The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1899-09-01
NEWS SUMMARY.

steamboat men estimate total
also eNcursionists and pleasure sock.
ers have visited Alaska this year.
Henderson Picrson, living near Dav-
export, Texas, in IT Of jealousy, shot
ana killed his wife aud her mother.
There have been several cases Of
buhonic plague recently at Palermo
and Naples, three or four ending
fatally.
The total number Of buildings de.
stroyed by the Victor, Colo. fire Is 500.
Total loss about 81, 100000; insurance
ssOo,OOO
The number killed by the hurricane
In Porto Rico is i.073, missing 900,
houses destroyed, o,4ai, persons home.
less 2e.oi0.
St. Paul, MINI, Globe advocates the
nomination OF Admiral Dewey for
president by the next Democratic ma
ional convention.
Fourteen fishermen camping on Wan
island, near the mouth OF the Neuse
liver, n. c., during recent storm
we're drowned.
John and Jay Saunders, colorcd,
we're killed ana four other negroes
wounded at Parsons camp ground,
Kentucky. In fight
The London Church Missionary So
,iety has received a report stating that
10000 persons have died OF famine on
The east coast Of Africa
From most parts Of England reports
state that the wheat crops are being
gathered In fine condition. IL Is con.
'idered the best crop for years past.
The steamship City Of Columbia has
been abandoned at sea Ia water
logged condition and her crew OF
thirty-elght men are now In Honolulu.
Until quite recently man to hold
Office In the Transvaal must have re-
sided there fourteen years and be at
the same time member OF the
Dutch church.
At the berkeley oval. New York
City, George seheibcr and Frank Kra-
mer lowered the quarter-mlle tandem
bike record. They covered the dis
lance 10 20 rs seconds.
In Havana the Masons have been
asking for an increase OF wages.
About 1000 workers held conference
at which strike was agreed upon.
Nine thousand are idle.
The Echo Agrlcolo, Paris, states that
several estimates OF the wheat crop
have already been given, varying from
1000, 900 10 100000, 900 hectols-9s,-
OOO, 900 TO a, 200, 900 quarters.
tits the quartermaster departments
intention to have not only the frst ten
regiments aAoat for the Philippines
by the last OF October. but also thoae
40 he --i-sd srd~r si's las, order
A mission Of Russian engineers and
their escorts was recently attacked by
Chinese brigands at Kirin, on the
china-Russian frontier, ON the main
ManehurIa railway. All were massa-
cred.
shooting ARRAY growing out OF the
old row between cattlemen and sheep
men occurred on the range southwest
Of Chadron, Neb., when George Coil,
a sheepherder, instantly killed Thomas
Ryan, cattleman.
Miss Viola IlorloclSer, who IA under
sea, 900 bonds to appear In Hastings,
Neb., next month to answer To the
charge OF poisoning, is n patient at
Oak Lawn sanitArium, Jacksonville,
H., under the name Of Miss Allen.
A cable dispatch has been received
at the war department from General
Davis, giving additional details OF the
conditions In Porto Rico. lie places
the number OF killed at !, 900, and reit.
crates his estimate of 100, 900 destitute.
James Birch was shot and killed by
Patrolman @, NJ. Warren at Birch's
home. Indianapolis, Ind. Before he
was killed Birch shot the policeman
twice, making serious but not ncces-
sarily fatal wounds. lie resisted ar
rest.
The bonds OF Daniel coughlIn,
charged with jury.brlbing In Chicago
and at present fugitive, aud those OF
his co-eonspirator, William Armstrong,
have been declared forfeited. Cough
Inns bonds were si5,OOOi Armstrong;
5000.
Baron Won IIeylsing, the late Ger
man minister at Peking, who has
arrived at Berlin ON leave OF absence
for year, has declared in an inter-
view recently that Russia does not
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