Times-promoter., 1908-10-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
tion. and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.

was formed in Madison, Wis, by the
members of the Wisconsin leaf tobac
co growers department Of the Ameri
can Society of Equity. Delegates re
presenting growers of 1O,OOO,oot
pounds of leaf tobacco pledged them
selves to pool the crop and as far as
possible sell direct to the tobacco
manufacturers.
An epidemic of typhoid, which has
been prevailing in Montreal Tor
several weeks, is assuming serious
proportions. All the city hospitals
are filled and are refusing additional
patients. Private physicians are
overrun with calls. So far the num-
ber of deaths have been compar-
atively small. The bad water supply
and impure milk are given as the
causes.
By the adoption of an amendment to
the Constitution prohibiting the seat
ing in the annual convention of any
delegate not engaged actively at his
trade, the Illinois Federation OF
Labor, put up the bars, against
politicians and those who the mem
bers claim have worked to the injury
of the organization by entering the
conventions in the interest OF their
political bosses. The amendment to
the Constitution was presented by
Delegate Brady of Chicago.
Singing in 10-cent moving picture
show at Fresno, Cal, May Yohe, once
Lady Frances Hope, now Mrs. Put
nam Bradley Strong, is trying to save
up enough money to sue her husband
for divorce.
While 5000 feet in the air the
Parseval dirigible balloon met with
an accident and dropped to the
ground, causing great damage to the
apparatus with which the balloon
was equipped. Maj Perseval and his
assistant were badly shaken up by the
fall. The bursting of the compart-
ment forming the tail of the ship,
caused the accident
It is officially stated at the Ad-
miralty that the Duke of the Abruzzi,
who is to marry Miss Katherine
Elkins, has received three months
extraordinary leave, with permission
to go abroad.
One body and seven injured en-
ployes have been taken from the
debris which buried from 40 to SO
men and boys when the roof of the
Lehigh Valley railways roundhouse
collapsed at North Wilkes-Barre,
Pa. The body recovered is that of
Peter Mullen. 1t is feared that a
number of bodies still remain under
the wreckage.
The supreme court has sustained
the legality of the Nebraska blue
laws, forbidding almost all Sunday ;
business transactions.
At the trial of Ray Lamphere for {
in the Guinness murders, I
Attorneys Darrow and Worden declar
ed that they expected to prove Mrs.
Guinness alive. They declare they have
,hree witnesses who saw Mrs. Gun I
less July 9.
Whatever doubts may have been &
by the Japanese Of the
of American expressions f
If good will is removed as the result
If the memorable meeting between t
he mikado and Admiral Sperry at Il
he imperial palace and the inter- r
hange of greeting on behalf of the c
mperor and President Roosevelt.
The Isthmian canal commission C
SKIS $35,OOO,OOO for work on the Pan a
ma canal during the fiscal year 1909 b
ccording to estimates submitted to "
secretary of War Wright by Col s.
chairman of the committee. 81
he appropriation for 1908 was $27,- m
100000, of which $1,50O,O00 was for H
he purchase of three transports. 81
Electrification of all the tracks of
ne Illinois Central railroad within the al
ity limits of Chicago was authorized te
t the annual meeting Of that roads cs
J. ogden Armour, pl
harles A. Peabody and Alexander G. G.
are to succeed themselves ia
s stockholders. ra
A cloudburst at Gale, six miles ia
est Of Shawnee, Okla, caused the m
,uth Canadian to rise at an unpre-
sdented rate to height of two feet w
,ove the former high water line. dc
uch damage has been done to pro- CT
,rty and to crops, but SO far no loss be
life has been reported Train SER fe
ce was demoralized, all trains being mi
toured. MI