The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-04
NEW GUINEA BUSHMEN
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Raid Villages and Massacre the
Inhabitants.
ERUPTION OF VOLCANO
BURNING LAVA SEEN FOR OVER
TWELVE MILES.
Five Villages at the Base Buried
Deep at the First outbreak-None
of the Inhabitants We're Caught
Speck of Gold Seen Under House
Causes Location of the Town.

| Vancouver, B. c.. Nov. 3.-The Royal
Mail steamer Aorangi arrived this even
ing from Sydney. Wellington, Suva and
Honolulu.
Another massacre has occurred in New
Guinea. Reports from Samarai say BUSH
men living on the slopes of Mount Suck
ling have raided villages near Masina,
| Collingwood bay. and killed a govern
| ment chief and 10 other men. They also
| threatened the Anglican mission at
| Sinapa.
| Another volcanic eruption has occurred
| in the New Hebrides, more alarming than
its predecessor. The volcano Lopeira.
broke out, and the burning lava thrown
up could be seen ~ miles away Five
villages We're huddled at the base of the
| volcano and the houses were buried
deep. in scoria at the first outbreak. The
sea for miles around was at boiling tenn
perature, and jets of water leaped high in
| itants. of the five destroyed villages were
! buried under the molten lava. A few
! days after the outbreak the natives went
up to the top of the still smoking volcano.
| carrying lunches of cocoanuts, which
| they offered up as sacrifices ito make the
| fire dead"
News from Pitcairn island states that
| man named Christian, who was accused
! of the murder of his -paramour and child
by throwing them over, a cliff has been
found guilty and condemned to death.
paramour and child stood in tie way.
I The defense force of the colony of
| Queensland now consists of 1S1 officers
and 2,44S men. The commandant recon-
mends that it be increased.
! gold rush has occurred at Kanowna,
West Australia. A speck of gold was
seen under private house close to town.
/ and Immediately the district around in
GLIDING residence areas, town blocks and
a railway line, was taken up.
! The New South Wales government has
gone into the stud farming business
The Victorian legislative council threw
out, by a majority of 10 to Is the woman's
suffrage bill, sent up by the assembly.
The Australian governments have de-
! cided to experiment with inebriates. The
] New South Wales and Queensland gov
ernmentS have set aside special buildings
for their treatment.
In Australia most of the railways are
owned by the government, and at con-
ference recently 1t was determined to put
down "scalperS." The conference decided
to alter the form of return tickets and to
allow a refund to persons who do not use
the return half
A very disgraceful scene occurred in the
! Queensland assembly Oct D. Several mem
bers were suspended. Messrs. Mcdonald
and Hoolan violently resisted attempts to
remove them from thedchamber Hoolan
styled the speaker of, the assembly as
"a contemplate little niger driver"
proclamation has been issued bring
ing Santa Cruz and other islands under
the British Solomon islands protectorate
Napoleon Jean Lisson was found guilty
at Sydney of numbering Mrs. Edith Cor
rick. The jury recommended him to mer-
cy, but Lisson expressed a desire to be
hanged as soon as possible. Justice Owen
was greatly affected in pronouncing the
death sentence. but he was urged by the
prisoner mot to cry
/ Sydney papers dated Oct. say heavy
dust storms have ragged through the coun-
! try, doing serious damage to crops and
in some cases to buildings
The drouth in the country still contin-
ues and crops are being withered up in
all directions. Some ''halves" farmers in
/ Riyerina have abandoned their crops and
returned to Victoria owing to the drouth
Unless rain soon falls many wheat crops
will not be worth cutting. even for hay.