Times-promoter., 1907-11-01
AN EPIToME OF THE MOST I'M
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
THE NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
A Carefully Digested and Con-
dcnsed Compilation OF Cur
rent News, Domestic
and Foreign.

or MS uaugntcr, IrlnceeS Maiic,
with Prince George of Greece, will
rival in magnifcence those prepared
in the Rue de La Prix for wealthy
American brides. The cost Of the
trousseau will exceed 100000.
Because Of recent appeals from
farmers, orchardists, cotton growers
and ranchmen in every section of
the country, a widespread campaign
has been begun in New York for the
protection of every American spe-
cies of sect-cating bird.
President Roosevelt praises j.
Pierpont Morgan and John D. Rock
efeller, who hitherto have been OBJ
jects of White House denunciation,
in a letter to George B. Cortelyou,
secretary Of the treasury. The letter
was made public in response to ur-
gent demands from many sources for
statement on the financial situa-
ton.
John W. Gates will entertain the
Grand Duke Vladimir next week at
the Chateau de Sandricourse, which
is famous for its pheasant shooting.
Mr.. Gates, with three other Ameri-
cans, has leased the shooting rights
for the season.
Thirty thousand dollars worth Of
personal property awaits the heirs
of a remarkable old woman recluse
who has just died in Chiswick, a
London suburb. Her next of kin are
believed by the police to be living
in different parts Of the United
States-one of them, a niece, having
been last heard of in California
and advertisements addressed to
them by name will shortly be pub
lished i'll America.
President Roosevelt announced
through Senator Flint Of California
that he will use his influence for
separate statehood for Arizona and
New Mexico.
Several japanese agents are en-
gagged in chartering British ships for
the transportation Of coal from New
Castle, South Wales, to Japan's Goa
base. This coal is equal to the best
Welsh coal for steaming purposes,
but it is not smokelcss. The Japa-
nese are experiencing some difficulty
in finding suitable ships, for six
have been recently chartered to
transport coal to Newport News. and
Mare Island for the American fleet
To the story recently given out
from Fairfax county, Virginia, that
George Washington was tax
dodger, an Ottawa, Kas., man brings
additional information to the effec'
that Washington was fined for the
charge. But the Ottawa man adds
q declaration that in his opinion the
proceeding involved no indication of
Sinking citizenship duties, or in
tent to cheat the commonwealth, or
the part of the Father Of His Coun.
try, but that it was rather merely
routine proceeding for collecting de-
linquent tax on property which the
assessor may have overlooked.
A work train Of flat cars, on which
were forty or fifty italian laborers
engaged in the construction of an
artificial lake for the Great North
ern Paper Company at East Mil
linockct, Me-, tumbled into the lake
through the sinking Of the track, and
a messenger, who claimed to have
seen the, accident, reported that
nearly all the workmen had been
drowned.
A letter received in Columbus.
Ca, last week was mailed in Atlantis
exactly ten years and one day before
it was received at Columbus. 1t was
addressed to a firm which has been
out of existence for at least eight
years. The letter had no other post
marks except those of Atlanta, dated
October IA, 1897, and Columbus,
October Is, 1907.
A thin trail Of corn for two miles
led to the recovery Of a lot of har-
ness that had been stolen from the
barn on the Elias Baker homestead
farm, near Altoona, Pa.