Times-promoter., 1907-11-01


then turning the revolver upon him
self, blew out his brains.
The ceremonies marking the formal
completion of the Hennepin canal
between Lake Michigan and the Mis-
sissippi river were attended by many
thousands of people, all sections of
Illinois being represented.
The Aero Club of st. Louis
awarded $4,000 cash prizes to the
winners of the dirigible balloon race
in Forest Park at the close of the
aeronautic carnival, which will go
down in history as one of the great
est ever held.
President Roosevelt reached the
White House from his southern trip
exactly on schedule. To those who
met the president it was noticeable
that he had added several shades to
the bronze Of countenance acquired
during the summer months at Oys-
ter Bay.
Because 200 of their countrymen
were detained on board by the sani-
tary inspectors Of Santa Cruz, Mex,
port, 400 Chinese, who had just been
landed, made a mutinous assault up
on the English ship Woolwich and
her crew.
After writing to his wife, "I'm
tired Of you," Leo Antoine, of
Charleston, W. Va, sat down on ID
sticks of dynamite and fred fuse
attached to one Of them. Fellow
workmen had tried to get him away,
but failed, and had to flee. Antoine
was literally blown to atoms. .
The tribe of Ute Indians which
more than a year ago wandered
away from their reservation in Utah
and created created trouble in Col
orado and Wyoming by threatening
to take the war path and raid
ranches is reported to have again
broken out on the Cheyenne River
reservation in South Dakota, where
the tribe was given temporary quar-
ters.
Secretary Taft will be shown dis
tinguished military honors by the
kaiser's war authorities when he ar
riyes in Berlin late in November.
Gen. Won Einem Rothmaler, Prus-
sian secretary of war, will give state
dinner for his American colleague,
followed the next day by a realistic
series of combined artillery, cavalry
and infantry maneuvers, on the Do
beritz battlefield, on the outskirts of
Berlin.
Fifteen injured when Frisco pas
senger crashes into loaded lumber
car at Naylor, Mo.
A national contest for balloonists
to be held in st. Louis each year is
practically assured. Adolphus
Busch, the millionaire brewer, will
furnish the prize, which will be an
elaborate gold cup, valued at $1,000.
For the killing Of his father,
George Cain, Carroll Cain, prize
fighter, of st. Louis, was assessed
three months in jail and fine OF
$1OO by a jury in the court Of Judge
Hugo Muench.
Cholera is raging throughout
southeastern Russia and people are
dying like flies. Mortality is great
est in the cities. At Kieff alone the
death list averages 100 daily.
Latest reports indicate that the
disaster caused by earthquake shocks
in Sicily and Calebria is even great
er than at first reported. The dead
will possibly be as many as 1000,
while the property loss is tremen-
dous.
One of the boldest attempts at
robbery in Philadelphia in long
time occurred when two men tried
to get away with $4,000, which they
had seized from bank runner in
the United States subtreasury.
After executing his will and tell
ing his son where to look the follow
ing day for his body, Ransom Good
win, aged rs, Of Johnston county,
Ohio, went into the woods and shot
himself through the heart. Ransom
had made two previous attempts to
kill himself.
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