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M COM'S FEATSHIS TI9WXI9 EXPLOITS AROUSE THE ADM 1 RATI Off OK RKQLISU SPORT LOVEU5.Kart: Mno. Mai Knlns, from the Perl* P,or»« .a nailvo of stun Kruneiaco; Ml** Ethel Newoombe of.New York, u pi»nl»c; Mr. Leo ltnluo of New OrleanB. buaxo lit In JlroMlirti; Mr. Julius talk of Philadelphia. u pupil or Sevelk. unci a trio of pu,,ll* of Kvvefk; Ml*** Mur-gcl Gluck of Now York. Ml** Klin ivl* moy ot London mid Mias Amy Lcwy of Hun Antonio.SKILL OF II MASTERHAS-ONLY HUES HEATKN ONCE—A PROFESSIONAL AWARDS HIM HIGH PRAISE.RESURRECTION ROBES READYA Urjff Number of London Clergymen Predict the Km! of the World Hlgbt Away.Welliunn In the Cloud*.Si*cut L'ASLIeOjuii VO Till NKW*.Paris. May 12.*—(Copyright. 1908, by tho Now York Horuld Company.)—Walter YYellnmti and Mnj. lloraey made a balloon ascent on Wednesday from Bt. Cloud. They were accompanied and. piloted by Mr. Frank S. Luhnt. n well known uoYo-naut, who him had much exporlcmco. Owing to meeting with heavy ruin the voyage was short. The purty landed ut Ihliancourt. The trip lasted an hour and a hulf, the dlstuuro being only three mile*. Mr. Wellman said ho had leained tin* row point* on the treachery of winds which may be of uso to hltn In this trip to the North Polo.INDIAN FIGHTER IN FOR GIB R19 CELL.shout. C.\sr.to*iu to Tnr New*.London, May 12.—(Copyright,' 1900, by the New York Herald Company.)—The src.it sensation of the English tennis reason has undoubtedly been the adventof young Mr. Jny Gbuld. When It first became known he was visiting England to piny for the amateur championship, players smiled nt what they considered tho ambitious efforts of a boy. Ho has played, and now In hla gamo players uud spectators alike acknowledge the skill of a muster. • lie liua only been beaten once, and that by Eustace Miles, l»Ut he won all corners’ competition and is the holder of the second prizo In tho amatour championship. Every one was looking forward yesterday to see how ho could figure tu the International tournament between England and America, and keen anticipation was aroused at the prospect of his meeting- Mr. Miles again.I-ifortunately claims of business compelled tho English oliumpion to withdraw »ud bo to tne general disappointment the learn matching which Messrs. (Jould und Crane wore going to play for America ngulnst Messrs. Miles and Vane Pennell, who were chosen to ronresont England, loll through. Andre, a professional, has soon move of Mr. Gould’s playing tlian probably any one else in England. He said he considered Mr. CJouLd tho coming champion, and continued:•’My opinion is Mr. Gould has not a wruk spot In his game except tho stopping of a fast nklewall boost. In every ft hr r rc3pcct he Is easily next to Mr. Miles, not only in a finishing boll, but ul.io in tho ro'.iuu.”THIS DEMNI'iiON BOWWOWS.London Clergymen 8ny the Kad of the Klirlil A |*|ironeliv».KriCUL CACLtOllU TO Ta» Nbvi,London, May 12.—(Copyright, 1908, by I dp Now York Herald Company.)—Ter-i illu predictions concerning what will happen to the poor old eurLh during the m»st twenly-flvo years wore made tho other day at Exeter HalL The prophets lt;if disaster wcri s. large number of idergymcm who wcro In attendance at 'Thu prophetic and second advent conference. While they differed somewhat in details, ull agreed that the end of the world was nt hand. They were not quite miry whether the final catastrophe will conic Oil Mily 19. 29 or April 9, 19, 91, but they wcro quit© sure that one of these dale* • will- prove to. bo right. Thero ran be no doubt that tho world has marly outlived lls usefulness, the* • yoo♦ i!rriv/^rr* ?.*\ cnrt•• I unite* which have afflicted It recently arc poslllvo proof.Site Slltl stand*.SlK-JAL CADI.ICOXJUl TO Tm NKTTi.Loudon, May 12.—(Copyright, 1908, by tl.o New York Hey aid Company.)—At tho l true of tho tinn Francisco disaster 1 mentioned that certain selnmogrnphlnts ©x-proFKcd tho opinion that llic earthquake would In duo course make Its appearance on Lhlfi *ldo, unil that Edinburgh, which fltnuda In the danger tone,. being practically built upon extinct volcanoes, would be visited. Well, tho earthquake I ins ocen here. From Devon,' Cornwall,front tho Channel Islands, from somo parts of Scotland, but not Edinburgh. Imvo come reports of how the earth has been quaking on different days thisAt the Age or 10 Cbnrlr* I,. Slew*rt Await* SmIchit In nu lowu Court.CouHcIl Bluris, Iowa.—At tho age of 69. Charles L Stewart, former Government scout*, Indian fighter, miners* guide, who helped to bury tbs dead nftor the Custer massacre, le to feei tbo law's penalty cor a petty forgery committed in this city. Stowart has had ho eventful career, beginning in 1870, whoo ht sntored tho nerv-Ice of the United States a9 a ecout at Leavenworth, Kan. Ho suys that this la the first tlin© he hss fallen Into criminal ways, lie lias pleaded guilty to forging the name of a local firm to a check for $20, which ho failed to cai.Il Sentence has not yet be*n passed on him.When the Custcojaiassaex-o occurred, In tho early summer of IS78, Stewart, with a parly of twelve other Remits, was on hi* way to tho Little Dig Horn basin to assist In the campaign against Sitting Bull's Cheyennes. Ho had left Ciunp Supply. I. T., going by rail from there to 3L Louis, and thence to Yankton, where a steamboat conveyed the scouts up the ‘floiiebud Iilver to a landing In tho Cheyenne country. On arriving.ihero they learned of the massacre, which had t IE ken place two days before. They were ordered by the q/rviv-Ing commander of Custer’s regiment, the Sovcnth Cavalry, to assist in the work of Interment, the battlefield being fifteen miles away. *It wua a horrible sight that greeted the eyes of Slewurt and Ills companions when they came uponJbe scene of the struggle, from which not a white man escaped. Troops bad aN-endy burled a large number of Custer's band of auo who perished with him, but scores of bodies were etill lying on the field, some of them naked, while arms and lege of thope partially Interred wcro sticking up out ot the ground. It took five days, with soldiers and scouts working side by side, to complete the work of burin 1Contrary to popular ti ad I Mon concerning Indian massacres, 6tew.»rt declares that few of the fallen victim* to redskin treachery were ecalped or their bodies otherwise mutilated. Ah to Gen. Custer himself, It Ifl Stewart's steadfast be-jief that he was not killed by Indian bullets, but shot himself in the last stages of the conflict. Only one ball wos found to have entered Custer's bodv nnlt;! that had gone straight to the heart, while the corpses of soldiers all about him were riddled with lead from the guns of their savage foe*.Stewart wan 22 years old when he first became a acout at Leavenworth. His early service was at Fort Lyons, Colo., and in 18.2 he was transferred to Camp Supply, I. T., a noted station In the frontier dayb. For two years ho way under JX* p. Corty, better known _aH Buffalo Bill, the latter being chief or the scouts ut that limn. Stowart remained In the scouting service thirteen years In all. Half of that lime was spent at Camp Supply, hut after the Cu*n.or maasucro he wiib stationed at Fort Abraham Lincoln for Jive years. II© then quit the Govornment employ and went piloting bull trains for minors muklng their way to the nlack Hill*. A year In that buslnesH sufficed him, since which timo lie 1m* been working at the printing trado m many cllies of tho West, having learned it In youth.M.,0.nv «?/ th\ notable exploit* Inwhich Stewart had a part while scouting roue wed a mrtasncre by Indians ut Adobe «»**»». ami. whoa tiN*e© members of the Germain© family were killed and the two youngest, glrls.of 14 and 12 years, respectively, carried away. Thlrty-alx fccntitn, divided Into Kqnndo of half n.??T?,nSnc:li' scnt out ,}n pursuli rma trailed tho Cheyonne band tor flv© montliB over oovcral huudred mllee of territory that was up to that lima unexplored.After tracking tho Indians back ami rorth over the pralriQB, through canyons, into tho hilly districts and wherever else, thry wandered, the pursuers cum a upon them near Mount Jonus, uti clnvallon half way hwcon Camp Supply and tho prosent town of Dodpo City. KAn.The white men wont into the Cheyenne camp nnrl demanded that the girls bo E v?n ,.^p* first the Indians denied inat ejthor of them wan in the cnnin, but the whites Inslnfprt nn motriho lt;, .^,-,1.o:c«V.0.ttP1tlblTireyiHIitatt«eecvInHdfmthE.MR*prrechVY60orJaleiTtfom«anar.1!thwlonPrvis:h© whites Insisted on making a search * came upon aonu garmentstlmt they knew he oncrnl tr» srReBn*1da;«kmetolt;boip 01lyvajthlml.ihfthlt;mnWR Inp I ti 0 we the 1a n aur pre wo llo: elil Tflf.
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