Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-21

iCLESNNfH NEWS.
| BUDAPEST. Hungary. April 49, :
Hungary received Theodore Roosevelt
with open arms after he crossed the
frontier yesterday, popular enthusiasm
Exceeding anything since the days OF
Louis Kossuth. The journey after Col.
Roosevelt left the train at Pressburg
TO spend the afternoon with Count Ap-
ponyi, whom he had entertained at
Washington and Oyster Bay, assumed
almost the aspect of triumphal pro
cession. The entire population of the
ancient capital of Hungary turned OUT,
the mayor and other city authorities
greeting the former president at the
station. They welcomed him as a
host of liberty ana peace. AT the thee
villages, each made up of u different
race, Magar Slav and German. the
party passed through on the automo-
bile trip to the Apponyi castle, Roose-
welt met with equal enthusiasm. In
each instant the president of the vii
l ,
the fire brigade in uniform and school
children in white Sunday frocks and
sashes and bearing the Hungarian col
ors, stopped the automobile to offer
flowers and words of welcome.
The return trip from the castle
by another route, was marked by sim.
liar demonstrations. When Budapest
was reached at 3 O'Clock last nigh.
the former president was fairly mob.
bed at the station, which in spite OF
n heavy downpour of rain, was sur
rounded by thousands cheering wildly
The university students massed out.
side the building sang The Star Span.
gled Banner" as the American as
whisked away to his hotel through the
solid walls of people. At the hctel
another multitude had gathered and
refused to depart until Roosevelt np.
peared on the balcony to acknowledge
The greetings.
In his brief speech to the crowd
around the hotel he reiterated what
he had said throughout the day in re-.
ply 10 words of welcome that he'd
greeted him at various points. He
Recognized, he said, the courage, the
devotion and the chivalry of the Hun.
Sarlans, and he especially pleased
them when he declared that one who
lived as he had among the cattle of
the west could best appreciate the ec
traordinary character of the descend
ants of horsemen who had followed Ar.
pad, the Magaic national hero, into the
plains of central Europe.
BERLIN. April lS.-The balloon
Deutcshe, carrying four men passen-
gers and sailing 500 feet aloft, was
lswept into a thunderstorm, struck by
lightning yesterday, the gas envelope
lexploded, the car demolished and four
men plunged to death. The fatal light
ming stroke came as the balloon was
passing over the village of Reichhen.
sachsen. 1t started from Butterflelds,
ia Prussian SaXony. early Saturday
leyening. The car belonged to Parse
val Co., and its expert, Luft, was guild.
ing the Deutsche.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1S.-Sher-
IFS posses Of two counties and a
small army of volunteers on horses,
In autos and in steam launches are
hunting over the roads, hills and
bayous for the masked bandits who
early yesterday held China and Japan
mail train near Benicia and robbed 1t
of nine sacks of registered mail
with the train robbers is hourly antici-
pated, either in the hills or canons
between Martinez and Oakland, or at
some point ON the Sacramento river.
Whether the men escaped with their
plunder TO the southwest toward Oak.
land or In an easterly direction to-
ward Sacramento, Is not diiinitely
known, but the laws dragnet has been
spread in all directions and the ar
rest OF the fugitives is believed to
be merely matter OF time.
KANSAS CITY. April ls.-Denounc.
Ing DIR. b. c. Hyde as a wholesale mur.
derer and declaring he was possessed
OF evil tendencies and inclination to
cruelty. even in boyhood. and adding
the startling charge that not only
sirychnine. but cyanide of potassium
was used In the alleged murder OF
Colonel Swope. Attorney James b.
Reed, associate prosecutor, bitterly as
sailed the defendant in the Hyde muir
'Ger trial this morning.
Reed was desisnatsd BY Prosecutor