The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-04-25
NEWS sun NJ AIRY

Three men we're killed and four
others we're seriously burned in an
explosion in the Old Mine, Canmore,
at Alberta, Canada.
Dependent over business troubles,
Charles F. Leland, formerly president
Of the Commercial bank of Duluth,
MINI, shot and killed himself
DR.. Simon Il. Conover, United States
senator from Florida, at the time of
the Hayes.Tilden presidential contest,
died at Port Townsend, Wash, on
Sunday, of old age.
Nine corpses have been recovered
from the ruins of the recent fire at
Chelsea, Mass. In addition several
people have died from injuries sus-
tanned during the fire.
Taken for burglars, John and Will
liam d. Frank, sons of r. o. Frank,
grocer of Columbus, Ohio, were shot
and killed early in the morning by
City Patrolmen Heinze and Casey.
The jury in an action in the SUI
perior court OF San Francisco, last
week decided that at least a large
part OF the confiagration of April 10,
1906, was the work of incendaries.
John Tracy, a discharged employee
OF the street department Of North
ampton, Mass, shot and fatally
wounded George f. Birge, superin-
tendent of streets, and then shot
himself
The first engagement of gold for
shipment to Europe since the financ-
ial panic of October last was an
rounced on April 10, the National
City bank of New York taking ST.
100000 for Paris.
G. S. Wilmot, mounted policeman,
was shot and killed at Frank, Alber-
ia. There have been daring burglar
les in the town, and it is thought the
policeman was shot while attempting
tc arrest a robber.
Richard Hall, tried at Dawson, was
acquitted of the charge of stealing
gold dust to the amount of 100000
from Yukon river steamboat last
summer, which was consigned to
Seattle by persons in Fairbanks,
Alaska.
By vote of 107 to AZ. the New
England Methodist Episcopal confer
ence adopted a memorial to the gen.
eral conference, recommending the
repeal of the article forbidding dane
ing, card playing and attending the
theater.
Death sentences were handed down
at Tobalsk, Siberia, on the 10TH in
the cases of thirteen persons there
who were implicated in a recent
prison riot in which a warden was
killed. The men were tried by a
! court.martial
The houe of representatives OF
| Ohio, has passed a bill to compel all
railroads in the state to publish a
time card Of the arrival and depar.
ture of trains in newspapers publish
| ed in every town through which a
railroad runs.
Sixty.two suits against eight rail
roads, charging violation of the
twenty.elght-hour law, providing for
the protection of cattle, sheep and
| hogs transported in cattle cars, were
| filed at Chicago last week by District
Attorney Sims.
One of the worst snow slides in the
| history OF the Canadian Pacific rail
road occurred near Alberta canyon
| in the Cascade mountains, in Canada
| sweeping away two boarding cars
| filled with Japanese laborers. Forty
men lost their lives.
A wage reduction averaging 10 pei
| cent has gone into effect in the cotton
cloth, yarn and thread mills in New
England and New York state, EN-
ploying a total of 43.500 operatives
Since March, the pay of l53,5OO mil
hand in the northern states has
| been cut.
Francisco NicolazZo, under arrest
In Chicago, in connection with the
death by poison of Mary Renda, 4
years of age, has confessed to the
police that he purchased the poison
that killed the girl and placed 1t in
the -four that was used for making
bread
Friends of Captain Van Setback
who was the pilot of the Inflated
steamer General Slocum, are urging
the president to grant him a pardon
Captain Van Schaick Is now serving
ten.year sentence in Sing Sins
prison for negligence in connection
with that disaster.
Several foreign newspapers having
published a report that plot has
been discovered to blow up the Rus
sian emperor and other members o
the imperial family, an official state
ment has been issued from st. Peters
burg to the effect that such rumori
were without foundation.
John v. Harris. teller OF the Mer
chants National bank at Carlisle, Pa
has been arrested on a warrant charg