The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-29
NEWS SUMMARY

Speaker Joseph Cannon was In
railroad wreck at Bismarck His. last
week but escaped injury.
President Castro Of Venezuela Is
again In ill health az Los Tequos and
~ confined much Of the time to his
bed
The switchmens union has with
drawn the demand on the western
railroads for an increase Of wages
amounting to six cents an hour
Two men were killed and building
blown 10 atoms when an explosion
occurred at the r. l. Dumors Powder
company plant near Plnole, Cal
Miss Louisa williams. young me-
grosa. has confessed that she threw
her 2.months-old babe from Santa
Pc train two miles west Of Cucamonga.
Cal.
The strike OF the St Louis shoe
workers has been officially called on
by the Joint executive board OF the
Independent Boot and Shoe Workers
union
Famine conditions are threatening
the vesternorrland and vcsterbattcn
districts Of Lapland whore dcluging
rains have had disastrous effects on
the crops.
Homer s. King. president Of the
Clearing House association Of san
Francisco. says that the local financial
situation is gradually returning to a
healthy condition.
Governor George l. sheldon Of Ne
brnska declares that ne will use all OF
his influence toward securing the Re-
publican national convention for Kan.
Gas City next year.
The Twelfth Ward bank, Of Now
York. one OF the institutions which
suspended payment during the early
days Of the financial crisis, has re.
opened for business.
Five men were killed, one fatally
injured and a number seriously In.
jured by the explosion OF a boiler In
n planning mill at the John l.. Roper
lumber mills, Gelmcrton, Va.
Five children were oremated and
their parents and two other women
we're seriously burned when the home
OF Thomas W. Zuycr. near Pleasant.
Vile, Pa. was destroyed by FIRE
Russia wiped out the balance Of her
Indebtedness to Japan, arising from
the war. last week, the Russian en-
bnssy handing over TO the embassy
OF Japan a check for S2i.3O2, 200
Chancellor Stout has rendered a de.
cision revolving the license OF tho
Standard OH company TO do business
In Tennessee Illegal discrimination
was alleged against tho company.
The Alabama legislature has passed
bill to prohibit the sale or giving
away or possession OF liquors in clubs.
Il prohibits exactly what the Georgia
law allows. Tho act will become of
fectiye Jan. /. 1909.
Worry over the financial situation
caused Oscar Nelson. a wealthy bust.
ness man OF Rockford. Ills. TO commit
suicide by inhaling Illuminating gas.
He was formerly a prominent furni.
ture manufacturer Mt Duluth.
Walter Wellman. leader OF the Chi.
cago Record.Herald polar expedition,
who ~ returning from his first attempt
to reach the north pole by balloon. ar.
rived In New York last week from
Cherbourg on the steamer Majestic.
Tho court OF appeals has decided
that the act passed at the last session
OF the New York legislature providing
for recount OF tho votes cast at the
mayoralty election In New York City,
In November. 1905, Is unconstitu.
tlonal.
over 1000 delegates were present
at Muskogee, Oklahoma, on the 18th.
when David II. Francis, former gov.
ernor Of Missouri, called the eigh.
teenth annual meeting OF the Trans.
Mississippi Commercial congress, TO
order
Free love will be the ultimate
fate Of the United States. II the pres.
ent system Of divorce is continued"
This was the prophecy voiced before
the Twentieth Century club In Chicago
last week by Mrs. Margaret Deland Of
Boston
N'lNlf l'dNluk NlNNHNl NhhNlt lNl
Highclln castle, Kaiser Wilhelm, II Is
stated, left no less a sum than $4,000
to bee divided as tips among the ser.
wants at the castle. on his previous
trip 10 Windsor, In 1898. It was said
$4,000 was left
a dispatch received from Santiago.
Chill. says that the British steamer
Hazel Branch. bound 20 England from
Antofogasta. with a full cargo. has
been totally wrecked In the straits OF
| Magellan Nothing was said regard
ing the fate Of the crew.
Montague Newton and Joseph d.
Fisher, the two Americans who were
convicted In London, charged with
conspiracy 10 cheat and defraud. have
been sentenced to twenty months i'm.
/ prisonment at hard labor and 20 one
months imprisonment respectively.
T In consequence Of the cancellation
Of large orders for cigars from New
York Chicago and other cites to.
gethcr with the shortage Of the Cuban
tobacco crop, over 1000 clgarmakors
were laid of last week by some OF
the large cigar factories Of Tampa.
| Fla
In fun view OF 300 worl,men at tho
/ va.