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Show Utah County Democrat PROVO UTAH NEWS SUMMARY Secretary of War Taft and party sailed for Panama on the naval trans- port Prairie on May at Lakewood, 1. Cleveland, who is 111 N. J., Is reported to be Improving dally. Former Senator Camden of Maryland Is dead at the age or 80, after an Illness of several months. The Republicans of Maryland have declared in favor of Secretary Taft's candidacy for the presidency. Fire at Wartous, N. M., which for a time threatened to destroy the entire town, did damage to the amount ' of $75,000. Two men were drowned while attempting to run tue rapids in the river, near Mile Junction, Me., In a canoe. By a vote of 187 to 42, the house refused to accept the senate amendments to the naval appropriation bill, and sent It to conference. The explosion of a boiler tube on the British battleship Britannia, during a full speed trial, injured five men, four of whom may not recover. The report from Tangier that the bandit Raisull had been assassinated proves to be untrue. He was ambushed by the Elkmes tribesmen, but escaped. Three men, suspected of being the Stephen, Minn., bank dynamiters, have been arrested at Emerson, Manitoba, and taken across to St. Vincent, Minn., and placed In Jail. One hundred and forty-eigh- t big locomotives are being hurried to the Harrlman lines as fast as the Brooks Locomotive Works of Dunkirk, N. Y., can turn them out. A serious conflict occurred Sunday at Loja, capital of the province of Loja, In the southwest of Ecuador, between soldiers and police. Several were wounded on each side. All southerners residing in New York will be invited soon to attend a meeting, the avowed object of which will be to place a southerner upon the Democratic national ticket Although probably more actively engaged in business than any other woman in the country, Mrs. Hetty Green has never used a telephone. She says she has an attendant trans-ml- t messages for her. The presidents suggestion looking to legislation authorizing the government to make a charge for the use of the water of streams for power purposes was turned down by the senate committee on commerce. Miss Minnie Oox, a prominent society girl of Martins Ferry, O., died last week from a spider bite she received three days previous. The girls body became terribly swollen and she died in horrible agony. Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, rector of Trinity Protestant parish since 1862, and one of New York Citys most prominent clergymen, is dead at the age of 81. Death was due to heart failure, and followed a brief illness. The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business April 30, 1908, the debt, less cash in tho treasury, amounted to $925,167,236, which is an increase as compared with March 30, 1908, of t I $15,-45,89- 9. A general strike of motormen and conductors, employed by the Municipal Traction company, the new holding company, which took over all of the Cleveland, O., street railway lines un-tfthe recent peace agreement, appears to be Imminent. Sophie Suderman, 8 years of age, was run over and killed at New Haven, Conn., by an automobile owned by Huntington Smith, a Yale student, whose home is in St. Louis. The car was occupied by Smith, two other Yale Students and a chauffeur. William R. Wheeler of California has notified the president of his acceptance of the assistant secretaryship of the department of commerce and labor, in succession to Lawrence O. Murray, recently appointed comptroller of the currency. The town of Antipolo in the province of, Morong, P. 1., with a popula- tion of 3,500, has been practically destroyed by fire. Four hundred houses were burned and hundreds of people are homeless. The famous shrine was saved. The fire was caused by lightning. Four armed men held up the guards who were conveying $18,000 from Welch to Dary, W.' Va., to pay off employes of the United States Coal & Coke company. There is no clue to the robbers, but a sheriffs posse is scouring the country in the hope of capturing them. Dr. W. W. Goelet, graduate of Columbia college and traveler, who was married to a young society woman of Oakland four months ago, is in the Berkeley, Cal., city prison, charged with the burglary of eight residences and apartment houses in Oak-- land and Berkeley. Secretary Straus of the department of commerce and labor has been reappointed for another term of six years as one of the American members of the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague. Secretary Straus was appointed after the death of the late President Harrison. The chairman of the ways and means committee of the house of representatives has introduced a resolution that the committee sit (Juring the recpss of 'congress and gather fcucl formation as it sees fit toward the reparation or a bill for the re-i, vision of the tariff. er r - , - ., - CHARGED WITH FIVE OUR BUSINESS GUIDE. MURDERS. MARRIED TWO MONTHS Horrifying Discovery Made on Farm Near La Porte, Indiana. La Porte, Ind. That Mrs. Bella A Domestic Comedy Drama DeGunness was responsible for at least scribed In a Railway Coach five murders before she and her three children were Incinerated In the Are which destroyed her home one week and theyd been married just ago, Is the theory now held by the two months when she struck him Warfare in the Tobacco District of local authorities who are attempting with a dinner plate on the head. The man In the next section had to solve the puzzle of the barnyard Ohio Reaches Stage Where on been found her pretty trying for an hour to keep awake burying ground a prosy volume describing The over of this one mile north farm city. Soldiers are Needed. as Modified by Human Action. of Earth all The bodies of five people, them murdered, were found in the Failing In this high purpose he had a pillow yard of the home of Mrs. Gunness on just settled back against as to Its reflections with bodof two disquieting the Threats Made to Burn Towns Leads Tuesday. So far only beies found have been identified. One germ conductivity when the girl to Request on Governor for Troops to him No. in hind 7, brought him, is that of Andrew Helgelein, who by the Long Suffering Resobservaher with wakefulness quick S. to from came this city Mansfield, idents of That District. tion about the dinner plate. D., for the purpose of marrying Mrs. "Hit him with a plate on the Gunness, vkose acquaintance he had head, she repeated, and the tall, made through a matrimonial bureau. Columbus, O. Threats to burn the young man to whom she The other is that of Jennie Olson, a towns of Aberdeen and Higginsport, a doubt, been only rehad, beyond Chicago girl, who had been adopted came hack In deep unknown from sources, married, emanating Mrs. Gunness. She disappeared in cently On head? Ive always bass: the but resulting from the bitter warfare by and It was said, had that a woman In the burley tobacco district of Ohio September, 1906, to Los Anglees to attend school. thought gone Fred! and Kentucky, are laregly responsible The other bodies were those of a If they live together 50 years, it is for an order issued by Governor Har- man and two children, apparenlty 12 doubtful that the husband will ever ris to Adjutant General Critchfleld to years old. hear more concentrated reproach in dispatch troops to the towns mentioned. The request for troops was BATTLESHIPS NARROW ESCAPE. his wifes tones than he heard In that sleeper, In that one word. made by Sheriff Perry A. Rendall of Fred! she almost sobbed It the With Illinois Comes Near Colliding Brown county, who was here In consecond time. Laura is the dearest Storm. Alabama the ference with the governor and adjuDuring girl tant general for the greater part of Monterey, Cal. A northwest gale She certainly must be, the pana-tellthe day on Tuesday. A mass meetinto the harbor gave the sweeping She must be a said, gruffly. ing of the tobacco growers of Kenships of the second division of dear, to whack her husband, her new eight from the Ohio across river tucky Brown county is said to have planned the Atlantic fleet several hours of husband, on the head with crockery to induce the growers to join in the watchfulness Saturday night and cut at the breakfast table movement not to raise any tobacco off all communication with the shore. It was supper, the young wife inthis season, and the Ohio independ- A serious accident was narrowly terrupted. What right had he to ent growers who have refused to join averted when the battleship Illinois, say that about her father? the movement fear that there may be second in line from the Alabama, flag"Her father? I thought it was the an invasion of the state. mother. It must have been terrible. ship of Rear Admiral Sperry, parted her anchor chain in the height of the Whatd he say, anyway? FLOOD CAUSES LOSS OF LIFE. I started to tell you before the blow and went drifting toward the train got to Lawrence. Laura's father Bridge Washed Out, Train Wrecked, shore. The Illinois headed directly want them to marry. He didnt a for looked for it the Alabama and and Towns Flooded. didnt want Dick to come to the as though a collision was immitime St. Louis. A thunderstorm of un- nent. house, but I believe that was because By heroic work the helmsman usual severity, accompanied by a high he called so often. Dick boarded on to steer the managed drifting ship wind of almost tornado velocity, away and the only damage done was Penn street, you know, and they lived Tuesover this swept vicinity early the tearing away of the port gangway only two blocks south on Broadway, day, doing much damage to property of the Alabama. The Illinois drifted and it was so handy that it got to be a habit. He and indirectly causing loss of life. A fully 800 yards before her emergency Dick must have been saving on bridge on the Louisville & Nashville anchors, sent spinning into the white gas and gas is cheap and plentiful, road, near Belleville, 111., was washed capped waters, finally held fast. too. But how about the plate? out and wrecked a freight train. EnHEARST PEOPLE IN CONVENTION Well, they were married In LeavenConductor and Smith gineer Ward, worth and came back and told the a trainman were caught under the Select Delegates to National Convenfolks and there was a scene. Lauras engine and drowned. The train was of Independence Party. tion father said he wouldnt give her a piled up in a mass in Schoenlaub New York. Delegates to the numdollar, and she stood by Dick and said creek, which was swollen Into a torrent. The village of Edgemont, 111., ber of 450 to the New York state con- she'd not give him up was flooded and many persons were vention of the . "Laura must have been to the Independent party met forced to take refuge on improvised and at hall Carnegie rafts. The whole area of lowlands, Saturday night Fred, be sensible. After they went at large and known as the American bottoms, east selected four delegates to conhousekeeping they got along fine to national the their alternates of East St. Louis, 111., and comprising for a month until one day Laura met to of the vention party thirty-fivIndependence square mites of territory, Is under water. be held In Chicago some time in her mother on the street and quarreled with her, and imagine It the July. William R. Hearst was selectPOSTAL SAVINGS BILL. very same day Dick met her father, ed as permanent chairman. and they quarreled like cat and conThe platform adopted by the Measure Wilt Probably Become a Law vention was a reaffirmation of the dog Scratched and Without Serious Opposition. declaration of principles promulgated InNo, silly, but they said things. of the conference at national the President Roosevelt Washington. Dick went to his office and Lauras Feblast in Chicago has expressed to Senator Carter of dependence party went straight out to Dicks father the instructed The platform ruary. senate committee on postofflees the house convention and told her what Dick had to the Chicago delegates and post roads his earnest desire to to that he, Lauras father, was a nominate said, independent absolutely, see a postal savings bank bill become of all t I think that was the term, political parties, candidates for a law at this session. Senator Carin a cheap deck of anpresident and vice president of the a two-spo- t ter told the president that he thought United States. fossils calling themselves tiquated the bill which bad been favorably redoctors.1 That was it. So ported to the senate would be taken FLEET WILL NOT VISIT CHINA. Pretty good for Dick, said Fred. up by that body at an early date and Well that night, when Dick went that it would pass both houses and Political Situation Accountable for home to supper, he found Laura in become a law without serious oppoThis Decision. tears. She tried to tell him he sition. Pekin. Certain Chinese officials re- shouldnt have said that to her faEvans Rejoins Fleet at Santa Cruz. ceived information Thursday that the ther, and he replied Laura told me Santa Cruz, Cal. The Atlantic bat- American fleet of battleships will not this herself that if the old man as has been expected spoke to him again hed thrash him tleship fleet sailed at 3 p. m. on visit Chi-FIn' good and plenty and then she sprang late of the here. San for with battleships, Francisco Rear Eight Tuesday up, and the table was set and she Admiral Robley D. Evans in com- October, will call for twenty-fou- r snatched a plate and struck Didk on will be visit This at hours followed the Amoy. mand, closely by torpedo flotilla. At 8:30 oclock Tuesday made as the vessels are on their way; the head. Laura said he took his hat went to from Japan to Manila. This course is and left the house immediately. Went morning the Connecticut to which point Admiarl Ev- understood in Pekin to be a result of back to his old room and staid all Montev-eyans had come by train. He was met representations made by American of- night, and the very next day She had no right to hit that at the wharf by a launch from the ficials in China who feel that the fleet man," should not come to a China port. They Fred declared, flagship. The admiral was placed in thinking, of possibly, an invalid chair and rolled to the base their conviction on the belief' future contingencies. Of course a would a China such visit that give launch. Picked seamen assisted the Lauras hair is I knew you'd say admiral Into the launch and on to the false impression as to the attitude that, Fred, the reand intentions of the United States deck of Lis flagship. wife exclaimed, her voice hard young Manchuria. garding and cold.' I knew youd refer to Car Repairers Will Not Strike. that. Dont forget, please, that some Would Revive Dueling. Denver. The first move towards a call my hair red Instead of people New Orleans. As a result of a, settlement of the Denver & Rio and auburn, made statement he concerning tho I shant forget it, Fred Grande shopmens strike was made said, and B. Honor, a contractIll watch our plates, too. at noon on Tuesday, when the com- testimony of J. invesbefore the port stevedore, ing You wouldn't pany made new contracts with a comspeak so of my famittee representing the car repairers tigation committee, Matthew J. San- ther, Fred Atchison, she retorted, and inspectors. The contracts re ef- ders, a prominent financier of this you know you wouldn t. A woman fective from May 1 to December 31. city, has received a challenge from has a right to defend 1908, and are practically the same as Honor to fight a duel. Mr. Honor told Not with the contracts abrogated by the rail- the commission that as manager herel knives, Fred plates and cups and insisted. If a woman Sanroad company on March 15. Prepar- of the Leyland steamship line Mr. that on me but, what did thev ations had been made for calling all ders had stirred up all kinds of trouble' tried of the car men on the system out on between white and negro laborers on do? What do you think? The next strike, and the signing of the con- the river front. Then Mr. Sanders-gavout his statement declaring Mr. day, the very next day, Laura's father tracts has prevented that step. Honor's testimony to be "ignorant was down with his old stomach Horseman Handy With Gun. trouble and he sent for Dick for rubbish, the challenge following. Dick, mind you, probably because Dick Washington Courthouse, O. Bert Diamond Worth $400,000. had been successful with other Devaney, a well known horseman, Paris. The famous Hope diamond, and when Laura went home incases, shot and instantly killed Miss Lida anBird at her home on John street. He lately owned by Joseph Frankel Sons'l swer to her mothers message there then turned the pistol on Mrs. Bird, company of New York, has been sold he was in the bedroom talking to her mother of the victim, and shot her here for $400,000. It Is believed to father as if theyd been friends all In the abdomen, inflicting probably a have been bought for the sulaan of their lives. And I guess maybe they fatal wound; later he shot and killed Turkey. The Hope diamond is a sap- will because Dick pulled him Silas Shackleford, and finally killed phire blue brilliant, weighing 44 Laura and Dick went back through. to their himself. The motive for the crime carats. It sas at one time owned by flat and-thehavent had a row since la not known, but is supposed to be II. T. Hope. It Is supposed to have not a broken plate. Devaney was white, aged been cut from the large blue diamond jealousy. Jes passing Armstrong, suh the 43 years. Miss Bird was colored, and weighing 114 carats in the rough, porter interrupted; Kansas City in 22 sold to Tavernier Louis years. XIV. aged by five minutes. HAL LAW adDirectory for those wishing tbs business dress of any of ths following men of Provo. C. F. 8 Decker Q Co., Fruit and Produce. Provo Olty, Utah. J. Beck, , Reed Sannot C. E. Loose Groceries and Provletooi L. Watkins Ql BercK Architects. r PROVO. See The Electric Co. ATTOKNEY-AT-LA- 3 Ca.ki.r, Do It Now HOVTZ and J. Wm. Knight, Holbrook, Roger Farrer, Geo. Taylor, ar, John R. Twelves. Safe deposit boxes for rent. PROFESSIONAL. 1, 2 nt, General banking business traniacted So. Academy Avenue, Provo. Dooly Block, Salt Take City. Nos. Presldtok Vlce-Pratide- JOS, T. FAR.R.ER, d D. D. $100,000 DIRECTORS: John T. Twylar, 335 518 - C&pitaJ, Watches and Jewelry Farrer Block a Gil-lisa- e Provo City, Ufah JACOB EVANS, Practices Law in the State and eral Courts. Offices, rooms 3, 4 Yo the House. A lively debate waf Washington. kept up all day Tuesday in the house on the sundry civil appropriation bill efforts were made by Repeated Messrs. Gaines (Tenn.) and Chaney (Ind.), supported by many othef members, to procure an appropriation lor an Investigation looking to Increased safety in mining, and they bad about got Chairman Tawney to the point where he would consent to an appropriation of $50,000 when Mr. Underwood of Alaska objected and the proposition, for the time s.t least, was drppped. all want yo coats breshed ?" Public Likes Tip System. New York. 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