The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-12-28
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A seat on the New York stock ex-
change was sold last week for $4,000,
the highest price on record.
The committee of mines and mining
Of the house has decided to report in
favor of establishing a government
bureau of mining.
Admiral Dewey has taken an en-
| phatic stand against the hazing prac-
tees which prevail at the naval acad
envy at Annapolis.
Four robbers blew open the safe in
the bank at Baldwin, ILL.,, and escaped
after a fight with citizens Nobody
was hurt in the street fight
Clarence Albright while seated at
his breakfast table at Kingman, Kan,
was shot and killed by an unknown as
sassin, who fred through the window.
The Dowager-Empress of China has
ordered the Viceroy of Chile province
to go to Shanghai, investigate the re-
cent riots and punish the guilty ones.
According to Chinese dispatches to
Japanese papers received at Victoria,
the Chinese officials at Picking declare
they are unable to stop the American
boycott.
Charles Faas, New York bank d.
rector and vice president of a brew
cry company, is still unconscious and
may not recover from an assault made
upon him by robbers.
Hugh Mccoy, cripple, age 40 years,
was shot and instantly killed by two
thieves while he was sitting at the
kitchen window of his house on farm
two miles from Darlington, Pa.
The China-Japanese treaty was
signed Friday at Picking by Baron Ko-
mura and M. Uchida in behalf of
Japan, and Prince Ching and Viceroy
Yuan Shi Kai in behalf of China.
A call has been issued for a meet
ing in Chicago, February l next, of all
governors, encouragement and in
surance commissioners in the country
to discuss insurance legislation.
Jack O'Brien was declared the vic
tor over Bob Fitzsimmons in the thir-
teenth round of their fight in San
Francisco. Fitzsimmons announced
that he had fought his last battle.
w. G. Nolan, assistant night yard
master of the Southern Pacific rail-
way at River station, Los Angeles, was
run over by a car in thA yards ana
killed. His body was horribly man.
gled.
The Japanese transports lkuta Maru
and Fuknoaka recently collided in the
Straits of Shimonoseki and the for.
mer sank within few minutes. Thir-
ty-six returning Japanese soldiers were
killed.
Representative Williams of Missis-
sippi has introduced a bill providing
for the lending of surplus money in
the United States treasury to state
and national banks offering the high
est interest
The gate receipts of the Fitzsirs
mons-O 'Brien fight were $16,407. OF
this sum 60 per cent went to the glad
iators, the winner receiving rs per
cent of the 60 per cent and the loser
pattinp OK nor nenf
1t was announced that the British
government, in response to communi-
cations from its consuls at Riga and
other Russian ports, has authorized
them in case of danger to charter YES
sells for the removal of British SUBJ
jects.
Terrible cruelty to his crew was
charged against Capt. Levin Lewis Of
the oyster dredge boat Sadie Lewis at
Baltimore. Witnesses testified that
one man had been so badly beaten that
he tainted and fell overheard and was
drowned.
The will of Sir Henry Irving, it is
understood, leaves two-thirds of his
estate, which consists solely of the
100000 realized at the recent sale of
his theatrical relics, art works and
library, to his two sons, Henry B. ana
Laurence Irving.
The latest dispatches received from
Tifiis, Caucasia, say that 300 houses in
the Mussulman quarter were set on
fire by armed Armenians, who prevent
ed the inmates from leaving, and fired
on the firemen who attempted to ex-
tinguish the flames
The trial of Hugh Watt, the former
member of parliament, charged with
melting hired agents to murder his d.
vorced wife, Julia Watt, and Sir Reg
inald Beauchamp, ended with a verdict
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