Times-promoter., 1908-10-16

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ed cost of $65,627 900.
The Texas Railroad commission
does not believe that the Interstate
Commerce commission. or any othe
Federal body, can compel Texans t
submit to riding in the same Pullman
sleeping cars with negroes.
Eight bricks, much resembling 81
many loaves of bread for size, piled
up on the table in the First Nationa
Bank were among the sights delight
ing the eyes of hundreds of delegates
to the National Convention of Bankers
who visited Colorado Springs last
week. The gold came from the great
Portland mine, Cripple Creek, which
has produced $25,O0O,000 and paid
$8,000,000 in dividends, and resulted
from ten days cleanup at the Port
land mill, West Colorado Springs. The
weight is 500 pounds and the value
$150,000
Disappointed after a searcn of two
days in not finding Shep Jones, the
negro who assassinated A. J. Wall, a
wealthy cotton planter at his home
near Hickory, Miss, a mob of fifty
men has hanged one innocent negro
and shot two others to death. The
mob completed it's work by burning
a negro church and lodge hall near
the scene in the negro colony.
John D. Rockefeller has taken for
NAL possession of his new $1,O00,000
house at Pocantico Hill, N. Y. He ar
ranged at the same time to station
eighteen watchmen. two detectives
and one great bloodhound to guard
himself and family from annoyance.
Col. William F. Stewart, who has
been in Exile" at the ungarrisoned
post at Fort Grant, Ariz., has been re-
tired from active service. The report
OF the board which examined Col
Stewart was presented to the presi-
dent and he Immediately directed that
Col. Stewart be retired.
Henry Baker, aged AZ years, once a
noted heavyweight pugilist, was run
over and killed by train at Kansas
City. Baker fought Jim Jeffries to a
standstill for eight rounds May 10, 1897
in San Francisco. In the ninth round,
however, Jeffries knocked Baker out
and there were those who saw the
fight who said Jeffries won by a
chance blow.
Every important business place in
the city of Inkster, NJ D., except drug
store, bank and hotel, was burned in
the fire which started in the Minnea-
polls and Northern elevator, and,
crossing the street, swept the main
business block clean. The loss is
estimated at $150,00O
The Bryan campaign fund is to be
boosted in novel way by the Demo
'ratic women of Belle Rive, Ill. They
lave formed their plans to hold pie
woman to bring a pie
md sell it to the highest bidder, the
purchaser getting the privilege of eat
ng the pie with it's maker.
Forced by the head of one of the
Tartar tribes in the
caucasus to wall up the chieftain's
laughter in living tomb somewhere
n or near the town of Baku, Peter
Aavulitch, an Austrian mason, has
one made with horror and has Just
een committed to an institution in
odessa.
Bound, gagged and locked In box
ar by hazing students. William E.
smith, a freshman of Kentucky state
ollege, has disappeared and the grand
ury is probing what may be CHASTITY
nystery, and police and railroad men
re working desperately to ascertain
is fate.
Germany looms up large as an OBJ
tacle in the way of an international
difference for settlement of the aBl-
AN imbroglio. according to the opin-
ons expressed by the British diplo.
nats today. No matter what reasons
nay be officially assigned for failure
f the proposed conference, which
GEMS possible, England will hold the
.aiser responsible.
An appeal has been taken in the
Hepburn commodity clause case by
he government on the ground that
he lower court was wrong in holding
he clause not to be proper exercise
t the congressional powers as to the
equation of commerce. 1t Is conten-
ed that the court erred in ruling
he caluse confiscatory. 1t is under
TODD the government will ask the
upreme court to take up the case
owing to the importance
f the case,
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