Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-16
ruLpiPAPHIc BREvITIEs.

y
minutes aud 10 seconds, at Lsmans,
to-day covering 20 miles. he ssiled
over the course of the military grounds
at AuvoUr.. Wright's speed was at the
rate Of 46 miles so hour, the greatest
ever attained by an aerial craft.
With another day passed and no trace
OF missing Esther Bilber, smith COL
lege girl, who disappeared from her
mothers summer hume 10 Chesterfield,
Mass, Sunday, the authorities have de-
termined to use bloodhouuds to trace
her.
Fire in Newcastle, DEL, which is
supposed to have originated in the back
part of the Stops department store on
the first door caused damage amounting
to about $40, to the opera house
building this morning. The fire was
caused by crossed electric wires.
A fashionable wedding will take place
at the Episcopal Church of the Re-
deemer, Bryn Mawr, Pa, late this
afternoon, when Miss Bertha Horsman
Lippincott, daughter OF J. Bertram Lip
pincott, an old Virginia family, and Dr..
Stricken Coles, Of Philadelphia, will be
unitsd.
VIM. Pfender, threw himself before q
crowded street car and Was rescued today
in Pit sburg. After being placed upon
the car, he snatched a piece of heavy
wrapping cord from girl sitting beside
him, made "hitch loop" and passed it
around his neck. Frantic efforts OF the
passengers only drew the knot tighter.
The distress prevailing throughout
the United Kingdom was made strikingly
apparent today by q report made by the
Board of Trade, showing England's
psuptr class to number 928,671. This
is one pauper for every S8 Of the populs-
ton of the entire country. The percen.
tsge of psupers in London is even larger,
being one In 81 8, or more than per
cent.
Ribbed of 1920 by a thug who lay 10
wait for him and knocked him down
with a club in the vestibule of his
asnce's home,in New York, Harry Kon-
Their, bank clerk, is today suffering
from severe injuries. Konther and his
isnce we're to have been married soon,
and the money taken from the clerk had
been saved for the wedding expenses.
He lay for an hour before he was discov-
cred.
Opponents of Oannou's rule 10 Con-
gress were successful 10 the primsry
elections 10 Minnesota according to To-
turns today. Chief interest centered in
the fight OF Congressman ]. Adam Bede
10 the Eighth district. Bede went into
the campaign with his main i'sue the
continuance of Cannon 10 power. He
was decisiyely beaten by Clarence B.
Miller FOR the nomination. Local option
won a msjOrity of the counties.
DR.. George Morton, of New York,
was arrested in Philadelphia today st
he request of the New York suthori-
ties on the charge Of false pretenses ard
obtsiniDg $4,000 by means Of bogus
notes. When taken 70 the city ball
where be told Captain Gallagher that
the charge against him "Didu't amount
t. anything and said he could easily
prove thst it was all due to an error.
Further than this be refused to speak.
He is being held to await requisitiOn
papers.
AFRO her step toward the absorption of
the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
by the Rockefeller Hartman group was
taken in Cleveland, Ohio, today when
Federal Judge r, W. Taylor named B.
A. Worthington receiver. Action was
under the petition of the Central Trust
Company of New York, trustee of the
general mortgage bonds issued last
August, as security for the So, 900, 600
advanced by the Hartman interests 10
take up the maturing note issues, which
was guaranteed by the Wabash Railroad.
Following its successful cruise Of yesterday,
when it sailed for eleven and quarter hours,
the Parseval dirigible airship was wrecked
today while enroute from Berlin 10 Potsdam,
where Emperor William and the Empress
were to insp 4ot it. The motor rod broke.
ripping hole in the ballon. The balloon
collapsed aud alighted on the roof Of villa
near Grunewald forest between Berlin and
Potsdam. While the descent was rapid, the
balloon retained enough gas to prevent the
machine from being crashed against the roof.
There were four passengers in the airship,
but they escaped with few minor scratches
and bruises and were rescued from the roof
by means Of ladders.