The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-02-15
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Ffty-five natives were drowned at
Johannesburg owing TO the flooding oi
/ the South Rose, a deep gold mine.
The supreme court has denied a re
hearing in the case of Johann Hoch!
sentenced to be hanged in Chicago
February % for wife murder.
special from Pinghar, Ia says
Governor Cummins is ready to accept
a third term as governor and will
make an official announcement soon.
President Pardo of Peru has signed
the law approving the contract with
Henry MacDougall for the construc-
tion of railroad between Lima and
Pisco.
Captain Kurmi, who commanded the
Japanese naval guns at the siege of
Port Arthur, has been appointed naval
attache at the legation of Japan in st.
Petersburg
The fall of Count Vorontzoff- Dash
koff, Viceroy of the Caucasus, whose
weakened policy is held responsible
for the prevailing anarchy in the eau
casus. is announced.
General Linevitch reports to st.
Petersburg the existence of 220 cases
OF Siberian plague in the army. The
total number of sick in the hospital
ic nft 4 A
The internal revenue report TO,
1905 shows that the business of the
Philippine islands amounted to s195.
100000 in gold. The amount of taxes
collected was $4,00O,000 in gold.
Poltavatsky, the youth of Moscow
who on June Is, 1905 attempted tc
assassinate General Trepoff, has beer
condemned to five years imprisop
ment, without loss of civil rights
Sarah Jones, seyenty-yearold wo
man. was convicted of murder in the
first degree at Philadelphia, for the
killing of her foster daughters child
within few hours after it was born.
After run, the Columbia Banking
and Trust company of Charleston, S |
C., closed its doors, and the drectors |
made general assignment of property |
and assets for the benefit of creditors |
A coroner's jury at San Francisco,
in the inquest over the three men whd |
were killed recently on the transport
Meade, found verdict of accidental
death caused by inhaling poisonous
smoke 4
Jim Cotton, a negro, was shot to
death at Elmaville, Ala, by mob of |
white men. Cotton was accused of |
shooting at Jirn Philips, a guano sales
man. who had administered thrash
ing to Cotton.
At Rickmer's ship yard in Bremen
haven last week there was launched
the biggest sailing ship in the world.
The length of the craft is 43S feet and
her breadth 54 feet, and she Is of 5000
tons burden.
Governor Stokes of New Jersey has
granAed Mrs. Antoinette Tolla, the
murderess, further re-
prieve of sixty days in order to allow
her counsel to present further evi-
dence for new trial.
A punitive expedition has captured
a large band of revolutionsts in the
Dehlen estate in the vicinity of Riga.
Fifteen of them have been tried by
and shot The others
we're fiogged with knouts.
Special investigation of the affairs
,f the Equitable Life Insurance soci.
ETY. within year have cost that cor,
)oration more than 100000, according
o statement authorized by Paul
Norton, president of the Equitable.
President w. G. Tight of the New
dexico university was seriously in.
ured at Albuquerque, by an explosion
# gasoline while experimenting in the
laboratory One of his arms was torn
fl and he was otherwise horribly
affiliated.
Many Jews at Kieff have received by
nail sentences of death in the name
4 the pan-Russian league in defence
I the holy cross. A great panic pre-
ails among the Jewish population,
'ho are expecting a renewal of thu
riots.
Fire broke out in Littleton, w. Va,
n oil town, and before it could be
nearly every business ,,
ouse was destroyed about 500 of the .
500 inhabitants were without homes !
nd financial loss of more than $500.
90 was sustained.
Mount Vesuvius volcanic activity
ontinues. Streams of lava have in
AIDED the railroad track at three
oints, and it is threatened at a fourth :
oint. The station of the Funicular
iilWaV is also threatened and that