The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-09-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Seek Kids Treasure-Taft Plans
For Congress Record Number of
immigrants Land-Hamburg Belle
Trots Fastest MiIe-Airship Races
Succeed.

Trots Fastest MiIe-Airship Races
Succeed.
SEEK BURIED TREAsURE:--An-
other expedition has been fitted out
to hunt for the treasure supposed 10
have been buried by Capt. Kidd, the
notorious pirate of the Atlantic Coast.
The treasure is supposed TO be on
Oak Island, N. s.. and II is a fact
that drillings In the place where the
treasure is said to be brought up
gold coins and pieces OF wood. Thou
sands of dollars have been spent in
this place, trying to get the gold.
A. stream of water protects the buried
treasure.
TAFT IN CoUNSEL:-Pres Taft
has had a rather strenuous week con-
sulting with leading statesmen and
politicians. AS a result he has an
nounced unoffically that he will
strongly advocate postal savings
bank In his message to Congress this
fall. He had long talk with Senator
Aldrich on the currency problem, but
with no result
HARTMAN VERY SICKLE. IL.
Hartman has arrived at his country
home at Arden, New York, where he
is very Ill., News from his bedside
has been mostly suppressed, and his
exact degree OF danger Is not known
TO many people. There have been ru-
mors that he would have to be oper-
ated on, and also that he was so low
that oxygen had to be administered
to keep him alive. Also. II has been
reported that he Is well enough to
manage his business deals.
CIGARETTE KILLS TEN:-Of
course Il had help. but one cigarette.
put into the wrong place last week,
resulted In the death OF ten men near
Key West, Fla. The wrong place was
a box of dynamite and fuses. TO be
used on the construction OF the East
Coast Railway.
AIRSHIP RACE:-Any one who
has had any doubt that the air has
really become a highroad. over which
men may travel, would have had his
doubts settled IL he had been at
Rheims. France. lsst week when avia-
tors from all over the world met
In races The Wrights we're too busy
elsewhere TO take part, but the chief
prize, that for the fastest trip. was
won by an American, Glenn II. Cur
tls. An Engllshman. Henry Farman,
won the prize for the longest trip.
going 112 miles without alighting.
The speed trip was made at about six
~ miles an hour.
FLOODS DROWN HUNDREDS
The Santana Catrina river in North
ern Mexico experienced the most dis
astrous flood In It's history last week.
and as a result hundreds Of natives
were drowned and several whole
villages swept away.
POSSE LYNCHES MANA negro
convict who escaped In Georgia was
pursued and finally killed by posse,
after he had killed one man and
wounded two others. His body was
burned because OF the hatred for
him the posse felt. and race war
was narrowly averted, other negroes
we're so enraged.
JEROME TO RUN:-District Attor-
ney Jerome. of New York. who has
been so severely attacked for his al
legged failure to prosecute certain big
criminals, who. he says. are beyond
the reach OF the law, has decided
that he viii seek vindicatIon, and
run again.
WOMAN SOLDIER DEAD:-Mrs.
Sarah Il. Thompson, the only woman
carried on the pension rolls as a
Soldier" in the War of the REBEL
ion died last week, II was she who
discovered and reported to the Union
officers the hiding place of Gen. Jno
Morgan, after he had terrorized
Ohio.
FOREIGNERS COME:-The largest
record for passengers from Europe
coming in one day was made at New
York last Thursday. when 1920 per-
sons reached this country from abroad.