Times-promoter., 1907-11-08

an from Michigan, who has been
employed in the treasury depart
ment at Washington for several
years, was promoted to the position
of law clerk in the office of the
comptroller of the treasury at sal
ary of $4,000 a year.
When Walter Irwin, at Dugger,
Ind, a mining town, saw his 9-year-
old sister, Laura, holding a hand
mirror above her head to see the
effect of washing her hair, he got
a shotgun from another room and,
without attracting her attention,
fred at the mirror. His aim was
bad and the charge of shot tore>her
hand to- pieces. The wound may
make necessary amputation above
the wrist.
Nagging by John D. Rockefeller,
who demanded of his estate mama
ger detailed reports on the produc-
tion of eggs per hen, and by hen,
and the supply of milk yielded by
each of the cows in the Forest Hill
herd, caused the resignation of G. G.
Jones, who took charge of Forest
Hill on May !, 1907, under a years
contract.
Predictions are freely made that
if the prohibition of the liquor traf-
fic does not become a national polit-
ical issue within few short years
it; will be because the issue itself viii
have been eliminated, legislation
rendering the manufacture and sale
of liquor impossible.
Charles Hughes Of Till City,
Ind, is in custody, having surren-
dered after killing his brother, Nor
timer, aged 26. Charles claims his
brother was intoxicated and was
abusing their father,
The city Of Bokhara, in Central
Asia, is reported destroyed by earth
quake on October 21, and $4,000
people buried in the ruins.
British American Tobacco Com
pany was created especially to vio-
late the laws and to carry conspira-
cies into effect, government charges
in information filed at Norfolk for
the forfeiture of 8,750,000 cigar
cites owned by the company.
Editor Macmillan Won Harden
of the Zukunft, Berlin, was acquit-
ted in the civil court on the charge
Of libeling Gen. Count Cuno Won
Moltke. The count was ordered to
pay costs Of the case.
Because he failed to carry out an
rrand Of the Black Hand society,
Vite Greinaldi, a member Of the
Black Hand society, was stabbed to
Heath by members Of his own band
on Knoll street, Brooklyn.
A general reduction in the retail
prices Of meats is prophesied for
g5hicago and the Middle West. It
has grown out of the present fnan-
eial situation, according to some Of
the big packers, and will be of sub
stantial benefit to consumers.
Herr August Ferdinand Bebel,
one Of Germany's greatest men, and
he acknowledged foremost figure in
socialism in the world, is soon COM
;ng to America on lecture and
study tour.
Seven firemen were overcome by
smoke and loss of 100000 was
caused in fire in the fve-story
building at State and Quincy streets
occupied by the Holden Shoe Co., of
Chicago.
Insanity is to be the plea in the
lefense Of Harrv Kendall Thaw.
whose second trial for the shaving of
Stanford White will be on Decem-
Ter 2. Martin W. Littleton, chief
counsel for Thaw, it is learned, has
decided on this course.
Holden Lewis, rs years old, a
sawyer employed in a mill at May
seld, Ky, met death in buzz saw.
The engineering corps Of the Ok
'ahoma national guard, called out
w Acting Governor Charles Filson.
prevented the lynching Of John
hopkins, in jail at Lawton for kill
ing his wife.
The war Of the Society Of Equity
,gainst the tobacco buyers iii west
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