The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-23
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AZ Alexandsr comstoGk, an oldtime dim theos-
day
Five men were injured. two seriously
in an explosion at Couglers mine No. g
near McAlester, Okla. yesterday.
Tho Ethiopian government at Addas
Abbcba. Abyssinia. yesterday gave Off,
cial assurance that King MenelilS still
lives. though his condition is grave.
The Herald OF Montreal says there is
naught. the kings brother. succeeding
Earl Grey as governor general of Can
ada next year,
Advices from Bogota. Colombia, report
and Jose Medina Calderon ultra-consery-
atlvcs ministers OF government and
war. respectively
II. w. Smith Of Pecos. Texas last
telephone, uniting Miss Dorothy Flowers
and Kyle Lovejoy who were in Toyah
twenty miles away.
The body OF the old prospector. who
was found frozen to death bal about & week week
| been Identified as that Of Melvin Kilton
| Of Bedford, n. ii.
Henry Lane Wilson. minister to Bel
| GUM. has been designated by the state
| department TO represent the United
| States at the ceremonies incident to the
| enthronement OF the new king OF Bel
| gium,
More than 81. 0Oo. 900 will be distributed
| by the United States steel corporation
as bonus TO It's officers and employees.
60 per cent of which will be In cash, ac-
cordlng to the official announcement OF
| Chairman Garry
| Governor Hughes Of New York was
asked yesterday by representatives oi
| the New York Woman Suffrage assocla-
| ton to recommend in his annual message
| to the legislature q Woman's suffrage
amendment.
| Ac of 1p,cal nniIon
In Manitoba, eighteen counties were
added to the seventy which previously
voted in favor OF. no saloon There are
fifty counties which still remain wet
Twenty -one voted for licenses.
Mrs. Rachael Ferguson Of Placerville
Cal. who bought .22-caliber rifle for
her twelve year-old sons Christmas
present. was accidentally killed by bull
let from the weapon, which the boy was
examining.
Collector OF the Port Loeb in New York
yesterday declared the arrests here ir
the sleeper trunk" smuggling cases were
that would follow all over the country
extending to the Pacific ocean.
The steamship Minnesota sailed yester
day from Seattle for Japan. China ant
| the Philippine islands carrying thirty
five representative business men of tn
| northwest The object OF the excursion
is to establish better trade relations will
the orient
| MY mission mere mas DecIl very sue
cessful." said T. P. O'Connor NJ. p.
as he was sailing yesterday from New
York for Europe. after several week
passed in this country 10 collect fund
for the promotion of the Irish parlia
mentary party's interests,
The grand jury at Newark. N j., yes
terday found two indictments agains
the three Wardlaw sisters. charging then
with having caused the death OF .youn
Mrs. Ocey w. NJ. Snead, who was foun
dead in a half-hlled bathtub In an un
furnished house in East Orange.
Baron Y, Uchida. the new Japanes,
ambassador to tho United states. anC
Baroness Gchida. were In Chicago yes
terday. I'VE are pleased TO have Mr.
Calhoun as minister to China said tn
baron 1--WE know he Will please China
Many of us have met him and like him
f l.. Smith OF Easton, Pa, made al
unsuccessful attempt to fly yesterday a
Hampstead. l.. l., In aeroplane o
his own construction After rising 10
a moment in the air. the machine fel
10 the ground. smashing one of tn
planes. Smith says he will make an
other attempt.
The deans OF woman's departments II
the state universities closed their confer
nee at Chicago yesterday. adopting roe"
lutions declaring in favor of an lncreas