Times-promoter., 1909-02-04

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Malinoff assuring him that Turkey
has no aggressive intentions against
Bulgaria, but that at the same time
she is desirous of securing a rectifi
cation of the existing frontier.
The president Thursday vetoed the
act of congress providing that Off
GERS of the army, navy and marine
corps and of the revenue cutter serv'
ice on the retired list, whose ranks
are advanced in accordance with the
law, shall receive commissions in ac'
cordance with such advanced rank.
Carrie Nation was arrested Thurs.
day and will have to appear in Lon
don police court for breaking the
glass Of an advertisement of cigarettes
in a station of the Waterloo-Baker
street underground railway.
Secretary Newberry has written a
letter to F. G. A. Jennings, seaman
on the U. S. S. Arehusa, commencing
him for his gallantry in jumping over
board and assisting in the rescue of
human life during the fire at the
navy yard, Mare Island, San Francisco,
September 1S last, following an explo-
sion of floating gasoline.
An Oklahoma syndicate has estab-
lished headquarters in Boston for the
booming of immigration of girls to
Oklahoma to relieve the scarcity of
wives there.
The president has accepted the res
ignation of Chaplain Joseph Casey of
the First infantry at Vancouver bar
racks, Wash, to take effect at once.
Kirk Bailey Is years old, of Sc
dalia, Mo-, who was stabbed In the
abdomen by his 13-year-old brother,
Victor, Sunday died at haywood hos
pital Thursday. The brother, who
disappeared Immediately after the
stabbing, was found Wednesday night
on the family farm near Dresden and
brought back to the city and is now
at his mothers home.
President Samuel Gompers, Vice
President John Mitchell and Secretary
Frank Morrison, recently adjudged in
contempt of court and sentenced to
Imprisonment in the District of Co
lumbia Jail, were Tuesday ordered by
Justice Wright to pay the cost In
Cured in the proceedings which re-
suited in the sentence for contempt.
These aggregate about $1,000.
The possibility of the federal author
tiles having to stand aside to permit
the state and county of New York to
proceed against the publishers OF the
New York World for the libel in con-
nection with the Panama canal pur-
chase, was made apparent Tuesday In
q letter written by District Attorney
Jerome to United States District At
torney Henry L. Stimson.
There are 14,235,451 Roman Cath
olics in the United States according
to the advance sheets Of the 1909
Wiltzius official Catholic directory,
published in Milwaukee. The sta
tistics are furnished by the archbish-
ops and bishops of the United States
after the taking of a census in all
dioceses.
Rev. Thomas ]. Shahan of Hartford,
Conn, it is stated in well-informed cir.
cles, has been selected to succeed
Bishop Dennis ]. O'Connell as rector
of the Catholic University of America.
Bishop Carroll has originally been |
spoken of for the position, but was |
to give up his work in Mon
tana.
Edward Kaiser of Evansville, |
Ind, aged 16. who has been mar
ried year and is father of one son,
Thursday obtained a divorce from his
wife, aged H. He alleged she hypno-
ttzed him and that he married her |
against his will. Klaser formerly lived |
in East st. Louis.
Will B. Otwell, the editor of OF |
wells Farmer Boy at Carlinville, ILL.,, |
has formulated his plans to establish
a coloney of farmer boys in the st.
Frarcis valley in Arkansas. There
Mr.. Otwell has secured options on
5000 acres ON land, which he will |
diy:1e into tracts of 10, 20 and so |
acres.
The United States government has |
filed 81 suits against the Oregon g. |
California Railroad Co., the Southern
Pacific Co., the present owners of the
Oregon & California Railroad Co., and
morethan 100 other individuals and
private corporations. The suits are
to recover from the railroads and their
grantees, who comprise the other de-
PENDANTS, an aggregate of .353,2SS acres
of land within the old Oregon and