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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-18
Merchant Prince of Oyster
Bay Yanked Away From
The President.
DEMANDS AN APOLOGY.
SAYS HE MUST HAVE SATISFAC-
TIoN FROM DULLES OR HE
WILL BRING sUIT-EcHo OF
RECEPTION DAY.

Oyster Bay, n. Y, Sept. 18.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt's reception to the vii
layers yesterday nearly ended in a
riot, when a secret service man held
up Charles Kursman. the leading bust
ness man of Oyster Bay.
Mr.. Kursman, accompanied by two
ladies, attempted to approach the
president, who was receiving all COM
ers. A secret service man grabbed
Mr.. Kursman by the seat OF his prize
trousers and told him that he would
not be allowed to approach the presi-
dent. Mr.. Kursman, as he tells the
story, says:
81 thought it a matter Of precedence
and l waited patiently. After every
one else had shaken hands with the
president I started forward again.
Once mor I was stopped. The secret
service man said that a complaint had
been made against him. I demanded
that I should be allowed to see the
president, his secretary or the chief
Of the secret service"
When Mr.. Kursman was protesting,
the women with him began to cry.
The 200 spectators were quickly at
tracted to the scene.
Finally James Stone, head Of the
secret service, came up. He recogniz-
ed MI. Kursman and called Secretary
Loeb. The two conducted Mr.. Kurs-
man to the president who received
the merchant cordially.
Mr.. Kursman is not only the leading
merchant In Oyster Bay. but he is a
member OF the presidents lodge OF
Masons. He is treasurer Of the local
fire company and treasurer OF the To-
cal protective association.
Demands an Apology.
II did not cause anything like the
trouble I could have" Mr.. Kursman
says. "The matter Is not ended, how
ever. l was deliberately insulted in
the presence Of ladies by the presi-
dents DULLES. l must have an apol-
ogy. or I will bring suit" q,
Outside of this important feature
the presidents public reception was
a success, unless the number Of guests
is considered. The attendance was
about one-tenth of what it was six
years ago. The president had planned
for $500 persons, but a scant $50 as
cended Sycamore Hill to greet him.
They looked lonely as they scattered
over the broad lawn. All expected a
speech, and they were not disappoint-
ed. In fact, they heard two speeches.
One was by President Roosevelt the
other was by Emile Albrecht, presi-
dent of the Hicksville Sangerbund. AZ
ter conducting his chorus in a German
song, Mr.. Albrecht congratulated the
president In German. The president
replied, briefly, expressing his appre-
citation.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-18
FEARED MARRIAGE
WITH FOREIGNER
For This Reason Helen MaIon-
ey Married Osborne,
She Says.
MARRIAGE is ANNULLED.
SHOWN THAT NEITHER OF THE
CONTRACTING PARTIES USED
RIGHT NAMES, CONSIDERING
WHOLE AFFAIR A JOKE.

New York. Sept. 1S.-Fear that she
might be compelled by her parents to
marry a titled foreigner whom she
disliked was the reason which Helen
Maloney, daughter of wealthy Martin
Maloney, of Philadelphia, declared i'm
PEELED her to go through the marriage
ceremony with Arthur Herbert Os-
borne a young broker of this city.
This Information given by Miss Ma
loney under oath when she was being
examined by a referee in connection
with her application to have the pur-
ported marriage annulled. was CLEANED
from papers in h case which were
filed in court after a formal decree fin
ally annulling the marriage was grant
ed by Justice Gerard in the supreme
court.
Miss MaIoney swore hat the mar
riage was regarded in a serious
light. either BY Osborne or herself;
that she did not believe the contract a
binding one inasmuch as the contract
ing parties did not give their right
names, ages o r names Of their parents
to the justice of the peace who per-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-18
WRESTLERS HERE
Bout Arranged Between Ger
man Champion Buch and
Frank PrindIe.
OTHER MATCHES FOLLOW.

o. G.. Murray and M. Charlson of
Chicago are arranging to promote
some Of the best wre stling matches
that ever was witnessed in this part
Of the country.
On next Friday evening, Sept. % at
the coliseum Carl Buch, champion of
Germany and Frank Prindle the
heavyweight wrestler of the state of
Indiana will meet. Both men are bit
ter rivals and a contest between the
two will be fast and furious.
The match will be two best out Of
three falls with no time limit. The
purse which has beer offered by Man
ager Murray of this city and M. Charl-
son of Chicago, will be $3.50 for the
winner and the winner of this contest
will be matched against one of the
many other top notchers in the bust
ness.
There is nothing in this exhibition
that ladies' of the most refined cannot
witness and the ladies are especially
invited with their escorts.
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marriage never had been consum-
mated.
Osborne. in his answer opposing the
application for annuiment, also de-
clared that no consummation Of the
marriage had ever taken place and
neither of the contracting parties ever
intended hat it should take place In
til after a marriage ceremony in a
Roman Catholic church by a priest OF
that church.
Miss Maloney now is free so far as
the laws of the United States r con
young Englishman with whom she
cerned, to marry Samuel Clarkson, a
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-18
A WAR lnAazDY.
Pathetic Incident at the Siege of Pers
Hudson.

Pathetic Incident at the Siege Of Pors
Hudson.
At the siege at Port Hudson. La.
there was one gun commanded by Al
phonso Dubreuil. He vas a young
sugar planter who had opposed seces
sion. but maj lined that If Louisiana
seeded he would 60 with his state
DR.. Chatrand. his neighbor. was a vic
lent secessionist. and Dubreuil and the
doctors daughter Amelia were lovers
louisiana seeded. Alphonso raised q
company and proved SO brave a Con
federate that the doctor. who had op
posed his daughters marriage. readily
consented. and the pair were married.
His bride was accorded special per-
mission to 60 into the bomb proofs Of
the fort. where In comparative safety
she could be near her husband. There
she saw him operating his enormous
gun but her heart was torn with fear
for his safety. Suddenly she became
excited by the noise Of firing and. rush
ing out from her place OF safety. was
struck by q piece Of shell and fell back
lifeless. Dubreuil ran to her side, saw
death In her face and went back brave.
~ to his gun.
The next morning was beautiful. and
the sun shone ~gioriously. There was
cessation OF hostflities that the dead
might be buried. Thus engaged, q re-
quest came from the enemy to allow
the body of a young lady to pass
through q lines. 1t was granted.
The little cortege came. preceded by a
military band playing a mournful
dirge. and halted at the outpost. The
old musket box used as a bier was &C.
companied by two ladies and several
officers. One of the latter, a handsome
young fellow with long hair, walked
calmly and slowly. but his face be-
trayed the greatest grief. 4 detail of
Confederate privates acted as pallbear-
ers. Our men uncovered their heads.
All were blindfolded and led through
u lines to the steamboat. They babe
a last adieu to the dead bride and re-
turned hindfolded.
1t was the sad6est sight 1 ever aw.-
g. n. Sas Eanents.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-18
On tho Lockout.

"Old Bill Lush of Loretto," said the
story teller, was always on the look
out for special occasions.
Yes. SIR said Bill one night. 4
faithfully promised my wife thirty
seven years ago never to take more
than three drinks except on special oc.
casions. Friday was my birthday;
Saturday was Memorial day; Sunday
my brother-in-law concluded a visit to
us; Monday we had fine weather after
a long spell; tomorrow my oldest girls
new dress ONE home; only today,
durn 1t, l can't think Of anything spe-
cial.'"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-18
SIX AND OnE-HALF
INCHES OF RAINFALL
No! Not in Wayne County, But
Texas.

Galveston, Tex, Sept. 1S-A six and
one-half inches of rainfall inside OF
ten hours caused the streets in the
business section Of this city to be
flooded this afternoon, the wind reach
ing a velocity Of sixty miles an hour
for a few minutes. No damage was
done,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-18
W or.n more Dead.

They had been married seventeen
years.
IF there yer was an utterly worth
less travesty Of q nan you're It" she
told him.
Six months later she was suing tho
railway company whose train had run
over this worthless husband for $685.
OOO.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-18
Accomplished.

There's nc use talktn'," said Farm
er Corntossel a. he knocked the ashes
GU of his corncob and laid 1t on the
mantelpiece. there's something about
a college education that does give a
young Teller polish"
DO you think that our boy Josh is
improved?"
Yep. He kin smoke a pipe in a way
that makes 1t look cal stylish.--Kan.
- City independent
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-18
He Objected.

TIC OpJeCt0o.
A surgeon was explaining a very un-
common case to his students and I'm
iEhed up as follows:
This, gentlemen, is q very rare tn
NOR indeed In all my thirty years
experience 1 nave y come across
n like this, and you Will see me re
move il tomorrow"
"No. you won't" said the patient.
IT that's all the experience you've had
of this sort Of thing I'm going home"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-18

eloped and went to England some time
ago. The authorities of the Roman
Catholic church Of which Miss Ma
loney is a member, however. although
they have been appealed to do 80. have
not given Judgment on the question OF
whether or not the marriage with o.
borne shall be regarded as binding.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-18
At the Barber's.

1onsorial Expert Cutting colored
mans hair)-'Rastus. your hair Is just
like wool. 'Rastus-Weil. you didn't
'spect to cut silk To- Is cents, did yoh1
-Harner's Weekly
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-18
GAM ES TODAY.

National League.
Cincinnati at Boston.
st. Louis at Brooklyn.
Pittsburg at New York.
Chicago at Philadelphia.
American League.
Washington at Chicago.
Philadelphia at st. Louis.
New York at Detroit.
Boston at Cleveland.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-18

National League.

National League.
Brooklyn 6; Cincinnati 2.
Pittsburg 8; Philadelphia /.
New York 10; st. Louis 5.
Chicago 4; Boston 1.
American League.
Detroit z: New York 4.
Chicago 5; Washington o.
Cleveland 1; Boston 0.
Philadelphia-St. Louis-Rain.
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The oldest known coins are those Of
Lydia. It ID the opinion Of many that
1t was In that country that the art Of
coming money 1rst arose.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-18

The Questioner-I hear his wife Is a
brunette, but I thought he married a
blond. The Joker-He did, but she
dYed-Fo0ston Post
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-18

ADELAIDE:
Mother says "they can't say anything toe
good about Gold Medal flour" CHAIfrY,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-07

@HE news that our Signal Corps
has asked Peter Cooper Hew-
lit to aid in constructing war
airships makes a profound i'm
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q "MLE.MRAg1S

plant in hourly communication with points
in Russia, Spain and Austria, or twenty
miles away are the receiving poles upon
the heights of TOul or Verdun. AfrShipS,
cruising half mile high beyond the from
tier will take telescope photographs of
the oncoming enemy, and the Etat-Major
at Paris or at Verdun will Immediately
have the precious photographs to work on.
In doing this will the airships be hit?
They won't be hurt. 1t is new surprise.
Envelopes Close Over.
The cigar-shaped envelopes are made
of three thicknesses of stuff, glued to-
gether crosswise and protected by two
coats of rubber paint. Originally 1t was
all done to save gas. Scarcely any hydro
gen escapes. Waste, apart from swelling
in high attitudes through automatic valves,
is only due to interplay of condensation
and dilation in the changing temperature,
increased sunlight, cooling clouds or air
currents, cool warm. 1t ran be less
than / per cent, and never rises to per
cent daily
Now for the surprise. They found by
accident that the envelopes had peculiar
elastic qualities At first they did not
shoot at such expensive apparatus carry
ing valued experts. 1t was simply thought
that they must take their chances in a
war, like ships at sea. blu. when the
jaime. 1 think, got hit by rifle projectiles
accidentally the perforations were so
trifiing that the loss of gas was negligible
The holes regularly close entirely after
the passage of the rifle projectile, as has
been observed with the skin of living per-
sons.
Maneuvers of attacking fortresses, on
the other hand, show that between $50
feet and 1850 feet altitude the aiming of
artillery fire at airships is so difficult as
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had its guide rope providentially caught
and made fast to the rear platform OF
a trolley car coming down from Uriage
So the trolley car towe~ the airship
through the wind that would have car
ried it away. It towed the airship fast.
The airship did not blow its head in"
And it obeyed its rudder so perfectly that,
as they neared the gas plant In the out
skirts of Grenoble. M. Malecot called
down to the conductor: "Cut the toy
rope"
turning with his considerable acquired
speed and all his propeller force. he m;-Ae
a half circle In a field and was entering
the gas works beautifully, at ten feet
altitude, when a returning trolley. car
just grazed the rudder!
Mystery and Discretion.
The Malecot took gas that night and
| went off next day with a repaired rud-
der; but henceforth its owner only drear,-
ed of increased motive power. Now that
the war department has accepted the
Malecot to add to its fotilla, it may keep
or substitute yet more powerful en-
gine-mystery and discretion, as they say
| in Paris!
Which may be said Of the De Marcay
also.- So long as it was private property,
we heard all about this latest and per
haps coming type of swift airships. The
De Marcay was photographed and fully
described; then. suddenly, 1t ceased to be
seen, even heard of.
Thus we know, however, that it has
| 2OO-horse-power; new motor with two
groups of six cylinders each, air cooleo'
| and weighing-with the tubing, carbura-
tors and magnetos-less than one and
| three-ouarter pounds per horsepower.
| Thus also, we know OF Its still more
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WAKIKUYU AND HUT.

her with all she will take. / made some
inquiries as to the prices of such women,
and am told that a girl is supposed to be
ready for sale at twelve years and that
$40 in cattle or sheep is an average price.
For this sum the woman should be large.
we'll formed and fairly good looking.
Ugly girls and lean girls go cheap and
some such are often unmarried, in which
case they have to work for their parents.
Great Railroad Thieves.
1 saw half dozen Nandi including two
women at one of the stations retween
here and the Escarpment. The men We're
almost naked, save that they wore cloaks
of monkey skins with the fur on and
strips of cowskin about the waist. The
women had on waist cloths and blankets
of cowhides tanned with the hair on.
These blankets were fastened over one
shoulder, leaving the arms and half of
the breasts bare. These Nandi were walk
ing along the railroad track and were
closely watched by the station agents. I
am told they are great thieves. and that
the British have had trouble with them be-
cause they steal bolts and rivets which
hold the rails to the ties, and even climb
the telegraph poles and steal the wire
The women l saw had coils of brass
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-07

of his family as so much available capital.
If man has fifteen or twenty wives, he
is supposed to be wealthy beyond the
dreams of avarice. l am told that many
of the chiefs have dozen or more, and
that since the British have begun to. ex-
plot the forests. the more Industrious of
the native men have been rapidly increas-
ing their families. a good girl, large and
healthy will bring much as fifty sheep.
and a man may pay down ten sheep and
agree to bring in the balance from month
to month as himself and his wives earn
them. He goes into the woods and cuts
down trees. being paid so much per stick.
If man works hard. he may make ST.
or 81 80 a month. and if. in addition, he
has several women to help him, his income
NAV be doubled or trebled.
In such work the men cut the wood and
the women carry it on their backs to the
market They are loaded up by their hus-
bands, a piece of goatskin separating the
rough sticks from the women's bare skin,
the burden being tied on by rope of
vines which rests on the forehead. In ad-
dition to this goat skin on her back, the
Woman usually has an apron or skirt of
skin which is tied about the waist and
reaches to the knees and sometimes be-
low them. a good lusty girl can carry as
much as 200 pounds of wood in this way.
and her husband does not scruple to load
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to be scarcely worth trying. Apart from
the practical impossibility Of vertical aim
ing of artillery the airships have rapid
Observation-Disclosures, diagonal and YER
teal. AS moving marks they are too small
to be hit by artillery.
Why have you not heard of all these
wonders, not as Jules Verne possibilities,
but real performances?
/. The French have tried to keep them
secret.
2. They are so new. The war airship
not being advertised, ec1ipsed for the hour
by the motor aeroplane has become practt-
cal only of late by what made aeroplanes
themselves a possibility-new, wonderfully
powerful. light motors.
With New Motors.
Santos-Dumont when he went from ST.
Cloud to the Eiffel Tower and back had
nothing like these motors. He adapted
what he could find in the automobile
trade. He won the Deutsch prize in 1901
with 12-horsepower four-cylinder motor
weighing 1913 pounds-over sixteen pounds
per horsepower.
For his new "mixed" balloon-aeroplane
Santos" will have "a sixteen-cylinder
100 horsepower motor weighing two and
two-tenths pounds per horsepower. Es-
nault-Petterie. 1.-The Man of Buc," navi-
gates his Observation-Disclosures monoplane
with a seven-cylinder motor of his own
make. yielding 35-horsepower for 1O2
pounds weight-three pounds per horse
power. And without knowing the vital
facts of the French army's secret, it is
certain that a present airship motor diff
fers as much from an aerop!ane motor as
an automobile motor differs from a marine
motor.
The late adventure of the German
army's Parsifal airship proves only
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wire around their necks and arms, and
long coils of similar wire tied to strings
in their ears. In their own country tele-
graph wire brings a big price as jewelry.
and they look upon the strands of iron
stretched from pole to pole along the
railroad just as our women look upon
gold and silver jewelry. If the wires
along our tracks We're made of gold and
silver so that one could snip off a
section far out in the woods and
make a gold necklace for his girl out of
it, you would have about the conditions
that prevail here as to the telegraph.
The native men are crazy for iron. They
can use the bolts and rivets for slung-
shots to brain their enemies, and all the
iron they have had in the past has come
from digging up the ore and smelling it.
The Nandi live northwest of here on
plateau which contains iron deposits, and
they make a business of mining and
smelling Since the railroad has been
built they have come down from time
to time and raided the tracks. and the
British have had several little wars with
them to keep them Off They had one in
1900 and another in 1903.
Queer Nandi Customs.
These Nandi are among the bravest of
the African natives. They are much like
the Nasal. delighting in warfare, and
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once again that these aerial monsters need
vast force with Hghtness. Once 1t was
feared that high speeds might cause them
to blow in their heads" by impact on the
atmosphere. Now every Paris expert ap-
proves the cabled detail that our signal
sixty miles per hour speed-if he can at
tain it.!
1t is even said the Patrie would have
saved herself in the gale that destroyed
her bad she been but manned and piloIed.
The Parsifal adventure indicates it.
tenwalde in a hard gale. It's four occu-
pants made no attempt to descend. In
stead, they kept her head against the
wind, with a seaship. Doing this.
they ripped the gable off a country man
sion; but at six miles distance they came
to land quietly, in the shelter of forest.
Next morning. having lost less than 5
per cent of their hydrogen, the Germans
rose to half a mile, found still air. and
made off on their appointed course!
A Record Trip.
An adventure of the Malecot under
lined the same necessity of force to battle
with the wind 1t happened when it's pa
triotic French owner was using it as a
pleasure craft. Having 4 maximum of
fifteen miles per hour from a forty horse
power Argus motor, M. Malecot. with his
Young wife and one engineer, made a tour
Of France unique Of it's kind. averaging
some fifty miles per day for fourteen days
without diSinf1ating.
Every evening they stopped at some
town, small enough not to develop dis
turbance. large enough to possess a gas
plant for the daily leakage. Well, out
side Grenoble in a breeze, the forty-horse-
power motor proved too weak
The Malecot, battling for Storage way,