The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-09-26
NEWS SUN MARY

for the past few weeks has be~n
averted by rain.
Five men were killed and si.too.
others injured by boiler exploslon
In the Laura mine, near Heerlep =.
the Dutch border
II. II. Smith. father OF Goveno,
Hoke Smith Of Georgia. and one of m.
best known educators in the south i
dead at the age Of SO.
Fire which started in the village a,
Santa Angelo, Italy, was extinguished
by the use OF wine, which is morn
plentiful there than water.
The chemical engines OF the fire Az.
partment are being used In Manila IN
disinfecting houses suspected TO have
contained cholera patients.
The first downpour OF rain in Chi,
cago since August 10, started on Sen
TENDER 10. The past summer has
been remarkable for the absence q,
moisture.
In the postmasters' convention n,
Chattanooga, Tenn, resolutions were
unanimously passed urging congress-
to pass the, proposed postal savings
bank bill.
A dispatch from Bachelor. La
says negro named John Miles was
lynched there for shooting a white
man. The white man was not seri.
ously hurt.
Italian emigration to the United
States is still decreasing. During the
month OF August only 1896 emigrants
left italy for America, while se,S2O re.
turned home.
Professor Kirshner OF the Prussiap
ministry OF public health says that
there is not 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
collision between yard engine and
work train on the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie railroad at Glbsonton. Pa.
The light on Mount Lagloria, Curua.
milla point, which marks one ~ re
approaches to Valparaiso from the
southwark, has been re-established.
This light was destroyed in 1906.
It is reported that the scheme Of
the Americans to control horse racing
at Jamaica. Kingston, has dropped
through, II being impossible to raise
the 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 stu.
dent, is dead at his home In New York
City. aged go years.
Four persons we're killed and
twenty-six injured In wreck on the
Yazaoo & Mississippi Valley railroad
coaches Of passenger train rolled
down an embankment.
A dispatch from Perry Sound. Ont
says: An almost impenetrable ven OF
smoke overhangs the whole north
country and the forest fires continue
TO rage with undiminlshed fierceness
Many villages are threatened
The Rev. John Bandinelli. former
| ly provincial of the Passionist Faith
ers in the United States aud Mexico
died at the Passionist monastery in
Dunkirk. ~ Y. on the 18th. He was
horn In Genoa seventy-four years ago
A fog OF London.like density In Chi
cago was responsible for three rail
road wrecks OF minor character
slight injuries to over score OF per
| and minor accidents all over the city
sons. 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
to be sold, and there is said TO be
movement afoot TO stop tho sale by
court proceedings,
Three cadets attending the military
school at Wilma, Russia. we're last
week condemned by courtmartial n
exile In Siberia for having formed
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-
ical Industries of the country we're 81
per cent higher In 1907 than in 1906.
while retail prices OF food were ~
| per cent higher, according to the July
report OF the bureau of labor.
An unknown man. apparently %
years OF age. passenger on the west
bound Union Pacific overland limited
killed himself with a knife while the
train was in the yards at Kearney'
Neb. After infilctlng fatal wounds he
threw the knife from a window.
Thirty men descended on the camp
ing ground OF the Trvinites, a religious
sect which is holding a convention at
Brooklyn, and set fire to two large
tents. Both were destroyed and
house In which was stored quantity
OF. provisions was partly burned.
The semi-centennial celebration Of
the great debate between Abraham
Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas at
tracted a large crowd at Jonesboro
Ills. II is estimated that 10000 per
sons attended the celebration, which
was held in the Union county fall
| grounds.
Ernest Fickner, an American, EN-
pioyed In a smelter at El Paso. Texas
who refused to remove his nat wher
the band In the plaza ut Juarez, Mex
leo, was playing the Mexican national
air, was assaulted by a raging mob Of
Mexicans aud beaten almost into In
gensibility