The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-07-17
NEWS SUM NJ A R Y

ly reelected by the Georgia legisla
ture.
The international congress on tuber-
culosis Is in session in Stockholm,
Sweden.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
at Rawalpindi, India, July 8, several
houses collapsing, but no lives were
lost
Harry X Thaw is again trying for
release from the asylum. and declares
he has high hopes of securing his
freedom.
Heavy rains In Mexico the past
week have caused damage to the rail
roads of at least three quarters of
million dollars.
The state suprem court has handed
down a decision upholding the valid.
ity of the Colorado local option law
passed two years ago.
An epidemic Of typhus fever is rag.
ing at Monterey, Mexico. and scores
OF people are dying, the death list
among the poor class being very
heavy.
The long expected coal strike at
Sydney, c. b., is on, three thousand
men having refused to enter the pits,
but at least that number remaining
at work
The German and Austrian railroad
authorities have informed Russia that
they are about to take steps to insti-
tute quarantine on the frontier
against cholera.
aged 2S years, an aeronaut, was killed
by falling 200 feet from a parachute
during the Fourth of July celebration
at Portland Maine.
During a celebration in Reservoir
park, at Camden, N. j., cannon ex-
ploded. a piece of which killed Mrs.
Irma Hebel and her six weeks old in.
FAINT and fatally injured two boys.
Seventeen inspectors and four rev.
enue agents on the denatured alcohol
rolls of the internal revenue depart
ment have been dismissed because
their services are no longer needed
The trial of d. w. Woods, Fred
Torgensen, James Gordon and Jack
Shelton. charged with the Union Pa
cific mail robbery at Omaha, on May
%, has been postponed until Septem-
Der 20.
Working the combination of the
safe in the offices of the Los Angeles
Pacific railway, at Los Angeles, a
thief, believed by officers of the COM
pany to be an employe, procured
s3.7O0 in gold and currency.
Miss Isola Kennedy, of Morgan Hill,
near San Jose, Cal, is. in a critical
condition from injuries inflicted by a
mountain lion. Miss Kennedy was
taking an outing with two young men
:, when the animal sprang upon her.
Verne Yohn, an amateur aeronaut
> of Chicago, fell nearly a thousand
feet under his Debated balloon, at a
celebration at Waukegan. Both
wrists and ankles were broken and his
4 back was injured, but he will recover.
George A. Pollock, assistant com
missioner of the general land Office
during the Roosevelt administration
widely known in the west and north
i west particularly in the forestry and
Q land services, died at his home al
9 Boyds, Md, July 6.
s. Ambassador Reid has been in
o formed that the fifth cruiser squadron
of the fifth British naval arm, consist
ng-ef four ships, has been designated
l. to attend the Hudson-Fulton celebra
S ton, to be held in New York, August
a 10 to October 8 next.
u Mrs. M. Lecumber, who keeps
: boarding house at a mining camp neai
. New ldria, in the southern part o
San Benito county, California, ant
d her four children, were burned t
i death as the result of an alleged in
IT cendiary fire last week
In the Fourth of July cowboy tour
=. nament at Nogales, Sonora, tn,
: worlds record for throwing and tying
wild steer was broken by Ed Hall
II Of Mutt, N. NJ, who performed tn,
% feat in Fl seconds fat The previous
4" record was Fl lis seconds.
=, The mysterious shooting of Mrs
:, Lorena, de la Montanya, in her apart
ment in San Francisco, last Frida
- night, which the police at first though
=. to have been suicide, is said by PAL
I. lies present at the time to have beel
=, case OF accidental shooting.
" Ira w. Lamunyon, aged so, the onl
" surviving member of the Massachu
!, sets convention held In Jackson
N Mich, July 6, 1854, at which the Re
publican party was organized, died a
u Denver, Colo, July z, at the home O