Times-promoter., 1909-07-08
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign, Lands Through
out the Nation, and Particularly
The Great Southwest.

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called out, but many of the soldiers
Joined the mob and pitched battle
was fought in which 16 persons were
killed and 80 wounded.
The body of Edward st. John, buried
In Casco, Mich, six years ago, was
disinterred and brought to Otsego for
reburial. 1t was found on the open
ing of the casket to be petrified. His
hair, white at death, was black.
The senate "came within one" Of
agreeing to vote next Tuesday on the
entire income tax amendment to the
tariff bill, including the corporation
tax substitute. The compact was pre-
vented by the objection of Senator
Bulkeley.
The new Lincoln pennies coined at
the United States mint in Philadelphia
are ready for delivery. They are much
like the old ones, except that the In
dians head is replaced by a profile of
Lincoln.
John Novak, a laborer, accused OF
killing Miss Caroline Braush, a book
keeper for a San Francisco contract
ing firm in the office of the company,
has been arrested. The girl was shot
down during dispute over 60 cents
difference in pay check.
C. C. Petty, who shot and killed his
wife in the Methodist church at
Sparks, New, on the night of March 8,
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree, the jury fixing punishment at
death.
Gen. Geo. B. Crosby, aged SO, a ma
tive Of Kentucky and one of the few
surviving brigadiers of the Confeder-
ate army, committed suicide by inhal
ing gas. He had been suffering from
paralysis.
Ex-Vice President Charles w. Fair.
banks and Mrs Fairbanks, on a tour
of the orient, were presented to the
emperor and empress by Viscount
Some, the Japanese resident general.
Jay Eye See, known the country
over as the first 2:10 trotter. died
Friday on the Pleasant View farm
Death was due to old age, the horse
being 81 years old
Driven temporarily insane by the
excessive heat, Mrs. Emma Monthly
threw herself and her eight-year-old
daughter from the roof of five story
apartment house in Quincy street in
an exclusive section of Brooklyn.
Both were killed instantly.
The supreme court decided that
voting machines can not be used in
Ohio. The court holds that they do
not meet the requirements of the pro-
vision of the constitution which says
that all elections shall be by ballot.
The Fallansbee Brothers tin mills
at Fallansbee, w. Va, and the Pipe
tin mill of Steubenville, o., signed the
scale asked by the Amalgamated AS
sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers, thus preventing strike at these
plants. About 1000 men are affected.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, who Is
visiting Ireland, preparatory to an Eu-
ropean trip, was welcomed at a spe>
cial meeting of the Dublin Trades
Council.
Marvin, alias VIM. Mathews, was
held in $4,000 bond by United States
G Commissioner Frazier to appear be-
fore the federal court In Omaha on the
charge of completely in the hold-up OF
a Union Pacific train May %.
Five men of the torpedo boat Hull
were badly scalded by the bursting
of a boiler tube near San Francisco
1t is feared B. F. King, fireman. was
fatally injured. The boat was slightly
damaged
Harry Brennan, who escaped from
the Ohio penitentiary 16 years ago,
after serving one year OF a five years
sentence for burglary, has been cap
tured at Monroe, Mich.
The direct primary law enacted at
the late session of the California leg.
islature was held to be constitutional
I'm an opinion rendered by the state
supreme court.
Dennis l.. Minton, aged %. commit
ted suicide at Knoxville, Tenn It is
said that friends of a young woman of |
his neighborhaod we're about to force
linl TO marry her. Minton shot him
self lin the head at the home OF his
.unt shortly before the wedding was
o have taken place