The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1903-05-01
NEWS SUMMARY.

Eight men and two women were
killed by an explosion at the plant or
tho Northwestern Star oil company
at Minneapolis.
stephen II. Mallory has been re-
elected to the United States senate by
the Florida legislature. receiving
every vote but one.
At The Hague the first chamber OF
the States General last week adopted
the treaty Of arbitration between Hol-
land and Venezuela.
Resolutions have been passed by
tho Montgomery county. Illinois.
grand jury condemnlng progressive
euchre as gambling
A special dispatch from Meiilla.
Morocco, says Mulcy Mohammcd tho
sultan's brother. has been proclaimed
emperor OF Morocco at Fec.
Because the lronton. o., Portland
Cement company refused TO give Ben
Carney his old position as oilor tho
entire forco OF the plant and mines.
numbering ZOO won't out
Eight persons are dead and ten in
jured. three OF them seriously, as the
result OF collision between a pas
senger train and a freight train on
the Erie railroad at jamestown, N. Y.
Disorders have been reported in
France from various points in connec-
ton with the expulsion OF tho nom
burs OF the congregations who have
remained IN France. Several arrests
were made.
ID. w. Anderson, former treasurer
OF Weccacoe tribe. Improved Order OF
Red Mon. has been sentenced In Phil
adelphia. to one years imprisonment
for embczzling S2.i7O OF the orgauiza-
tons funds.
Seven moro bodies have boon found
frozen In the snow drifts about Bres-
Ian, making total Of twenty-five
persons who have been frozen to
death in silcsla as result OF the re-
cent storms.
Joseph Boyd. a retired farmer and
ox.Confedorate officer was found
dead on the back porch Of his home
at Mexico. Mo-. from bullet wound
in his chest. 1t is believed he COM
mitted suicide.
John X. Hondrlck OF Paducnh has
withdrawn from tho race for tho Dem
ocrauc nomination for governor OF
Kentucky This leaves Governor
Bcolshap without vpopsitr,a in TIN
primary OF May 9TH. h
The famine In Kwang.si province
is killing tens OF thousands Of per-
sons, and women there arc selling
themselves into slavery to escape
starvation. The American consul at
Canton has lnauguratod relief fund.
In tho trial at Mt. Vernon. KY. OF
Charles Durham. who killed John
lawson. County Judge Lewis rem
dored the following decision: The
| prisoner is dismissed. Lawson COM
mlttod suicide in going with his gun
to Durham's home on a hunt for
trouble"
An island 1876 feet long and 80 feet
wide. seemingly fixed as solldly as n
rock on the east shore OF Lake Gar
field. says a Winstoad. Conn. dis
I N.N. -. 90
a milo down the lake. twenty-five
years ago the island made a similar
journey.
Mrs. Margaret Horsack, who was
convicted of the murder Of her hus-
band, a wealthy Iowa farmer and
sentenced to life imprisonment, Is to
be freed. The Jury at the second
trial disagreed, and the prosecuting
attorney will dismiss the case rather
than put the state to further expense.
The scaled verdict returned by the
jury before which Louis Decker. for
NOR member of the Missouri house OF
delegates, has been tried on tho charge
OF perjury in connection with subur'
ban franchise Doodle legislation. found
him guilty,
AZ Carthage. Texas, a negro named
Hensloy Johnson. was lynched fol
criminally asaulting a 1iyear-olC
white girl. A mob hanged him on the
public square. where his body was
found next morning suspended from
a telephone pole.
Herbert W. Bowen, the Venezuelan
. plenlpotontiary, has drawn up a new
protocol for the determination by Tn,
, Hague whether the blockading power
d shall bo entitled TO preferential treat
ment in the payment Of their claim
against Venezuela.
: The general elections in Spain ar
:. reported to have resulted favorably 4
< the republicans. who obtained vic
3 tories at Madrid, Barcelona, Valenci
|. and other large towns. Slight riot
a ing occurred at Barcelona, Bilboa
A Granada and elsewhere.
Andrew Rainey. a negro. was tai