Times-promoter., 1908-10-23

IN East river. The vessel showed tn
effects of her round-the-world cruise
l.er upper works being coal black an
her sides dirty 10 the water line.
Herman Billek. fortune teller an
aecromancer, must hang for the mul
Ger OF six members of the Vrsa
family. The supreme court of tn
United States at Washington dismis
sed, for want of jurisdiction, the plei
OF the condemned murderer for a wri
of habeas corpus The writ had beer
demanded of Judge Lands, but h,
refused to issue it. Appeal was ther
made to the United States supreme
court.
Woman's suffrage In New York
state was dealt a body blow when
Justice Truax in the supreme court
denied the application of DIR. Julia
seton Sears, suffragette, for a writ
OF mandamus to compel the board of
election inspectors to recognize and
register her as voter
Mrs. Catherine T. Gelshenen, widow
Il the former president of the Gar
held bank, who. it is rumored two
years ago, Charles w. Morse would
marry, made $4,000 dealing in ice
stock through Morse, according to
testimony at the trial of the former
ice king and Alfred H. Curtis before
Judge Hough in the United States
circuit court.
A dispatch from paintsvllle, KY,
says that George Staffords residence
caught fire and he and three children
were roasted alive. Mrs. Stafford tried
to save herself by jumping from a
second story window, and broke her
neck. The entire family was wiped
cut by the disaster The Staffords
were prominent.
Five hundred Harvard students fled
pell nell from their dinner in Randall
Hall, Cambridge, when the ammonia
reservoir in the ice making plant
turst, flooding the building with suf-
'ocating fumes. A dozen maids in the
sitchen were overcome and rescued |
With difficulty by the firemen.
In the presence of hundred per-
IONS, Judge David B. Howell, of the
lrst criminal court of Newark, N. J.,
vice shot himself in the head in
park, inf1icting wounds
rom which he died in a hospital two
ours later.
Boldly stopping the motor of his
eroplane while 65 feet above the
arth Wilbur Wright proved his con-
antion that accident would not fol-
oW The big machine glided a dis
ance OF IS yards with wonderful
ase and steadiness, alighting on the
arth without even a serious jar.
Rendered desperate by a fire which
$50O,000 worth of property
that city, already staggering under
le loss of the great flood a few
onths ago, Bisbee business men are
aiming to abandon the town site.
The chemists of the department OF
grlculture believe they have solved
e problem OF cheaper paper that
i'll dispense altogether with the
'e OF wood fiber. The new material t
ON which five grades of paper al t
ady have been made is the ordin- t
y cornstalk, and the officials pre- s
cted when the manufacture of the n
Nv Kind of paper is started on a =
rye scale it will be at least so per .
MT cheaper than the print paper
w made from wood pulp.
Fearing exposure of his forgery of
eds to neighbors' farms, D. O. Sea- "
In, wealthy farmer, respected .
'oughout Macon County, Mo-, STOOD II
three children in row In the barn,
'de them little speech, then mort d'
wounded one, killed another and st
at bullet into his own head, ending
life instantly.
The Chicago CUBS again are the lii
seball champions of the world. For fl
second time they won series that ta
ans the title from the Detroit Tigers NJ
lnant winners of the American i
ague. OF the five games played this =
II for the championship, Detroit =
n only one. Last year the Tigers
and lost four. OF the 10 most i'm I'll
tant games they have played in the pa
t two years, therefore, the Cubs
re won eight, lost one and tied one ha
. w. Lewis, chairman of the Dem tn
attic State Speakers Bureau, in otl
asas received a telegram stating bo
William ]. Bryan will spend the Ta
day before election Monday Nov cIo
1Dr y in is.