou we'll rulest and makest US we'll serve
thee thou hast loosed US from the thraldom
OF other creatures and always preparest
eternal life for US and preparest us for eter-
nal life. Hear me, Lord, thy servant Thee
alone love above all other things! Thee
seek Thee follow! Thee 1 am ready
to serve Under thy government wish to
abide, for thou alone reignest. Amen.
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pounds to twenty-three pounds. This
general reduction did not impair the
strength of the machine, while at the
same time it improved its efficiency to
a remarkable degree. Repeated trials
showed the machine capable of sus-
tanning an aggregate weight of ITS
pounds, this figure representing the
combined weight of the operator and
the machine. The frame is con-
structed of spruce wood, braced with
fine piano wire, and the concave sur
faces are formed by vanished silk
stretched over the frame to the highest
tension.
Will this machine fly? Mr.. Chanute
will answer this question by replying
that was never intended to fly. He
will inform those asking the question
! that the machine is made for expert
mental purposes solely, with the end
in view of developing the motorless
air saiIer. At the same time, Mr..
Chanute might say, the experiments
may lead to solution of the most i'm
portant part of the problem of man
hight-the maintenance of the equllib-
rum of the machine under all cir
cumstances. He holds that this prob
lem must be solved first. It has been
demonstrated to his satisfaction that
until automatic stability at all angles
of flight and conditions of wind is
evolved and safety thereby secured it
would be premature to seek to apply @
motor or propelling instrument to a
full-sized machine.
The ordinary observer would an
swer that the machine does fly, never
theless, after witnessing a days .ex-
periments among the sand dunes. The
distinction between sailing and glid-
ing and flying would not appeal to any
but the scientific mind while watching
the "double-decker" travel through
the air distance of 200 yards with
Mr.. Herring hanging by his arms be-
meath. If the spectator was daring
enough to tackle the machine himself
and succeeded in getting the right
kind of start he would be willing to
take oath that the machine flew. He
would also be willing to testify that
his sensations while the fight lasted
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Rewarded For Finding a Feather.

The Gazette of Moscow says that
while the King of Siam was passing
through the streets of that city white
feather fell from the plume of his he'll
met, and was picked up by the peasant
Toukianow, who is in the service of
NJ. Koch. Toukianow fastened to re-
store the feather to the chief of police.
He was greatly surprised several days
later upon receiving from this official,
in the name of His Siamese Majesty, q
casket containing a portrait of the
King and a massive gold chain deco
rated with q token of the same metal
bearing the arms of Siam in enamel.
Toukianow has not yet recovered from
this unexpected piece of good fortune.
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ness of the machine most thoroughly.
The speed at which the machine travels
rests very largely with the operator
and depends upon the angle of descent
from the starting point. When he
finds that he is approaching the ground
too swiftly it is only necessary for him
to tilt the front of the machine upward,
when it's speed will be Immediately
checked, and alanding can be made in
safety. The range of flight is also
very largely within the control of the
operator, one who is skillful being
able to alight within ten feet of any
spot indicated while the wind main
tains an even rate Of speed. The
longest flight recorded is the one made
this year by Mr.. Herring, which was
almost 900 feet. Another flight of 600
feet was made last week.
Long flights are not the aim of the
men who are conducting the expert