The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-09-19
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The steamer Peter A. Lee was de-
stroyed by fire near Memphis, Tenn.
She was beached in time to enable
all on board to escape.
Congressman George l.. Lilly was
nominated for governor of Connect.
cut by the Republican state conven.
ton, receiving 4O2 votes out of 577.
Business was entirely suspended at
Strawn, Texas, one day last week
because of the heat, the thermometer
registering 112 degrees, with hot
wind blowing from the south.
Two women, one grieving over the
death of her favorite son, and the
other Respondent because Of illness,
leaped to death from windows in
their homes in New York City.
The schooner Phillis Gray went
down and her crew of nineteen men
we're lost off Devonshire in terrific
storm that swept the English chan.
mel and coast on the 9th.
While the parents were away from
home the residence of J. c. Burdette,
near New Brighton, MINI, burned
and five children, ranging from e.
10 years old, met death by suffoca.
ton.
An official statement of the cholera
situation in st. Petersburg shows
that on the 18th there were fifty.eight
new cases and eight deaths from the
disease, and there are 107 patients in
hospitals with it.
Since the killing OF white man
by negro at Kansas City last week,
there has been a growing alarm of
race war among the colored popula-
ton and the police have learned that
many of them are purchasing fire
arms.
Mrs. Salle Ruthford died at To-
peka, Kan, on the 9th, at the age of
113 years. She was born in Middle.
weeks sickness in her life. Mrs.
Ruthford came to Topeka forty.three
years ago.
Paris Fletcher, member of a we'll
known real estate firm of st. Paul,
and prominent socially, was instantly
killed and Mrs. Fletcher was severely
injured by the overturning OF their
automobile at Minnesota, near Wa
basha, MINI.
M. Albert. who recently retired
from his post of minister OF justice
at Copenhagen, has surrendered to
the police and confessed to n series
of frauds against the Bondestandans
Sparkasse. savings bank of which
he was president.
The celebration throughout Russia
in honor of the eightieth birthday OF
Count Tolstoi passed of quietly. No
arrests were made anywhere. On the
contrary the authorities at the last
moment relaxed the severity OF their
orders prohibiting the celebrations.
Alexander Berkman, who shot
Henry c. Frick during the Homestead
steel strike in Pennsylvania, was
convicted upon the charge of making
a disturbance at a meeting OF the
unemployed in Cooper Union, New
York City, and sent to the workhouse.
The Democratic party OF the island
of Porto Rico has nominated Jacinto
Texidor, a lawyer of San Juan, as its
candidate for the post of resident
commissioner at Washington. This
is the first time the Democratic party
has participated in the island cleo
tons.
During n fit of temporary insanity,
Pearson Talley, OF Wilmington, Del,
GO years of age, attacked his wife,
his adopted daughter, Edith johann
sen, and her husband, Andrew johann
sen. and inflicted such serious wounds
with an AK that the victims are not
expected to live.
Mile. Marie Lablache, one of the
performers ut the Toronto exhibition,
was probably fatally injured last
week. Her act was to slide down a
wire, stretched from high pole to
the ground, hanging by her teeth.
| The pole became loose, and she fell,
her spine being broken.
A pilot steamer in the North sea
| picked up balloon containing two
British aeronauts named Tennett and
| Short. The balloon assembled at Bat
o'clock at night and was blown QUE to
| Set. when uloSON'lNu 'hN pS''SSa
was close to the water.
The shrunken and bleached pody
of woman, with evidences OF It's
having been covered with quiclSlime,
has been found on the West Virsinia
shore OF the Ohio river, near Wells
Vile, o. The authorities believe the
woman was murdered and an attempt
made to destroy the body.
James Bellows McGregor, the old
est Mason in the country, believed to
be the oldest white man in the Unit
ed States, celebrated his 10th birth
day at Mount Sunapee, n. NJ, on the
5th. MIR. McGregor can read ordi
nary print with the aid OF reading
| glass and is hale and hearty.
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