Times-promoter., 1907-10-18

mutiny, is rampant in the Berlin
royal opera over the increasing In
cursions of American singers. Five
Americans are now members Of the
Berlin royal opera ensemble--Ger-
aldine Farrar, Harriet Rose, Putnam
Griswold, Francis MACEDONIAN and
Edna D'Arch.
The coal mines of Wyoming are
beginning to close down for the want
Of cars in which to ship their prod
ucts. The west is already in the
beginning of what looks like the
greatest freight car shortage ever
known.
King Leopold, considered the rich
est monarch, refuses to pay the debts
of his eldest daughter, who is forced
to sell the jewels owned by her
mother, the late Queen Marie Henri
eta.
Steamer card sharks, the most
crafty and prosperous gamblers in
the world, are doomed by a recent
agreement among steamship lines to
establish a rogues' gallery on board
big liners, in which pictures Of pro-
fessional players will be displayed.
Baroness Alexandria, P. T. Bar
NUNS widow, still a handsome wom-
an, now in Paris, is about to bestow
her heart and fortune on a fourth
husband, it is announced. The lucky
man is Count Jaques De Briey.
The belief is general in France
that the bulk Of the booty carried
by that amazing band of church
thieves which had its headquarters
at Clermont-Ferrand is now decorat-
ing the homes Of American million
aires.
Joe Steel, the American superin-
tendent of the Coahuila Mining and
Smelling Co., was fired upon by
bandits while conveying $4,000 to
the Luna mines to pay off the labor
ers with. The mules he was driving
ran away and man and money es-
capped capture.
Former Senator J. Frank Alice of
Delaware is organizing a corporation
to fight the powder trust and thus
even up scores with the Duponts, at
whose door he lays the blame for
ousting him from the United States
senate. The senator declares that he
expects to Gee this his new smoke
less powder company gets a liberal
allowance Of government contracts
and otherwise embarrass the trust.
William G. Rockefeller, assistant
treasurer Of the Standard Oil Co.
of New Jersey has been notified by
Frank B. kellogg, special assistant
attorney general, to be in readiness
to testify before Examiner Ferriss
in the governments suit seeking to
dissolve the New Jersey corporation
under the Sherman antitrust law.
The second week of the Roosevelt
hunt in North Louisiana swamps
has begun. That the weather is
ideal for trailing bear is the COM
ment of the best posted bear hunt
ers. The rains have been. followed
by fine, clear cold spell, and moth
ing could have been more delightful
for the sport, with indications for a
continuance of it.
It's just a week off now until
President Roosevelt is to make his
first visit to Vicksburg, Miss, and
during that week there viii be ey-
cry detail of the arrangements per-
fected, SO that when the day comes
the president will get a rousing
southern welcome.
Although the international bal
loon races at ST. Louis, in which
four nations will contest for SUI
premacy Of the air, are still week
off and the contestants and their aids
are coming in. The three American
representatives and Griffith Brewer,
the only English contestant, ar
rived and have rooms at the Jefer-
son. The German contestants are
daily expected. They left New York
last Tuesday and have been sight
seeing along the great lakes, stop
ping at Niagara Falls, Milwaukee
and Chicago.