The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-27

| lucky was shot down in the streets of
| the capital.
! The disasters that had followed one
! another In Servla for q number OF years
! eliminated in 1903 In the ruthless mur-
| der Of King Peter and Queen Draga, in
| their palace by a cnbal of army oincers.
| And then the long string or Russian
aSsassinations, the most prominent vic
| Tins being the Grand Duke Sergius and
the repEessive Won PlehVe Poor Rus
! siai What with war, assassnAtions,
massacres, revolutionary movements in
! surrections. great strikes. civil war and
stern TTepressive measures II has, In
] deed. been n land of terrible disasters
since tho outbreak of the war with Japan.
Famine, Strikes, Heat, Panics.
Famine has stalked through certain
parts of India. Italy. Spain, and now
| Japan. When the long -prayed-for rain
! fell, on August IA, 1900, in the Indian
| famine districts. gaunt hunger had al
\ ready gathered In his tens or thousands
for bread. lined the highways of An
| dalusIa last year, and before the San
| Francisco horror came this country
was busy showering food on the famine
| sufferers of Japan. In August OF 1900
the miners OF Nome were so close to
starvation that the United States Gov
| ernment dispatched relief rhither.
Perhaps the most disastrous strike
was that one in the hard coal regions,
! which was brought TO an abrupt end by
the Intervention OF President Roosevelt
|
! 1902 Into April of the succeeding year
Millions Of dollars In profits and wages
were lost. not only to operators and
miners, but to manufacturers and aTti-
sans as we'll; while untold suffering was
! caused the poor throughout the East dur
| ing the cold months. So disastrous was
| the strike of tho Fall River cotton oper-
| etiycs that the country had TO come to
| their relief. Colorado was In state of
| turbulence for months because OF the
| three-cornered warfare of mine owners,
| miners federation and Peabody adminis-
traton. The striking Lowell toXtile work
orS lost q million and n half dollars in
wages during the three months that they
were on strike and the striking coal min
erS of France are deprlvlng themselves Of
q hundred thousand dollars weekly,
So pronounced were the Carlist dis
orders In Spain fve years ago that Gen
Weylcr thought 1t wise to place Madrid
under martial law. A year later 500 per-
that took place In Barcelona, and labor
riots I'm Havana. In the same year. re-
suited In two deaths and Injury to eighty
two persons. OF course. Russia has been
land OF great riots and disastrous
strikes since the outbreak of the war
with Japan and in them thousands OF
llVes-no one can say just how many
have been sacrificed
A disaster surely, was the falling OF
the famed Campanlle Of Venice, In the
summer of 1907. The great heat wave that
hung over our Eastern cities tho previous
summer caused hundreds OF deaths and
thousands of prostratione Two hundred
died from too much heat In New York
City alone Tho fatalities In Philadelphia
were even greater; II was the most tor
rid OF the Aeyeral cities affected The
first of the ~resent year arsenic In beer
killed sixty and made 1000 violently Ill
at Manchester, England.
While the National Negro Baptist
Vcntion Of 1902 was in session In Bir-
mlnghanl, Ala. some fool yelled fire and
blind panic cuuscd stampede. In which
over 100 persons had life crushed or
trampled out OF them. The whole world
stood aghnSt when news spread that With
the muoh-heralded automobile race from
Paris TO Madrid May, 1903 only few
hours under way, six persons had been
killed and many injured. Tho two Gov