The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-10-04
NEWS SUMMARY

! Mexican central fallfOad, near Cailtt
go, Mexico
An explosion Of natural gas at Cher.
ryvale, Kansas, demolished the Edgar
zinc smelter. killing two workmen and
lnjuring FIVE others, three Of whom
will die.
"The ultimate result of the present
strife IN Cuba will be the annexation
OF the island by the United States, "
said Senator s. b. Elkins in an inter
view at Wheeling, w. Va.
In a practice game of football at
Lawrenceville, n. j., John p. Kennedy,
captain and right half back OF the
Lawrenceville eleven was Kicked in
the head lie died an hour later.
Colonel Isaac r. Ill., better known
as Colonel IKE" HILL of Ohio. and rol
thirty-hve years an employee almost
continually of the house Of representa-.
tlves is dead at Washington. d c.
Two more revolutionists were shot
at Warsaw after trial by drumhead
courtmartial. During the last three
days nineteen terrorists have been
executed in Poland after such trials.
Columbus, o.. was selected as the
place for the next biennial convention
of the Brotherhood OF Locomotive
Flremen and Engineers, the date be.
ing the second Monday In September,
1908.
In the United States district court
at Philadelphia the Camden iron works
OF Camden, n. j. was found guilty OF
receiving rebates from the Mutual
Transit company of Buffalo lake
carrier
It IL reported that Mrs. Alice Roose.
welt Longworth will chaperon a party
of young society women on bear
hunt near the town Of Bovey. on tho
Western Mesaba range, some time
during the month.
The partially decomposed body OF
Mail Clerk b f. Gambel of Fort
Worth, killed in the Rock Island wreck
near Hennessey, Oklahoma. has been
recovered in ford of the Cimarron,
mile and a half below the fatal bridge.
J. w. Cassaday, president of the
Cassaday Commission company OF
Quincy, ILL.,, was expelled from the
Chicago board OF trade last week on
a charge of bucket-shopping. The di.
reotors voted unanimously for expul
sion.
The foreign commerce of the United
States has crossed the three billion
dollar mark. In the ~ months end.
ing with August the imports were ST..
254,S99,7s5 and the exports s1.759.417..
s9s, total for the 10 months of
sS,O1S,s1T6S3.
Chinese newspapers estimate the
loss of life resulting from the typhoon
at Hongkong, September Is, at 10000;
and including the loss of the fishing
feet and the damage to property, they
estimate the damage done at from
$3,000,000 TO Sl5,000,000.
Paul o. stensland, the Chicago bank
president, has been put to work in the
sorting room OF the broom factory at
Joliet, where he will labor alongside
John A. Linn, the ex-clerk of the Su-
perior court of Chicago, under SEN
tence for embezzlement
At Scranton, Miss, one church. the
Odd Fellows hall and several build
lngs we're blown down. At Pascagoula
Beach not a residence is left standing,
the river front at that point is com.
pletely torn up, and the lighthouse
there has been destroyed Shipping
at this point has been badly damaged.
With a gaping bullet hole in his
temple and a large caliber revolver
still elasped in his right hand, the
body of Ernest Armitage, a young Eng.
llshman, was found near the G. p.
railroad tracks at Yale, b. c. Armit-
age had been respondent
The Cagayas valley. in the northern
part of the Island of Luzon, was devas.
tated by typhoon September is Bar
rios, Callahan and Lagunan were to
tally destroyed and four towns we're
badly damaged Cagayas is the prin.
cipal tobacco section of the island
The state department is advised that
a treaty Of amity, commerce and navi
cation under the terms OF the Marble.
head pact has been signed by the gov
eminent Of Costa Rica, Guatemala,
Honduras and Salvador. Nicaragua
was not included in the negotiations.
AS a result of the recent investiga.
ton Of the state insane asylum at |
Norfolk, Neb,, Forest Ellis, William |
Ryerly and Joseph Wiles, former at |
tendants et the asylum, have been ar |
rested on indictments by the grand |
Jury charging them with assaults on
patients
Oscar Napier, aged years, was
found guilty of the murder of a MAY.