Semi-weekly herald., 1909-07-29
1ELEGRApBIl NEWS


jured. three perhaps fatally, as the re-
suit of wreck of the Wabash pas
senger train No 4. when 1t plunged
into the Missouri river thirty-five
miles east of here late Saturday night
The dead: Charles Flowers engi
reer Kansas City; Louis Bond. fire
man. Monerly, Mo; Harry Eckert. bag.
gageman, st, Louis: Daniel, son of +.
T. King. Eldon, Mo-; Charles Anthony,
a laborer. and Jesse Oldham, a labor
er. Seriously injured: Mrs. c. F.
Moore of Pueblo, Colo, who suffered
internal injuries, but will recover.
Frank Gardner. Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Mrs. s. S. Hackett, and Miss Irene
Dorton, Arrick. Mo.
OF the eight cars which made up
the train five and the engine are now
in the river with the water covering
all of them except one end of Des
Moines sleeper. A deadhead Pullman
inail, baggage day coach and sleeper
followed the engine into the stream
The chair car and two Pullman's re-
manned unfnjured. The rains had
weakened the bridge and enbank.
ments.
NEW YORK. July ga black
leather handbag proved veritable
Aladdin's Imp for William Robelin,
brakeman & the Long Island railroad.
When ltobelln found handbag In
his IN 10
was amazed at the mass of glittering
Jewels 1t contained. Not stopping fur
ther to investigate, the brakeman
quickly turned the jewels over to the
railroad officials, and they soon found
that he bag had been left in the train
by Mrs. II. Schwab wife of Maiden
Lane jeweler. Mrs. Schwab and her
lelatives called for the jewels, which
were worth $4,000 They asked to
Sie hobelin. When he was produced
they presented him with 500 in cash
provided him with two sets of clothes
and instructed him to take a two
weeks vacation and then to report
to the Maiden Lane office of Mr.
SAwab to accept a position al 500
month for life.
MADRID, July 26.-Fighting be-
tween the Spanish forces under Gen.
eral Marina and the Moorish tribes.
men resumed outside of Mellilla at 8
O'Clock last night
General Linares, minister of war in
an Interview today announced that the
mobilization of the Spanish troops
would soon reach $4,000, thereby bring.
ing General Aiarina's effective force up
to 10000 men, but on account of the
extent of the Riff coast TO be covered
he considers ii doubtful whether that
number would suffice. consequently
the forming of new brigades would
cSatff {sehsfsl 'Gf5gos. div1yfuror
iicer and the Gibraltar brigade leaves
here today for the Riff coast.
WASHINGTON. July 26.-Bitter
words between Senator Aldrich and
Representative Payne just before the
closing hours of the session of the
tariff conferees last night are reported
to have followed an attempt by Al
drieh to compel vote on motion to |
make hides dutiable at ~ per cent
Just half of the existing rates. The |
session adjurned until 2:90 tomorrow
with the hide and leather tariff still |
unsettled.
Sunday brought cessation of Presi |
dent Taft's tariff activities His con
ference with the house and senate
leaders covered practically the entire |
day. The president admitted frankly |
to some of his callers today that the |
situation was not all that could be |
desired but expressed hope that an
other "a hours would straighten out /
the tangle and that report of sle |
conferees would be presented in the |
house tomorrow. II is also hoped al |
the White house that congress may |
adjourn by the last of the week
DOVER, July 26.-Louis Bleriot, a |
Frenchman, has at last succeeded in |
crossing the English channel in an
airship.
This sleepy seaport town expert |
enced the keenest thrill known in
generation when at sunrise today a |
white-winged bird-llke machine with a
humming motor swept out from the
haze obseuring sea toward the distant
French coast and circiing twice above
The high chalky cliffs of Dover alight.
ed on English soil
Bleriot, portly and red mustached,
calmly descended from the saddle
limpins on bandaged foot which had
been burned ON his previous overland
flight Immediately two compatriots,
who had been waiting with big tri-
oolored flag as a signal for landing
pAce, fell upon him. enthusiastically
embracing him, shouting and pounding
him on the back. They, with few
soldiers and others who happened TO
be on the scene, were the only per.
sons to witness the finish OF the re-
inarkable feat.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, July 26.-
After showing letter in which he