The Semi-weekly leader., 1909-10-09
NEW Ws OF THE WEEK
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.

George Washington Moore nick
named Pony" Moore, and famous in
ternationaIly as the founder of the
famous Moore and Burgess minstrels
died in London. He was born in New
York in 1919.
Frederick r. Burton, a newspaper
man and novelist, died suddenly at
Lake Hopatcong. N. j. The cause is
supposed to have been heart failure.
Mr.. Burton was 4S years old.
The uniform President Diaz will
wear when he meets President Taft
was shipped through Ell Paso in bond.
1t was made especially for the inter-
national meeting by celebrated firm
in Europe. 1t is Gorgeous affair of
heavy broadcloth with gold trimmings.
At Fairmount, Neb., the new 5000
high school building is nearl gnished
and will be ready for use this fall.
After pleading guilty to the burglary
Of store at Woodbine, Ia, Mrs. Anna
Lind, %, and mother of a 14-months-
old babe, was given an indeterminate
sentence of ten years in the peniten-
tiary. Last July Mrs. Lind was cap
tured by night watchman. She
wore male attire.
A local option election in the Rocky
Mount district of Franklin county, Va,
resulted in victory for the vets by
majority of three. Ther is but one
S,s fefr faf 4 fa fo1 ~
Rocky Mount and pays license tax
Of four thousand dollars. The cam
paign was hotly contested.
DIR. James B. Angel retired from the
presidency of the University of Michi-
gan, an office he has filled for 38
years, except for the two periods when
he was away on leave of absence fill
ing the posts of United States Minister
to China and United States minister
10 Turkey.
Auguste Bodin's statue of Victor
Hugo, over the placing of which there
has been long public debate, was Of
ficially unveiled in the Pals Royal.
The figure is nude and stands on a
rocky shore with extended hand and
listening ear to catch the voices speak
ing across the sea.
e. d. Usner, secretary and treasurer
of tbs Toledo, Peoria & Western rail-
road company, died at his summer res
idence in Binsdale, Ill. He was one
of the Oldest railroad officials in the
country.
Prince Miguel of Braganza, who
married Miss ANITA Stewart of New
York at TulIock Castle, Dinkwall,
Scotland, September 15, was dragged
into court at Vienna by a money
lender who sued for $1,000
Forty-four minutes more were clip
ped from the transatlantic record by
the Cunard liner Mauretania, which
arrived at New York from Liverpool
and Queenstown.
The National Guard association of
the United States selected st. Louis
rs the place for it's convention in 1910,
and elected officers as follows: Presi-
dent, General Thomas ]. Stewart, of
Pennsylvania; secretary, General
Charles /. Martin, of Kansas; treas
urer, General j. A. Storch, of Ne
braska.
District Attorney William Travers
Jerome filed the necessary petition
with the bureau of elections endorsing
his candidacy for reelection Two
thousand names are necessary for an
Independent nomination petition, but
Mr.. Jerome sent in 5000.
The Eastern Leagues championship
season ended Tuesday, Rochester win
ming the pennant with 034 to spare
Newark finished second. The cham
pion Baltimores of 1908 had a poor
season, landing in seventh place.
Miss Jessie Kunkle, 90 years old,
was shot in the back at the home of
her brother, with whom she lives near
Viewpoint, Mo-. and is in critical cony
dition. The shooting is surrounded
by mystery which thus far has been
impregnable.
While the teacher, Miss Lottie Gam
BILE, played Yankee Doodle" on the
piano, 100 school children whose lives
were endangered by fire which was
consuming the school building at
Shade Gap, Pa. marched to safety.
President Taft's naval escort, the
second division of the Atlantic tor
pedo feet now in st. Louis, will visit
Port Arthur, Tex, after it shall con-
vey the executive down the Mississip-
pi river. Orders to thi seffect were
issued by the navy department.
Brig Gen. Winfield s. Edgerly, com
canding the department of the Da-
kotas, with headquarters at st. Paul,
was Thursday ordered to his home by
the war department, pending examina-
tion for retirement.
The Lowell & Burlington company,
Independent tobacco manufacturers of
Coyington, KY, filed in the federal
court at that place a suit against the
Burley Tobacco society, its president.
Clarence Lebus, and its directors, de-
manding 100000 damages. Action is
brought under the Sherman antitrust
law
EAtC 1GGAAOJC N0QWA - SA4At - VA ~AAG
buildings at River View. an amuse-
ment resort of large size just east
Of Baltimore. The damage is various
" estimated at from $4,000 to $780,
600.
Minus the long, wavy whiskers
which hitherto have made him con-
spicuous everywhere he went, and
bound OH a journey the object Of
which Isl unknown to his friends, but
Is not believed to be the quest for a
new sotlmate, Ferdinand Pinney
Earle, incognito, is bound for Eurnpe
on an ocean liner.
whe will OF E. n Hartman was pro
hated without objection at Goshen, N.
Y Papers IN which Mrs Hartman
qualified as sole executrix were pre-
sented and letters testamentary were
oYanfnd ia her