The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-12-06
NEWS SUMMARY

Respondent over the recent death
OF her baby Mrs. r. L. Barnes, of Los
Angeles, suicided, taking chloroform.
II. j. Groce, negro, shot and in.
stantly killed a negro woman, said to
be his wife, at the Southern Pacific
depot at Tucson, Arizona.
The monthly coinage statement
shows that in November the coinage
executed at the minis of the United
States amounted to $13,57S,S70.
Three persons are known to have
been killed, while several more were
seriously injured, in wreck on the
Rutland railroad near Vergennes, VT.
j. f. Hutchinson former secretary
and treasurer of the Delta Cotton
company of Memphis, Tenn, has been
arrested on charge of embezzling
SOS, 5000.
Yuba Dam, Cal, once famous min.
ing camp and made famous by Bret
Harte's poem, is a thing of the past
What remained of the old camp was
destroyed by fire last week.
The monthly statement OF the gov.
eminent receipts and expenditures
shows that for November, 1906, the
total receipts were s55,602,49S, and
the expenditures s4S.322, 507.
Gordon Dubose, former president OF
the defunct First National Bank of
Ensley, Alabama has been found
guilty OF misapplication of funds and
sentenced to five years Imprisonment
H. A. Herbert, laborer IS years Of
age, the father of six small children,
shot and killed himself at San Fer
nando, Cal, as the result of breeding
over lawsuit that had been filed
against him.
Mayor Eugene F. Schmitz of San
Francisco, who was recently indicted
by grand jury on the charge of ex.
tortion, was formally placed under ar.
rest at Truckee, Cal, just after he
crossed the California line.
According to news received in Rome
from Adie-Abeba, the capital of Abys'
sinia, King Menelik is seriously i'll,
and it is feared here that grave dis
turbances are likely to occur In the
struggle for the succession.
Six hundred and eighty-three sail.
ors concerned in the mutiny at Cron'
stadt Of last summer, have been sen.
fenced by court martial to imprison'
ment or service with the disciplinary
battalions for various periods.
An official dispatch from Dutch New
Guinea announces an encounter be
tween Dutch troops and strong band
of Alfours, who were travelling to Fax
fax. Seven soldiers were killed and
one officer and six men wounded.
Not a single American died on the
canal zone from disease In the last
three months, according to a report
the isthmian canal commission has
lust received from Colonel W. G. Cor
gas, the chief sanitary officer in the
zone.
Three children, all sons of E. Han
son, living near Hutchinson, Kan.
were drowned while skating on Lake
Marion. The lads, judah, aged IL;
Walter, aged IL, and Victor, aged ,
we're looking for muskrats' when they
fell into an airhole.
The Kobe correspondent of the Lon
don Standard cables that a hoatlne
mine, legacy from the Russo-Japan
csc war, has been driven ashore al
| Akita, on the west coast OF Hondo
where it exploded, killing ten villag
ers and wounding fifty-six
A record of 1872 persons killed ant
2,271 others injured on the surface
and elevated traction lines of Chicago
since January l last gives impetus t.
! the crusade against the overcroWd1nt
of cars which was begun by the OF
| fcials OF the city last week.
Advices from Canton report re
crudescence of the anti-missionar.
feeling at Lienshow, China, wher'
some church property has been pill
LACED. The American consul ha
asked the viceroy to protect American
| missionaries and their property.
What would appear to be mos
important archaeological discover,
has been made at Formaie, nea
which place Cicero was assassinate'
twenty centuries ago. This discover,
consists of remains which are though
to be the tomb of the great orator.
The annual report of the gradual
treasurer of Harvard athletics for tn
year 1906 shows a profit from al
sources of s27s16 The football are
ceipts during the last season amour
ed to sS5,336, while the expenses c
that department of sport were $29,62'
AS a sequel to the recent death
Mike Ward of Sarina, Ont, after nj
fight at Grand Rapids, Mich, wit