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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17

With his shOck OF flaming red hair,
Nadar was a typical boulevard celebrity.
He WAS in turn journalist. pamphieteer,
carieaturist, revolutionary aeronaut and
photographer and in each capacity he
achieved fame He was an intimate Of
Baudeiaire and Alphonse Daudet His
goodness Of heart was unbOunded. He de-
lighted to do good by stealth. He risked
his life by concealing a refugee COM
munard from governmental reprisals in
1871.
1t was he who hid the famous General
GOrgeret in his house and who boldly
went 10 Theirs and asked for a pass
port for his friend. 'HullO." said THEIRS.
when he saw him, haven't you been shot
yet. ?"
No, general" was the reply, that de-
ponds on You" In the fifties he turned
his attention 70 photography. ana be-
sides contributing considerably to the
development of artistic camera work in
France this extraordinary man became one
of the precursors of color photography.
In 1869 ne took To balooning and con-
strueted the biggest balloon. on record,
lie Geant, which carried fourteen peO-
pie and contained 215.36S cubic feet OF
gas His first ascent with fourteen per-
sons in 1853 was successful and created
an enormous sensation, b1t the Ge8ht
came to grief on it's next trip. After
a terrible expElenee the monster fell to
earth near Hs4oveT. None of the Occu-
pants was hurt, but Nine. Nadar who ac-
coinpaned her husband, found that her
hair had turned white during the trip
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
FRENCH WOMAN WANTS
SEAT IN PARLIAMENT
Political Program of Nine. Marguer'
tie Durand, Of Charming
Appearance.
special Gable to Herald-Repubiican.)

Especial Gable to Herald Republican,
paris, April 6.--Mme. Marguerite Du-
rand, who is q candidate at the next
parliamentary elections. has begun her
campaign. She is electioneering on novel
lines Her first act after deciding to
contest the constituency in a Paris dis
triet was to order a new gown, and
when she appeared before a large au-
dience Of electors she looked very charm
ing.
Nine. Durand wore a dress of black vel
vet and lace, and her beautiful fair hair
was ornamented with dark cOlored feath-
eTs. She faced the audience with per-
feet cOmposure. and although her hearers
included two opposing candidates who are
mere men, she was generously applauded.
She read a clever address on feminism
IN politics, in which she outlined her
political program as follows:
Equal wages for men and women.
Equality of law for men and women.
Amendment of the law concerning the
right to seek out the paternity of chill
dren.
Right of women TO hold all offices for
which their aptitude and capacity allow
them to compete.
Nine. Durand is a well known figure
in Paris society. She is a member Of
the Coincide Franchise organization, and
has written a great deal
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
SUPPOSED PAUPER RICH
English Woman Who Lived Upon
Charity in Paris, Left Fortune of
$4,000 to London Hospitals.

Especial Cable to Herald Republican,
Paris, April ia fortune Of over 49,
OOO has been discovered in the lodgings
of Miss Oliver. an EnglishwOman, whose
death has occurred at Dieppe at the
age OF eighty. She had lived for years
in 'abject poverty, supported by charity
At one time she earned her living as
a teacher of languages, but for many
years past she had been unable to earn
q living She was well known in Dieppe
however, and was the recipient OF much
charity, few grudging their cOntribu-
tons towards the support of the vener-
able miss.
Everybody believed her to be absolutely
destitute. but when she died two days
ago. says the Echo de Paris, bag con-
tanning gold and notes was found at
her lodgings. They amounted altogether
to S15,O00.
Tied up with the bag was viii, prop
erly drawn mp and witnessed, by which
she left the whole of her secret fortune
to hospitals in London
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
GERMAN AERONAUT TO
SAIL OVER ATLANTIC
DIR. Gsns-Fabiec Expects to Re-Dis-
cover America in an
Airship.
Especial Gable to Herald Republican,

Especial Gable to Herald Republican,
Berlin, April 16.-Dr. Gans-Fabric. the
German aeronaut, who intends to at
tempt to traverse the Atlantic ocean in
an airship, has given the following par
ticulars Of his scheme:
Il shall be accompanied by Herr Bruck-
ner, the editor of a Frankfort news
paper, by a physician and by one engi-
neer. 1 intend TO start about the middle
of May from either Cadiz, Spain, or from
Teneriffe.
This time of the year is chosen be-
cause then there is an easterly wind
which blows from the European to the
American continent continuously, and
with a force Of nearly thirty miles an
hour 1t was to this wind that Column
bus owed his success in discovering
America.
4 desire to be an aerial Columbus, and.
starting approximately from the same
point, to be the first to reach America
through the air. My course would lie
across the Atlantic ocean to Porto Rico,
passing Cuba, and then across the gulf
to New Orleans. The distance Of my
course would be just over 1900 miles
Il estimate that / should cover this
distance in five days Ny airship now
approaching completion is a combination
Of an ordinary balloon and dirigIble
airship. The length of the balloon sec
ton is 175 feet, and its diameter, which
is cigar shaped, is fifty feet Inc motor
is forty-hOrse power.
owing to the favorable wind which
l shall utilize 1 only intend TO use tne
motor. in case of necessity, because Il
is not possible 10 take sufficient ben
zine to keep the motor going FOR i've
days The cubic contents of the balloon
are quite sufficient to keep the alrshlp
aloft for AS hours. That would be SIX
days, or one day more than require tOf
the passage. go
perhaps the most interesting feature
of my airship is a cage forty feet long
and ten feet wide. In case of necessity
fbis can be sailed on the ocean as a
motor boat, and if / run short OF pen
zine it can be sailed as a sailing boat
because I shall take a portable mast with
me.
so far as human foresight can fore
see. my enterprise must succeed. A num-
Der Of ships will be on the lookout IoI
rs between European coasts and the West
Indies"
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17

These letters show the astonishing in
genuity of the man who, as Lieutenant
IIofrichter, was liked and generally es-
teemed as a hard working, If not very
brilliant officer, while under the name
of ''Dr. Haller" he led a second life in
which he. as is alleged made a practice
of decoying young girls, and also con-
ceived a diabolical scheme for poison
ing fifty officers of the general staff TO
make way for his own promotion. One Of
the officers, it viii be remembered, fell
into the trap and died
The Intercepted letters written by Hof-
richter I'm his cell indicate that his
thoughts have been turning towards sui
eide. This is a change of attitude for
when he was arrested last December, re-
peated opportunities were given him to do
away with himself. He, however, con-
sistently refused 10 make use Of the
loaded revOlVers which were placed con-
yeniently by his side
Now he has been making attempts, and
has partly succeeded In them, to SNUG
gle poison into his cell. II is. however.
possible that ne wished the poison not
for suicide, but to assist him in sfmu-
lating Madness His ingenuity in ask
ing his wife to insert the poison In
flowers, which he requested in order, as
he said, TO place them on the altar which
he had erected in his cell, is reminiscent
Of the 'Dr. Haller" phase of his ear
lier Jekyll and Hyde existence. One of
the intercepted letters 10 mis- wife reads:
Il should like TO commit suicide. but
VIII not as / must work for you and
for the child (born during his imprison-
ment). You can save me. Listen! Get
nee as quickly as possible some atrophine
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDE.
Fifteen Cases Reported in One Day
in Capital of Russia.
Especial Gable TO Herald Republican,

Especial Gable to Herald Republican,
St Petersburg. April 1e.-Another cpl
demic of suicide has broken out in this
city. Fifteen cases were reported in one
day.
Among the victims We're three girls.
aged is. is and %. one of them a uni
versity student. and the other two pu-
pills at the ConservatoiTe and a high
school. They were the two daughters
and niece of a rich merchant of Minsk.
and had come 10 st. Petersburg to COM
plete their studies. They poisoned them
selves with cyanide of potassium.
When the tragedy was discovered the
musical student was seated at the piano;
Chopins Funeral March was open in
front OF her. The youngest of the girls
was lying dead at the players feet. The
body of the third girl was found under
a bed
They left several letters addressed 20
relatives and friends IN which they said
that they had resolved TO kill themselves
as there was no sense in life.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
BELGlANS TO PUT LINE
OF STEAMERS ON OCEAN

Especial Cable to ald-Repubheanl
Brussels, April decomposition OF the
Atlantic steamship trade will soon be
keener by the entrance into the field
OF a proposed Belgian steamship CONF
pany.
chants are now engaged IN the organize
ton OF a great national line Of steam
ships 70 ply between Antwerp and New
York, Boston and Quebec.
The details Of the scope Of the COM
pany are being kept a secret, but will
be disclosed soon.
The capital employed in the concern is
wholly Belgian, but some of tie ships
the company intends To run viii be built
in British yards.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
RUSSIAN METHOD OF
NUMBERING ENEMIES
Facts Regarding the Trunk Mystery
at Rome Brought to
Light.
(speeiai Cahle Id HeraId-R annhlicanl

Especial Gable 10 Herald Republican,
Milan. April IA sinister light has
been thrown on the mysterious Russian
trunk murder perpetrated at a lodging
house in Rome last March. The first
clues tended to show that the victim
was either a revoiutionist OF a police spy.
Cavahere CAST, then assistant to the
chief OF police at Rome, was sent to
Warsaw to prosecute inquiries.
Before setting out he resolved to ex-
pertinent with the finger-print system.
To that end ne had the body Of the vic
tim exhumed and the imprints photo
graphed. The result was that on his
arrival in Russia the imprints were found
TO correspond exactly with those of a
banished youth named Tarantovsky, the
son of a manufacturer of false keys. re
siding at Zabudevka. He belonged to an
anarchist club at Warsaw and subse-
quently offered his services as informer
to the local secret police, but was soon
after thrown into prison on the discov-
cry being made that he had been playing
into the hands Of revolutionary COM
rades.
Tarant0vsky tbereupon avowed his de-
termination TO create a colossal scan
dial if brought to trial by full exposure
of the methods OF the Russian secret
to release him and 70 put spies on his
track instead. with instructions to Kill
him as a dangerous enemy, The assas-
sins whom Cavaliere CAST UneaTthed,
were iututAllcO - DCAOLASllB " siiC " q
saw district. They logged Tarantov-
sky's steps to Rome. and there, in the
gIlise of friendly fellow cOuntrymen, wish
ing TO cure MIN of a malady from which
he was suffering. they administered in
jections of cyanide of potassium.
When unconsciousDess supervened they
deposited their victim In a trunk. locked
il and took their departure. The Italian
government has applied for .eXtradition
and for authority to arrest them.
The ministry of foreign affairs has
just received an official communication
from St Petersburg ia which the Russian
authorities refuse to comply with this de-
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
Enghshn1en Stand No Show TO
Share in the $4,000 Offered
for Prizes for International
Flying Competition.
NEW TELEPHONE CABLE
ACROSS THE CHANNEL
Army Pageant, Lasting From
June 2 to July 2, to Be One
of the Great Show Features
In London Coming Season.
ROMANCE IN A WORKH0USE

Especial Cable to Herald-Repubhean.)
London, April ia determined eff
fort is 70 be made to remove the re-
proach that England has few flying
men.
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, chairman
OF the aviation committee of the Royal
Aero club meeting to be held at Bourne
mouth next July, has issued an appeal
for a special fund for the encourage
ment of British competitors.
Here is the position" he said to me
yesterday. AT BOurnemOuth $40, 900
VIII be offered in prizes for inteTna-
tional flying competitions. UnfOrtu-
nately il is certain that foreign COM
petitOrs win sweep the board, so there
is little inducement to the British in
Ventor and flyer to compete. He is
generally man with little money, who
cannot afford to compete If he stands
penses.
What I want to see. therefore, is
prize fund for British aviators. I pro-
pose that this be devoted to a sub
stantial prize for the British competi-
tors flying on a foreign machine, and
a stiii larger prize foT the competitor
using an all-British machine.
Ten years ago l was laughed at for
my enthusiasm over motOr-cars. Today
we lead the world. SO / hope We may
yet do the same in flying machines.
New Channel Gable.
One calm day in May a steamer, with
p miles OF telephone cable OH board
viii start from Dover and will proceed
very slowly across the channel to Cape
Girls Nez. Thus will be laid a new
link between England and France,
which will mark the beginning of an
importan. development IN the cross
channel telephone service.
One of the principal officials at the
general pOstoffice says that two new
cables. each containing four wires. viii
be laid. one by the British government
and the other by the French govern
ment.
The object of the new link" he
said is to make conversations possible
between towns in the midlands and in
the north and Paris and the towns in
the north of France, and also to re-
leVe the present congestion on the
LOndOn-Paris line. Theoretically, Bir-
and other towns are on the phone to
the French towns, but when it comes
to practice we find 1t is very difficult
10 he heard at all.
Cardiff has the greatest success with
Paris calls. and a good deal of BUSH
ness is transacted over the phone by
South Wales coal exporters
IT is hoped this year to establish
audible communication with towns as
far north as York, and probably. as the
service improves, with Newcastle and
Glasgow.
Miss Ellen Terry's tour in America
Is not To be of the farewell order the
actress declared yesterday. i am sim
ply going TO visit those places l have
been before and the people know me
well. and deliver informal little lectures
.-diseOurses-l call them-on Shakes
peare,' she told me. The tour will not
start until next October, and the ar
engagements have not vet been COM
pleted. All l can tell you is that I
Continued on Page Eighty
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17

Nadar was Frustrated for weeks by the
shock. Nadar exhibited the Geant at
the Crystal Palace in the same year.
From his ascents with the Geaut Nadar
hoped TO obtain funds to build a "dirig-
ible aeromotive. as he called IT. bur
he lost all his fortune and turned once
more to photography, opening q studio
which soon became a social center Of
Paris. During the siege Of Paris he
was a commander of a balloon corps and
made several thrilling sorties over the
enemy's lines and carried dispatches 70
the provisional government.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
DEATH OF FELIX T0URMA CHON
FAMOUS PARIS CHARACTER
Fifty Years Ago He Outlined the
Principle of the Modern
AerOpldne.
Especial Cable to Herald-RepubIican.)

Paris 160ne of the earliest pioneers Of aeTonaucs has just
passed away Toumachon remarkable
generations of Pasian simply "Nadar He
died n Paris, aged ninety.
As long ago early eos he outlined the pn-
and although his ideas became the butt
and the press of the Paris the Second
pre- say when he heard of NJ BleiOts flight the
channel, Now can die happy"
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
calhoun ARRIVEs.

Especial Gable TO Herald Republican,
Pehfn. April 16.-WiIMarn ]. Calhoun.
the newly appointed minister to China,
arrived today and was met at the rail-
vvav atatton bv members of tho Ameri-
can legation. a representative of the
foreign office and the legations marine
guard,
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
GOLD MOVEMENTS.

Especial Cable to Herald Republican,
London. April 164BulliOn amounting
to $1,000 pounds was taken into the
bank OF England on balance today.
India bought 10000 pounds of South
African gold, due TO arrive here on
May I.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
AUSTRIAN JEKYLL- and HYDE
CASE GROWS SENSATIONAL
Ingenuity of the Alleged Criminal
Creates AstOnishment on All
Sides.
Especial Gable to HeraId-RepubIlcan.)

Vienna April 5There two victims to be added the
long list whose lives have been sacrificed ruined
the Hofrichter poison
They Sooman Tumanan official of the oOumaTt before
which Lieutenant Hoieh being tdand his sister, Sofie
dresmaker have been arrested smuggling
from HOchers cell his relations Their motives have
merely compassion for the prisoner.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
Only Mildly Wicked.

The Moulin Rouge is resort known
the world over as place supposed TO
be particularly wicked but which, IN fact
is not as "black as painted, although
red paint no doubt. is used there on oc-
casions The truth is that the Moulin
Rouge in earlier days was q decidedly
fast establishment, but with later years
ifs vyickedness has been of a comparative
~ mild type. Peculiar forms OF dances
Continued on Page FiVe.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
INDIAN CONTRACTS
 ARE EXPLAINED

Washington, November 25.-Contracts by Richard c. Adams, an attorney, to collect from the federal government S20,- O0o.00O for Indians of the five civilized tribes were explained today by Adams to the House special committee appointed to inquire into contracts with the Indians. Adams is a Delaware Indian, residing here, and most of his contracts were with that people. Adams estimates that his average fee would be Is or r per cent This would amount to more than sS,00O,- 0G0.
 In addition Adams told the committee he had contract to attend to claims of Cherokees against the state of Tex as arising out of land alleged to have been taken from the Indians and in volving probably $20,000, ,O00 Of this he would get a contingent fee of 35 per cent.
 Adams denied the statements that Rep resentative Carter of Oklahoma had tes- tified Adams had made at the dinner at the latter's house last spring in regard to the attempt to get Congress to ap- prove the so-ealled 'McMurray contracts for the sale of Indian lands Adams said he had, however, an interest In the contracts, having been employed by Mo Murray. He testified that Carter was mistaken about the conversation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
TEN MEN RELEASED
 ON FEDERAL PAROLE

Washington, November 25.-Ten men convicted of various crimes and sen tenced to the United States penitentiary It Leavenworth Kas.. for terms rang ing from one year to 21 years, have been released on parole.
 These are the first releases to be made under the law passed at the last session OH Congress providing that a federal pris- oner may be paroled with the approval of the Attorney General after having served one-third of his sentence.
 In announcing paroles 1t will be the pol icy of the department of justice not to make known the home places of men or to name the crimes for which they have been convicted. Their names are as fol- lows:l
 Rudolph Bailey, Thomas,F Branche Doc Killingsworth, Ralph E. Yerkes, Angelo Brondo, Wesley A. Martin Julian J. Klein William Bresh, Nelson Jones and Edgar J. Summerhays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
LABOR QUESTION
 TO BE DECIDED

St Louis, November 25.-The ques- ton of whether the Western Fedora tion of Miners shall be granted a char ter by the American Federation of Labor was placed before President Gompers tonight by the convention on a point of the federation law raised by President James O'Connell of the International Association of Machinists.
 President O'Connell, who is leading in the fight against the proposition 10 grant an unrestricted charter to the western miners, declared that tle constitution provided that In cases where charters were applied for in which question of Jurisdiction came up the written consent to the chief of ncials of all other organizations in yolved had to be obtained first He said that he, as president of the ma chlnlsts' had never given such consent and asked that the point be passed on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
Taft has mistaken >the sentiment of the

Taft has mistaken the sentiment of the nation.
 The fight in the Illinois republican party came to the surface when the delegation went into a caucus to elect representa- tive on the resolutions committee. United States Senator Lorimers friends se- lected Congressman Rainey for the reso- lutions committss and Governor Deneen's followers announced that they had chosen Isham Randolph.
 When the factions reported to the plat form efforts were made to compromise on one man, but without avail and the scene bordered en a riot. Delegates from other states gathered about when Gov ernor Deneen mounted chair to still tho tumult. The delegation was pre- vailed on to move to far corner. Aft CT an hour of wrangling it reported that Isham Randolph had been chosen for the resolutions committee and Congress- man Rainey for the nominating commit tee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
canoeist Hears Bad News

Louisville, November 25.-Harry Drake of Elmira, N. r., en route with a companion on. canoef trip from the headwaters of the Ohio river to the gulf today read in the newspapers an Associated Press dispatch telling of his fathers death and containing a call for him to return home at once. The elder Drake, a Pennsylvania rail road employe, died yesterday and the family, unaware of the sons where abouts, resorted to the broadcast news story to find him. Young Drake put into Louisville on the day the notice was published in the local newspapers. He left for home tonight. id
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
CONVENTION HELD
 FOR WATERWAYS

St. Louis, November Exchanges that President Taft is growing indifferent to- ward a deeper waterway for the Missis- sippi river and contests between fac tions of states for representation on the committees enIivened the first convention of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway convention which was held here today.
 President Kavanaugh of the association was cheered heartily by the delegates during the reading of his opening ad- dress when he declared that President
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
GIRL DRESSED AS BOY
 IS SENT BACK HOME

New Orleans, November 25.-Shorn of her curls and donning of male attire, Frankie Williams, 15-year-old daughter of a local railroad employe, had her boys" career of roughing 1t abruptly terminated. Taking offense at a correc- tion administered by her father. it was said, the girl ran away from home Tues day. After unsuccessfully seeking em- ployment as a bell boy in hotel, the girl camped out for two days and nights on the river bank Late yesterday work men in the neighborhood suspected her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
Tn Promote PuhIic Health

At a recent meeting of the Educa- tional and Aid association of the Bir- mingham health department, Mayor Gull pepper Exum and the members of the committee of health were elected to hon. orary membership The doctors so elect ed were T. D. Parke, D. F. Tally, R. w. Cunningham, F. A. Lupton and J. Ross Snyder Secretary J. l. Baty was in structed to notify them and invite them to attend the next meeting. which is on the third Saturday in the month. The organization is growing to be quite a strong one. Dr. Robert Nelson joined at the last meeting.