Times-promoter., 1909-02-18
NEWS Of THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
tion and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.

Earnest efforts are being made oy
the administration to secure the ap-
preparation of $4,000 for the expenses
of a commission to go to Liberia TO
make recommendations as to what
specific action on the part of the gov
ernment is desirable that will most
aptly render effective relief to that
republic under the present critical CIR
cumstances.
Now that the acute phases of the
anti-Japanese agitation on the Paclnc
Coast have been quieted, more detl-
mite settlement of the points at issue
between the United States and Japan
probably will be reached by diplo-
matte interchanges.
William L. Milne, the $15,0OO-a-year
lace salesman of New York, whom
Mrs. Jane Parks Caldwell, the trial
marriage beauty of Emfnence, ky,
brought into public view a month ago
as her affinity" is dead, mostly from
worry, at his home in the little jersey
suburb of Haworth.
Very much the same review program
is expected to be followed at Hampton
Roads when the president and Secre-
tary Newberry greet the battleshlp
feet on it's return cruise as When the
vessels left that place more than
year ago.
It is said by leaders of union labor
that the charges made by Postmaster
General Meyer against Frank l.. Rog-
ers, president Of the United Assocla
tion of Post Office Clerks; William
Kelley, president of the National AS
socfation of Letter Carriers, and H. r.
Roberts of Washington, representing
the railway mail clerks, of attempting
to influence legislation in their own
interest and in the interest OF the asso-
Citations they represent, is but the be-
ginning of a movement to take the en-
tire postal service from the ranks OF
unon labor.
Becoming suddenly insane on
Great Western passenger tram near
Berwick, Ia, Martin Oberman OF Chi
cago drew q large knife and slashed
at all within reach. Before he had
been beaten sensless by trainmen and
messengers he stabbed three men.
James H. Ceiford, his daughter. Mrs.
James Collier, and James Colller'
prominent people of Pocahontas, Ark,
have had a hearing before Commls-
sioner Parse at that place, charged
with peonage. F. H. White and Della,
his wife, who are midgets, and Homer
White of Pocahontas, their father,
claim they have been leased against
their will to Ceiford and Collier for
exhibition purposes.
A tax on Merry Widows" is being
urged by Senator Shirley Gilllland III
a bill he is supporting before the pres
ent Iowa general assembly. Mr.. Gill
land has a supreme contempt Tor the
woman he describes as she with
hat so broad she can not squeeze INTO
a telephone booth without going SIDE
some rich old man in his dotage IN
order 70 become his surviving spouse
The Wright brothers have accepted
an invitation to go to London at the
end of March, when they Will be given
the gold medal of the Aeronautlcal
Society of Great Britain.
Railroad companies must snow tnat
changes in rates or rules and regu-
lations proposed by them the just anu
reasonable, before being able TO put
such changes in effect, II the Dill
which has been introduced by REPRE-
sentative Needham of California is
enacted into law.
ANY idea that he was contemplat-
ing retirement from active partclpa-
ton in the management OF the rali-
road and other properties IN Whlch
he is interested, was secuted py
George J. Gould To reporters VINO
asked him about a report to that eI-
feet, Mr.. Gould said that however
much he might desire to get out OF
business, he could not think OF do
Ing So
Charles A. Strong, son-in-law OF
John D. Rockefeller, was attacked and
bitten on the face by an insane pas
senger on the North German Lloyd
liner Barbarossa on the last trip to
New York.
According to new figures compiled
the railroads operating in the South
west have increased their rates from
four to 10 per cent since August s,
1908, when the Hepburn law became
effective