The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-01-09
NEWS SUM NJ AIRY

subcommittee of the house ways and
means committee.
Five robbers dynamited the bank OF
Wellston, Okla, and after exchanging
many shots with the citizens, escaped
with $4,000. No one was hurt.
Frank Smith, night machinist OF
the Santa Fe at Silsbee, Texas, kicked
lis wife to death. The officers had
trouble in preventing a lynching.
The news comes from CONSTANT.
nople that the sultan has announced
that ne has decided to build, at his
own expense, new parliament house.
st. Petersburg still continues to
suffer from Asiatic cholera, from ten
TO twenty cases being reported each
day, the deaths ranging from Ave to
fifteen
Attorneys for the prosecution in the
alleged corrupt practices of Pitts.
burg councilmen and two former
bankers under arrest, declare the
trials will be urged to a speedy con
clusion.
Mrs. Anna Major was assassinated
In her home near Lexington, Ky,
while entertaining some friends, the
fatal shot being fired through the
window, Mrs. Major falling dead in
the center of the room.
Thomas Perkins, 60 years of age,
a member of the New York cotton ex-
change, died suddenly on January
L., l., A. 1.
church, Brooklyn, just after making
speech at the new years service.
The Union Central Life Insurance
company of Cincinnati will pay to
Hamilton county, Ohio, the sum of
S750000, In settlement of the claims
O: the county against the company
for more than $3,000,000 in back tax.
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The masked highwaymen who held
up twenty-five men near Tulsa, Okla
bona, were captured by a posse of
officials and landed IN Jail. The rob
bers proved to be Hershell Wolfe
and Charles Haubaugh, two young
men of Tulsa.
In a fit of insanity Arthur Trotter,
20 years old, beheaded his mother,
Mrs. Anna Trotter, In New York City.
TO the police Trotter declared that the
end of the world was coming and
that he had been divinely inspired to
commit the crime.
The statement comes from The
Hague that the trouble between Ven
ezuela and Holland is regarded as
Professionally at an end, and that The
Netherlands intends to hold its hand
pending the progress OF the new Go
mez administration.
Manen Clemens. former constable OF
El Paso. Texas, was shot and killed
in saloon. A stranger, well-dressed,
fired the shot, walked past the bar
crowded with people, among them a
deputy sheriff, and disappeared before
he could be arrested.
Postmasters throughout the United
Kingdom have begun the payment OF
old age pensions under the act OF
the last session of parliament. to per.
sons over 20 years old. Several hun.
dred thousand applications for pen
sions have been received.
Under the terms OF the last will OF
Claus Spreckels, executed in New
York, May IL, 1907, his widow, Anna
Christina Spreckels, is given a life
interest in the immense estate, which,
after her death, is to be divided be-
tween her three children.
Robbers forced their way into the
cellar of a jewelry store in New
York City, sawed a hole through the
floor Of the store and pried off the
dial of the combination lock OF the
safe and got away with $4,000 worth
Of jewelry and $4,000 in cash.
That there was an average of less
than four marriage licenses issued to
every divorce granted in Kansas City
during the year 1908 is shown by the
records of the circuit clerks office.
There were 1906 marriage licenses
issued and 1,OS6 divorces granted,
The British steamer Advance ana
the British bark Iverna collided off
Newcastle, N. S. W., the Advance
her first officer, all the members OF
her crew losing their lives. The
Iverna put into port leaking badly.
Veterans of the Civil war will be-
come extinct in 1850, according to
Past Commander G. F. Bassett. "There
will be BAT veterans alive in 194O,"
he says, "and ten years later the mum.
her will be reduced to twenty-three.
The last survivor will die in 1850"
His body covered with the peculiar
oruptlons characteristic of the disease
end with his hands and fingers gone
from it's ravages, Elias Olsen, a Nor
wegian, walked $500 miles from San
Francisco for the purpose of seeking
refuge In the Leper's home in her
vile parish, Louisiana.
Miss Ollie Patton, granddaughter
o: the late w. s. Patton, Confeder-
ate general and past grand master OF