The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-07-04
NEWS SUM MA RY

| Samuel Fr'dley, VINO lived near
Mount Vernon, s. D., was struck by
lightning and killed during an cleo
trical storm.
Twelve deaths from drowning were
reported from the different beaches
N New York City and vicinity one
lay last week.
As the result OF passenger train
wreck near Baton Rouge, La, one
man was killed and fifteen Injured,
several seriously.
William Waldorf Astor has given
5000 to assist the British school at
Athens in carrying on its excavations
in Laconia, Greece. r
A bill to prevent the drinking OF in
toxicating liquors on passenger trains
in Louisiana has been passed by the
Louisiana legislature.
! 1t is reported at Tangier that Mulai
rafid, the insurgent brother of Sultan
Abd.el-Aziz. has been proclaimed sui
tan Of Morocco at Mogodar.
The International Sunday School
convention. held at Louisville last
week, decided to hold their next con.
yention in San Francisco in 1911.
General Bell, chief of staff U. s. A.,
has ordered that the new special bull
let, being in an experimental state,
shall not be used in the national
match this year.
Henry Miller, aged 104 years, grew
tired of life at Harrodsburg, KY, and
committed suicide last week by TAX
ing Paris green. He was one OF the
oldest men in Kentucky.
A man named Moreland was
drowning in the Yellowstone river near
Billings, Mont, being thrown from
raft by railroad riprapping. A com
panion narrowly escaped drowning.
President Roosevelt has appointed
John C. OLaughlin OF Washington az
secretary to the American commits
sion to the Japan exposition at Toxic
In 1912. His salary will be $4,000 a
gear.
Geo. Willoughby, a prominent mer.
chant of Prospect, Wis, who shot and
killed his wife on March %, threw
himself on the mercy of the court and
has been sentenced to life imprison'
mont.
A tornado passed about Ave miles
northwest of Mountain Lake Mimi,
demolishing at least a dozen farm
houses, killing one child and wound.
ing scores of persons, some Of whom
may die.
Mrs. William ID. Watkins and her
seven.year-old daughter were drown
ed in q canal near Long Beach, Cal.
II is thought the child fell in and the
mother was drowned in attempting to
rescue her.
Secretary and Mrs. William II. Taft
will close their home in Washington
within the next two weeks and, ac.
companied by their younger son,
Charles, will go to Hot Springs, Va,
for the summer.
A son was born to Queen Victoria OF
Spain on June 2. Queen Victoria,
formerly Princess Ena of Battenburg,
and King Alfonso were married at
Madrid on May 81, 1906. Their first
son was born on May 10, 1907.
The city OF WI Chow, China, is in
undated by the abnormal rise OF 20
feet in the Flu river. Many casual
ties are reported and much damage
has been done along the river banks
which are Uttered with refuse.
Leon de la Grange, the French aer
oplanist, last week at Milan surpassed
all previous records by flying for six
teen minutes and thirty seconds. Dur
ing that time his machine was from
ten to eighteen feet above the ground
VASTLY Rebikoff, a Russian invent
or, has arrived In America to exhibit
his new motor boat to the United
States government. He asserts that
with 12-horse power he can maintain
a speed OF thirty.one miles an hour
Heavy floods have occurred
throughout the valley OF the Wes
river and Its tributaries, inundatine
the large cities OF WI Chow In tn,
Kuang Tung province. The loss Of life
and damage to property is reported tc
be enormous,
A sherif's posse from Flagstaff
Arizona. last week broke up a gant
Of thieves In the North san Francisco
mountains, twenty miles north Of
Flagstaff, arresting three alleged rust
lers, named Wiley, Taylor and Bates
with over 100 head of horses in theil
possession. e..
The Republican congressional cam
paign book will be out unusually
early this year, probably six weeks
sooner than II was issued four years
ago. The proofs are practically cor
rected up TO date on such matter al
, can be handled before the Democratic
convention meets,
Judge Philips, In common pleas
court of Cleveland, o., last week
granted a mandatory order compel
Ing the Municipal Traction compan!
2 II give good service and the SAM
| rate of fare to the town of East Cleve
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