Times-promoter., 1907-11-22

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ty may wish, according to an an
nouncement which appears in the
Commoner. In the editorial Mr..
Bryan says he believes a party
should thoroughly consider every
thing before selecting a man to head
the national ticket.
A state convention Of Democrats
at Nashville, Tenn, inaugurated a
movement for the nomination of
Southern man as Democratic candi-
date for the presidency in 1908
Some time during Monday night
the $4,000 pay roll funds Of the
American Smelling and Refining
Co. was stolen near Trinidad, Colo.
! The census enumeration just ter
minated will probably show Cuba to
have 1000, 1000 inhabitants.
Harold Boyer, IA years old, of
Philadelphia, held his mouth open
and a chestnut burr dropped into
it. The burr stuck so tightly there
that a physician had much work in
removing it.
Governor Haskell made sharp
attack on President Roosevelt in his
inaugural address during the cere-
monies marking the admission OF
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Oklahoma.
Representative mining men from
Maine to California, from Colorado
and Vermont, from Utah and Ore
gon, from almost every state in the
Union, are in Joplin, Mo-, to attend
the American Mining Congress.
They found the citizenship of the
entire mining district awaiting
them with open arms, and the city
and the county is theirs. Joplin is
keeping open house in the best sense
of the phrase.
Twenty-Five thousand members OF
the Switchmen's Union of North
America Monday demanded an in
crease of 6 cents an hour. Their
representatives met the managers OF
| the % railroad systems centering in
Chicago and presented the demands.
The managers were asked for a re-
ply at as early date as possible.
The committees Of the men indi-
Gated that much impatience existed
among them and it would not be adj
visable to prolong negotiations.
s. G. Thiel was the first witness
in the Steve Adams case at Path.
drum, Idaho, Monday He testified
to the arrest Of Steve Adams and
his sub-confession. He said Adams
had told him in the presence of Mrs.
Adams that he had some relics on
| his Uncle J. w. Lillard's farm.
Among those was 1885 Winches-
ter cartridge that had killed Fred
/ Tyler. Witness wanted to get a
letter from him to deliver those ar
ticles to him. Mrs. Adams told wit
ness that the day after Steve's ar
rest they had buried the articles on
the Lillard farm near Baker City,
Oregon.
| The American Federation of La
Dor in its seventh annual conyen-
tion at Norfolk, Va, took aggressive
steps toward the establishment Of a
universal eight-hour working day
/ in America.
| President Harahan of the Illinois
Central railway has reopened the
active campaign for proxies used at
the postponed annual meeting of
the railroad commission on Decem-
| Der 18.
Administration leaders declare
congress may repeal Sherman anti
trust law.
Threatened by kidnapers, the two
children Of Mr.. and Mrs. Winthrop
Rutherford are closely guarded at
Rutherford Hall, the great estate in
Allamuchy, N. J., where the family
is spending the autumn weeks.
Ridgely, at the coming session Of
congress, will vigorously urge pas
sage Of bill to increase elasticity Of
currency.
Every detail in the preparations
for the sailing Of the battleship fleet
to the Pacific ocean is now well in
hand and by December 16, the date
on which the vessels will pass out Of
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