Times-promoter., 1909-02-04
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.

ers' Association having failed to make
any overtures to each other for re-
sumption of the trade, the governors
of New Jersey, New York and Con-
necticut will meet in conference,
probably in New York, in few days,
to discuss ways and means of set
thing the strike.
Henderson Cremeans, known to be
the oldest man in West Virginia and
probably the oldest in the United
States, died Friday near Point Pleas
ant, w. Va, aged lis years. His faith
er and mother are said to have been
the first couple married west of the
Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia.
Under an order entered in the fed
eral court in Chicago Friday William
Chalmers, receiver for A. Booth &
Company, the fish firm which recently
went into a receivership, is given
power to examine any person who
knows anything concerning the
finances of the firm.
President-elect Taft Friday made
his eighth trip across the Isthmus and
everywhere was greeted with marked
demonstrations Of good will. With
his party Mr.. Taft landed Friday
morning at Colon and proceeded by
special train to Culeora, where Fri
day night he was quartered at the
residence of Lieut. Col. Goethals,
chairman of the Panama canal COM
mission. His reception by the Pan
anna officials both at Colon and Guile
bra was most cordial. Saturday Mr..
Taft will visit the site Of Gatun dam.
The first experiments in Berlin with
flying machine were witnessed
Thursday when Armand Seipfol,
French aviator, began a series of trials
on Temple field. More than $4,000 per-
sons were attracted to the scene, but
the expectations Of the people were
disappointed, for the machine failed
to fly.
Statistics covering the present gen.
.eral homeward movement Of Japanese
from this country have just been re-
ceived by Imperial Japanese Consul
Y. humane, stationed at Portland, Ore.
The compilations cover the first ten
months of 1908 and indicate in brief
that for every Japanese that is coming
to the United States three are return
ing home.
In accepting the United States SEN
atorship from Kansas, formally voted
to him by the legislature, Senator Jo-
seph l.. Bristow assailed the methods
used by E. H. Hartman and his asso-
ciates in the Alton cas- as criminal"
and declared "the men guilty of such
high-handed operations should face
Imprisonment for their crimes"
Vice-President Fairbanks Wednes-
day received telegram from Charles
S. Warren, the Montana messenger
charged with the duty of bringing the
electoral vote of that state to Wash
ington, saying his failure to arrive
within the period allotted by law was
due to the fact that he had broken
his arm.
Rear Admiral Evans, in a lecture at
Canton, O., Wednesday night, de-
clared for changes in the navy. I'VE
need a better navy, more efficient
navy" he said. At the station the
admiral was met by war veterans of
the city, who escorted him to the Nc
Kinley monument.
The Oklahoma state prison board
hes announced that plans have been
completed to transfer all Oklahoma
prisoners to Oklahoma within week
after date Of the expiration of the
contract with the state of Kansas.
Loose methods in handling the rich
est zinc-ore mines in the world, occu-
pied to large degree with pure self
ishness, are given by S. G. Edgar of
st. Louis as the reason why the zinc
miners of the Joplin, Mo-, district are
asking for an increased duty on zinc
ore.
One of the most important. decisions
by the interstate commerce commits
sion for many months was handed
down Monday by that body in order
ing material reduction of railroad
rates in the cases of the Beatrice
Creamery company ct al. against the
Illinois Central and other railroads
and the Blue Valley Creamery COM
pany, etc., against the Michigan Cen
traI railroad company and other roads