Times-promoter., 1909-10-07

SnlIt, opened nfe on NUMBER OF StrlK
ers' pickets and policemen interfered
firing at the officers. All the bullets
went wild.
| Fire wiped out the lumber yard oi
Manley Chew, at Dollartown, Ont.
sweeping an area of thirteen acres
bare. This is the second fire in two
weeks. The loss will reach nearly a
million dollars The total quantity OF
lumber was 75,000,000 feet.
The supreme court of Georgia re-
fused new trial to Clifford M. Orr,
former cashier and director of the Ex-
change bank, of Macon, who was con-
victed in March, 1908, of embezlement
and sentenced to serve seven years in
the penitentiary.
The aeroplane and balloon carnivai
scheduled in the Fort Indianapolis
| speedway on October IA, Is and 16,
has been called off, according to an an
nouncement Friday by Director E. A.
Moross. Failure of the speedway
management to reach suitable terms
with the aviators, particularly Glenn
H. Curtiss, is given as the principal
reason for the action.
With view to carrying out Post
master General Hitchcock's policy of
retrenchment and economy in the
postoffice department, Alexander
Grant, superintendent of the railway
mail service, directed the division SUI
pefintendents of the mail service to
meet him in Washington on October
IL for conference.
John H. Morrow, veteran Southern
Pacific engineer, forced his way into
his wife's home at Oakland, CAL, and
killed her. He shot at his sister-in-
laws baby, which his wife had been
holding, and then inflicted probably a
fatal wound upon himself Mr.. Nor
row had been estranged from his wife.
The American Red Cross society,
through the state department, sent an
additional $4,000 to the flood sufferers
in the vicinity of Monterey, Mexico, |
making total contributed to date Of |
$1,000, and one thousand blankets.
Fishing schooner Caldwell H. Colt, /
of Pensacola, Fla, has been seized by
Mexican gunboat off Progreso and
her crew of eight men thrown into
prison.
On the steps to the Hall of Fame at
New York university an unknown man
shot himself in the head. The body
was removed to the morgue.
DR.. Frederick<A. Cooks claim to be
The discoverer of the north pole was
ndorsed by the American Association
'f Critical Surgeons in convention in
Chicago. i
Unprecedented cold weather in the
yalley in the vicinity of Mexico City
las destroyed the corn crops. 1t is
estimated that the loss will reach
20,0O0,000. The thermometer We'd Z
lesday morning registered degrees
'elow the freiezing point. t
A government balloon sent up by
he weather bureau from Bluemont, |
a., landed at Rockport, Mo. A de-
ice for recording the temperature
nd the height attained was in the }
asket Of the balloon. 1t was sent G
ack to Bluemont. g
By mutual agreement between coun-
Ell for defense and prosecution, the L
reliminary hearing Of Rev. Wallace a
|. Stuckey, Of Williamsburg, Kas, 7
tho was taken to Ottawa from Wau- i
egan, Ill, charged with the abduc- 8
on OF Lorena Sutherland, 16 years P
Id, was continued until October 8. Il
While near the finish in the 6OO-yard 81
ice, at an athletic meet in Brooklyn,
ichael McCaffrey broke his right leg r
st above the knee. 1t is believed
lat McCaffrey, who was in third po- !
tion at the time, crossed his legs I
hile turning into the stretch and
us cracked the bone.
BY a decision handed down in the - :,
strict court, Sweetwater, Tex, will =
tain the permanent headquarters
i'd shops of the Kansas City, Mexico 7,
Orient railroad, in Texas. Sweet :
atcr obtained temporary Injunction = =
the removal of the offices =
San Antonio =
The Rev. Henry F. Xavier. known !, \,
Yonkers, N. Y, as the Strenuous -
expressed from the pulpit I,
st. Joseph's Roman Catholic church "
intention to publicly chastise cv- -
y couple in his parish whom he finds "
coming in secluded streets. !"
G. w. Bruce, superintendent of The lls 10
ate school for the blind, at Fort Glib = !.
n, Okla, has requested Governor ~
askell to have the census enumera- 81
rs make a separate list Of the blind
ildren of the state, that they may