The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-22
WEDDING EVERY TWO
MINUTES IS RECORD
Thirty-seven Completed in Hour
and Quarter at Canning
Christmas Day.
VICAR AND CURATE BUSY
Fifth Brother in One Family IN
Sheerness Celebrates His Cold
en- Wedding Day.
BY PAUL LAMBETH.

BY PAUL LAMBETH.
Special Cable TO The Tribune.
LONDON. Jan. 2I.-The record for mar
riage belongs 10 the town OF Canning.
In that quaint place there is an increas-
ing fascination about Christmas wed-
ding, and the consequence was that last
Christmas there was a greater rush than
ness family OF Penny have lived TO cele-
brated in sevcnty-ave minutes by the
vicar OF st. Luke's and his curate.
Despite all the persuasion Of the vicar
these thirty seven couples Insisted upon
being married on Christmas. After call
ing of banns. Canon Buckley would nave
spread the weddings over several DAYS
but Canning refused. and only one cou-
pie postponed the ceremony.
Five brothers belonging 10 the Sheer
ness family OF Penny have lived TO celc-
brate their golden weddings. Mr.. and
Mrs. r. l.. Penny reached the anniver-
sary last Wednesday. and Mr., Penny Is
the last OF the five brothers 10 attain this
the eldest brother who is 90 years OF
age and has celebrated his golden we'd
ding. the wife Of each brother Is still
alive.
Miners Radical Talk.
At the recent conference at Ayr the
Scottish Miners Federation unanimous
ly declared that workers cannot obtain
the value Of their labor. nor disputes be
avoided. until the means and instru-
ments OF all material production. dis
tribution and exchange are owned and
controlled by the state. The conference
called for the amendment of the mines
act so that miners should have the right
10 appoint by ballot local pit inspectors,
to be paid by the state.
Members OF the Labor party say they
have been given To understand that the
salary which the government proposes to
pay 10 all members OF parliament is $500
sterling year. and that the proposal viii
be retrospective. so that salaries fall due
az the opening of the new parliament. The
government bill Will. therefore. be intro
duced early in the session and passed rap
idly through all its stages.
How Eight Hour Act Works.
The first case under the miners eight
hour act was heard at Newcastle, Stat
fordshlre. recently. when Frank Hall as
sistant engineer. and Thomas Dobson.
manager at The Silverdale coieres.
pleaded guilty 10 abetting and conniving
others in violation OF the act.
The act provides that pump -minders
should not be below ground over nine
and half hours day Some of those
employed at Slverdale collIeries. how
ever, urged Hall TO allow them TO work
| double shifts, and II was alleged that
defendants connived at this. Dobson was
| fined 20 shiuings and costs and Hall 10
| shillings and costs
A boy explorer. 16 years old. in Mon
gola is one OF the latest novelties.
i WlSn ! could be nome Tor Christ
mas" That Is the only note of regret
| in an enthusiastic letter received few
| days ago by the mother Of Orlando
Hobbs. Swindon boy OF l6. who is in
| the heart OF Mongolia experimenting eX-
cavations for his employer. Zuicho Tachi-
bana, Japanese explorer. Tachibana is
secretary TO Count Otanl. abbot OF the
| ShInsu Buddhists. Tho two had already
| made one expedition into Central Asia
and on setting out for second they took
Hobbs with them as assistant surveyor.
Loses Old Age Pension.
An English woman forty-five years
! ago married a sailor i'm one OF the sea
port towns. The sailor deserted her aud
| the desertion the woman has lived d
| hard working life. but she cannot obtain
| her old-age pension now because, hav-
ing married foreigner. she has lost her
"Wll you please give mother u nut
TO put spider in. as baby's got the
! whooping cough?"
| This extraordinary request was made 10
a Tiverton shopkeeper recently by a lit
tie girl, whose mother believes that. ii
she imprisons "A live spider in a nut
the whooping cough will disappear when
| the spider dies.
This is one Of many amazing beliefs still
prevalent among creduous people in the
west OF this island.
Music Hath Charms.
There was a touching illustration OF the
music hath charms 10 soothe
the savage beast" at Wormwood
Scrubs jail II was during an en-
the Western District Choral society,"
which took the form OF selections from
Handers Messiah"
So deeply affected by the music were
| the prisoners that in many cases tears
| could be seen trickling down their checks
The inmates filed into the church In
an orderly manner. Some of them We're
comparatively young. There were a num-
| ber OF visitors and these. with the SIG
| prisoners, brought the congregation TO
well over 1000. The prison chaplain an
l nounced 4 form of shortened evensong,
which was commenced by the singing of
| the hymn. Praise the Lord: Ie Heavens.
Adore Him. Then followed portion OF
the service for the day. the men chanting
| IN responses IN a sonorous bass.
Famous Railroad Crimes
The tragic death OF Thomas Nesbitt.
who was found murdered I'm n railway
carriage recalls the fact that the mys-
teries surrounding the deaths OF Miss
Money whose body, was found in Mcr,
Miss Camp who in February, 1897 was
murdered while travelling between Houns-
low and Waterloo, have never been
solved.
Miss Camps body was found on arriv-
al of the train at Waterloo. and all that
could he established WAS that the muir
Ger nd1 apparently heen committed be-
tween Putney and Wandsworth stations.
but the assassin has not yet been brought
to book. Although. in the case OF Miss
Money, the verdict OF the jury. after a
prolonged inquest. was to the effect that
her death was caused by a train, but
that the evidence was not sufficient to
thrown out of tho carriage. the general
opinion WAS that the latter WAS the
case. Although the police made every
effor; to discover the murderer. he is
still at large,
They We're more fortunate In the case
| OF Mr. Gold, retired merchant, who. In
1881. while travelling 10 Brigton In an