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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-15
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, THE
ANGEL OF THE CRIMEA, rs DEAD

London. August 14.-Florence Night
ingale, the famous nurse of the Cri-
mean war and the only woman who
ever received the Order of Merit, died
yesterday afternoon at her London
home. Although she had been an IN
valid for a long time, rarely leav-
ing her home, where she passed the
time in a half-recumbent position and
was under the constant care of ply
stefan, her death was somewhat unex-
pected. A week ago she was quite
sick. but then improved and on Fri
day was cheerful. During the night
alarming symptoms developed and she
gradually sank unit 2 o'clock Saturday
afternoon when an attack of heart fall
ure brought the end.
Her funeral will be as quiet as pos
sible In accordance with her wishes.
During recent years owing to her fee
bleness and advanced age, Miss Night
ingale had received but few visitors.
On May IL last she celebrated her Goth
birthday and was the recipient of con-
gratulatory message from King George.
Florence Nightingale was born on
May IL, 1920. she was the first wom-
an to follow a modern army into bat
tie as a nurse, and in the Crimean war
gained the title of Angel of the Cri-
mea."
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She studied nursing under the Pro-
testant Sisters of Mercy at Kaiser
werth, Germany. and returned to Eng
land when the Crimean war broke out
She organized a corps of volunteer
nurses, whom she led into the field
and was especially celebrated for her
noble services at Scutari.
At the close of the war she was en-
abled by a testimonial fund amounting
to $25O00 to 70 Ind an Institution for
the training of nurses. the Nightingale
Home at ST Thomas hospital. She was
the insanitary condition of camp hos
pitfalls. In 1908 she received the free
dom of the city of London. King Ed
ward bestowed on her the Order of
Merit, the most exclusive distinction
in the gift of the British sovereign.
The membership of the order is linn
tied to "a and 1t includes such men as
Lord Roberts, Lord Wolseley, Field
Marshal Kitchener. James Bryce, Prince
Yamagata and Admiral Togo.
There is a strong feeling among the
general public and particularly among
the military men In favor of a public
memorial for Florence Nigh tingale.
Th ere is little doubt that her expressed d
wishes in this connection will be taken
into consideration.
Not even the death of a royal per-
sonage could have called forth more
universal expressions of regret and tri-
butes of affection than appear in the
English papers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-15
FOUR MEN KILLED
BY EXPLOSION

Point Arena, Cal, August 14.-Four
men were killed late last night when
the boilers of the steam schooner Phoe-
nix blew up at sea about 10 miles north
of the Point Arena lighthouse. Two
of the dead Chief Engineer Thomas
Houston and Second Mate Andrew Ras-
musen, reached shore with the sur
vivors of the vessel, but died this
morning of their injuries. The man
gled bodies OF two firemen-Christ Han
sen and William Nicholson-ride to-
night In the demolished engine room
of their waterlogged ship as she floats
at sea, a derelict 7H7a s+s
The Phoenix loaded with bark from
Needle Reck for San Francisco, was
making her way slowly southward
against a brisk wind in a choppy sea.
When the explosion came Chief Officer
Louis Larsen was torn from his post
on the bridge and his body was sent
hurting through the air 80 feet to the
deck below. The sailors forward and
Captain Peter Halvorsen seated in his
cabin were tossed about in their quar-
ters by the force Of the explosion.
With her bow well out of water the
Phoenix began to settle. Pump crews
were stationed and some of the sailors
were sent into engine and boiler rooms.
Houston and Rasmussen were car
ried to the deck. Nicholson and Han
sen were never SEEM after the explo-
sion.
Rocket distress signals flashed
through the air attracted the Point
Arena life saving crew, who put out in
lifeboat. They returned with Ras-
musen and Houston and several mem
bers of the crew. Captain Halvorsen
and the others remained aboard but
were forced to abandon the ship at
daybreak.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-15
BIG INCREASE IN
INTERNAL REVENUE

Washington. August 1.-THE govern
ment derived $3.50. 72S015 from collections of
internal revenue, including the corpora
ton tax, during the fiscal year ended
June 30 last, according to the preliminary
report of Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. Cabell made public today. This is an
increase of s4S,515,296 over the previous
fiscal year.
The receipts for the fiscal year, with
increases or decreases over the previous
fiscal year, include the following:
Spirits, $14S,029.212; increase, s13,161,177.
Cigars. cigarettes, snuff and tobacco.
352; increase. $6,Oo2174.
Fermented liquors, $so,572 2s5; increase,
50, ,115,S7.
oleomargarine. s1.oso5os; increase, $751;
306
Filled cheese. $2S47; increase, s9o5.
Mixed -four. $So51; increase. s4Ss
Adulterated butter. ss7,S5l. decrease,
s110o
Process butter. $121. .555; decrease si6l0
Miscellaneous, including corpora ton tax,
opius, playing cards, etc, $21 ,972, ,6S1; in
crease, 21,03S, ,539.
Illinois led the states In the aggregate
amounts of collections with s49 los. 213. the
next nearest being New York, Ss6. .157, ,226;
Kentucky, $32, 260. 27S: Indiana, $2S, 1856, ,240;
Pennsylvania, s25,96l $40; Ohio, so, 1852. .S45.
New Mexico and Arizona furnished the
smallest collections. their combined aggre-
eating only $12S,o6s.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-15
AVIATION MEETS
FAIL In FRANCE

Paris, August 1.-THE failure of most
of the aviation meetings this summer ha S
proved a great disappointment to promo
ters After the tremendous successes of
the great meeting at Rheims last year
hundreds of meetings were organized in
every country In Europe and some in
America. These meetings have continued
week after week in France. In almost
every case the result to the promoters
was a financial failure. Those identified
with the meetings place the blame on
the spirit of commercialism with which
aeroplaning is being exploited.
Aeroplane flights made such a vivid ap-
peal to the imagination that promoters
hung up enormous purses and paid fabu-
lous sums to secure the presence of the
few French cracks whose exploits had
astonished the world. Men like Paulhan.
who IA months ago earned $20 month
as a mecha1lician suddenly began de-
manding and getting $4,000 to $4,000.
Every pilot, whether experienced or not,
wanted to excel this rival in sensational
exploits in order to get more money and
that was the cause of several of the fatal
accidents which have marred the meet
ings.
The impression in France is that next
year there will not be one meeting where
there were 80 this year. 1t will, they
think. tend to check the recklessness of
professionals and compel manufacturers
to devote thenlselSes to the perfection of
machines within safety limits. Already
they realize that the future for aero
planes is in thei, practical utility and not
ia their employment in sporting exhibit
tions and that the improvements must be
along those lines.
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Brussels August 14-The white city or
the Worlds Fair, as the Belgians have
called their 1910 exposition, is tonight
mass of flames and smouldering ruins. A
spark falling into inflammable material
burst into flames, which, driven by high
wind, swept rapidly in all directions. Soon
the Belgian, English and French sec
tions were destroyed. The f1remen and
detachments of soldiers called quickly to
the scene found themselves baffled by the
veritable gale which carried the burning
embers to all parts of the grounds.
To the lest of the main buildings arise
the picturesque roofs and spires of
brussels Kermesz," Belgian Coney ISL
and, with water chutes, tobaggan
slides and scores of side shows. This
place was alive with Sunday crowds, and
before they could be gotten out with any
semblance of order the Kermesz was
afire.
The crowds became panic-stricken, and
men, women and children fought madly
to escape. The exits became choked with
the struggling masses and men used their
fists to clear the pathway. Many were
trampled under foot and badly injured.
An engine corps from Antwerp at
tempted to dynamite the bridge of the
French section in the hope of checking
the fire, but the flames leaped across and
engulfed the italian, Russian, Austrian.
Japanese, Chinese and Norwegian build
ings. Forty houses on the Avenue Sol
bosch adjoining the exposition were de-
strdBed.
At the time of the outbreak not less
than 100000 persons were in the
grounds. Troops were ordered out and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-15
POPE Plus HOPES
FOR FINAL PEACE

Rome, August 14-The Pope in speak
ing with reference to the Spanish ques-
ton during the course of an audience
which he gave to prominent official re-
Gently said that the events in Spain and
the activity of the anti-clericals, support
ed by irreligious forces abroad, had
caused him much trouble, but at the
same time he had been afforded an oppor-
tunity for a splendid manifestation of
loyalty and devotion to the church and
the pontiff himself from the Spanish peo-
pie who are by, tradition Catholic.
The Pope added that addresses. tele-
grams and letters had been received from
every party of Spain assuring the holy
see of complete suppore, while the dis
cipline and strength of the clergy and
their harmony with the vatican were
above praise The Pope concluded with
the hope that this time the cause would
triumph.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-15
PLANS OF BONILLA
COME TO GRIEF

New Orleans, August IA special from
Port Barrios. Guatemala, to the Picayune
declares that Gen. Manuel Bonilla, ex-
President of Honduras, and Gen. Lee
Christmas, the American soldier of for
tune, who recently were at the head of a
revolutionary movement in Honduras.
were not taken prisoners but surrendered
voluntarily to authorities at Port Bar
rios. From there they were taken to
Guatemala FIVE days ago.
1t is ASSERTED that they surrendered be-
cause of disarrangements of their plans,
misfortune to one of Bonilla's boats and
the action of the British cruiser Scylla
in giving pursuit to the Bonilla expedi-
ton. Bonilla is said to have given the
governor of British Honduras assurances
when he left Belize that he would not
carry an armed expedition from there
against Spanish Honduras, and the COVER
nor is declared to have been deeply
aroused by subsequent developments In
Spanish Honduras. The reason given for
the surrender of the revolutionists to the
authorities at Port Barrios is that they
felt that Guatemala would give them
friendly protection.
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Great Exposition Burned
To The Ground In Brussels
Spark Falls Into Combustbe Material and Famed by High
Wind Soon Causes Loss of About $4,000 ,000-Many
People Who Were on the Grounds When the Fire
Broke Out Were Injured

came at double quick to aid the po-
lice in clearing the great grounds This
was accomplished in fair order except
within the limits of the Kermesz
where the vast crowds became en-
tangled in an almost inextricable mass
fighting desperately to find an escape
from the flames which swept viciously
through the tinder-like structures.
Soon the enormous facade tumbled
in ruins Considering the rapidty oi
the conflagration the small loss of life
was marvellous. So far as known, ur
40 late hour tonight, only two are
dead. The injured, as officially an
nounced, number 30, but probably many
hundreds received minor hurts.
AS the flames reached the menagerie
IL was decided to shoot the beasts but
the heat drove back the soldiers and
the animals were left to their fate
The fire was finally gotten under
control, but the Belgian and English
sections are in ruins while all the
other sections, including the American
were partly destroyed.
Bands of thieves engaged in pil1age
and a soldier was stabbed while at
tempting to arrest three men whom
he found rifling a jewelry exhibition
The aggregate loss is estimated at
800, 100000. The diamond exhibitors
are heavy sufferers.
The United States Congress failed to
grant an appropriation for the purpose
of an American exhibit at the exposi-
tion but a section of $4,000 square fee,
was set aside for Americans on the
assurance of the National Association
of Manufacturers that the space would
be filed. A number of private ex-
hibitors united in the construction oi
a small American section.
The space occupied by the entire
exposition was about 200 acres 40
acres of which were occupied by build
ings.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-15
TODAY'S AGE-HERALD

1--Taft's party plans are kept secret.
Roosevelt will confer with Grfs-
Mayor Gaynor is much better.
Railroads want raise in rates.
Great fire in Brussels exposition.
London officers go after DR.. Grip
pen.
Florence Nightingale is dead.
2-MissIssippi will dispose of bonds.
Stocks advance during past week.
3-Former mayor will make race
again.
Work will begin on school build
ing.
New laws passed by Georgia as
sembly.
Weather controls cotton situation.
comment
5--Another viaduct meeting scheduled
for tonight.
New railroad law goes into effect
Wednesday,.
Railroad scandal of special interest
here
Sunday arrests of blind tigers.
Mrs. Gielow writes on education of
poor whites.
6-Back among old folks once arain.
Preparing for great coronation.
Austria Hungary follows England
7-Great era of prosperity due
Rescue stations In mine districts.
Pacific coast and the canal.
Can battleship Maine be raised?
S-General sporting news.
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u,,-y,.r. After Rawn's Papers

Chicago, August 14.-The Winnetka
home OF Robert C. Brinkley, son-in-law
of the late Ira G. Rawn, president of
the Monon railroad, who died from a
bullet wound less than a month ago,
wa sentered last night and drawers
and desks to which Mr.. Rawn's prl-
vate papers had been transferred were
ransacked The intruder was fright
ened away by private watchman. Mr..
and Mrs Brinkley are In virginia and
Il is Impossible to learn whether any
thing of value was taken. Police Mag
istrate C. F. Hately declared today the
entry was evidently not made for the
purpose of burglary as valuable silver
and jewelry was not disturbed.
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LONDON OFFICERS ARRIVE IN
QUEBEC TO GET DIR. CRIPPEN

tents. The newcomers had no meassage
for Crppen. They inquired about the
health of the prisoners and asked the
Jailer to have them ready to leave Now
that the 15-day limit has expired they
may be taken back any day.
Sergeant Mitchell tomorrow will present
to the attorney general of the province
papers containing evidence relating to
the crime with which Crippen and Miss
Leneve are charged. The evidence will
be used, however, only in case the cou-
pie resist removal Apparently. both pris-
oners are eager to return to London. To-
day when Crippen learned that Mitchell
and his aids had arrived he said to his
jailer: IT am glad they've come. They
cannot take me back any too soon."
Both Crippen and Miss Leneve at
tended religious services at the jail to-
day. The man heard mass In the Cath
olic chapel with two armed guards at
his elbows. This was the first time
the girl has been willing to go to church.
The authorities permitted her to listen
to the Church of England service In a
small nook behind the altar where she
could see and hear but was herself
screened from observation.
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Railroads Want Raise In
Rates Equalto $5OO,OOO, 900
Hearing is Set for Today in New York City But May be Post
poned for Several Weeks Because the Railroads Claim
That They Are Not Yet Ready With Sufficient
Facts to Proceed With the Case

proportionately to the tonnage OF
freight handled by the various roads
the increases in the rates being sub
stantially the same in all cases.
Reports received by the commission
indicate, by an analysis. that the in
creases In operating expenses of the
roads during the last ten years have been
very heavy. The greatest single item of
Increase is in the cost of labor which Is
estimated to be about 40 per cent of the
expense of operation.
In classified tion territory the increase
In cost of labor according to the re-
ports, has aggregated during the last dec
ade about $So.0O0,000 year, approximate
ly s4000O,000 a year having been added
during the last few months. Every other
item of expense of operation has in
creased during the last decade, so that
In the matter of operation alone the
railroads of classification territory are
paying out nearly $500 900 year more
than they paid out ten years ago.
It will be necessary for the roads un-
der the existing law to Justify their ad-
vances by affirmative proof of their neces-
sity. In other words, the burden of proof
of the reasonableness the increase will
rest on the carriers. 1t is the purpose
of the commission TO take purely
judicial view of the questions presented.
1t will act in no sense as prosecutor
of the road. 1t will be represented at
the hearings by one Of its examiners,
Frank Lyons. who will endeavor to de-
velop any testimony that may tend to
throw light upon disputed points. The
great shipping organizations will be rep
resented by J, H. Atwood of Kansas
City. Mo-, and Francis B. James of Gin
cinnati, o. The roads will be repre-
sented by their general counsel. the big
systems like the Pennsylvania, the New
York Central. the Erie and the Baltimore
and Ohio taking the burden of the
work.
The testimony will be heard by Judge
George N. Brown, chief examiner for
the commission.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-15

Washington, August 14.--Increases In
freight rates aggregating, according to
estimates made by the interstate COM
merce commission. s500,O0o,000 annually
in official classification territory-that
part of the country north OF the Ohio
and Potomac and east of the Mississippi
rivers will be considered at hearing
to be begun tomorrow morning in the
custom house at New York city.
The likelihood that the formal hear
ing of the evidence in the case. the
most important to the people the in
terstate commerce commission has yet
undertaken, will be postponed until a
later date. probably September 7. be-
cause the railroads are not fully pre-
pared to proceed. The tariffs involved
have been postponed until November l.
effect. 1t Will make no difference TO
the commission whether the roads are
prepared to go on with the hearing or
not. Such. delay as may result from
postponement will operate against the
railroads.
According to unofficial figures made
by the commission the advances shown
by the tariffs filed by the lines in class
ificat tion territory averaged about Is
per cent over existing rates. The in
creases apply to both class and com
modify rates. Taking the present vol
ume of traffic as a basis an increase
OF 16 per cent would amount to an
advance for all the railroads In the
entire territory of approximately $780,,
100000 a year.
This advance is distributed among
Alb different transportation lines. being
an average of something more than ST..
900, 900 year each. OF course the total
amount of increase will be distributed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-15

Quebec. August 4.-Sergeant Mitchell
of Scotland Yard and the two wardens
from Holloway jail arrived today to help
Inspector Dew to take DR.. Hawley Har-
vey Crippen and Ethel Claire Leneve
back to London to be tried, charged with
the murder of Belle Elmore. They ar
rived at o'clock this morning and aft
er brief skirmish with the newspaper
men, drove to the hotel. where quarters
had been reserved for them. Dew Joined
the party yesterday at Father Point.
Mitchell appeared less taciturn than
Dew. but when the reporters approached
him he smiled good naturedly and waved
his hand toward his companion Mr..
Mitchell" said Dew sternly. do not say
anything whatever about the case" This
afternoon the quartet drove to the
provincial jail, but did not see the pris-
oners Dew handed Jailer NORM letter
for Miss Leneve brought from London
by Mitchell. Beyond saying that it came
from the girls family in England the jail
er would reveal nothing of its con-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-15
NEWSBOYS ARE GUESTS
OF BIG TIM SULLIVAN

New York. August 14.-Six thousand
newsboys left the streets this afternoon.
and were the guests of big" Tim Sui
livan at a local theatre, where they re-
mained for the rest of the day enjoying
"wuxtra" long bill especially arranged
for them. The big leader, who was once
a newsboy himself. occupied a box in
the theatre and when the "newses'' de-
nanded that he make speech he left his
seat and gave them some advice.
MY advice to every newsboy in this
CITY," he said, rs not to drink and never
tell a lie And when you're selling papers
day by day always keep one back. Read
1t and read 1t well. for it is better than
all the libraries in the world. If you do
that you will put yourself on an equal
footing with the sons of millionaires who
graduate from colleges"
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FOUR MEN KILLED
IN TRAIN WRECK

Handley, w. Va. August 14-Four mer
were killed and six others injured when
an equipment train backed into a moving
yard engine in the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad yards here last night. The dead
John P. Dyer, engineman on yard e.
gine
Benjamin Altman, assistant track fore
man.
Andrew L. Pack, coal miner
Reuben Dean, blacksmith.
The lattertwo are colored and were rid
ing on the equipment train.
Responsibility for the accident has not
been fixed
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PAULHAN WINS RICH
PRIZE FOR FLIGHTS

Paris. August 14-Louis Paulhan, the
French aviator. has won the London
Daily Mails prize of 5000 for the longest
total of cross country flights made dur
ing the year ending today. He is credited
with s21 miles. Graham White, who was
beaten by Paulhan in the recent great
flight from London to Manchester, is sec
ond in the present competition with 7o9
miles. Aubrun and Leblanc, who are the
surviving competitors in the cross-coun-
try race which started from Paris few
days ago, and is not yet ended, are cred
tied with 464 and 4o1 miles respectively in
the Daily Mails competition.
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Young Girl Found Dead

Abilne Kas., August 14.-Miss Ber-
tina Benigus, aged 90 daughter of
merchant of this place. was found dead
in her room at the home of her parents
this morning. The girl had been chlor-
oformed and her hands were tied be-
hind her back. Her head was covered
with pillows and blankets. The police
believe the girl was murdered by bur-
glars, Miss Benigus was to have been
married tomorrow night. ,4
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FATAL TRAIN WRECK

Royan, France, August 14.-An
excursion train from Bordeaux
with 1900 passengers and running at
speed of so miles an hour,
crashed into a freight train at
Saujon today. Thirty-two persons
were killed and 100 wounded. Many
of the victims we're school girls.
Several of the cars were torn to
splinters. A misplaced switch
caused the accident.
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Peru. Ind, August 14.-Gabriel God
troy, chief OF the Miami Indian tribe.
died tonight at his home four miles east
of this city after few hours Ill
ness of heart trouble. Chief Godfrey
was 76 years old and has been mar
ried three times. He was the father
of - children.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-15

San Sebastian, Spain August 1+-vico,
papal nuncio at Madrid. has asked for
an interview with the queen mother
+hrouyh Foreign Minister Pietro. thus ad-
herring strictly to diplomatic etiquette.