The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1907-09-19
NEWS SUMMARY

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About 100 Of the leading Chinese
mercantile establishments at Canton,
China. we're destroyed by fire, which
broke out there on the llth.
Telegraph operators working under
contracts with brokerage firms and
newspapers will continue at work. This
decision was reached at a meeting OF
operators held in Chicago.
Tho great council of Red Men. In
session at Norfolk. Va, adopted an
amendment prohibiting membership to
all saloon keepers aud bartenders.
This is not. however, retroactive.
The board Of police commissioners
har elected w. J. Biggy chief of po-
lice Of San Francisco. Biggy served
a short term as chief Of police under
Mayor Thclau several years ago.
Five negroes who were shooting
craps on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad track near Newbery, w Va,
were run DOM and killed by train.
The bodies were horribly mangled
VI. 4. Lawrence, ? liveryman ~ IA
doka. S. D., shot his wife at Sioux City
Iowa, as she was boarding an outgo-
ing train. He then committed suicide
The woman had refused 70 live with
him.
The sax war ministry, says q Berlin
dispatch. has accepted the delivery OF
an armored motor car capable OF re-
slstlng rife hre, Carrying a machine
gun and having Accommodations for ton
men.
The Siberian postal train was held
up by highwaymen at point near
Tomsk. Siberia. They~se3lrated the
engine from the freight cars and then
seized $4,000, with which they es-
capped
W. II. Rogers, the only colorod mem
Der Of the Georgia Legislature, has re
signed his seat He gave no reason,
but It is believed that the passage Of
/ the negro disfranckisenont bill inilu-
enced him.
A general railroad strike Is threat
ened IN England as the result of the
long struggle Of the Gsilwaymen's
union With the British railway com.
panlcs for the recognition of thcit
organization
Anthracite and bltumincus operators
say that the coal situation is grow
ing serious throughout PENNSYLVANIA,
and it is freely predicted that before
midwinter there viii be a famine In
many places.
Chester r. Runyan, paying teller OF
the Windsor Trust company, of New
York, who confessed to sealing 500.
600 Of the compsny's funds has beer
sentenced to serve seven years In
Sing Sing prison.
NJ. Boroduink, superintendent of the
Aquitita political prison at Trans
Baikalia, Russia, was asassinated by al
unknown person on theTstreets OF Pa
koff, his home village, where he was
spending a vacation.
The anniversary of the admission Of
California into the Union was celebrat
ed at San Jose, in splendid style, by
the Native Sons Of the Golden West
A parade in which 10000 persons par
tlclpated was the feature
The coroner's jury has rendered a
verdict that il could not state the real
cause Of the fall of the Quebec, Cana.
da, bridge, but declared that, according
to the evidence adduced, all necessary
precautions we're taken
Emperor William, Il is stated will
make a special effort to give the Amer
team secretary of war, William II
raft, a hearty reception and memor7
BILE entertainment during his sojourn
In Germany two months hence.
The United States army transport
Thomas, which sailed recently for
Manila, was In communication by wire
less telegraph with San Francisco
, while of North Head, Wash, a dis
ance Of 720 miles from San Francisco
AS a measure to promote the eradi
cation Of the plague, the San Francis
90 board OF health has offered a boun
" Of ten cents on every rat caugh
in the city and county Of San Francis
60 and properly delivered to the health
p officer
John r. White. a wealthy South Da
kota stockman has been convicted IL
tho federal court at Deadwood, S. D.
of Illegal fencing Of government lands
and sentenced to thirty days impris
onment in the county jail and to a fin,
Of $500.
An insane man named Loiski, arrest
, ed on suspicion that he was the rip
3 per who murdered several schoo
p girls recently, has escaped from tn
observation ward Of the prison hospit
n AZ Berlin, II Is feared he will per
petrato fresh crimes
Mark Twain will not pilot Presiden
, Roosevelt's steamer down the Missis
, sippI when the president makes hi
southern and western trip, Mr. Glen
/ ems has declined the invitation to al
\ tend the waterways convention Il
I Memphis next month
o Edward W. Vanderbilt the aged r.
e tired merchant OF Broqllyn, Who ma
p riei May S, Pepper bright Eyesl, Ia
= spiltualist medium, Is incapable .
. managing his affairs because of lunacy
: lcrurding 10 a verdict returned by
sherift jury in Brooklyn.
e Ferdinand Pinney Earle Of afinity
lame, has returned to New York n
he On