The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-08
Flashes From the Wire

Flashes From the Wire
WASHINGTON, May Royal f.
Cabell Of Richmond, Va, has been SC.
lected to succeed John G.. Capers Of
South Carolina AS commissioner of in
ternal revenue. Mr. Capers is i'll.
MILWAUKEE, May Count .To-
ham Bernstein. the German embassa-
dor, was the guest Of honor at luncheon
today at the Dcutchcr club, m aristo-
cratic German organization. lie spoke
in a happy vein.
SEATTLE. Wash. May Mrs.
Mary Campbell, widow of Captain John
Campbell, the Port Blakeley. Wash,
lumherman. whose sawmill was the larg
est in the world, died today, aged 81
years.
INDIANAPOLIS, May An cleo
trical storm swept over northern lndi-
ana and lower Michigan last night, and
the high wind and hail cut down crops
and stripped fruit trees, lightning
also struck several barns and houses.
MOUNT VERNON, Ind, May l.
Poscy is the sixth Indiana county to
NOlC NtL UnufG lUt lbtJl opium ldN,
having today decided by a majority Of
1449 to retain the saloons The major
ity is the largest yet obtained by the
vets.
BALTIMORE, May THE machin-
lists Of the Mount Clare shops of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, numbering
about $50, tonight voted to strike. This
action may lead TO the men in all the
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numbering about 1000 being called out.
ST. JOHNS, n. T.. May 7-Heavy ice
now running off Cape Race has almost
resulted in marine disaster The
steamer Lake Champlain, bound from
Liverpool to Montreal. with thousand
passengers on board, encountered the ice
yesterday and came into this port leak
ing so badly that the trip has been
abandoned and the ship viii be hur-
rlcdIy docked for repairs.
DENVER. May Mrs, George c.
Ellison of Seattle, who came TO Denver
some days ago to try to effect a recon
ciliation with her husband, who had
instituted suit for divorce. was found
dead this afternoon in her room at 20lS
Stout street. a rubber tube attached
to an open gas Jet was in her mouth.
Slc Hau cN1ueUlJN Dctn uedu more Judu
twenty-four hours.
HELENA, Mont, May 7.-Through
counsel Harriet Orcutt and children,
residents Of California. today filed suit
in the United States circuit court here
against the Great Northern Railway
company of Minnesota. seeking to re-
cover $50 900 damages for the death of
Il. Il. .Orcutt, husband and father, who
was killed at a grade crossing IN bod
son, Valley county, October %, 1908.
SALEM, Or, May Information
was received here this afternoon that
| William Herye aud James Sullivan en-.
gagged in a pistol duel at noon today
| at Gates. settlement in the Cascades,
| forty miles east of here. Hervc was
wounded in the neck and Sullivan in
| the abdomen. Both will die The quar-
rel, which led up TO the shooting was
caused. it is alleged, by both paying
attentions 10 the same woman.
ET. PASO. Tex. May News
reached here this morning that follow
ing the riot on the Sanborn plantation
near Vera Cruz. another riot between
Mexicans took place on the Santa Fe
plantation near Tlacotalpam. III which
a number were killed with knives and
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at Acayucan, where Harold Sanborn is
in Jail, He viii protect the interests of
the young Chicagoan.
WASHINGTON, May The gov.
ernment has declined TO accept the ten
der of the Continental hall of the
Daughters Of the American Revolution
here for lectures and other purposes
OF the Smithsonian institution. A few
days ago Mrs. Julia G.. Scott, president
general of the Daughters, wrote to Pres
| ident Taft offering such use to the
overcrowded institution Secretary
WoIcott of the institution has Informed
the president that the hall would not
be suitable.
WASHINGTON, May 7-Postmas
tcrs hereafter Will be held strictly 10
account if they deliver In person pack
ages of foreign origin containing dutl
able articles without first submitting
them TO the nearest customs officer, OF
without collecting the duty assessed
upon each package. as the result Of ar
order issued by the postofficc depart
ment today. Numerous instances Of
failure on the part of postmasters TO dc
this have been reported by the secre
tary OF the treasury,
, NEW YORK, May 7.-Tokutar,
Sakai, one of the Imperial commission
ers Of the grand exhibition of Japan
returned TO New York today after
; month passed in the West. "'There i
no japanese question in the western
part Of your country any more thar
there is in the East, he sud. "Evcry
where | went ] was made to upderstan,
that the friendship bstween the Unite,
States and Japan ha- net been in tn
least impaired hy the m.Sinformed am
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