Times-promoter., 1908-10-16
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.

When Mrs. Sarah G. Byrne, boarding
house keeper, 6 feet tall and muscular
was granted a divorce and $500 all
mony in the superior court at Indian
polls she. proposed to Judge Harve!
that she would waive all claim to the
alimony If she could be locked up II
a room for five minutes with her form
er husband, William H. Byrne.
With singing arraignment of com
missions which attempt to regulate the
railroad business, Theodore T. Shonts
of the Chicago & Alton railroad ad
dressed the members of the Lakesto
the-Gulf Deep Waterway association
and gave them their first real "sit-up
and-take-rotice" speech of the session
The British cruiser Inflexible at her
official trials attained a speed OF 27A
knots, breaking all records. 1t was
stated after the trial that her speed
would have been greater had not the
fog hindered.
With every aeroplane record to his
credit and all requirements fulfilled for
winning the French syndicate prize OF
100000, Wilbur Wright Is be-
ing urged to make flight across the
English Channel.
A shakeup in the official family of
the United Mine Workers of America,
whereby Vice-President j. P. White OF
Iowa and w. D. Ryan, secretary-treas-
urer, will retire. was announced at in
ternational headquarters.
A club of IL Bucyrus (Ohio) young
women has been formed with the ex-
press purpose of adopting the new
sheath gown. The gowns are not the
modified pattern, but the more in
teresting original pattern.
The London cabman who drove King
Alfonso during his recent London
visit, and had the temerity to ask his
majesty for his autograph, which he
received without murmur, may con-
slider himelf a specially favored NOR
tai, for the king of Spain usually
makes it rule never to give his auto
graph to anyone except his own inti-
mate friends.
w. L. Woolley, banker, capitalist
and large landholder, was arrested at
Stuart, Oklahoma, and taken to
Stigler to answer an indictment for
murder. 1t is alleged the crime was
committed 27 years ago.
The battleship feet will end it's trip
around the world at Hampton Roads,
Virginia. President Roosevelt will
view the ships at New York, the ves-
sells going there after arriving at the
Virginia port. At New York, the sail
ors will be given shore leave. The
fact that the fleet will complete the
trip at Hampton Roads has just been
made public.
The action of the United States Gov.
ernment and the Provincial Govern
ment of Canada in setting aside a
tract of land 60 feet wide to mark the
international boundary between the |
two countries involves no legal
features to which Uncle Sam Is unac-
customed. Such a strip has existed |
for quite a number of years. 1t ex-
tends along the southern boundaries
of Arizona and New Mexico, and is
known to the American residents there
as the neutral" strip. The one decid-
ed upon by Uncle Sam and John Bull
is to be called the buffer" strip.
Congratulatory kilograms have been
received by officers of the Interna-
tional Congress on tuberculosis from
Nathan Straus, the New York philan-
thropist, who for sixteen years has
been fighting the white plague" by |
pasteurized milk in his
city, and presenting pasteurizing
plants to other municipalities.
The Prohibition National party is to
receive $4,000 to carry on its work
against the liquor traffic, according to
an announcement from the Chicago
headquarters. The fund probably will
be available for this campaign.
Prof. Eric Doolittle. assistant pro-
fessor of astronomy at the University
Of Pennsylvania, said at the university
observatory that the spots on the sun
could not be held accountable for the
'ecent drought.
Friends of DR.. Frederick q. Cook,
yell-known Brooklyn explorer, are
eeking his financial backer, John R.
Bradley, to urge him to fit out an ex-
edition to search for the explorer, be-
Ieyed to be lost in the Arctic.
Bishop Tierney Of the diocese OF
died as the result of an
popletic stroke. i