Show was most successful flight ever made portland brej aug 23 one of the most shu flights in the history of aerial navigation was made at the lewis clark exposition yesterday when the city of portland went up for its second trip the vessel was in the air for halt an haur during which time ft covered six miles in territory without a hitch of any kind finally landing safely in identa cally the same spot from whence it ascended in making an exhibition spurt to test the speed of the craft a distance of one halt mile was covered in a minute and 15 seconds this is the fastest time ever recorded as having been made by an airship DIAMONDS AGAIN ADVANCED new york aug 23 diamond importers in the maiden lane district receiver notice yesterday by cable that another advance of 5 per cent has been boado by the london syndicate in the price of rough stones the rise will affect all grades and sizes there wera tour advances last year each of 5 per cent and an advance january 1 of this year CLEVER SWINDLERS new york aug 23 in the arrest last night of car H hoffman and his wife elizabeth a handsome girl of about 1 years ehg police assert they captured the perpetrators ot real estate swindles in the bronx amounting to thousands oft dollars the bioff anns claim los angeles cal as their fe A STRANGE CAPTURE horse thief rides to town with officers gun in ats possession great falls moat aug 22 A special to the great balls tribune from the disappearance ot deputy sheriff started a week ago into the wild of stern fergus county after a horsa ahlet named Conner Bi today conners rode into lewiston wearing the belt and gun of tho deputy which he said he had taken from him while the latter was asleep at a jound up camp about hare according to conner story allver thorne bad captured him and they were on their way to lewiston when he took the gun and horse which be iode to town conders is now in jau v home circulars are alleged to have been sent all over the country recently by a detective agency seeking to arrest the couple according to the detectives hoffman called at the office of a real estate broker last friday and tri pd to make a deal or a housein the bronx for which he claimed to have a buyer at a later meeting for transferring the property the agent alleges that hoffman handed over to bind the bargain a check tor 2000 purporting to ba drawn on the bridgeport national bank of connecticut signed by sahr and apparently properly certified the agent then handed hoffman a check as his this was soon deposited by mrs hoefman who drew against it tor when the real estate agent took the 2000 check to the bank however it was learned so the police charge that no certification of that paper had been made by the bridgeport bank the police were at once called in and succeeded in capturing tho hoffmans a few hours later |