Times-promoter., 1909-01-22

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tions for a fight on the Point, long
ground which he declares perfect from
every point of view.
The receivers of the jamestown Elk
position Co. filed a consolidated bill
in the federal court in which 1,2S2
delinquent jamestown exposition
stock subscribers are sued for bal
ances due. OF the total, 775 are
persons owing on preferred stock and
SIT owing on common stock. The
amounts sued for range from few
dollars to $39,575 due on the total
subscription in common stock of
$4,000.
Vice-Admiral Rojestvensky, who died
in St. Petersburg Thursday, was given
funeral with military honors Satur.
day. The body was buried in the Alex
ander-Nevsky monastery, the Russian
pantheon, where rest many OF the
famous soldiers.
Attorney-General Bonapal.e insists
in public statement that suit has
been brought against Hartman rail
roads to force forfeiture of certain
lands in Oregon, though Senator Til
mans speech gave the impression
such suit had not been instituted.
Ben L. Reitman, self-styled King
of Tramps' and a socialist agitf tor,
Is in Jail at San Francisco Friday on
eight charges of conspiracy tending
to incite riot" His bail was placed
at $1,000 on each charge, and his
friends have so fare been unable to
raise this amount Reitman was ar
rested while en- route to a theater,
where he was to have addressed a
meeting of socialists. -
Oil City. town in the Caddo oil
field, near Shreveport, La, was yir-
tually wiped out by fire. Thirteen
buildings, including three hotels and
the postoffice, were burned to the
ground. The loss will exceed 100000.
Dispatches relayed by wireless
from Nome say Mondays earthquake
was felt there and at st. Michael's
and Ketchiken, but that no damage
was done. The town of Fairbanks
and the interior were not shaken.
Cape Henry adyices state that
steamer is ashore two and half
miles north of Currituck. N. c., which
is. believed to be the British steamer
Leesbridge, bound from Gibraltar to
Philadelphia.
The battleships Wisconsin and
Kearsargearrived at Valetta en- route
to Algiers. Sir Curzon Howe, com
manding the English Mediterranean
feet, gave a ball for the officers.
There was much excitement in Wall
street over a letter received by the
Hoboken Chamber of Commerce from
j. ]. Hill, expressing the view that
there could be no real return of pros
perity until public policies are SO
framed that the railroads are given
fair play and permitted to earn a
reasonable profit" on the capital in.
vested.
The steamer Sibyl Marston, CAT
tons, from Gray's Harbor, Wash, for
San Pedro, CAL, is reported wrecked |
off the California coast sixty miles
north of Santa Barbara. Two men are
known to have been drowned.
Leipsic is claiming the worlds
greatest child musical prodigy in
Pillar Osirio, 3-year-old girl In a
piano recital before an audience of |
critics she played classical selections
from memory perfectly.
1t is learned authoritatively that the
mission of Special Commission Buch-
anan to Venezuela has been entirely
successful in renewing diplomatic in
tercourse with Venezuela after the de-
parture of Castro.
Miss Estella Finch, an American,
who has been for a long time con-
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nected with the Seamen Missions at
Yokosuka and other naval bases, has
been granted naturalization. This is
the first instance in Japan of the
naturalization of a woman.
Two members of the staff of the
daily paper Ell Ronacimento at
Manila were found guilty of having
published libelous articles in their
papers concerning Dean Worcester,
one of the American commissioners.
rhe convicted men are Martin Ocampo
md Fidol Reyes. They were senten-
sed to six months in prison and also
1ned heavily.
DR.. Kirke Stanley of New York, who
las brought suit for $150,000 for