The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-12
Flashes from the Wire

The monthly statement Of exports OF
domestic products issued By the depart
ment of commerce and labor for NOvem-
Der shows increases of $4,000 900 over
the corresponding month in 1908, but
decrease of S5l 100000 for the eleven
months of 1909,
Edward G.. Cunliffc, an Adams Tx.
press company clerk. who abscondcd
with Il package containing S10l 900 IN
October, 1905, was released from the
Pittsburg, Pa, penitentiary today, af-
ter serving a little over four years.
Following Il search in this country and
South America. Cunliffc was arrested
ill Bridgeport, Conn. his former home.
II is expected that Governor Creel
of chihuahua, Mexico, will soon reach
Washington. The purpose Of his mis-
sion, however, is stated as not known
at the state department, but every
courteous attention Will be given to
any suggestions he may have TO make
with regard to the situation In Mica
ragua.
Three men died of suffocation and
twenty. one others wero overcome and
rescued with difficulty late Friday
night rs result of an accident at n
mine of the Shoemaker Mining com
pany. fifteen miles northeast of Johns
=
broke out in the fan house at the mouth
of the shaft. The place was deserted
and the flames gained hcadway before
being discovered.
L. 3. Holman, recently suspended
from the chief inspectorship of the
United States immigration Office at
Galveston, was arrested Saturday on
| an indictment by the federal grand
! jury, returned Mt Brownsville, charging
him with conspiracy TO bring Chinese
into this country. Holman furnished
bond and Will be tried in January. Of
| fccrs are searching for several China
men indicted with Holman.
| President Taft S attention was called
! Saturday to the case of William Cook,
an American conductor on the Mexican
| Central railway, who for n long time
! has been IN prison at Guadelalara,
| Mexico, on n charge of larceny. Rep
rescntativc Hinshaw of Nebraska took
| the matter up with the president at
the solicitation of the Order, of Rant
way Conductors. The president re-
fcrred Mr.. Hinshaw TO Secretary Knox
| and told him TO ask the secretary to
make n statement of the case.
The Indictment against Mrs. Ben
! Teal, wife of the stage manager, for
attempted subornation of perjury, IN
connection with the suit OF Mrs. Frank
j. Gould against her husband for di'
yorce. was formally dismissed in New
York, Saturday. The court of appeals
recently reversed the conviction OF
Mrs. Teal and expressed the dictum
that she should never have been in
dicted. Mrs Teal had already spent
ten months of her year S sentence II
Blackwell IS Island prison,
The ST. Louis grand jury Saturday
resumed its examination into the deatt
Of w j. Erder 1t is expected nov
that the inquiry Will continue into mex
week. The circuit attorney is said tC
be presenting to the jurors evidence a,
10 the whereabouts of Mrs. Dora +
Doxey Immediately following Erder 7
death. No iutimation as to whcthe
the authorities have direct testimony
TO support the charge that Mrs. DoXey
put arsenic in Erder's food has beer
made,
Charging that it was libelous pub
lication, the Spokane city authoritie
seized every copy of the Industrial
Worker, the organ OF the Industrial
Workers of the World. as it came of
the press Saturday morning. The pa
pers were taken TO the city hall. and i
is stated they will be burned. Th,
leading article, which is classcd by thu
officers as libelous, is by Miss Gurlc,
Flynn, a young woman convicted thi
week Of conspiracy, in which she re
lates her alleged experience in tn,
county Jail