Times-promoter., 1909-07-15

OF emDeZZllng So,VUO. Inc dHeSeu
shortage was discovered last week
while Deter was on vacation trip
to the Yukon exposition.
Three alleged counterfeiters, all
Italians of prominence, were arrested
in Pittsburg, Pa. According to the
information of the police, the arrested
men are agents for counterfeiting
gang, with headquarters In New York
and Chicago.
Maj. Y. w. Long, U. s. A., retired,
was run down in Washington by an
automobile, carried to Russian en-
bassy, and died three hours later in
the Emergency hospital.
Ten persons were injured two prob
ably fatally, when trolley car on
the Warren & Bristol line of the
Rhode Island Suburban Railroad Co.
left the rails at curve in West Bar
rington, r. l.
The steam schooner P. j. Adler,
bound from Seattle to Bethal, Alaska,
for whose safety fears were enter
tanned, arrived safely at her destina-
tion on July 1,saccording to dispatch.
received.
Glass bottle blowers of the United
States and Canada declared against
prohibition in, resolutions presented
by Milwaukee branch, which were
adopted after lengthy debate.
Charles Crawford. alias Charles Syl-
yester of Louisville, KY, was arrested
in Chicago charged with, kidnapping
Edwin Davis, Is years old, of Louis
vile. The boy wrote to friend in
Louisville, who told Mrs. L. o. Bailey,
the boys mother.
All southbound trains on the Mexi-
can Central railroad are tied up north
of Zatacalas, as the result of wash
outs. These follow directly upon the
disastrous ones which stopped traffic
for four days on the Mexican National
railroad.
Fred Links, Sr., 35 years old, a
baker, and one of the largest men,
physically, in Memphis, weighing 300
pounds and six feet tall, died of men,
ingitis, the result of fellow work
man turning hose on him, by his re-
quest, when he became oevrheated.
c. c. Petty, who shot and killed his
wife in the Methodist church at
Sparks, New, on the night of March 8,
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree, the jury fixing punishment at
death.
1t is understood James T. McCleary,
of Minnesota, former representative
and former second assistant post
master general, has been offered the
post of director of the mint, to sue
ceed Frank A. Leach of California, re-
Gently resigned.
The supreme court at San Luis Pc.
tosi, in addition to confirming the
death sentence on Parto Gonzales,
found guilty of the murder of Manuel
Yturri, son of wealthy American,
orders that Gonzales pay 100000 to
the widow of the murdered man.
Willis Gillow, carpenter, has
brought suit for 100000 against E.
H. Hartman for the loss of his little
finger while working at the latter's
house at Turner's, Orange county. He
sues on the ground that Hartman did
not provide safe place for work.
Attacked by an unknown Mexican,
who, armed with razor and knife,
went on rampage while intoxicated
at Waldron, Mo-, Claude Meyers, Is
years old, procured shotgun and
firing both barrels, probably fatally
wounded his assailant.
Riddled with bullets, the body of
Stephen Kish, 80 years old, of
BERWICK, Pa, was found in desolate
section of the city. He had been dead
but few hours. There is no clew to
the identity of the slayer nor the
motive for the murder.
Charles Richardson, secretary of the
American legation at Copenhagen, has
resigned. He will return to the.
United States.
News was brought by the steamer
Empress Of Japan, which arrived at
Victoria, B. c., from the Orient, that
liners are to be built by Germans for
the projected Chinese trans Pacific
and coastwise shipping line.
Ten persons were injured by the
sudden collapse of the balcony of the
Swiss hotel at San Jose, Cal. Fifty or
more persons of both sexes had crowd
ed on to the structure to witness a
parade, and all were precipitated in
heap onto the sidewalk below.
For independence day In New York
the weather was unseasonably cool.
At o'clock in the morning the ther-