The new era., 1909-04-08

| bile car, broke the worlds record for a
| gasoline car for five miles at Dayton,
Ohio. March oath. Time, 2:45 1-5.
Admiral George F. Beresford, COM
mander of the British channel fleet,
hauled down his flag at Portsmouth
March Gath, thus ending fifty years of
actual serice.
In an automobile race at Dayton,
o., March 23d. David Bruce Brown,
the millionaire amateur driver. ran
his machine mile in .ilirty-three sec.
onds. breaking the worlds amateur
record of 35 80. which was held by
Efm.
The Pope received Hart o. Berg, H.
nancial agent of the Wright brothers,
and said that when Wilbur Wright
came to Rome he hoped the daring
aviator would fly directly over the
vatican so as to give its occupants a
chance to see the aeroplane.
BY strict party vote, of 353 to 1875,
the British House of Commons refused
to express lack of confidence in the
governments naval policy. The vote
was on a motion declaring that the
government was not building enough
battleships to secure the safety of the
empire.
A decrease of nearly 10000 in the
number of idle coal cars during the
last two weeks in March gives an in
dication of the strenuous efforts the
railroads are making to store coal for
the expected strike in the anthracite
mines in the East The number OF
idle box cars increased by 1850 cars.
In race against time Sunday to
reach the bedside of his dying mother,
Frank L. Vandellip, president of
the National City bank of New York,
covered the distance from New York to
This broke all records for the trip. Mr..
Vanderlip arrived twenty-five minutes
after his mother died.
A holy war is again threatened in
Morocco. Reliable news received at
Washington says that F'ez and the sur
rounding country, including the town
of Mequinz, some of whose principal
supporters in Fee. have deserted and
have joined in the revolt proclaiming
the pretenders and holy war. The
situation in Fee is critical.
In support of the contention of lead
ing railroad officials that the present
rates paid by the government to the
railways for the transportation of mail
are far too low, julius kruttschnitt,
vice president of the Union Pacific
and Southern Pacific system, has pre-
pared a pamphlet making an eXhaus-
tive argument for all increase.
In the opinion of Dana Estes. the
Boston publisher. who arrived in New
York few days since, after journey
of $4,000 miles in Europe, Asia and
Africa, former President Roosevelt will
find hunting big game in East Africa
like shooting cows in a back yard"
He says that the antelopes, Zebras. os-
triches. etc. are SO tame that they
don't even look up when train passes.
DIR. Moses Clegg, bacteriologist of
the bureau of science at Manila, has
succeeded in cultivating the leprosy
bacillus. He used the organisms from
both living lepers and the bodies of
victims of leprosy. The bureau OF
science has prepared leprosy vaccine
and proposes to carry forward series
VI tue pOSe VI Co
tablishing a specific treatment for lep-
rosy.
Murmuring prayer for her soul.
Mrs. Mary Farmer was quietly led to
the electric chair in Auburn IN. "
prison shortly after O'Clock on the
morning of March Goth and executed
for the murder of Mrs. Sarah Brennan
at Brownville, last April. There were
no sensational incidents. This was the
second infliction of the death penalty
on woman by electrocution in New
York.
A national campaign in behalf of the
good roads cause is likely to be an out
come of the ocean-to-oGean automobile
race from New York to Seattle, judg
ing by the requests which have been
made to the pathfinders now mapping
out the course The offer of $3.50
made by Robert Guggenheim for the
best design for trophy to cost $4,000,
has resulted in designs and models
being sent in from artists all over the
country and Canada