The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-14
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farms are being abandoned.
A small tornado in the vicinity oil
Walter, Oklahoma, blew down several
houses, killing two and injuring nine
II Is announced that Battling Mel
son is $35,000 richer as the result OF
defeating Jimmy Britt at Colma Sat
arday.
NJ Kulkovsky who. on July II last
sssassinated Major.General Count
Shuvaloff, has been sentenced to i'm.
prisoument for life.
A conflict between mobiles and peas
ants took place in the village OF
Grandlet, Russia. Eleven persons
were killed or wounded.
The miners of the extensive coal re-
gion of the valley of Annabel, Spain,
have struck. Severe measures have
been adopted to preserve order.
Five persons were killed and rs in
iured in a collision between passenger
and freight trolley cars on the York
q Dallastown electric railway at
York, Pa.
The San Francisco Chronicle says.
"There Is no longer any doubt that
the Standard Oil interests have ac.
quired the San Francisco Gas and
Electric company"
A man named Olsen shot and killed
Arthur Hopcroft at Spencer's Bridge,
b. c. The men had been drinking
and 1t is said the shooting was the re-
suit of a drunken row
The First National bank of Custer
s. d., was entered by burglars Satur
day and several thousands of dollars,
all the bank had on hand. were taken.
The safe was blown up
Despondent and heartbroken over
the death of her sweetheart to whom
she was to be married. Miss Leona
Kreutzinger, of Chicago, committed
suicide by inhaling gas
In the village of Wycock, govern
ment of Volhynia, on the frontier of
Russian Poland, raftsman who re,
turned from Prussia and eight other
persons have died OF cholera
While employed as scrub woman,
Mary brennan. an aged widow, is ac-
cused OF having acquired in the last
month jewelry valued at $4,000 from
"a 1np II
Harry e. Smith, a prominent ranch.
er of Lemoore, fell FROM the overland
Southern Pacific train four miles
north of Goshen. Cal, and was killed.
The body was horribly inangled.
Plundering and i9cendiarism con
tinue in the oil fields near Balu,
where the military has not yet re-es-
tablished order, but in the city quiet
prevails, except for occasional shots.
Former Judge Alton b Parker will
succeed Prof, Collins as chef, counsel
for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit com
pany at an annual salary of 100000,
according to an announcement made
last week.
Carrying copy of the peace treaty
signed at Portsmouth to the emperor
of Russia. Prof De Martens. the legal
adviser of the Russian peace commits
sion, sailed on the steamer la Lor-
raine for Havre on the 7th,
DR.. Mclaughlin OF the United States
Marine hospital service, says the pre-
ventive agencies at Hamburg have
cholera by the throat" to use his ex.
preston, and that there Is scarcely
one chance in a thousand of an epi-
demic.
Four more battalions of Redifs have
been called out to join the Third Army
corps because OF the hostile attitude
of the Albanians in certain districts
of Albania and the activity of the in
surgent bands, especially Greeks in
Macedonia.
The Hungarian Minister of Agricul. |
ture, in his yearly estimate of the |
worlds crops, shows the wheat yield
TO be about the same as last year.
Rye is at least 10 per cent lower, bar,
ley is somewhat less and oats consid,
erably lighter
Two persons were killed and thir.
teen injured, three or four probably
fatally, as the result of a trolley car
on the Worcester & South Bridge
street railway system leaving the rails
and crushing into a tree mile east
of Charlton Mass.
The Rancho Guadaloupe, comprising
$4,000 acres of tillable soil and wood.
ed land in Lower California. has been
sold to l04 Russian families The emf
grants propose to establish Russian
colony for the raising OF stock and
grains and the milling cereals.