The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-08-24
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At Kennywood park, Pittsburg, n
miniature train jumped the track and
ten passengers were badly hurt, but
hone fatally
Webb Jay of Cleveland was prob
ably fatally injured at Kenilwortb
park, Buffalo, N, Y, in a ten mile
automobile race.
A dispatch received in ST. Petersburg
from Rostoff on Don states that n
humber Of roughs have been lynched
by indignant citizens.
Matte Hackett. the 1S.yearold
daughter of Levi j. Hackett, a farmer
of Kents Hill, Maine. has been muir
Hered by men supposed to be tramps.
That there has been persistent de.
cline of the birth rate in the United
States since 1860 Is the conclusion
reached in bulletin issued by the
census bureau.
Confirmation of the report that the
Marshall islands were visited by
hurricane and tidal wave on June 30,
has been receaved at Sydney, N. s. w.
One hundred lives were lost
The application of the Chinese Com.
mercial union in Hongkong to meet
and discuss the anti-American boycott,
has been refused by Sir Matthew Ma.
than, governor of the colony.
Nine Italians were blown to shreds
and their house reduced to atoms by
n dynamite explosion at the construc-
tion camp of Dunleavy Bros, about
six miles from Durbin. w. Va,
Charles King, an American. will be
hanged at Edmonton. Ont, on August
81. King was convicted of numbering
an English prospector named Hay
ward at Lessee Slave. N w. r., last
fall.
An official account received in st.
Petersburg of the dturbances at
Bielostok, Russian Poland, confirms
the report that forty persons were
killed Jews opened fire on the troops
who replied with voleys.
A storm passed over st. Cloud,
Mimi, on Sunday, causing many
thousands of dollars loss. Nearly 300
outhouses and sheds were blown
down, trees were uprooted and hun.
dreds of window panes broken.
Mrs. Bertha T. Finney of Lincoln
Neb, shot herself in the left temple
at the home of sister, Mrs, Patterson.
in Chicago, and died three hours later.
Dependency, due to lll-health, is be-
lieved to have prompted the act.
George B. Cortelyou, postmaster
general, has been practically offered
the position of secretary of the treas
ury by the president. The vacancy
will occur in February next by the
voluntary retirement Of l.. NJ. Shaw.
The plan. supported by Great Brit
ain, for Prince Charles of Denmark,
to ascend the Norwegian throne, has
failed according to information re-
ceived from Copenhagen. The ex-
pectation is that Norway will establish
a republic.
Henry Young, negro who shot and
killed Edward e. Perry on the Bass
plantation near Lake Cormorant, |
and deputy at night and at the
scene of the crime was hanged by an
armed mob.
While trying to rescue Frederick |
Churchill, who had waded beyond his |
depth when in bathing with party |
of friends. Miss Stella McCullen OF
III was also drowned before assistance |
could reach them.
A dispatch from Batavia, Dutch |
East Indies, reports an ugly outbreak |
of Chinese rebels, who attacked the |
Dutch post at Rambong, killing two
officers and twenty-five men, Only six
men of the post succeeded in escaping
and these were wounded.
Two children were killed during the
motor car reliability run from Baden
to Nuremberg. on the second stage OF
the competition for the Herkomer
trophy The accident occurred five
miles from the start of the race while
a car was rounding a corner.
A dispatch received at Honolulu by
telegraphy from Hilo says
that Hama, the Hawaiian wife of Hailu,
a Chinese, gave birth to one child on
Thursday, two on Sunday, one on Mon
lay. two on Tuesday morning and one
IN Tuesday night All are dead
Two hundred colored men opened
he sixth annual session of the Nation.
Il Negro Business league, in New
York on the 10th The object of the
eague is to bring together the negroes
Who are engaged in business for them
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