Times-promoter., 1909-09-09


historic Taylor farm at Central val
ley thus beginning the campaign by
which. II is said. he expects to ex
tends his realty holdings for 20 miles
around his vast estate at Arden.
The Jennings Oil Producing Co
holdings have been purchased by the
Ohio Oil Co. for between $S,0O0,00O
and $4,000,00O The deal includes H.,
900 acres of leases, about 200 produc,
ing wells with a daily production of
5000 barrels of oil and Is steel tanks.
d. C. Buell. and G. w. Sievers, ap-
pointed some time ago at the in
stance OF Edward H. Hartman to
conduct technical school for the in.
struction of Union Pacific employees,
have opened the institution in Omaha.
More than 100 applications were on
hand, coming from men employed in
many departments and ranging from
section hands to draughtsmen In the
engineering department.
Prof w. o. Hiatt, superintendent OF
the frankfort Qnd) schools, killed
himself by taking carbolic acid. He
was found in the basement of the
building. Hiatt was elected superin-
tendent about a month ago. No cause
is known for his act.
Joseph Bier, so years old, was killed
by being struck by train at Toledo,
o. He was veteran of the Crimean
war and fought in the battle Of
Balaklava, being witness OF the
charge of the Light Brigade.
Miss F. L. Todd, a young woman
living on on Staten Island. has con
structed an aeroplane which ste
thinks will be superior to any which
won prizes last week in France.
Eight were killed when the wooden
staging at the head of the Camp
Hausen mine at Saarbruecken, Ger.
many, collapsed and crashed down
the shaft among O body of miners.
Workers wer injured by the flying
timbers.
Workers were injured b ythe flying
ly injured by a powerful racing auto
mobile. driven by Joe Matson at
Lowell, Mass, who was making
practice run for the races which
start on Monday.
Earl Grey, governor-general OF
Canada, who was lost in the wilder.
ness Sunday night, will be made de-
fendant according to provincial
authorities on the charge of shooting
der out of season. a
Charles Mauget, wealthy retired
tailor, was arrested at Newport, KY.
on a warrant charging him with the
murder of his wife Margaret, who was
found strangled to death at their
home week ago. He Is rs years old.
Examination of the home in Evans
vile, Ind, of James Garrett, who shot
and wounded his wife and tried to
shoot his 7-year-old son and then
killed himself at Indianapolis, dis.
closed that the man had set the house
in order for the funeral of the three
before he took his boy to Indianapo.
lis.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Coppersmith,
of Newton, Ia, were killed instantly
by train while driving in their auto
mobile to the state fair at Des Moines.
They failed to see the train approach
ing, as they attempted to cross the
tracks.
Arthur Griggs, Of Big Springs, Tex.
was burned to death in boarding
house fire at Fort Worth.
John G. Sanders, rs years old, who
went to New Albany, Ind, from Day
ton, Ohio, was arrested, charged with
bigamy. 1t is alleged on information
furnished by the pension department,
that Sanders has four wives. He was
accompanied to New Albany by Mrs.
Lucretia Daugherty, to whom he was
married In Dayton, four months ago,
it is charged.
In a jealous rage, Joe Bates, guard
on the city chain gang at Spartaus-
burg, s. c., shot and killed Mrs. Docia
Boiter, is years of age, wife of a
farmer, and seriously wounded with a
stray bullet May Cox, IL years old.
Cheering for player who had Just
knocked home run In prairie game
on the West Side, Chicago, caused the
death of Robert Myers, 65 years old.
Myers, sympathies were with the
team which profited by the home run,
and he cheered SO much and so long
that heart disease caused his death.
Laurent Crosse, driver of the
Stearns car, who was injured in the
twenty-four hour automobile race at
the Brighton Beach motordrome Fri
day night, is dead. Leonard Cole, his
mechanician, was instantly killed in
the accident.