The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-12-19
NEWS SUM NJ A RY

presented to congress during the
week
The Rose county option law waq
declared constitutional by Judge
Duncan of the common pleas court az
Finlay, Ohio.
The constitutionality of Pennsyl
vania's two-cent fare law is again at
tackled In an equity suit filed in the
common pleas court of Pittsburg.
A New York chauffeur convicted for
the third time Of violation OF the au,
tomoblle speed laws, was sentenced
to pay fine of $3.50 and spend thirty
days in Jail
Triplets were born last week &c
Mr.. and Mrs. Ambrose Il. Calhoun of
Columbus, Ga. This couple now has
twenty-five children. The father Is
So years old.
John Solomon and Frank BabinsKv
were killed by an explosion ur dust
following windy shot in the Spring
field Coliery company's mine at
Springfield, Ill.
Speaker Cannon has made known
his unalterable opposition to the pro
position of financing waterways I'm.
improvements by the issuance OF
government bonds.
Charges of criminal libel preferred
against Omar X. Benedict, manager
of the Oklahoma City Times, by
Governor Charles N. Haskell of Ok.
lahoma, have been dismissed.
Licking county Ohio. last week
voted dry by 700 doing away with
eighty-four saloons. Harding county
was carried by the "drys" by 1900.
Twenty-one saloons are affected.
The town of Pine Bluff Ark. is
again endangered by food waters OF
the Arkansas river, and unless some
plan is conceived to check the wa
tiers there will be a heavy property
loss.
James Gordon Bennett has present.
ed to the French Aero club an inter.
rational aviation cup, valued at
$4,000. as well as three sums of $4,000
to be added as prizes in the first
three annual competitions.
A concurrent resolution provid-
ing for the appointment of three sen.
ators and three representatives to
make the necessary arrangements
for the Inauguration of President
Taft has been adopted by the senate.
In a speech to the delegates in at
tendance upon the Southern Com.
nercial Congress, held in Washing
ton, James Bryce. the British embas-
sador, expressed the conviction that
a great future Is about to dawn upon
the south.
Appropriations aggregating $685.
300 we're made at the annual meeting
of the board OF trustees of the Car
negie institution of Washington.
This amount is to be used in 1909
merely to continue projects hereto
fore initiated.
It develops that some one stole
pocketbook containing $500 belong.
Ing to Senior Don Juan Barrios, minis.
ter of foreign affairs of Guatemala,
Is he was lying unconscious by the
roadside after an automobile accident
near Washington.
The voroners jury in the inquest
at Trinchera, Colo, into the killing
u the Garcia family, returned a yer
dict that the five persons had been
murdered by Francisco Martinez.
who then committed suicide by blow.
Ing out his brains.
President Roosevelt and President
elect Taft publicly put themselves on
record last week in advocacy of the
issuance of government bonds for the
construction of permanent public i'm.
proyements to conserve the natural
resources OF the nation.
The long overdue British ship,
much anxiety was caused, arrived at
Seattle, 245 days from Liverpool via
Montevideo. The ship had a most
tempestuous voyage, during which
many of her crew were injured.
Governor Hughes of New York de,
clares that he does not deem II ad.
visable to at this time appoint a com.
mission Of citizens TO investigate the
conditions surrounding the fife in
surance companies of New York
state, and report to the legislature.
Sixty-fve years is the age limit for
members of the University of Min.
nesota faculty. The board of regents
decided that contracts with members
of the faculty should expire when
they reached that age. The rule will
re applied beginning with this week.
Becoming suddenly insane, Hiram
Badger of Wakefield, Mass, killed
his two daughters, then ran amuck
through the town, shooting at per.
sons he met and into the store win.
dows. A grocer's clerk received
wound In the leg. Badger was finally
captured.
Advocates of the establishment OF
an Appalachian and White mountain
national forest reserve, headed by
governors from all sections OF the
ITnitad GtataS annparp1 hafOra the