Semi-weekly herald., 1910-10-24

practice OF law ana nVed quiet lite
at his country home here.
Il CHICAGO, Oct. 20.-i,sving con
cluded his stumping tour of Indiana
in opposition to the reelection of Sen
ator Beveridge. William ! Bryan cross
ed over into Illinois today and inyaded
the Eighteenth congressional district
to make war on Uncle .Ioe' Cannon
Mr.. Bryan has accepted the invitation
of the Democratic compl: eee to spend
two days in the district. during which
Il time he will speak in Congressman
Cannon's home town If llanville and
in Kankakee, Watseka and other prin.
cipal points.
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ills, Oct. 20.-
Fire originating in the Chicago & Al
ton railroad freight houses on the river
front today spread to the freight ware.
house of the Baltimore e. Ohio road
aid dozen dwellings, destroying all
at loss Of more than half mil
lion dollars. There were many es
cares from serious injury, The result
of oil explosions and the rlning of
the dwellings.
WASHINGTON, Oct 2O-One of the
naval changes and promotions result.
ing from the retirement of Captain U
s. G. White today on account of age
was the advancement of Commander
Robert E. Peary, the arctic explorer,
| the rank a hn C
been the only civil engineer in the
navy with the rank of commander and
his promotion to the captalncy comes
as natural Advancement and is with
out relation to his achievements in
the far north.
BELFAST, Oct, 20.-The White Star
lines new transatlantic liner, the
Olympic, the largest vessel in the
yards today. The countess of Aber.
deem, the wife of the viceroy of Ire.
land, christened the liner. More than
forty thousand persons were on hand
to see the monster ship take to the
water.
The Olympic and her sister ship,
the Titanic, to be launched next Feb
ruary, are the White Stars answer to
the Cunard's Mauretania and Lusi-
tania The Olympic is $40 feet long,
Its speed will be twenty knots an
| hour, and will carry crew of Goo
men and have accommodations for
5000 passengers.
ST. LOUIS, Oct 20.-A dispatch this
morning from Quebec says suat one of
the St. Louis balloons has broken all
records by hundreds of miles il. reach
ing the Lake St John district in the
Quebec province.
A large balloon passed ever Ka!s'
kisink yesterday travelling eastward
This is 200 miles from St Louis.
A telegram from Lieut.. Leop>id Vogt
and w. +. Assman. plotting balloon
Harburg III in the International Aero
static race, informs the Zero club OF
their terrific descent and plunge into
Lake Nipissing, ontario, 7T5 miles
from st. Louis. Assman suffered a
broken arm and sprained hand In
dian hunters aided them to get ashore
and are giving Assman treatment in
the Canadian wilderness near ihe vii
lage of Powassan. Lien,. Nost's mes
sage says he and his aide landed the
Harburg III from a height of 5000
feet with only two sacks of ballast
| WASHINGTON, Oct. 2O.-Rear Ad.
miral John b. Milton. one of che vet.
eran officers of the navy. was placed
on the retired list today on account
of having reached the age limit for
active service. Rear Admiral Milton
has seen more than thirty years OF
active service on land and sea Re
the naval training station in San Fran
cisco.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20--What may
prove to be the last appearance OF
Young Corbett, the former lightweight
champion, will be staged tonight at
the Longacre Athlaiic club when lie
meets Willie Beecher, the east side
1
walloper.
If Corbett is dccisively beaten by
Beecher he says he will never again
climb through the ropes, but declares
he has come back
| CHICAGO, Oct. 20.-The weather
man put 1t on the Cubs today. With
perfect, balmy weather on the cards
here all during the late unpleasant
ness in Philadelphia, the weather mar
punctured the mercury bulb last might
and the thermometer took a header
from high in the 70s to low In the 40's
Along with the descent came a cold
drizzling rain, which lasted through
out the early morning hours and sent
thousands of fans who arose for a
peek at the weather, back to the goose
whiskers. At o'clock the rain stop
ped and a stiff wind began to dry
things up, though there was still q
heavy mist in the air.
II seemed too cold to make likely
any hard rain, and the management
announced that despite the disagree
able conditions the game would posi-