The Citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1903-1912, 1908-06-27
NEWS SUN MA RY

to send a warship to Tangier to safe.
guard the lives and property of for.
eigners.
The worlds strengthening record
is 1894 animals In nine hours. This
was done at Hawks Bay station. in
Australia.
Five unidentified Italians. railroad
laborers at Lehigh, Pa, on the Pocono
mountains, were killed by a prema'
ture blast.
The public schools OF Cleveland
may be equipped with bookholders
which enable the scholars to sit erect
while studying.
The total value of the crops and
live stock in Kansas this year Is fig.
ured out by the board OF agriculture
to be s463, GAS SOC.
The national congress of San Do
mingo has proclaimed General Ramon
Caceres reelected president of the re-
public for a term of six years.
Governor Glenn, on June 10, amid
imposing ceremonies, signed the proc.
lamation making prohibition effective
in North Carolina, January /, 1909.
A French engineer named Pom.
teaux nnounce the invention OF an
electric gun which, without powder or
other explosive, is capable of firing
1900 shots a minute.
Or. Thomas w. Small, rgeon of
the American line steamer st. Louis,
committed suicide in his cabin on the
steamer at New York by shooting.
No cause for the act is known.
A man and q m have been
condemned to death at Warsaw on
the charge OF being implicated in a
recent attempt to kill General Skal-
lon. governor general Of Warsaw.
Santa Fe locomotive shops of the
entire system were last week ordered
closed until June 20. This will affect
over 1000 men in Topeka, Kansas.
Scarcity OF work is given as the cause.
1t is reported that in a fight between
Yaqui Indians and Mexican troops, at
a water hole between Guaymas N
Hermosillo, several Mexican soldiers
were killed. The troops are still pur.
suing the Yaquis.
All publications having ~anrachistic
tendencies will hereafter find 1t prac.
tically impossible to make use of the
United States mails for their distribu.
ton as the result OF orders issued by
the postmaster general.
Daniel Jones, Frank Spikes and
Haywood Lee, white. all Of Raleigh.
s. c., were killed at the Raleigh phos-
phate works by the escape Of sulphuric
acid gas. Three others were almost
overcome but recovered.
The Lemoine diamond case came to
With an unex.
pected climax In Paris last week. L.
moine has fed, and his famous for.
mula for the manufacture Of dia-
monds Is a fantastic farce.
Fifty fishing boats have been wreck.
ed OF the coast of Kagoshima, and $50
Of their crews have been drowned.
The governor OF the province has re-
quested assistance from the govern.
mentn navy yard at Sasebo.
The census bureau has issued a pre-.
liminary report showing that the total
cut of lumber In the United States
during the calendar year 1907 was
47.256, i54 900 feet, board measure.
the number OF lumber mills being u.s..
$50.
The Vigorit powder plant at Pinole,
a few miles north of Berkeley, Cal,
caught fire, causing the nitro-glycerine
mixing house to blow up. AS there
was plenty of time for the employees
10 escape. none OF them was injured
or killed.
Six iremen were injured and prop.
erty loss estimated at about $50, 1000
was caused in a fire which partially
destroyed a four-story brick building
in Chicago, coupled by the CONNER
cial Cabinet company and the Amer.
lean Industrial company.
william Hamilton Young, manager
OF the Washington Office of the West
ern Union Telegraph company and ia.
miliarly known to newspaper men
throughout the country as Col. Ham
Young, died on June 10. He was one
OF the oldest telegraphers OF the
try.
The Westinghouse electric interests
in Germany have formed a combina.
ton with the Bergman Electric
company OF Berlin. whereby the Berg.
MAINS will install the Westinghouse
electric traction systems In that
country.
Detachments OF the Russian force
that recently invaded Persian terri
tory In punishment for the depreGa'
tons OF Persian brigands are with
drawing, With the payment by Per.
sia of the indemnity exacted the diff
ficulty with Teheran is considered at
an end.
Il. 7. Bethel, the British subject
who was found guilty before a British
court at Seoul of spreading sedition
through the medium OF a newspaper
published in the Korean ~vernacular,
and OF which he Is proprietor, has
been sentenced TO three weeks i'm
prisonment.
The steamship lines which carry
freight from New York to the West