The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-11-23
NEWS SUMMARY.


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Thirteen persons were killed and
fourteen others injured seriously In
Gre damp explosion In the Pluto coal
mine at wiosa, near BruN.
Private advices announce that Cath
Ollie German missionary. bishop Ham
mer. was first horribly tortured and
then burned alive 10 Tus Tsen.
Hampton Jackson. colored deputy
sheriff. who was shot In the election
riot in Denver. IL dead. This Is tho .
third death resulting from the riot
Robert Fitzsimmons has rejected
Champion Jeffries proposition TO take
him ON for another Eight immediately
or at the close OF the theatrical season.
The allied forces RACED several boxer
villages. The Germans took one at
Yang Tsung and shot all the boxers
captured after drumhead court-mar-
tial.
The number OF pieces OF mail matter
received at the dead letter office last
year from all sources was 7.53G,ias'
against o,s55.o3s for the preceding
year
The United States transport sheri-
dan sailed Friday from San Francisco
for Manila with 30 recruits. She also
carries large plumber OF civilian pas
sengcrs
baroness Won Ketteler, whose hus-
band was murdered by the Chinese in
Pcl,in, is improving slowly at the rest
doncc Of her father, Henry u. Ledyard
OF Detroit.
William sullivan, the murderer OF
Spencer Gaylord, the Waterman OF
Tuolumne county gold mine, was
hanged at San Quentin, Friday. sulll-
van died bravely.
simultaneously with the passing Of
the preferred stock dividend by the d.
rectors Of the American Linseed com
pnny the company announced cut of
10 cents u gallon In oil.
II is asserted In Shanghai that the
Empress dowagcr has appointed Sir
Robert Hart. director Of Chinese im-
perial customs, TO arrange the iudem'
nifty question with the powers
The gelatine mixing house Of the
Giant Powder company at sobrante,
fifteen miles from san Francisco, blew
up Friday. John c. lloifeimeier, fore
man. and two Chinese were killed.
Zip Luck. the Chinese murderer Of
Chief Of Police Main Of Stevenson, d.
c.. was hanged Friday morning in the
yard OF the provincial jail at New
Westminster. lie confessed his guilt
Miss Clara Barton and part OF the
Red Gross society. who have spent sew
eral weeks Ia Galveston managing the
distribution Of relief among the storm
sufferers, have returned to their
homea.
An outbreak OF bubonic plague Is re-
ported among the natives OF SzinyolsA.
near King williamstown, South.Afrioa.
Precautions are being taken to prevent
the spread OF the disease among tho
whites.
Persons about the Russian court say
OF the Emperor's illness that IL wns
merely mild case OF influenza, caused
by his well-known carelessness In sit
ting about rooms with the windows
wide open.
Actual work has begun on the lay
ing OF the kee's TO the mammoth iron
steamships TO be built at the works OF
the Eastern shipbuildinR company nj
Groton, opposite New London, Conn.
They will cost s5,0oo,oOO
Secretary Long will urge the estab-
lishment OF a naval reserve to compliant
the existing naval militia which is
supposed to have outlived Its usefulness
rs is shown by its rapid deterioration
since the wal with Spain.
II is u unique testimony TO the great
individuality of President Kruger, says
Paris special, that his voyage to Eu-
rope is watched with more interest by
the continental press than ts the pro-
gress OF the war In China
The woman who was found dead in
the boulevard hotel, New York, with
Dr. Ahlstrom, was Identified as Mrs..
Harry Gardner OF 100 West One Hun
dred aud First street, the wife OF a
man who followed the races.
The new Japanese ministry is looked
upon with the greatest interest and
favor by foreigners, as II is without
doubt far more fayorably disposed To-
ward the latter than auy which has
been In power for some years past.
Count Won Waldersee, the command
err Of the allies, is considering the adj
visibility OF removing his winter head
quarters to Shanghai, aud this Is taker
TO indicate that the allies will not en-
deavor to prolong operations in thu