Times-promoter., 1907-10-25

Win Il scTIcs VI uuSllCS THAT Hllcu
the Marconi station with binding
light and Of booms that fairly rocked
the station, William Marconi
launched the first commercial mes
sage by wireless across the Atlantic
ocean.
!. Miss Alice L. Stanton Smith Of
st. James, L. l., heiress to 100000,
and a cousin of Mrs. Stanford
White, has appealed to the Society
for the Prevention of Crime for pro-
lection against relatives who, she
says, are seeking to send her TO an
insane asylum for a fourth time.
Col. Alfred /. Dupont, yice-pres-
ident Of the Dupont Powder Co.,
accompanied by General Superin-
tendent Connable, arrived at Fonta-
net and began ain investigation as to
the cause of the disaster, in which
40 persons are known to have been
killed and several hundred injured.
Kaiser Wilhelm has been sum
moned to the witness chair in a most
ussayory case as one Of a long list
Of royal and aristocratic personages,
on whose testimony Editor Maximil-
liam Harden Of a Berlin weekly
newspaper relies to win the libel suit
brought against him by Gen. Court
Guno Moltke.
Blame for the shooting in Browns
vile, Tex, last year, which resulted
in the killing of one man, the maim-
ing Of another, and dismissal from
the army, without honor, of a whole
battalion of colored soldiers, has
been placed upn Company B Of the
Twenty-ffth infantry, according to
the report Of Brig. Gen. William
Crozier, chief of ordnance.
There IS some speculation as to
the whereabouts of Mrs. Upton Sim
clair, wife Of the socialist and novel
ist. Her continued absence from.
the Sinclair cottage in West Point
Pleasant has given rise to rlmors,
one Of which is that she may never
return. ai8
Four masked robbers, after bind
ing and gagging G. D. Cash, the
night operator at the Missouri Pa
ific depot at Webb City, Mo, cracked
the safe and escaped with $500 in
moneygand cheeks. tsf
Terrific Asotrms, ,torrential down
pours Of rain, high wind and floods
are prevailing to an extent never
before realized in France, Spain,
Italy and Great Britain. The storms
have been 50 general that. an accu-
rate estimate Of the loss Of life is
impossible. s
Miss Rose L. Fritz Of New York
City has successfully defended her
title Of champion typewriter at the
National Business Show at Madison
Square Garden, defeating Paul
Hunter of Chicago, from whom she
won the championship three years
ago.
But three out Of a crew of 21
have been saved from the Danish
steamship. Alfred Erlandsen, that
went ashore near st. Abb's Head,
and was battered to pieces by the
surf during the night. Eighteen
were swept by the mountainous
waves from the deck and drowned.
Of the saved, one was g woman.
David Redfeld Proctor, 81 years
old, a cousin Of United States Sena-
tor Redfeld Proctor of Vermont,
was found dead in cheap lodging
mouse at l4S South clark street,
Chicago.
Six hundred and twenty-five sa-
looms will go out of business when
the new Oklahoma government be-
comes effective. The canvass Of the.
election returns shows that state
wide prohibition carried by major
ity Of over $4,000. There is but one
brewery in Oklahoma, and it will
quit business at the same time as
the saloons.
The body Of Gen. Webb Syck, q
civil war veteran, was found il the
yard Of his home in Fairview, Ky,
and that Of his young wife, bride
Of two weeks, III her bed. 1t isabe-
lieved Gen. .Syck killed his wife and
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