Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1905-07-21

min Roberts near Golinda Texas, has
been lynched by mob of 500 men.
Three men were killed and two
probably fatally injured in a freight
wreck on the Iowa Central railroad
near Richland, la.
The state board of charity of Massa-
chusetts has purchased the island of
Penikese, in Buzzard's bay. and a lep-
er hospital will be constructed there
A regiment of Russian sappers sta
toned at small village in the noun
tains near Tiflis has murdered all it's
officers, and it is rumored has Joined
the revolutionists.
Effort to rescue the thirty-nine men
who were cut off by the fire in the
Borussia coal mine at Dortmund, Rus
STA, have been without success and
they have persisted.
A complete wirless telegraph ser
vice between San Francisco and the
Orient is now proposed within a year
and a commercial service to Homo
lulu within six months.
While workmen were engaged in ex
cavating an old wall of the Glenn
building in Baltimore, the wall sud
denly collapsed, killing one laborer
and seriously injuring another.
The thirteenth National Irrigation
congress is called to meet in Port
land, Ore, August 81 to "a, inclusive,
1905, converting in the auditorium,
Lewis and Clark exposition grounds.
George w. Luth the murderer of
Mrs. Lenora B. Jones, at Oregon
City, Or, about one year ago, was
hanged at the penitentiary in Salem
Thursday afternoon. He was brave
to the end.
The giant powder mixing plant of
the Giant Powder company at Giant,
Contra Costa county, California, has
been destroyed by an explosion. Eight
lives. were lost, one white man and
seven Chinese.
The employees of the Vienna, LODI,
Kalisa railways have decided to use
the Polish language in the transaction
of the railway business. If any one is
I,pupishe4 for so doing al the EN-.
ployees will resign.
II. Keith Dargan formerly president
of the Independent Cotton Oil com
pany, committed suicide at Darlington,
S. c., by drinking about four ounces
of csrbolic acid. Financial difficulties
led to the deed.
The German bark Aphrodite, ZIG
tons, was wrecked in the Nicoya gulf.
Captain Haustein went down with his
vessel, but the members of the crew
were saved and are being cared for
by the authorities.
Sam Morrow, a negro, has been
placed in Jail at Muskogee, l. T.,
charged with having assaulted and
then shot and killed Mary Coleman,
15-year-old white girl. There is much
talk of a lynching.
To escape the camera of the rogue's
gallery photographer Samuel Levine,
accused of attempted arson, jumped
from the sixth floor of police head
quarters at Brooklyn, sustaining prob.
ably fatal injuries.
While the treasurer of a show at
Coney Island was counting the days
receipts, two men who had been
hanging about the box Office reached
in through the window and snatched
two packages, each containing $3.50.
Judge Quarles of the United States
District court, Milwaukee, announced
that a special United States grand
jury will be summoned in September
to meet in Milwaukee. The grand
jury, il is said, will devote itself to
an inquiry into the affairs of the
General Paper company" the so
called paper trust.
Desperate because treatment for
which he came to New York city had |
failed to help his rapidly failing eye.
sight, w. B. Howell, wellto-do cotton |
planter of Pine Bluff, Ark, committed |
suicide in the Hotel Navarro by shoot.
ing.
Colonel George w. Patton, a promi.
nent lawyer, was fatally burned, and |
Mont Saunders, an employe of the
county clerks Office, was badly burned |
by an explosion of gas in a vault at
the county clerks Office at Charleston,
W. Va.