Times-promoter., 1909-09-09
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERsELy TOLD.
NORTH. EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign, Lands Through.
out the Nation, and Particularly
The Great Southwest.

Rock Island passenger train return.
ing from the state fair grounds struck
Fort Des Moines car and wrecked it.
The department of agriculture will
present at the Minnesota state fair a
moving picture show with lectures by
it's experts on agricultural subjects.
If the experiment proves success,
the department will exhibit moving
pictures at other state fairs.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
issued an order allowing postmasters
of the third and fourth classes 15
days leave of absence to- attend the
convention of the National League Of
Postmasters of the United States, to
be held at Syracuse October 6, and
5. Hitchcock will probably deliver an
address to the convention.
Miss Agnes Patten, Is years old,
daughter of James A. Patten. the
wheat king, is critically i'll in the
Evanston hospital as the result of an
operation for appendicitis.
Two of the skins sent to the Smith.
sonian Institute by the Roosevelt ex
pedition were of the species of rabbit
which harbors the tsete fly eggs, the
cause of sleeping sickness.
Miss F. L. Todd, young woman
living on Staten Island has construct
ed an aeroplane which she thinks will
be superior to any which won prizes
last week in France.
A noiseless typewriter has been in.
vented by an Austrian inventor at
Vienna, and will soon be put on the
market.
Cliff Briefly, deputy sheriff of Bowie
county, Texas, was killed by Melvin
Anderson, adeputy constable, who
claims Briefly was drinking and abus-
ing him. Anderson shot him through
the head
The mystery surrounding the hold
UP Of the Pennsylvania railroad ex-
press in the Lewiston Narrows, devel.
ops as the days go. M. X. Kinney,
chief of the division detectives, admits
that no trace of the bandit has been
secured. The bloodhounds utterly
failed.
John w. Gates, allied with New
Orleans capitalists in Texas, is en-
solved in a contest with Charles M.
Schwab for possession of tremendous
ly rich iron ore fields recently dis
covered in the Lone Star State.
The Great Northern liner Minneso-
ia, bringing Baron Shibusawa, the
foremost financier Of Japan, mer-
chants, members of parliament and
bankers, representing six great cities,
arrived at Seattle one day ahead of
her schedule.
Mayor Sweeney, of Elpaso, Texas,
was received by President Diaz at the
palace at Chapultepec. The presi-
dent, through Ambassador Thompson,
was rendered formal invitation by
the people of Elpaso to visit that city
to meet President Taft in October,
and he warmly accepted the invita-
tion.
John G. Nicolai, private detective
employed by the Lake Carriers asso-
citation at Buffalo, shot two marine
strikers dead on the West Shore ore
docks and was only saved from lynch
ing by the quick arrival Of the police.
The dead men are George Houghton,
q fireman, and Matthew Dwyer, an
oiler.
Prince Nicholas, third son of King
George Of Greece, in view OF tfhe mil
itary agitation, has asked to be al
lowed to resign from the post of In
spector of artillery.
The Canadian government has fol-
lowed ex-President Roosevelts sug-
gestion by appointing a commission
for the conservation OF natural re-
sources.
Several cases OF suspected cholera
have occurred at Amsterdam, and the
recurrence of cases at different points
without apparent connection, causes
anxiety. Ninety persons are now un-
der observation and the health boards
are taking the strictest precautions.
A cahlegram received from San
Jose BY Senior Calyo, the Costa Rican |
minister, stated that the returns from
the election held III Costa Rica indi-
Gated the election Of Ricardo Jiminez |
for president.
Lewis johnson, Of Elliott county,
KY, was found dead IN the highway
near his home by bis wife. He had |
been shot from ambush.