The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-12-07
- NEWS SUMMARY .

| ly, III railroad wreck, at Leeds X.H
One trainman was killed and
Injured in a train wreck at T,l
sontown, Pa.
John Hammond, of Albany, N
has confessed to numbering h,s
and secreting her body in a trnnl,
Famine prevails because of tho
ure of the rice crop in north,
Japan. The government has ho
relief measures.
The anti-American boycott at 81,
pore has been checked, according
cable report from the consul.eenI
at that point. III
The postofice at Clinton, Mo. u
robbed and burned. The safe
blown open and looted and the bu
Ing was destroyed.
Carl Osborne, 1S years old was A.
stantly killed in football game
tween Marshall and Bellmore
schools at Bellmore, Ills.
The government of Ecuador has
cepted the invitation of Emperor MID \
olas to take part in the second pea n
conference congress at The Hague ~
After twenty rounds of sensation
fighting, Mike (Twin) Sullivan of Cal
bridge, Mass, defeated Jimmy GaS
ner of Lowell, Mass, at San Francisd III
Thomas H. Mitchell, a Chica
bricklayer, who earns IS day, is IN
ported to have fallen heir to 80, n
900 left by two grand upcles in Au7 b:
tralia.
Robert Brown, aged 10 years, wi
fatally injured in a football game i
Sedalia, Mo. He is paralyzed from Il
neck down and has not spoken sin b
he was hurt. 70
Mrs. Floy Anderson, daughter of
r. Lantz, who is connected with o& Is
of the government department u
Washington, committed suicide
Polk City, Ia, by jumping into a we "A
She was insane.
George Blaker, one of the YOUTH
convicted of the murder of Thom$
Cook at Oakland, Cal, has been SCI
fenced to prison for life. Blaker, wi
two others, murdered Cook while col
mitting highway robbery
Mrs. James Birdson, wife of ply
clan at Monticello, Miss, walked in
the Office of DR.. Thomas Butler al
shot DR.. Butler flve times with q
tol, killing him instantly. The eau
of the tragedy is not known.
Japanese engineers estimate th
eighteen months work will be requird
to repair the Chinese Eastern railwa
In Manchuria. The Russian did all po&
sible to destroy it's value and carriet'
away most of the appurtenances,
Sixty Remington rifles were seizeS
by the pole in night raid on housI
near San Juan de Martinez. province
Of Pinar Del Rio. in which fifty anti
government plotters were meeting. ~
dozen of the latter were captured.
Resolutions favoring abolishin4
American duties on Philippine prot
ducts and repeal of the new law td
regulate shipping between this ooun
try and the Philippines were adoptedf
last week by the New York Board o9
-rade.
Miss Maud Reese, an employe OF the
law department of the general Offices
of the Union Traction company, on
Chicago, was shot and killed at night
by burglar whom she found in herI
apartments when she returned from
work.
During the voyage of the AUSTRIAN
line steamer Francesca from New
York a steerage passenger named
Forgione went suddenly insane and
fired revolver, killing Domenico Val
lula and wounding several other pas
sengers.
Mrs. Frieda Schultz, of Los Angeles,
was shot in the back of the head
with a double barreled shot gun and
instantly killed at her home, as the
result of careless handling of the
loaded weapon by her little brother
and sister
The bodies of two young men, who
have been identified as brothers by
the name of Emmett, from Bakers
field, have been found near the Sespe
river, not far from Ventura, Cal. II
is believed they were camping there
and were murdered by tramps.
At the regular meeting of the trus
tees of the Mutual Life Insurance
the offer Of President Rlcn'
ard A. McCurdy to have his salary re
duced from $150,000 to $4,000 was az
ceDted and further reductions were