The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-08-07
WEEK In THE WORLD
Great Events and Movements Which
Arc Making History.


William u. Allison, the oldest member
of Tie United States senate. died az hi.
home IN Dubuque, Ia, Tuesday, Sen
ator Allison was born al Perry, o.. March
. lS1g. llis bayhoOd days hC spent on the
farm. which was his birthplace. He Re.
cured IN. education IN Allegheny college
IN Pennsylvania and the Western Reserve
college oi Ohio. ~ both OF which schools
lie won high houors. senator Allison was
admitted 10 the bar ia lSjJ. lie was mar.
ried To Miss Anna Carter OF Wooster u
AZ Ashland o. IN February, 1851, From
1850 until 1851 he prJciiccd law m ONO.
In 1851 he removed 10 Dubuque, la. where
he continued the practice OF law. senator
Allison was a delegate 70 the national re-
publican convention IN Chicago m 1860
lie was a member OF the governors stan
during the civil war and raised Union
troops. In lS63 he was elected 20 con.
grcss and served continuously until ISL.
I'M 1878 be was elected United states sen.
ator from Iowa aud served in this capacity
until his death Senator Allison was Of.
fcrrd the position Of secretary. OF the
treasury three times by President Gar.
field. Harrison and Mckinley. lie refused
the office each time. In 1872 he was chair
man of the international monetary con
ference al Brussels. He was candidate for
before the national republican convention
in lsSS and again in 1896. shortly after
his first election 10 congress Senator ALI
son was appointed a member Of the ways
and means committee. IL was Senator
Allison as much as any other man who
planned and carried through all the great
measures for the conduct of the civil war
the re-estahishment OF the national
credit and the development Of the ma
tional resources His and IN the nomina-
ton of Abraham Lincoln for president in
1860 was perhaps Senator Alhsons first
great service for his country,
At the completion OF the most remark.
able voyage in the history of aerial nayiga.
tion--a voyage lasting nearly u hours and
covering more than 400 mlles-the I'M
mense airship OF Count Zeppelin broke
away from its mOorings during a storm
near Stuttgart, Germany, Wednesday
took fire and burst, injuring sew
eral people and totally destroying itself. |
The big dirigible balloon started Tuesday
morning from Lake Constance for the pur
pose of making 24-hour trip to Mayence, !
along the Rhine and back to the starting
point via Stuttgart. The balloon pro
ceeded from the lake to Basic, a distance
of 100 miles, and then turned northward |
that city the count found it necessary to |
alight to make repairs on propeller, but |
the voyage was resumed at 1918 p. m. 1t |
was on the homeward trip that it was
necessary to stop for the second time near |
and the accident to the airship |
took place while the count was waiting for
mechanics to arrive from the starting
point. The vessel lost Wednesday was the
fourth Count Zeppelin has constructed.
When his own money had become eX-
hausted the German Reichstag voted him
sl25000 to conduct further experiments,
and No. was the result. The German
government agreed to purchase this ship
should it fulfil certain requirements, the
one being that it remain in the
lir "a hours and land on terra frma.
This stipulation was not fulfilled. The
lirship was 443 feet long and about 45 feet
n diameter. 1t tapered to a blunt point
1t the bow, while at the stern were rud
lers and frames used in steering. 1t was
tilted underneath with two independent
platforms, each carrying a motor capable
If developing l4o horsepower. Sixteen
passengers had been taken aloft at one
ime. The initiating gas was distributed
mong sixteen separate interior compart-
nents which were contained within the
utter rigid envelope of aluminium.
The most disastrous conflagration in the
history of Canada has swept the Crows
nest pass country in the Elk river valley, :
Cast Kootenay For forty miles a ire
nendous timber fire has burned every
hing before it. Reports from the Crows
(est pass points show that the loss of life
nd property is greater than at first sup
'osed. The death list is growing hourly,
nd conservative estimates now place the
lumber of lives lost at 800. The none
airy loss, put originally at S3,000000, will
e nearer 100000. At least 1000 per-
ons are homeless on the prairies without
God. 1t is known that the thriving town
f Fernie has been destroyed, and also
,oal Creek. Some reports-also said Michel
nd Hosmer had gone and that Cranbrook
nd Sparwood were in peril. News con-
erning these latter places is conflicting,
owever, as the usual means of commu-
ication have been destroyed. Scores of
antilles fleeing from the flames have been
eparated. Safe, as they thought, in one
own, the flames were at their heels before
hey had chance to rest, and the panic
tricken rush to get beyond the fire zone
ad to be taken up again. The work of
escue and relief is going forward rapid
:, but the Canadian officials are CON
'onted by herculean task. The prop
rty loss is S5,000,000 in Fernie, and that
tys inhabitants are homeless. The resi-
ents have been taken in trains to places
safety and are now destitute.