Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-06-23


asking for higher wages and the abol-
ishment OF the practice OF teaching APP
prentices.
Turkey is preparing for trouble by
engaging transports to convey troops
TO Macedonia, where revolution Is
threatened.
A noted French marquis advocates
a Franco-American alliance and asserts
that France should back up the Mon
roe doctrine.
Two thousand st. Louis trainmen
declare they will go on a strike unless
q raise OF 20 per cent in their salaries
is forthcoming.
Louis Mandell, New York junk
dealer, was killed by mysterious assas-
sins, who crushed their victims head
with an iron bar.
The United States quarantine officials
have declared Manila to be free from
cholera, thus ending the quarantine,
which has lasted nearly year.
President Roosevelt declines to arbi.
trate the Venezuelan matter and the
case will now go to The Hague. The
blockade will be raised at once.
Orders have been received at the
United States Armory at Springfield,
Mass, TO rush the shipment of 100000
Krag-Jorgensen rifles to arsenals over
%eSountry.,
Tangier says special courier from
Fee has brought renewed report II at
the pretender to the throne, Buhamara,
has been captured.
A Joint resolution has been intro
duced in the house by the chairman of
the judiciary committee, proposing an
amendment to the constitution, pro-
hibiting polygamy.
Walter Trip attempted to kill his
former sweetheart, Nellie Tanner, and
then committed suicide at Duluth,
Mimi. The woman was seriously
wounded but will recover.
Six hundred carpenters and joiners
In the Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania,
are on strike because the building con-
tractors refused to grant them an in
crease from $3.50 to SO day.
The Washington Post publishes a
story to the effect that Admiral Samp-
son took treatment for paresis year
before he was put in command OF the
feet and ordered into Cuban waters.
Milwaukee firemen breathe fumes OF
nitric acid while fighting fire IN stamp
factory with fatal results for four fire.
men; nine others are seriously Ill
through breathing the poisonous gas.
While sleighing party of young
people were crossing street car track
At Winona, Mimi, a car, running at
top speed, crashed into their sleigh.
The party consisted of two men and
eight women, and all were injured, two
of them may die.
Three children have mysteriously
died in one family at Laurier, Man.
Whether death was caused by acci-
dental poisoning or diptheria has not
yet been ascertained, but an investi-
CATION is being asked for by citizens OF
the town.
Through mistake Charles Fitzgib-
bon and his wife are dead at their
home in Columbus, Ind. Fitzgibbon
took home a quart of what he
thought was alcohol, but which later
proved to be wood alcohol. Both
drank 1t.
The house committee on pensions has
authorized a favorable report on the
senate bill to increase the pensions OF
ell Mexican war veterans from So to
S12 per month. The number OF Next.
can war survivors on the pension rolls
is 5000.
The navy department is unwilling To
allow Constructor Hobson OF Merrimac
fame to retire, even upon resignation
outright. The reason is the pressing
need of the construction corps fol
the service OF just such officers as Mr.
Hobson.
In answer to the Spanish ministers
offer TO sell, the navy department has
concluded TO purchase a certain pro
portion of the heavy ordnance now in
place in the Notifications of Porto Rico
still the property of the Spanish gov
ernment.