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Show THE SEMI-WEEKL- & T. JAPS NATION. Y HYDE, LOOAN. BURIED BY VOLCANO- - MISSION BURNED a IS OVERWHELMED OF T0RISHAMA ISLAND FablUbait ALL KILLED. AND INHABITANTS UTAH One Hundred Mini Fifty Iropl Hurled Ho- Debris Which liest h Cuvrrrd Tlielr lluuiee. toll-mil- UTAH STATE SEWS The salaries of all tlie county officer of Uintah county hare beeu raiaed. The school census of lrovo shows 5,107 children of achool age, 1,015 boys and 1.002 girl. Crops look rather dry in Millard county this year, but all expect a fair crop of lucerne. Over 10, 0M people from outside Utah attended the Elks' convention in Salt hake last week. The first entry for the premium competitions at the state fair was received by Secretary S. W. Sears last week. .The merchants of Salt hake report that the Elks convention did not help their trade to auy appreciable extent. The county commissioners of Sevier county have decided to refuse licenses for tlie sale of liquors in Saliua canyon. Mrs, houis Grenig, of Salt Lake, is suffering from painful injuries sustained by being run over by a recklessly driven hack. Adamson's saloon at Richfield was burglarized one night last week, a watch and a number of other articles of value being taken. lames White, a contractor, was severely injured by being struck by a ear in Salt hake City t week, oue of his legs and several ribs Itcing broken. An effort will la made by the south-ercounties to have the next legislature make provisions for a bounty for ln-- n e A dispatch from Yokohama, Japan, says: The little island of Toriahama was overwhelmed by a volcanic eruption between August 13aud August 13, and all the inhabitants, numbering 150 persona, were undoubtedly killed. The island la covered with volcanie debris and all tlie houses on it have disappeared. The eruption ia still proceeding and is accompanied by submarine eruptions in tlie vicinity which make it dangerous for vessels to- approach the island. Torishama ia one of a chain of islands extending between the lionin islands and Hondo, the biggest tslaud of Japan. SOLDIERS DISAPPOINTED. Mouth African Tliuc-Kxpl- lo Troops Kt-ii-r- trl si to 1hlllpplurs. South African soldiers have been the victims of a curious delusion which is causing the officials of the United States embassy in London considerable annoyance. Former Brit-is-li soldiers who have served against tlie Koers have lieen applying in numbers at tlie embassy for enlistment in the American army in the Philippines. They all say a report was in circulation at ('upcloivii and Durban that tlie United States was enlisting soldiers for service iu these islauds. At the London embassy scores, of applicants have already been turned uwuy greatly disappointed. Time-expire- d the extermination of the grasshopper MILITIA MAY BE CALLED OUT. pest. Ktrlkrn of 1 rnMiwlus on William Harwood, a miner from Iropi-riy(iranite, fell between two passenger (lovernor Savage ami a number of coaches and bis right foot was so Union Pacific officials were in consulcrushed it will probably have to be tation at North I'latte, Neb., Saturday amputated. witli Mayor Walker and county ofA. Ihillip, an Italian miner, made ficials regarding the advisability of an unsuccessful attempt at suicide at sending troops to control the strikers, Nunnyside last week, slnshing his who, it is eh urged, have been tresthroat with a razor. It is thought he passing on Union Pacific property and was demented. threatening new employes. There has Frank ('. Andrews, the Detroit bank- been no marked violence thus and er who was intereated in some promis- the sheriff says he believes far, he can ing Utah niinea, has been found guilty main la in order. Governor Savage will investigate the of misapplying the fundsof the Detroit matter further and announce his decibank. City Savings sion before returning to Lincoln. T he shoe factory of Robinson liras., Leaders of the strikers say they will Salt Lake City, was destroyed by lire aid iu preventing violence. Sunday uight, entailing a loaa of $18,- GARDNER IS CHAMPION. 000 and throwing about twenty men v V i and girls out of employment? Jack Itoot at tlie Maucer Track In Malt Lake Clly. While coupling an engine to some In the seventeenth round of wliat box cara In the Rio Grande Western was to have been a twenty round conin Lake Salt liell Thomas 'yard City, was badly rcrushed by being caught test, (ieorge Gardner, of l.owell, Mast., won the middleweight championship between the couplings of the cara. of the world from Jack Root, of ChiMrs. Eliza Taylor and Mrs. Lamira at the Salt Palace saucer track Collins, of 1rovo, were severely injured cago, in Lake City, Monday night, Salt in s runaway accident at Frovo last about 2,500 people being in attendance. week, the rig being overturned and the Root claims to have broken his left occupants thrown into a pile of rocks. hand in the second round which put Mrs. Matilda Youngberg, an aged him at a decided Gard-ndisadvantage, waa the aggressor all through the woman of Draper, jumped from the platform of a Salt Lake atreet car battle and appeared anxious to mix while the car was in motion and re- things. ceived injuries which may prove fatal. STRUCK BY A SINKER. Hall of Lake Salt last week, Judge Killed In a in the Ricketts case, sustained the va- Young Hoy Wlilla Keniarkubl Manner Flailing. lidity and constitutionality of what is While fishing in tlie Hudson river, known as the inheritance tax law, Uustav (irun wald, Jr., 13 years old, which was passed by the last legislawas iu a remarkable manner. killed ture. He was with his father and brother, A. R. Wright, of Elko, Nevada, while when a fisherman standing near them bathing io the Sanitarium, in Salt Lake made a sweeping cast with a long line City, fell on the stone iloor and was to which waa attached a lead heavy stunned, so that when lie rolled Into inker. The ainkeratruck Grun-wal- d young the water lie was drowned before help just behind the left ear and came. knocked him off the string piece on is now completed which he was seated. He was dead The Lucin cut-o- ff into the lake as far as the solid grade when picked up, having been killed incan be built, and treslling will com- stantly. The angler disappeared before he could be arrested. mence from this point to the end of the Striker Killed lv n Da paly. Promontory, tirading is being done at the Promontory. In a clash between striking mine Floyd Spicer was aeverely injured at workers and deputies at Nesquohoning, Richfield last week by being thrown Pa., Patrick Sharp, a striker of Lans-forfrom his buggy, landing on his head. was shot and killed almost inHe has concussion of tlie brain and his stantly by a deputy. The shooting left side is paralyzed, it being feared caused considerable excitement for a he cannot recover. time, but order was soon restored withHon. John Fitch Kinney, for fonr out any other persons being injured years chief justice of the Territory of and the town ia now quiet. A deputy Utah and for two years delegate in named Harry MeElmoyle was arrested, congress for Utah, and who haa had a charged with the killing of Sharp, and long and useful public career in Utah was taken to tlie county jail at Mauch and elsewhere, is deed at the age of MS. Chunk. The Park City Elks carried off the Cyclone In Kansas. first prize for the most original cosMeager information has reached tlie tumes in the Elks' parade in Salt hake Rock Islend offices in Wichita that a last week, the Park boys being dressed cyclone struck the town of Lost Springs as miners and prospectors, with pack Kansas, Monday afternoon at 4:30, demules and all tlie accessories of min- molishing a grain elevator, a church ing life. and five residences, and blowing three Thomas W. Spiking, a young team-at- freight cera off the Rock Island tracks. of Salt Lake, was run over by a Three men, whose names were not atreet car which he waa attempting to ascertained, were seriously hurt and board and sustained the loss of a leg. several persons slightly injured. Imat It la contended Spiking would have es- Springs is a small town on the Rock caped uninjured had the car been pro- Island a few miles west of Harrington, vided with fenders. Kansas. Com-IMtn- y . bu-il- 1 1 er 1 d, er BY BOXERS, j CHARLES FAIR AND WIFE KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE I I'rrarlier am! Four Ollirr lrra killed. Running at the Rate of 62 The Methodist mission liuard has re- Machine Miles an Hour When It Suddenly ceived by mail a number of reports Collapsed. Throwing Occufrom ita agents in China concerning pants to the Ground. the recent local uprisings in China. Rev. Joseph llerch of Chung King, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Fair, who West China, writes, under dale of were related to Mrs. V. K. Vanderbilt, June 2J: Jr. (Misa Virginia Fair,) were return"Word has just been received from ing to Faria from Trouville Thursday, Rev. Edward Manley and Rev. Spencer when their automobile swerved and Lewis, a superintendent of the mission, crashed into a tree fifteen miles from who are in that neighborhood, that l'sris. Both were killed. The chaffeur the Red Laulern society, the locsl became insane as a consequence of the name for lioxera, has burned the shock. Mr. and Mrs Fair had keen staying chapel at Tien Ku Chiuo and killed the preacher and four other members. The at Trouville during the week. T.l ey officials have endeavored to suppress had a very fast forty-fiv- e horse power these lioxer practices, and had previous- automobile, which attracted considerly decapitated six and crucified one. able attention and with which they We are confident tlie officials can cope were highly pleased. Mr. Fair had with them, but it may cause us much been from Trouville to Faria and back loss in the outlying diatricU. again in one day with the machine. Under date of June 30, Itev. Mr. The accident occui red almost iu front Kerch writes concerning the uprising of ilie Chatesu liuisson du Mai. Tim in West China: Fairs Intended to dine and spend the "Nines last writing more newa of the night in laris and return to Trouville lioxer troubles hss arrived. It indi- for lunch the following day. cates a widespread movement, with The wife of tlie gatekeeper of tlie much power and violence. In addition, chateau was the only witness of the to the destruction of the Tien Ku Chiso disaster. She says she noticed a big community, Wu Kwang Tsang has red automobile cour'ng along the road been destroyed, but most of tlie people at a tremendous pace. Nuddenly someescaped. Between Taclieeo and C'hen thing happened and the heavy machine Tu tlie extent of the trouble is un- slid sidewise from the right to the left known, but a letter from Brother Cady side of tlie road for about sixty yards. stales that there is considerable alurin It then dashed up an embankment, at Chen Tu, but that the officials are turned a complete somersault and confident there, will be no serious crashed into a big elm tree in front of trouble there. Throughout the coun- the gate of the chateau. The automotry, however, there Iiiin been wide- bile was completely wrecked. The spread destruction already, ami it is front axle was broken uud other parts probable that most of the Christiana of the machine were smashed, includliving outside walled cities, compris- ing the steering gear. When tlie automobile turned over tlie ing several hundred iieraons, will lose all they have, if not life itself. There wife of the gatekeeper says she saw are now very many who huve neither Mr. mid Mrs. Fair thrown high in tlie it i r and fall with a home, food nor clothing. heavy thud to tlie The ground. chauffeur, who was silAppropriation Muilt lijr Congri. behind the Fairs, was precipitated ting The volume containing statements into a ditch. He staggered lo his feet, of appropriations required by law to calling for help. be prepared and published at the end Tlie gatekeeper's wife rushed to his of each session of congress under tlie aid and helped him in extricating Mr. direction of tlie committee on appro- and 31 rs. Fair, who were buried bepriations of the senate and house has neath the wrecked machine and in the been completed for tlie session of tlie IhsI throes of death. Both had susth congress by Thomas tained ghastly injuries and were alCleaves and James . Court), chief most unrecognizable. Mr. Fair's head clerks respectively of those committees. bad been crushed iu, while bis wife's A summary of the appropriations skull was split. shows a grand total of $80.),ii34,4!Ni55. The accident was evidently due to In addition to the specific appropria- the bursting of a tire. At the time it tions made, contracts are authorized to occurred the automobile, which was be entered into for certain public capable of running seventy-fou- r miles works rAwNSulnre appropriations an hour, was going at the rateofsixty-tw- o inilFs an HouF. r j M by.coDgWpavrTAit(rrfi'ale auta of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fair left Nan 1203,71 1,403. Krei-u- t TprlNiiig Fifty-seven- - o People miqrr Population of l'arllir Ocean. The brig Galilee haa arrived at Fort Townsend from Fanning island. Tlie Galilee left Nan Francisco two months ago with a force of thirty men and a large quantity of bjilding material to establish a station for the British Cable company. Captain Treauor of the Galilee states that the island is inhabited by George E. Gregg, hia wife and son and thirty Gilbert islanders emSMit in Francisco in the latter part of May last, for a trip to Europe. Charles Fair was the son of the late Senator Fair and waa one of the heirs to the immense estate of the late senator. It la peculiar that the son of the late John W. Mackay, one of Senator Fair's partners, waa also killed near Faria a few years ago by being thrown from hia horse. Charles Fair wa; the third of the four children of the late Mr. and Mra. James G. Fair. . Teresa, who ia now the wife of Hermann Oelricha, ia the oldest of the heirs. Then came James, who died about ten years ago. Charles was the third, and the youngest waa Virginia, who is now the wife of W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr. In the spring of 18!i4 Charles married Maude Nelson. The ceremony took place in Oakland, and it waa almost a secret one. Charles Fair was oue of three heirs to an immense estate, estimated in value at between (23,0011.01)0 and (30, 000,000. The other two are his two sisters. Charles Fair was born in Virgin' City, Nev., on April 21, 1 NOT, and was consequently 35 years of age. lie brought the first automobile across the continent to Nan Francisco. He was also greutly interested iu photography, and constructed one of the largest cameras ever builtin the United States. Fair Waa Fund of AutimioMlIng. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fair, who were kifled in an automobile accident near Evereaux, France were embalmed and placed iu coffins, after which they were shipped to Faris, w bein-they will be taken to San Francisco. The chauffeur said Friday flint before tlie accident he noticed the tire of the left hind wheel of the machine was .deflated, and that tlie rim of the wheel was rubbing on the ground. He told Mr. Fair, who tried to stop, and the accident followed. Feasants who saw the automobile say it was impossible to distinguish ita color. The firm that sold Mr. Fair tlie automobile last June say he paid $12,000 for it, and ordered another at the same price to he of sixty The second machine waa almost ready for delivery. Mr. Fair was passionately fond of automobiling, and never missed a day on tlie road. Several times he atur record. tempted to beat the e horse-pow- ployed by Gregg to pick cocoanuts. Awful Crime of Kanaaa Farmer. Joseph Anderson, a farmer living east of iNalina. Kansas, iu a til of despondency drowned his four children, three girls and a boy, in a cistern, and then shot himself with a is still alive, but will probdie. Financial matters had afably fected his mind. The crime was during the absence of the mother. The oldest child was six years old and the youngest a balm of four months. Anderson left a note on a table in the parlor, notifying the mother that the children could he found in the cistern. revolver-Anderso- coin-mill- ed Cremated. .Something exploded in a furniture store on tlie ground Iloor of a double tenement at 35 Essex street. New York city, and before the tenants could recover from the surprise tlie building was a mass of Humes. ' The tire ob tamed frightful headway, which the firemen had to fight while the work of rescue was going on, and before the flames were under control two women and three children had been burned to death and a man and a woman taken to the hospital suffering painfnl injuries. Many others were badly inFlva People jured. Trouble With Turk ay. It is admitted at the state department that there ia a renewal of tension between the United Ntales and Turkey, but the officials do not deem it prudent to disclose the present condition of affairs. They say, however, that the condition is in uo way gravp( but ia of that strained character which haa occurred from time to time with Turkey in recent years. It is gathered that the present tension grows out of the long iending claims of Americans who suffered lossduriug the Armenian outbreak. er. one-ho- .WHITE MEN IN MINDANAO. FANNING ISLE INHABITED. Thirty-Tw- Bodies of the Unfortunate Couple Thrown High into the Air and Landed In Debris of Machine, Being Horribly Mangled. CONFESSES TO MURDER. Remit Story of Kaea Kilatng oa .That Iowan Tails of Murder of I'ronilnent Man lalanil Is Dinpuled. lijr HU story disputing the existence of a race of white men on Mindauao island is told by C. G. Stone, who was recently a mem lie r of the army engineering corps in the Orient, and who returned to Nan Francisco a few days ago. Stone was commissioned by Captain Baldwin to make a tour of the island with the purpose, in part, of ascertaining the trutli of tlie reports that a race of people distinct from the typical Moros inhabited the interior portions of Mindanao, Stone says his investigation consumed considerable time. He acquired the dialects of several tribes and was afforded uuusual opportunities for investigation. yStoue declares that the statement made as to tlie existence of native whito men on the island is not founded on He met many persons whose facts. facial characteristics denoted Caucasian ancestry, particularly in the matter of complexion, when contrasted with the Moro skin, but his inquiries led to the development that these Jighter hued people were descended from Castilians who had long ago settled on Mindanao and had married native women. No colonies of these people were found at auy point and Stone noted them at scattered places All of them had forgotten the faith of their forbears and were devout followers of Mohammed. A A Wife. special from Iowa City, Iowa, elates that Charles Holaday has made a confession in which he slates that James Gaullagher was murdered by Mrs. Gaullagher with his complicity, and that the crime was committed because he and Mrs. Gaullagher were in love. Gaullagher was a wealthy stock-maFour months ago he was murdered at midnight, while sleeping by the side of his wife and child, the assassin sendings bullet from a target rifle through Gaullagher's head. Holaday declares they planned to poison Gaullagher and that while he was present at the house tlie night of tlie murder he left lioura before, and had uo hand in tlie shootiDg. n. BRYAN OUT UF RACE. Nebraskan Declare Ha Will Niitla a dlilala fur tlia Prealilenry. William J. Bryan haa written aletter to the editor of the New Orleans in answer to the question-whethehe was a candidate for presiMr dent in the next campaign. in said Bryan part: "I shall not be a candidate for the presidency in the next campaign, and, may add, I have no choice beyond the desire to see some one nominated who was loyal not only to the ticket, but to the platform, in 1SW5 and UJOJ, aud who, if elected, could lie trnated to stand by the people in tlie straggle against organized wealth. NEAR A SETTLEMENT. "While no oue can look very far ahead or foresee the contingencies Ilia ladlratloua Iolnt to Knit of Coal Ntrlka arise, I have no plans looking to Before September 1st. a renomination at any future lime." .Indications point to the settlement TIN PLANT SHUT DOWN. of the anthracite coal strike on or September 1st. Major John Bid- Two Thousand Mra at Klwuod, Indiana,. Made Idle. dle, engineer coinmiasiouer of the District of Columbia, is authority for this Two thousand employees of the In passing statement through American Tin llate company at Ind., have been notified that the Pittsburg en route to Detroit Major Kiddie said an agent of the aulhraclle plant would alint down indefinitely. operators in Washington quietly told The plant resumed last Monday after dealers there to prepare for shipments a shut down following the refusal of of anthracite coal after September 1st, the local employees to accept a reducadding that the mines will he in oper- tion in wagen. The reduction waa acation. The understanding is that the cepted and the mill started. The notices that the suspension operators will make concessions and of posted stale is because of a shortage operations the miners also will make a sacrifice. of orders. lie-fo- Times-Democra- t, 1 re El-wo- od. |