The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1905-08-12
- NEWS SUMMARY -

IF Sakhalin surrendered to the Japan.
sse July 81.
Negotiations are pending, II is an.
bounced, for international yacht races
between the United States and Ger
many.
At South Boston. Va. Policeman
Joseph Carter shot and fatally injured
Harry Easley, as the result of pollti
cal quarrel
The entire grain crop of Romania is
threatened with ruin owing to the per
sistent drought. There has been no
rain for two months
John Mueller, who slashed his wife
and two children to death and then
attempted suicide in Chicago, has been
sentenced to be hanged.
Forty.seven people have been badly
hurt and seven have been killed by
reckless drivers of automobiles in
Chicago since the first of the year.
The Russian government has decid.
ed on the issuance of another internal
loan to the amount of 100000 900. of
which, however only $75.OOO,OOo may
be issued at first.
Twenty-Five people were buried in
the debris of two buildings which
were wrecked by an explosion OF gas
at Caledonia. Ont, on Sunday. Four
were fatally injured.
A quarantine went into effect at
Memphis. Tenn. on Monday, and no
person can enter unless holding a per.
nit signed by the president or secre'
tary of the board of health.
A. b. Loutzenheimer, absconding
teller OF the First National bank OF
Duluth, Mimi, pleaded guilty in the
Federal court and was sentenced to
Ave years in the penitentiary.
The governor OF German East
Africa telegraphs to the colonial bu-
reau OF the foreign Office at Berlin
that the natives in the Maturbi noun.
tans. north of Kilwa, have risen.
The former school teacher Kuli-
kovsky. who on July H. shot and killed
Major General Count Shuvalof. pre-
feet of police OF Moscow. has been
sentenced to death by a court martial.
A 6-year-old girl was run down and
probably fatally hurt in Brooklyn by
a large automobile. A mob attacked
the chauffeur, Nils Brodin, who was
saved from serious injury by a police
man.
The Japanese are throwing procla-
nations into the Russian lines urging
the Russians, on account of impending
peace. not to undertake reconnais-
sances. which would only result in use
less loss of life.
Creditors OF Mrs. Cassie l.. Chad
wick will receive total dividend OF
about seven mills on the dollar when
the matter is finally settled. Net as
sets will amount to about $4,000
against 100000 Indebtedness.
The bakers strike at Warsaw, in
which seventy-five bakeries are in
volved, is the cause almost daily OF
murders and other excuses. The po-
lice appear to be poweress to ascer'
tain the perpetrators Of the crimes.
Duane Herbert Church. whose in.
vention of about $50 machines has rev.
olutlonized the manufacture OF
watches in America during the last
twenty years, died from heart failure
at his home in West Newton, Mass.
Mrs. Harry Norton was arrested at
Shawnee, o. T., for the murder of
Mrs. Kate James, near Weatherford,
0. T., on July s. and within an hour
committed suicide by taking poison.
She denied being guilty Of the crime.
Dr. w. c. Tilden, at one time chief
chemist in the army medical museum
attached to the surgeon generals of
fee, is dead in Washington. II was
he who discovered the poison in the
bouquet sent to Guiteau. the day be
fore his execution.
Guided by the barking Of a dog two
men found the body OF Paul Demay
hanging to tree in thick growth
OF timber near his farm west OF Deni
son, Iowa. Demay committed a muir
derous assault on his WIFE fracturinl
her skull, and then disappeared.
At a banquet given him at Madison
Wis, by the Democrats of Wisconsin
William ]. Bryan told intimate friends
he would soon start on trip around
the world, occupying one or two years
He will join Mrs. Bryan in Japan. fol
which country she has already started
Emmett higgins. an old-time con
tractor OF Fresno, Cal, shot fouI
times and instantly killed Robert e
Deane. a vineyardist living near Clio
Wis. Deane was once managing editor
of a Philadelphia daily paper, The
shooting grew out of trivial quarrel
Mary Garrgan of Los Angeles, aged