The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-02-13
NEWS SUMMARY


New York City policemen April ID
1908, was electrocuted on February !.
According to dispatches received in
FL Paso. Texas, 1t Is openly predicted
in Mexico City that the gubernatorial
campaign In the state of Mozlas will
result in bloodshed
Reports received from orange grow
ing sections south of New Orleans in
dictate that serious damage to orchards
was done by the freezing weather,
which extended to the Gulf coast.
Mrs. Sydney M. Colgate, a wealthy
woman OF Orange, N. J., and Mrs. Ed.
ward Odds, OF New York, were severe,
ly injured in an automobile collision
on the Meadow road, near Kearny,
N. j.
Eighteen persons, including several
women and children, we're carried
out Of blazing tenement house ir
Brooklyn, by policemen, after some
of the former had been overcome by
| smoke.
Seventeen men are dead as the re-
suit Of an explosion in the Short Creek
mines of the Birmingham Coal & Iron
company, near Birmingham, Ala. Five
Of the dead are white and twelve are
| negroes.
Six men we're killed and several in.
| jured when a construction train on
the New York Central railroad ran
down party OF Italian trackmen
near University Heights, in Bronx
| borough.
Ex-Chief of Police S. c. Hodglins,
of Oakland, Cal, was shot twice and
seriously, but not fatally, wounded
while attempting to capture Charles
Clifton, who had attempted to hold up
a drug store on Telegraph avenue.
The lower house of the Texas leg.
islature has, by vote of So to "A, de-
feated the resolution to submit state
wide prohibition to a popular vote.
The prohibitionists lacked two votes
necessary to two-thirds majority.
The home OF Mrs. Frank Lathrop.
near Brentwood. Ark. was burned on
February 4, and her two sons, Will
lam and Frank, aged Is and rs years,
respectively, and George Burris, a
young visitor, we're burned to death.
The international Harvester com.
uany will pay the fine of $4,000 as
sessed against 1t by the district court
Of Shawnee county, Kansas, and ap
proved by the Kansas supreme court
for violating the Kansas antitrust law
The house committee on public
buildings and grounds has agreed to
a favorable report on the Rodenbere
bill to purchase the Oldroyd collec
ton of Lincoln relics now located In
the house in Washington in which
Lincoln died.
Before special master In Cleve
land O., February 10, Government At
torney Frank B. Kellogg will seek tt
show, II possible, that the merger O.
the Union and Southern Pacific rail
roads under the control Of Il. II. Har
riman is monopoly.
Mayor Taylor of San Francisco has
issued a proclamation setting aside
FIVE days in October for celebrating
the one hundred and fortieth anniver
sary of the discovery of San Fran
cisco bay by Gaspar de Portola. frs
governor OF California.
AS the result OF family troubles, DEF
Brown fred two shots at Henry Loch
ard, near Madison, Ind, whereupol
Lochard returned the fire, shooting
Brown in the head, killing him In
stantly. 1t Is said the trouble grew
out of Browns wife deserving him.
The coroner's Jury investigating tn
death of Bruce Shelter, San Diego
Cal. contractor, who was shot Z
death, returned verdict finding Mrs
Efie Duden, sister-in-law of the dea
man, had fired the shots. Mrs. Dude
has been held in Jail without bail.
A bold daylight robbery in Chi
Cages most crowded retail street wa
successfully perpetrated by a lon
robber. The thief hurled brio
through the window of the Jackso
Jewelry company, and secured $4.o0
worth of watches, rings and dis
monds.
Mrs. Mary Wright is on trial
Devils Lake, N. d., charged with tn
> murder of Beulah Wright, aged si'
teen years. The state alleges tha
Mrs. Wright strangled the girl an
then smeared carbolic acid on Tn
girls lips to make 1t appear case
suicide.
! When the British steamship Sh
mosa leaves New York for the Ia
east she will carry away the remarl
able cargo Of 5000 dead Chinamel
From all points east of the Mississi
pi trains have brought numbers
coffined Chinese, to be sent to tn
Flowery Kingdom.
Wireless telegraphy has saved Il
first Mexican ship. The revenue Gu
, ter Jose Yves Limantour became di
! abled fifty miles off the coast. net
. Culiacan and her calls for assistant
by wireless were caught up by u
! Alamos, which Immediately steamt
!. out and brought her 10 port.
Marion Woolman, daughter
! George Woolman, of Burlington, N.
; who died leaving her a fortune es