GENERAL CABLES
United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) A FATALITY. LONDON, Sept: 9. ' Percival, son of a famous balloonist, and Captain Harry Spcncqr, ascended nt a charity carnival at Rugby, at tho eloso of a thanksgiving service. The balloon suddenly dropped on the roof of a Rugby schoolmaster’s bouse, and .Percival hung on tho roof desperately until rescued -by means of a ladder. His father ascended the roof to disentangle the balloon and lie collapsed, being probably overcome by gas, and dropped fifty feet bead first and was killed instantly, in sight of a large crowd. Ambulance men and police rushed to the bouse wall and vainly attempted to break the fall.
BIBLE AND SCIENCE. Silt O. LODGE’S FAITH. LONDON, Sept. 10. Mr Oliver Lodge, speaking in tho pulpit of tli© Wellington United Free Church at Glasgow, urged that modern discoveries did not discredit the accumulated witness of humanity in the Bible. Ho said: “Old creeds and formulas are not permanent .because our modes of expression change. Science is fluid. You cannot stereotype it. It is believed that the other spare is full of life and of mind, which sometimes lives in matter for a little while. In due time the dust returns to the earth, and tho spirit goes back to God, who gave it. When we detect tho law and order in the organic world, we arc led to postulate some groat mind which governs and understands it all.”
WAR M.P. DIES. LONDON, September 10. Obituary.—Kenyon-Slnney, member of the House of Comomns, aged 32. His health was continually affected owing to being gassed in the war. LOEWENSTEIN’S DEATH. PARIS, September 10. Medical experts declare there was no trace of poison in Loewenstein’s organs. Death was due to the fall injuries, and show he was alive when he struck the water. The heart and kidneys indicate that possibly lie was subject to giddiness, which might have caused an accidental fall.
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