The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-03-21
NEWS SUM NJ A RY

Fire destroyed 1000 shacks in Sam.
plouc district of Manila. The dam
age is estimated at 100000.
A bomb exploded in the central
market place at Barcelona, Spain, on
Sunday, severely injuring woman
Another bomb was found near by.
At the first automobile race held in
Egypt, at Heliopolis, on March 1,
policeman and two spectators were
killed and fourteen persons were in.
jured.
John Hays Hammond. the mining
engineer, who has been i'll In San
Francisco for several months and
whose sickness finally resulted in an
operation, has fully recovered.
Fifteen hundred operatives were
affected by the closing at New Or.
leans Of the Lane. Maginniss cotton
mills. A poor demand for cotton
goods was given as the cause.
John L. Smthmeyer, the architect
who designed and superintendent the
construction of the Congressional IL
brary, died in Washington on March
-, aged &c years. He was born in
Austria.
A special dispatch to the Daily Mail
from Berlin says that the emperor
sent warm personal congratulations
to President Roosevelt on the arrival
of the fleet at Magdalena bay, ahead
of schedule time.
Mrs. Beatrice Thomas Metcalf, who
attempted to shooot Attorney 8. r.
Hamill during the trial of John II.
Walsh, at Chicago, has been commit
ted to the general hospital for the in
sane by commission.
The senate has ratified two more
of the Hague treaties. They relate
! to certain restrictions with regard to
the exercise 70 right to capture in ma
val war and prohibit the discharge
OF project from balloons.
Instructing them to vote for any
proposition favorable to the candidacy
Of William II. Taft for the presidency"
the Oklahoma Republican state con.
vention elected four delegates at large
to the Chicago convention.
Charles ]. Glidden, of Boston, and
| Mrs. Glidden arrived in Jerusalem on
March 10 in motor car from Hama,
! Syria. 1t was the first motor car ever
seen in Jerusalem, and created sen.
sation among the populace.
John Browns Anticipated wagon, In
| which he made many pilgrimages
during his crusade against slavery,
was destroyed by fire at Iowa City,
Iowa, last week. The wagon was left
there by Brown forty-eight years ago.
President Roosevelt has directed
Herbert Knox Smith of the bureau
of corporations to investigate the
methods of stock trading, with view
of furnishing the basis of possible fu-
ture legislation regulating such prac-
tees.
The Jury in the trial at Jackson,
KY, of John Abner, charged with
aiding in the murder Of Town Marshal
James Cockrill during the Hargis-
Cockrill feud in 1902, reported hope
less disagreement, and have been dis.
charged
N. T. Anders, president Of the Com.
mercial bank of Jackson, Miss, and
! former director of the Central Bank OF
! Mississippi, has been indicted by the
Hines county grand jury on the charge
of embezzlement of $4,000 from the
| latter bank.
The Supreme court OF the Distric'
of Columbia has dismissed the pro-
ceedings instituted some months ago
! by George w. Austin of New York
to compel Secretary Cortelyou to Is
| sue to him 100000 worth OF Pana
ma canal bonds.
News has been received from ltal'
ian Somiland to the effect that local
! tribe, helped by soldiers OF the Null
lah, attacked another tribe under the
protection of Italy and killed thirty
OF their opponents. They then drove
off number OF cattle.
The spectators at the cycle races at
the Galleries des Machines, Paris, en-
ragged over the decision OF the UNI
pires, wrecked and set fire to the
grandstand. Police reserves to the
number of 300 had to be called out
before order was restored.
The revenue cutter Thetis has been
ordered to proceed to Unimak Island,
one of the Aleutian group, to rescue
the survivors of the American schoon'
er John f. Miller, which was wrecked
in a severe storm at Boar Harbor,
near Cape Pankoff on January 3.
Application for new trial for j. r.,
Walsh, ex-presIdent Of the Chicago
National bank. convicted OF illegal use
of it's funds, has been made. One hun
bred and fourteen reasons for the
granting OF a new trial were present
ed by the attorneys for Mr.. Walsh.
An unknown young woman, well
dressed, jumped into the Monongahela
river at Pittsburg and was swept
away by the swollen river. Nothing
is known concerning the woman, and
II is probable her body will not be re-