The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-17
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MILAN, June 15.-At Lucca Assizcs
the most important and exciting poIiti.
cal trial of recent years in this country
is now being held.
ii arises out of the monster agricul
tural strike in the Parma district last
year. There are ffty-nine anarchist
rlngleaders in the dock eight others
having made good their escape across
the Italian frontier. The Indictment
against them comprises charges OF pre-
meditated murders. anarchial plots
against the state. and membership Of Sc
fills forty seven folio volumes
As many as 81 witnesses have been
cited. The trial, which began six weeks
ago, is likely to last till midsummer.
PARIS, June l5.-Thrcc persons were
elcctrocuted "A few evenings since on
the railway between st. Ouen and Par
IS. For some distance the railway and
the road run parallel. separated by Il
wall, on which are ratings. On the
side OF the wall facing the railway
there runs the wires which convey the
electric current from the generating sta
tion at st. Ouen to the Nord station,
and these wires are protected by a mar
row board, fixed to the wall above them
A boy who had climbed the wall and
ratings was trying 10 pick up a piece
of iron which lay on the railway EN-
| bankment. He did not notice that the
iron was in contact with the electric
wires, and the instant he touched it he
received a terrible shock, which killed
| him instantly.
a young cabinet maker who was pass
ing went to the rescue, and he, too
touched the iron, and was instantly
killed. A second man then attempted
to lift one Of the bodies, but he had
no sooner touched it than he, too, gave
convulsivc shudder and fell dead.
a number of people who had wit
messed the awful occurrence rar
shrieking for help, The current was cut
off, and the fire brigade was sent to re
cover the bodies.
HAMBURG. June l5.-Jewels anc
plate of the value of $50 500 were stoleI
early last Sunday morning from the
shop of Messrs. Dittmer here.
Breaking into the flat above tht
shop, the burglars rendered the occu
pants, two old ladies. unconscious by
means Of drugs. Holes were theI
pierced in the floor, while. to preven
the noise of falling plaster. closed um
brella was pushed through into the shoI
and then opened to catch the plaster
No fewer than eighty-three small hole
were bored before the burglars re
moved enough of the flooring TO des
cend, They went down and returned
with their booty by means of .rop'
ladder.
LONDON, June 15.-Signora Tetraz
zini. who was quite Ill when she lef
New York at the close of the gran,
opera season there. has completely re
covered. At Covent garden the othe
evening she made her first appearance
this year in DopiZetti s 'Lucia di Lam
mermoor.' - The diva was in her yer,
best voice. but, like all great singers
she reserved her strength for the re
markable music in the "mad scene
This florid music has never beer
heard to better advantage. for SlgnOr;
! TetraZZlni sang every note clearly an,
sweetly, and her phrasing was absolute
! lv perfect The crowded audience list
ened intcntlv to this wonderful exhibi
tion Of vocal power, but halt-wa'
through the scene the listeners coult
not restrain their appreciation, anc
broke out into vocferous cheers, Thi
applause was so prolonged that part o
the opening aria had to he repeated
and then the Neapolitan nightingale re
sumed the solo.
Needless to say. at the end there wal
another great demonstration. which ne
cessitated the frequent appearance be
! fore the curtain of the popular song