The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-08-03
- NEWS SUMMARY -

Wnlle rlulng on an electric Car.
Whitelaw Reid, the American am,
bassador, presented ID. ogden Mills of
New York and San Francisco to King
Edward Friday at Buckingham pal,
ace.
Eugene f. Bert. lawyer and presi.
dent of the Pacific Coast Baseball
league, who shot himself ten days ago
is improving. He will, it is now be
iieved, recover.
Marion Williams, the widely-known
Middle of the Road" Populist. died at
Austin. Texas. Sunday in the insane
asylum, where he had been confined
for several years.
BY vote of FIVE to one the striking
woodworkers of Chicago have refused
to abandon the fight against fourteen
store and bar fixtures factories for an
increase in wages.
II. Vanderhorst, secretary Of the
Brooklyn baseball club, died Friday
from heart failure due to aneurism of
the aorta. He was born fifty-four
years ago in Baltimore.
DR.. Juan Pablo Rojas Paul, former
president of Venezuela, died Monday
He was born in 1S45 DR. Rojas Paul
was president OF Venezuela from Feb
ruary 20. 1883, to February 90, 1890.
Fire destroyed the Arkansas Demo.
crat company's threestory building
and printing plant at Little Rock. caus.
Ing loss of $4,000. Dan ID. Taylor.
o sterdtyper. was burned to death.
Mrs. Harry Norton was arrested as
Shawnee okla, Thursday for the mur-
der of Mrs. Kate James, near Weather.
ford, Okla, on July 8, and within an
hour committed suicide by taking
poison.
The Norwegian Government has
proposed to the Storthing the holding
OF a referendum on the dissolution of
posal was referred to special com
mittee.
Bigler johnson was hanged Tuesday
at Towanda, Pa. The crime for which
he was hanged was the murder of his
wife, Margaret Johnson. from whom
he had separated, and her niece, An.
ME Benjamin.
Miss Nellie V. Walker of Chicago
has been commissioned to execute al
$4,000 monument to the memory of
the late w. S. Stratton of Colorado
Springs, owner of the famous indie.
pendence mine
Governor Beckham of Kentucky has
honored requisition of the governor
Of California for W. II, Buchanan, un.
der arrest in Louisville and wanted
In Redlands county. California, on a
charge of forgery.
Joseph Myer, aged GO, a pawnbroker
OF Detroit, was killed Friday night by
thieves, who caught him alone in his |
office. The thieves got away with |
about $500 in money and perhap.
$4,000 worth of diamonds.
The bodies of the negroes have been
recovered from the oil fire in the Hum,
be fled. The loss is now estimated a,
$e75,O00 in oil and tank damage. The
fire Is still burning, but Is confined
to an area of 100 acres in extent.
Sentence has been passed in the
case of former Marquis Francis Mac
Mutt, the wealthy American, who was
papal chamberlain of the Cloak and
Sword at Rome. until deprived of his
title and office on the charge of dis.
orderly conduct. MacNutt is con.
demned to three months imprison.
ment with provisory liberty"
A cable received announces the
death in Seoul, Korea, Wednesday. of
Arthur S. Dixey. private secretary to
United States Minister Morgan. He
was graduated from harvard with tho
class OF 1902, and was a native of Bos
ton.
Thirteen Cinnamon who were SNUG.
sled across the border of Texas were
discovered in a Santa Fe box car with
provisions for Journey to Los Al,
geles. They were placed under arrest
by immigration officers and are being
held for trial.
Samuel Harper, father of President
Harper of the University of Chicago.
died Tuesday, aged 81 years He re.
Gently came TO Chicago on visit from
mis- home in the east and contracted
! severe cold which resulted in his
leath.
Sir Anthony Mcdonald. under secre.
airy of the Lord of Ireland, has recov.
red from the severe operation per,
ormed on him, but owing to the state
# his health it is believed that he
as decided to resign his position in
he autumn.