Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1909 — FRENCH AVIATOR MADE NEW RECORD [ARTICLE]

FRENCH AVIATOR MADE NEW RECORD

Latham Flies Longer Distance Than the Wrights. Rheims, Aug. 27.—Hubert Latham, the French aviator, established a new world’s record for distance, 154 kilometres, 650 metres, or 95.88 miles. Latham covered fifteen laps, or 150 kilometres in 2 hours, 13 minutes add 9 seconds, and the full distance in 2 hours, 18 minutes and 9 3-5 seconds, which also are world’s records, the flight being at the rate of about 62% kilometres an hour, as compared with 53% made by AVright at Le Mans and a fraction under 50 made by Paulhan. Latham now holds every record for distance and speed. BALLOON RECORD UNBROKEN Italian Aeronaut Did Not Equal Ascent Made by German. Rome, Aug. 27. —The Italian Aeronautical society has decided that Lieutenant Mina did not beat the world's record for altitude. The record consequently is still held by the German balloon Preussen, which ascended to a heigh of 36,678 feet. SILVER DOLLARS IN A TREE Lucky Find Made by a Policeman at LaFayette, Ind, Lafayette, Ind., Aug. 27.—Patrolman Herman Kelm has discovered that money grows on trees. When near the Lafayette boxboard factory his attention was called to aomething that looked like a silver dollar in the fork of an elm tree, eight feet above the ground. The patrolman succeeded in reaching the crotch of the tree, where he found five ■liver dojlars In a pile. How the money came there is a mystery.