Times-promoter., 1907-11-22
AN EPIToME OF. THE MOST I'M
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
The NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
Carefully Digested and Con-
densed Compilation of Cur
rent News, Domestic
and Foreign.

Weir, president of the Adams Tx
press Company, has just recovered
from a singular operation. An ul-
cerated tooth destroyed part of his
jawbone, and surgeons replaced it
with a piece of glass tubing. The
operation was SO successful Weir can
now eat as well as ever.
That Nine. Anna Gould intends
to bestow her hand, heart and what
remains of the fortune which was
not dissipated by her former hus-
band, Count Boni de Castellane, on
the prohigate Prince de Sagan, is
rumor that will not down among
New York's 400.
After an existence Of more than
a score of years the order of the Lit
tie Sisters of the Poor, which pos
sesses many houses in the United
States, has been formally recognized
by the Congregation of Bishops and
Regulars.
G. G. Walker, Missourian, was
released by the supreme court of
Coahuila. He had been confined
seventeen months in prison on the
charge of mutilating cattle. 1t is
an international case.
Again the monkey house in Cen
trail Park, New York, has brought
trouble to singers of grand opera,
and Leon Cazaruan, a Hammerstein
prize package, was taken to court,
charged with attempting to corrupt
the morals of young boys.
Falling while asleep 30 feet from
a bridge into the Brazos river, R. 2.
Jackson Of Gilmer, Texas, was not
awakenedEALs went to sleep on the
suspension bridge, fell off, and was
found a short time after under the
approaches at the waters edge, still
asleep. He was unhurt.
The mystery of the winter hid
ing place Of the greenbug seems to
have been at least partially solved
by the discovery Of contents of the
bulbs or warts on cottonwood leaves.
The beheading of Kurzschut, at
Dormund, Germany, convicted of
the murder Of a mine foreman on
account of a wage dispute, was
stopped by a reprieve within about
a quarter of minute of the time
when the ak would have fallen.
The Neus Wiener Journal says
that Prince Arnulf Of Bavaria did
not die from pneumonia, as official
ly stated, but from a sword wound
received in duel with the duke of
Genoa.
Anti-saloon and Sunday observ-
ance agitation is having revival in
Nebraska, and so strong is the SEN
timent for both that it promises to
sweep from one end to the other,
making prohibition state possi
bility and a partial resurrection, at
least, Of blue laws a probability.
After having been given the Gus
tody of the famous "incubator baby"
by the supreme courts Of Kansas
and Illinois, Mrs. Charlotte E.
Bleakley, who asserts she is the
mother, has now been hailed before
the federal court.
Experiments at the New York
cancer hospital for the alienation Of
pain by the use of intense light have
proved SO satisfactory that the ply
sicians have decided to increase the
plant.
Lucien Marcus Underwood, pro-
fessor of botany at Columbia Uni
versity, and one Of the heads Of the
Bronx Botanical Gardens, commit
ted suicide by cutting his throat at
his country home at Redding, a sub
urb Of Danbury, Conn. Prof. IN
derwood had gone suddenly insane,
and attempted to kill his wife and
daughter, Helen
The little crown prince Of Spain,
in pursuance Of an ancient custom,
holds a reception during his morn
ing nap nearly every day. The
ministers in attendance and other
high officials assemble in the palace
at a fixed hour and are admitted in
a body to the nursery to gaze upon
the sleeping infant.