The Citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1903-1912, 1908-09-26


Chattanooga, Tenn, resolutions were
unanimously passed urging congress
to pass the proposed postal savings
bank bill.
A dispatch from Bachelor, La,
says a negro named John Miles was
lynched there for shooting a white
man. The white man was not seri.
ously hurt.
Italian emigration 10 the United
States is still decreasing During the
month Of August only 1895 emigrants
left Italy for America, while 20,S20 re.
turned home.
Professor Kirshner Of the Prussian
ministry OF public health says that
there is not a single case of cholera
in Germany, the system OF inspection
seemingly being perfect.
One man was killed and seven 9th.
ers injured, two of them fatally in
n collision between yard engine and
work train on the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie railroad at Gibsonton, Pa.
The light on Mount Lagloria, Curua-
milla point. which marks one -, re
approaches to Valparaiso IRON the
southwark, has been re.established
This light was destroyed In 1906.
IL is reported that the scheme OF
the Americans to control horse racing
at jamaica, Kingston, has dropped
through, il being impossible to raise
tho necessary capital in the United
States.
DR.. George Clark, who was the old
est living graduate of Union college.
and a young teacher who "whaled"
Roscoe Conkling when he was a stu
dent, is dead at his home In New York
City, aged 90 years.
Four persons were killed and
twenty-six Injured in wreck on the
Yazaoo & Mississippi Valley railroad
near Clarksdale. Miss, when two
coaches OF passenger train rolled
down an embankment.
A dispatch from Perry Sound, Ont,
says: An almost impenetrable veil OF
gmoke overhangs the whole north
country and the forest fires continue
to rage with undimlnlshed fierceness.
Many villages are threatened.
The Rev. John Bandinelli, former.
~ provincial of the Passionist Faith
ers In the United States and Mexico,
died ut the Passionist monastery In
Dunkirk. n. Y, on the 18th. He was
norm In Genoa seventy.four years ago.
A fog OF London.llke density in Chi.
oago was responsible for three rail.
road wrecks of minor character,
slight injuries to over a score of per
and minor accidents all over the city.
cons, two deaths at Grand Crossing
The citizens OF Sallda, Colo. are
much exercised over the sale OF
Babies" advertised by the Salvation
army. Eight children are advertised
20 be sold, and there Is said TO be =
movement afoot 10 stop the sale by
court proceedings.
Three cadets attending the military
school at wilma, Russia, were last
week condemned by court.martial n
exile in Siberia for having formed a
society, which operated through the
cadet officers, to capture the cadets
for revolutionary activity.
The average wages per hour In the
principal manufacturing and mechan-
per cent higher in 1907 than in 1906,
while retail prices OF food were AZ
per cent higher according to the July
report Of the bureau OF labor.
An unknown man. apparently %
years OF age, a passenger on the west.
found Union Pacific overland limited,
killed himself with knife while the
rain was in the yards at Kearney,
Neb. After inAicting fatal wounds he
threw the knife from a window.
Thirty men descended on the camp.
Ing ground of the Tryinites, a religious
sect which is holding a convention at
Brooklyn, and set fire 10 two large
tents. Both were destroyed and
house I'm which was stored n quantity
of provisions was partly burned
The semi-centcnnial celebration OF
the great debate between Abraham
lincoln and stephen A. Douglas at.
tracted n large crowd at Jonesboro,
Ills. II Is estimated that 10000 per
sons attended the celebration, which
was held in the Union county fair
grounds,
Ernest Fickner. an American, EN-.
ployed in a smclter az Fl Paso, Texas,
who refused to remove his hat when
the band in the plaza at Juarez, Mex.
Ico, was playing the Mexican national
ctr, was assaulted by a raging mob OF
NeXicans and beaten almost into in.
sensibility
According to an order issued al the
war department. last week, reward
Of $50 will be paid in all cases where
q deserter is delvero& by a civil Of.
hcer or civilian at military post, or
az such other places as may be dcsiP.
mated for his delivery by proper mill.
tuy authorities,