Times-promoter., 1908-09-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton, and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.

Washington society during the las
season, Miss Anna E. Cockrell, daugt
ter of F. M. CocMell, interstate CON
merce commissioner and forme
senator from Missouri, Is ill, having
undergone an operation for appen
dicitis.
Night riders are organizing il
northeastern Arkansas, it is reliably r.
ported, for the purpose of reducing
the cotton acreage for next year anC
compelling the holding of this year:
crop at the minimum price fixed II
the International Farmers Unior
convention, which met at Fort Worth
Tex, recently.
Developments indicating that A
Booth & Co., who were placed in the
hands of a receiver last week, had not
ceased to operate as a trust and were
fixing the prices of fish and other pro-
ducts throughout the United States,
are being made the subject of a rigid
investigation by the United States
followed by the prosecution of direc-
tors of the company
By the death of Samuel Devin, 35
years old, a Well-known merchant of
Edge Grove Pa, near Hanover Adams
county loses it's largest citizen and
Uncle Sam probably his biggest post
master. Devine was 6 feet inches
tall and weighed $50 pounds.
Trials of participants in the Spring
field riots of one month ago begin in
the Sangamom circuit court before
Judge James A. Creighton. They will
be preceded by the trial of Joe James,
the negro who killed Clergy Ballard,
and who may be said to have lighted
the first sparks of lawlessness in the
city.
Attorney General Bonaparte has
ordered an appeal to be taken to the
supreme court of the United States
from the recent decision from the
court of appeals at Philadelphia in
declaring the commodity clause of the
Hepburn act unconstitutional.
Premier Asquith, who at the last
moment interfered in the great Cath
Though hundreds of small forest
fires are still burning throughout Min
nesota and along the north shore of
Lake Superior, it is believed that he
names, which have prevailed for the
last week have died down for good.
olic procession of the Blessed Sacra-
ment and caused the parade to be rob-
bed of all ceremony, may have to
answer to Parliamtnt for mis- action.
The color line was drawn at High |
land Park College, Des Moines, when
President O. H. Langwell dismissed |
every colored student and announced |
that no more would be admitted.
John Priot, one of the French colon
lists who settled Frenchtown, now
suburb of Dallas, in 1852, is dead. He
leaves a fortune to heirs in Dallas.
Fears that Charles E. Davis, arrest
ed in connection with the shooting of
DR.. Frederick T. Rustin, after the
coroner's jury had returned verdict
of death at the hands of an unknown
person." may attempt to end his own
life, has led his relatives to keep him
under strong guard.
A true bill was found by the grand
jury of criminal court of West
Do inc
and Charles R. ]. Hayes, her husband,
who were charged with gross insult
to the United States flag. Much in
terest is evinced in the hearing on ac-
count of the prominence of the parties
M Alberti former. minister and
justic and kings privy councillor, has
surrendered to the police, confessing
to the embezzlement by fraud and for
gerry of $2,5OO,OOO.
Half crazed by worry over the con-
slant threats of a revolt at Lisban
and of attempts on the lives of mem
bers of the royal family, the Dow
ager Queen Maria Pia of Portugal is
to leave that country for
Italy, where she will make her future
home.
That DR.. Frederick Rustin, the
Omaho surgeon was murdered by an
man, and did not commit
suicide, was the testimony at the
Coroners inquest by Mrs. Grace
Rustin, the widow, and by DR.. Lang
ield and Dr. Lavender, the two {
physicians who attended the wound
ID man and conducted the post
nortem.
Roswell A. Peters, a pioneer and
nd one of the best known stock 0
rokers in Chicago, is dead. He was q
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