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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1907
Page
2
An Iowa correspondent sketches a method to attach a shed roof six feet beyond the barn sides to shield doors and allow passage between them without exposure to weather. The correspondent notes when the barn was built the floor was ...
International interest grows as tar is tested on Jackson Tennessee roads to curb dust. Tar applied hot at 200 degrees by tank wagon and spread with hoses and brooms forms a hard surface after rolling, with low labor cost and seven months durability. Oil mixed tests show limited permanence on dirt country roads. tar proves more effective despite wood debris locations.
The note discusses dry springs favoring weed setbacks and solid ground planting, corn in loose ground, and calf-income pressures on cows. It notes hogs in dry pens and high feed costs, with shorts valued around twenty dollars per ton. It urges practical measures amid changing prices and land settlement pressures.
Two rope dancers at the Apollo masle hall fell into a lions cage when the rope broke. The lions mauled them as spectators panicked. one dancer crawled out while the other was mauled before rescue.
London reports that Richard Croker hopes to enter British politics as an Irish nationalist. He has shown interest in nationalist work, donated to funds, lent cars for campaigns, and spoke at Dublin’s convention. Skepticism remains over renouncing American citizenship or finding a constituency and party welcome.
Haywood suffered an acute intestinal toxemia on Saturday forcing physicians to halt the murder trial of former Governor Steunenberg’s killer until Monday. He was unable to appear in court, crying in pain Friday into Saturday, with morphine easing abdominal and head pain while dizziness and nausea followed. The illness prompted expectations of a longer adjournment.
Poplar Bluff, Mo. Former County Judge John A. Hayes, 58, was mortally wounded by his son-in-law James Williamson at Williamson's home on the judge's farm. A quarrel over years of bad feeling led to the shooting after Hayes visited the home. Williamson surrendered to authorities.
Colorado Springs reports Mary Murphy Mining Company owner Milas Fuller faces jail after Exine Fuller insists on keeping possession of the books. Court demanded immediate payment of about $60 for work. she defied and was jailed until the records are surrendered, vowing to endure jail rather than reveal location.
London report quotes Sir Hugh Bell predicting a century hence ships may sail with minimal machinery powered by electricity generated at Niagara and transmitted by wireless telegraphy across the Atlantic. He says such forecasts, though extraordinary, echo past advances since 1807 and reflect science’s unpredictable progress.
Goldfield Nevada reports poet prospector Clarence F B Kiddy claiming to have located the famous Death Valley Scotty mine of Walter Scott after a perilous trip into Death Valley. He says he was attacked by Scotts guards and forced to retreat, then departed Rhyolite with a armed posse to plant location notices despite danger.
Mrs Ida Saxton McKinley rests beside President McKinley in West Lawn vault Canton Ohio. Funeral at the McKinley residence on Market Street drew President Roosevelt Vice President Fairbanks Governor Haring and state and national officials as Canton halted all nonessential business and dismissed school children.
Baron Paul von Zglitaki of Berlin wed Mises Helen Nicholson at the bride’s parents home in Joplin at high noon Saturday. Nicholson, daughter of Frank C. Nicholson, a wealthy mine operator, met the baron in Paris a year ago and he has been working in the mines here to prove his worthiness of her love.
Reports at the annual convention in Denver on June 10 will show a 10 000 member increase in the Western Federation of Miners. President Charles H. Moyer is jailed in Idaho awaiting trial for complicity in the murder of former Governor Frank Steunenberg. C A Mahoney will preside, with James Kirwin acting secretary in place of Haywood.
At St Marys Greek Catholic church cornerstone laying in Wilkes Barre a temporary floor collapsed sending about sixty people into a twelve foot cellar. Ladders and police aided rescue. a one year old child of Kaspar Kallunsky died. Priests including Father Sopey and Father Kossy were injured along with others. Bishop Huban escaped with a jolting. Several injured taken to hospitals by ambulance.
Violent storms darken Houston and surrounding areas with cyclonic rain and cloudbursts. Buffalo Bayou overflows surging past record levels washing away homes while railroad traffic halts. Rain endures into Thursday noon with widespread damage and mounting flood fears across Texas rivers. No deaths reported at this time.
Washington Postmaster General Meyer replies that postal regulations require letter carriers to wear a shirt waist with a turndown collar a dark tie and a neat belt, addressing a religious sect’s scruples against ties. The policy specifies standard dress rather than exemptions based on faith.
One man died instantly and about a score of people were injured, some fatally, when airbound passenger train No. and bullday derailed two miles west of Logier, a small station on the Southern Pacific. Cause not yet determined, whether wreckers or defective steel contributed.
A large blaze in Bellingham, Washington destroyed three warehouses tied to the Pacific American Fisheries can making department. Seventy five thousand dollars worth of plating, lead and solder melted and flowed into the sea, with some recoverable for refining. The mammoth salmon packing plant was saved, and the loss is insured.
Mrs. Gertrude G. Grey of Nevada received the gold medal at the Corcoran School of Art annual commencement in Washington. She studied art diligently for five years in the city after practicing law in Nevada, where she was the first woman admitted to the bar. She plans to go to Europe for further study and work.
A cablegram from American consul Harry L. Paddock reports an armed uprising at Joan, fifty miles south of Amoy. Several officials were killed by mutinous soldiers and the cause is unknown. No foreign interests affected so far.
Norfolk Virginia marked Patrick Henry Day noting the 1766 Virginia assembly act against the Stamp Act. William J. Hryan delivered a keynote address to about 2000 attendees in the exposition hall on the theme Taxation Without Representation Is Tyranny.
At the Lake Hauser site in Helena, Charlie Bothwell a Westinghouse transformer expert was found unconscious by a tender after entering a live transformer. He died shortly after from electrocution and burning odor was reported.
Carrie Lederbrand seven and her sister Cora seventeen were found dead in Sugar creek near Springfield Alabama. Their father Joseph Lederbrand a farmer led a search with neighbors after they failed to appear for supper. Dr Duncan of Pawnee reported each girl died from a bullet hole in the right temple.
In a minute over twenty rounds Mike Schreck gained the decision over Marvin Hart in Tonopah Nevada. Hart pressed early, faded, and in the seventh a knockout looked certain before Kentuckian Schreck rallied. Hart’s seconds stopped the fight in the twenty first. It’s claimed Hart had a broken wrist on entering.
Guatemala City reports General Salvador Toledo, blamed for the attack on President Cabrera and the Barriliste assassination, is organizing an armed campaign. He is preparing with Nicaragua's President Zelaya for an invasion of Salvador and Guatemala driven by jealousy.
Abraham Ruef appeared before Superior Judge Dunne at the Jewish synagogue on Bush Street to be sentenced for extorting 1175 dollars from Delmonico's restaurant proprietor Joseph Malfanti after pleading guilty. Assistant District Attorney Heney moved to postpone sentencing for two weeks, and Judge Dunne granted the delay.
In Terre Haute the blast from several hundred pounds of powder at the Farnsworth mill storage warehouse near Sullivan blows apart Claude Davis, 6, and Paul Keen, 9, injuring three other boys. Authorities suspect an accidental fire started the ruinous explosion.
In Payette river near Garden Valley Idaho seven men drowned after two boats carrying a sixteen man crew from Idaho White Pine Mining company were swept over rapids during a log drive. The surviving nine reached shore. Drowned: Bert Ure Mel Curtis Joe Hamilton Tom Highland Frank Fitzgerald Dave McMillan Joe Boden.
A general strike of sailors and naval reserve workers began at daylight across most French ports threatening heavy disruption to commerce. The National Seamen's union says the government pension bill is inadequate and demands immediate action to avoid further damage.
Salt Lake City man George L. Moats vice-president of Ranch Real Estate and Improvement Co. dies in Dugway Tooele County from a shaft accident. He descended to the 200 foot level then a rotten ladder broke dropping him about 86 feet to the shaft floor, his body found mangled.
In New York officials of Western Union and Samuel J. Small national president of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America announce that no strike will occur after days of talks. The union states operators secure a substantial victory in settling the dispute with the company.
In San Francisco the collective action by about 10 000 ironworkers ended amicably on Friday. The walkout, aimed at an eight hour work day and higher wages, closed the Union Iron Works Fulton Iron Works and all bay area foundries and machine shops.
Thomas J. Malton, a collector charged with embezzling $5,000, drew a pistol and shot himself in the forehead on a courthouse stairway near the district attorney's office in Los Angeles. He was taken to receiving hospital in a dying condition amid two Pacific Screen officials present.
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