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VR|CHTS Again MAKE GOOD
Make The Ten Mile Flight In Ia Minutes And A2
Seconds, Reaching The Height or 500 Feet
President Taft, Once Skeptic, Now
Very Enthusiastic.

Washington, Special. : orville
Wright Friday evening attained tho
zenith Of hard-earned success. In
lo-mile cross-country flight in the
famous aeroplane, tuilt by himself
and his elder brother, Wilbur, and
accompanied by Lieutenant Benjamin
D. Foulois, an intrepid officer Of the
army signal corps, he not only sur
passed the speed requirements Of his
contract with the United States gov
ernment, but accomplished the most
difficult and daring flight ever plan
ned for a heavier-than-air flying ma
chine. incidentally he broke all
speed records over measured course.
And he established beyond dispute
the practicability of an aeroplane in
time Of peace and in time Of war.
His speed was over 42 miles IN
hour; he made the 10-mile flight from
Fort Myer and back in Ia minutes
and AZ seconds, including the more
than 20 seconds required for the turn
beyond the line at Shutter Hill. The
southern end of the course. He at
tanned a height in crossing the valley
Of -Four Mile Run, of nearly 500 feer,
and the average altitude Of his prac-
tically level course was about 200
feet above the ground.
President Taft, who had 5ecoms an
eati.rsla.tic spectator Of the uere
plane trials, although two years ago
when Secretary of War he is said to
have expressed to officers profound
sksptirism as to the accomplishment
ct such a feat as that of which Fri
day he saw the completion.
upon the parade ground : 4ort My-r
jus. in time to see the -eroplane land
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its manufacturing cuuceins,
the chief commercial cities of Japan.
Many tounching sights were to BE-
seen during the fire. The women
were terror-stricken and fled hlther
and thither with their children, some
Of whom later cried piteously for
food that could not be obtained Tor
them.
The conAagration lasted more than
25 hours and the burned section pre-
sents a deplorable sight. The streets
of the city are very narrow and the
houses were mostly of wood construc-
tion. Had not the water supply peen
curtailed by the drought the nre
would have been quenched without
great damage.
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.SNAPPIYI And BRIEF
Items Gathered and Told While
You Hold Your Breath.
SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS
Lively and Crisp as They Are Cart
nered Prom the Fields Of Action,
at Home and Abroad.

80
The railroad commissioners of
Kansas are notifying the railroads
that they must enforce the, anti
drinking act Of the legislature, max
ing it unlawful to drink on trains.
Lewis Einbaek, at Newport News,
set his grapophone to going last Sum
day morning while his wife was an
xious to sleep some more. When he
refused to stop it she shot him with
number 90 rife through the arm
He repeated his crime in the after
noon and she sent q pistol ball into
his leg.
Just as John P. Rodel, 81 years
old, had put moose over his neck
to hang himself at Philadelphia last
Sunday he fell dead.
"a club of eight girls in Cleveland,
Ohio, have formed compact, it
seems, to commit, suicide. One IT.
year-old, Rebecca Bonshek, has kept
the compact and Esther Stromberg,
who revealed the fact strongly init
mates that she will be the next.
Reading abnormal literature is at the
bottom Of 1t.
jeremiah Hunter and Solomon
Lancaster, Of Cumberland, c Md. re-
Gently saved the life of a cow by
amputating her injured leg and
made her wooden leg on which she
gets about measurably well.
Senator Stone, of Missouri, feel
ing himself linsulted by a negro
waiter on the; train, struck him. Mag
istrate Grannon, in Baltimore, exon
Grated him from blame when he
heard the evidence Wednesday and
dismissed the case.
AT Atlanta, Ga, dog is kept in
prison as an important witness to
form a link in the chain of identity
OF, Its owner, charged with grave
crime. ItSseems the identity Of the
dog is mquestionable while that of
its owner has an element Of doubt.
Women missionaries find it not
practical to do missionary work in
Chinatown, New York, the wrought
up condition probably being the out
growth lof the Elsie Sigel tragedy.
Expert alienists pronounce Harry
Thsw sane.
In the late Gulf storm fishing
vessel vas caught. An enormous
wave swept FIVE men off but another
wave landed two back OH deck, leav-
ing thsae to drown.
Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor cambridge,
the third daughter Of President
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--~~...nt. 'LnIs proceeded Tor about
an hour and a half, when with about
two-thirds remaining to be read, Mr..
Mondell permitted the debate to go
on.
Chairman Payne defended the re-
port and appealed to his Republican
colleagues to support it, prophesying
at the same time that when the bill;
was enacted into law it would meet
the approval of the country.
Mr.. Clark, minority leader, and
many of his colleagues, denounced
the bill, and chastised the Republic
cans for failing, as they alleged, to
revise the tariff downward and thus
keep their party pledges.
Perhaps the most sensational
speech of all was by Mr.. Mann, of
Illinois, Republican, who said he
would vote against the report, pre-
vided the rates on pulp and print
paper as reduced by the House, were
not retained. He denounced that
particular schedule and he declared
that Cande would take such action
regarding pulp wood and print paper
as to place an almost prohibitory
price upon paper in this country.
At 9:O7 p. m., the House, with the
conference report ready to be mes
saged to the Senate for action, ad-
journed until Monday noon.
Such revision downward as has
been made, said Mr.. Underwood, Of
Alabama, minoriay member of the
ways and means committee, was in
the interests of The great corpora
tions. That was conspicuously so, he
explained, in the placing of iron ore
and hides on the free list.
81 have just been looking over the
report" interposed Mr.. Hill, of Con-
necticut, "and I find most of the re-
ductions of the steel schedule have
brought the duties below the rates of
the Wilson bill.
"Since the Wilson bill was pass
ed" replied Mr.. Underwood, There
has been revolution in the produc-
tion of iron and steel. What was a
low rate when the Wilson bill was
passed, is high rate today" I"
Mr.. Underwood inquired why,
when the President was urging re-
vision of the tariff downward, he did
not advise the woolen schedule down.
ward and he questioned the practlca-
bility of the maximum and minimum
clause.
Wood pulp and print paper formed
the subject of a lengthy speech by
Mr.. Mann, of Illinois. His announce,
ment that because of the rates liked
by the conferees on these products
he would vote against the conference
report, moved the Democrats to loud
applause.
Under the maximum and minimum
clause, he said, the charge of $l:61
a ton on wood pulp would be In
creased to $6.67 ton.
"That maximum" he exclaimed
ISIS as sure to go into effect between
Canada and this country as that God
made little apples unless Canada re-
moves her restrictions on the eSpor'
tation Of the pulp"
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SITUATION ALARMING

The General Government of Spain In
Great Straits-Reports Sent Out
Are Assuring While News From
This Interior Indicate The Opposite.
Madrid, By CaGle.-The govern
ment annunces that despite the atti-
tude of the populace Of Catalonia and
the desertions from the army in
Northern Spain, the response Of the
recruits and reservists to the call to
the colors in other provinces, like
Andalusia and Aragon, was unanl-
nous.
The Minister of War has prohibit
ed the departure from Spain of all
persons subject to military duty un-
der the penalty of being considered
deserters.. The government has also
placed ban against the sale of for
eign papers containing accounts Of
recent events in Catalonia and Mo-
rocco.
Despite the official announcement
that order has been restored in Cata-
lonia, renewed measures have been
taken to prevent the Bilbao region,
where the Socialists and Republicans
are organizing. The garrison at Bur-
gos, Victoria and San Sebastian are
being held in readiness to act quick
ly and energetically.
The latest news received Saturday
from Barcelona is to the effect that
fighting between the troops and the
revolutionaries continues fercely. 1t
is reported that 40 revolutionaries
have been shot without trial at the
Montjuich fortress, among them be-
ing EmilianoIglesias, editor of The
Progresso, the organ of Deputy Le-
roux chief of the Republicans in Bar
celonia. The situation in Palamas,
the centre of the cork industry, is re-
ported to be alarming and fears are
expressed for the safety of foreigners
there
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and to participate in the wild demon
stration which welcomed the triumph
ant aviators. He sent an officer to
bear his congratulations to the VIC
tors.
Climbing up, as it were on the air,
higher and yet higher, 0rville broughs
the +machine at great speed
fully round the field. Then
with a short turn he swept about and
started southwark over the centre Of
the drill field.
"They'rs off," 1000 voices shout
ed as one.
>ike giant bird, circling the sky
until it marks its prey, this man-bird
then darted off toward Shutter Hill,
five miles to the south.
Unwavering it kept its straight
course, and seemed to be rising ever
higher as it passed over the diverse
and heavily wooded country in the
distance. Soon it was mere speck
against the pearl sky above the
horizon.
Suddenly the speck was lost to
view, and as the seconds passed,
silence grew upon the crowd, .
silence that spoke of deep concern
Suddenly the speck came In sight
again over the distant hill. A cry
swept over the watching crowd.
"There it is," everybody said, and
gave q sigh Of relief.
On it came, growing with the sec
onds. 1t grew and grew until at last
almost every detail was visible. Be-
fore you knew it they were home
again over the drill ground, flying
low. At height of perhaps 20 feet
it swung round again to the south
ward, and landed easily far down
the field. The task was done. and In
triumph.
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the country to act as f'district SUI
perintendents," at a salary of ST.
300 per year and the guarantee of a
three-year contract. In considera-
tion of this salary tho "district su-
perintendent" was required to pur-
chase $500 worth of stock in the cor
poration as a guarantee of good faith.
The company agreed to refund this
sum to the investor on the expiration
of the contract.
This clause brought an enormous
number of applicants, many Of them
coming to Washington in person.
Even while the raid was in progress
q man who had come here from Phil
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WASHINGTON NOTES

Unquestionably the session We'd
nesday was the busiest Of the three
weeks the bill has been in conference.
Dozens Of Senators sought audiences
and were received by the Senate
members of the House, including the
committee representing the anti-free
raw material insurgents. In the cor
ridors swarmed agents of special in
Eerests, who seemed to realize that
the crucial period Of the conference
had arrived.
Senators Elkins and Scott, Of West
Virginia, and Clark, of Wyoming, en-
leavored to get the conferees to
make the rate Of As cents ton on
,oal apply to the short ton, which,
it is said, would make difference Of
about 5 cents ton and would oper-
ate to advance the rate to the equi-
Falent of so cents. The Senators in
Eerested in getting all the protection
possible for coal were not successful.
Just before the close of the session
the rate on print paper was fixed at
1875 a ton. This is only rs cents
less than the Senate rate, and $1.75
more than the House rate.
Entering upon the last stages Of its
consideration by Congress, the tariff
bill, as reported by the conferees, was
submitted Friday to the House by
Chairman Payne and ordered print
I'd in The Congressional Record.
Three hundred and fifty of the 800
members were in their seats whsn
Chairman Payne passed up to the
Speakers desk the bulky document
which had occupied the attention Of
Congress for four and half months,
and then the Republicans broke out
into loud applause.
President Taft expressed himself
as immensely pleased with tile
tariff bill as it was finally agreed TO
by the conferees last evening. 1t is
known that he is not entirely salts
fed with all of the bill, and he told
several of his callers that it would
be the greatest miracle of the age if
d tariff bill could be, designed that
would please everybody.
The President declared that there
were great many things about the
bill that he was delighted to have had
part in, and that he would be equal
ly delighted to sign and defend the
measure in its finished state.
Without attempting to go into de-
tail the President declared that in
a great many ways the new tariff law
will be q marked improvement over
the Dingley act.
The House Saturda! night adopted
the conference report on the tariff
bill, 195 to lS3. The Republicans
shrieked in their delight over the final
outcome, and Chairman Pane was
the central figure of an admiring and
congratulatory crowd of colleagues.
Twenty Republicans voted against
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Cleveland, Ohio, special.-That a
club of factory girls exists, or did
exist, here having as its aim suicide
as a means of escape from a life
which they considered too sad and
enslavng to endure is the belief of
the county officials who on Wednes-
day began an investigation of the
circumstances surrounding the sui
eide of Miss Rebecca Bonshek last
Saturday.
The county coroner held an inquest
as which he examined several wit
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FACTORY GIRLS in OHIO FORM A SUICIDE COMPACT

nesses who were supposed to have
knowledge of the existence of a sui
eide club. Jess. Ellen said she had
resolved to joil. her girls in their
determination to end their lives, but
had been induced to give up the idea.
Some of the girls supposed to be
members of the club are homeless
and strangers. They work in gar
ment factory and live in poverty. 1t
was shown that they met and discus
sed death as a means of esca' ing
their unhappy lot. ~
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Mexico City, Special.--With Chill
pancingo destroyed and Acapulco
partly razed and the los, Of life prob
lematical, central Mexico, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and from
Quarto on the north to Oaxaca, on
the south, an area of more than 1000
square miles, was shaken at an early
hour Friday by series of the most
sever earth shocks felt in the region
for the last quarter of century. The
quake was severe in Mexico City, but
not prolific in destruction.
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POSTOFFICE INSPECTORS

Washington, SpeciaL-Inspeetors
of the Post-office Department have
raided the offices of the American
Civil Service Institute, and placed
under arrest the promoters Of the
enterprise, ]. A. 'McNulty, president,
and Fl. Van Vleet, secretary and
treasurer, on the charge of fraudulent
use of the mails.
Complaints have come from par
ties that they have been mulcted Of
various sums which they were induc-
ed to invest in the enterprise by the
glowing promises of the promoters.
The manner OF procedure of the
promoters Of the enterprise was an
extremely clever one, although the
-post-nffioA say that the
'ked many times
! guises, and al
oealities.
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Famous Boy Artists.

The fact that Marcel Lavallard, at
l2 years Of age, has had picture ac-
ctpted for the Salon, recalls the fact
that Millais was only II when he made
lis first appearance at the Royal
Academy; and Watts and Marcus
Stone were the same age. Landseer
was more precocious, for he had his
first picture on the Academy walls, at
I3: Mr.. Walter Crane was similarly
honored at 16, Mr.. Bliton Riviere at
II, ard Mr.. Firth at 2L.-Ht-Bits.
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CONDITION LOWEST EVER KNOWN AT THIS SEASON

Memphis, Tenn, Specialize crop
condition report on cotton, up to July
rs, was issued Wednesday afternoon
by the National Ginners Association
1t gives the general average at 71.7.
The average by States follows:
Alabama, 70; Arkansas, rs; Flori-
ia, IS; Georgia, 7e; Louisiana, g.;
Mississippi, 64; Missouri, 81; North
C,roina, 73; South Carolina, ~;
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By Ellis o. Jones

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question to De aeueo
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viewpoints are embarked on tne
quadrant without destaon
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nowhere.
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his deaco to make
Whether he is justly
seqyed famous quite another question question which is D
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rather than it is be qualified takes its quality rom @
consideration
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Sunysns other gentlemen who
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reflects the opinion OF
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they have bat belcose interest the will still use their
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Hall of Unjust
The would to decide by referendum If should
would
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r. A Ki,nball Short $4,000.

Southern Pines, Special.-Satur-
day morning the officers of the Citl-
zens' Bank and Trust Company post
ed the following notice on the front
of the bank building, and soon after
the doors opened to receive deposi-
tors who brought their pass books
for settlement:
'eThere appears to be a shortage
of about $4,000 in the accounts Oh
George A. Kimball, cashier, and the
hank examiners are here. We cannot
Give accurate information or details
until u a complete auditing OF the
hooks is made.'
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Oklahoma, 79; Tennessee, n; Texas,
66.
The report says:
"This is the lowest condition ever
known at this season Of the year and
indicates a crop of around 100000
and unless good rains fall in the next
week, throughout almost the entire
belt, but more especially in Texas,
southern and western Oklahoma and
Mississippi, the crop will be under
that figure"
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RAID PROSPEROUS FIRM

adelphia TO invest in the company ap-
peared at the Office and was just m
the act Of paying in his money when
the officers arrived. The man, whose
name is unknown, departed, very
little sadder but a great deal wiser.
Upon being questioned, ]. A. Mo
Nulty put up bold front and de-
clared that the business Of the con-
Germ was being conducted on per-
fectly legitimate basis and that
$3.50, 900 of the stock of the eompanyA
which was capitalized at $500,00o,
had been paid in and was invested
in United States government bonds
and preferred stock of the United
States Steel Corporation, which were
in safe deposi. box in a Washing
ton bank, but owing to the absence
of the vice president, G. NJ. Yunker,
in Baltimore, he was unable to get
at the bonds.
r-ao. a severe cross-questioning,
;, McNulty was quite unable
nber the name of the bank in
ne securities were deposited,
.ter developed that they had
listed, except in the fertile
on Of the promoters them
The fact was also brought
nat G. M. Yunker, vice pres
ident OF the defunct concern, had
never been actively connected with
the business, being merely dupe OF
McNulty and Van Vleet, the pro-
moters.
McNulty and Van Vleet were ar
raigned late Monday afternoon be-
fore United States Commissioner
Taylor on the charge of FRAUDULENT
practices and were held under 81
900 bond each, which was not forth
coming. They were therefore order
ed to be confined in the District jail
pending a preliminary hearing before
Commissioner Taylor, which was set
for August 4.
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The Reason.

Boyd is bright little fellow Of
three years. One day mis- mother OBJ
served him vigorously scratching his
head and asked: What makes you
scratch your head?"
Because I'm the only one that
knows it itches," he replied quickly.
-Dlineator.
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Oryille Wright, with Lleutenant
Labm as q passenger, broke the
worlds two-man record for aero
planes, at Fort Myer, Va, flying at
40 miles an hour for l hour u min
utes 40 seconds Tuesday.
Secretary MacVeagh has begun the
work of cleaning out the "dead
wood" in the force of the Treasury
Department.
The special naval board meeting
at Boston is to suggest reforms in
firearms and navy yards.
About $4,000 children were given
an ice cream treat in Carroll Park
by Mr.. a, Stanley Brager Tuesday.
President Taft has fixed October
18 as the date of his meeting with
President iDiaz at Ell Paso.
Parcels from naval vessels are
hereafter to be carefully examined SO
as to prevent smuggling Of dutiable
articles.
A joint monument is TO be erected
at Washington to commemorate
peace after the Civil War by sons
veterans, u. S. A. and United Sons
Of Confederate Veterans.
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Reports, telling of the loss of life,
are meagre, but the official figures
thus far given show IA killed and
more than score mortally injured.
While word comes from g. Poyros
an American commercial traveller at
Chilpancingo, Guerrero6 that that
city was destroyed and the inhabitants
are living in the open, suffering from
the elements, the loss of life is not
definitely known. The shocks con.
tinue at Chilpancingo Friday with
subterranean rumblings and flashes
of liahtnine, rain and hail.
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Electric Cars Collide.

Spokane, Wash, special-Ten per
sons were killed and at least 80 were
injured in head-on collision OF two
electric cars at Caldwell, Wash, on
the Spokane and Inland Railway late
Saturday afternoon.
Both trains were going at the rate
of about Is miles an hour. They
crashed together without warning
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Washington, Special.--Mrs. D. E..
Finley, wife Of the representative
from the Fifth South Carolina dis
trict went to the White House We'd
nesday and invited the president to
attend the un-eiling ceremonies Of
the Kings Mountain monument Oe-
tober Z. She extended this invita-
tion in the name of the Yorkville
chaDter and other allied chapters OF
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the D. A. R., which inaugurated the
movement for the erection of the
monument. She was escorted to the
White House by her husband and
Representative Webb, Who repre-
sents the district in North Carolina
just across the line, and who with
Mr.. Finley was instrumental in get.
ting congress to appropriate for the
monument
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Two Mangled By Train.

Newberry, S. c., Special.-Charne
Williams and Ernest Bauknight, two
vonno white men, were struck and
killed by Columbia, Newberry q
Iaurens passenger train No. So,
hound for Laurens to Columbia
about three hundred yards above .1as the
n passenger depot in Newberry shortly
after 5 O'Clock Sunday afternoon,
both being horribly mangled, the for
mer being killed instantly, and the
letter living but short time.