The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-11
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Mrs. William Griffith and her son,
Alfred, were asphyxiated by illumi-
mating gas in their rooms in San
Francisco.
stroyed the largest portion OF the bust
ness district. The losses will aggre-
gate 100000.
Mrs Stella Brennan, convicted OF
numbering her three stepchildren, has
been sentenced to life Imprisonment
at Minneapolis.
The Axtell saloon, at Basin, min.
ing camp forty miles north of Butte,
was entered by two robbers, the safe
cracked and the proprietor robbed OF
about $1,000.
In his annual address to the Saliva
ton Army General Booth attributes
his robust health to the fact that for
the past seven years he has been
strict vegetarian.
Governor James X. Vardaman, in
his annual message to the Mississippi
legislature, again took a strong stand
against spending public money for the
education of the negro.
John H. Atkinson, the last member
of Virginia's delegation to the first
Republican nominating convention in
1885, is dead at his home in New Cum.
berland, aged SO years.
1t is believed that the first record OF
the theft of an automobile was made
at Sacramento, CAL, last week. A big
passenger touring car was taken from
its street station by the thief.
DIR. Alex Thomas Dozier, SO years
old, one time prominent physician
of Auburn, CAL, and an old-time min
er, went down to American river to
work on claim and was burned to
death in his cabin.
| A woman named Mrs. Renders com.
mitted suicide by throwing her. 4
across the Maricopa & Phoenix rail-
|
of passenger train en- route from
Phoenix to Maricopa
1t is understood in London that
China shortly will follow the ex.
ample of Japan and propose raising
her legations at Washington, London
Paris, Berlin and st. Petersburg to
| fba rank Of amhacSi
Cable advices received at the state
department from Santo Domingo an
nounce that the revolution is practi
cally at an end. the troops are dis
persing to their homes and the coun
try is again becoming quiet.
Haden Flowers, father of sever
children, kicked over the stove in the
Houston. Mo-, calaboose the Other
night and was burned to death. The
building was destroyed. He was ar
rested for disorderly conduct.
The controversy between the city o.
Knoxville, Tenn, and it's water com
pany, as to the right of the city to es
tablish it's own waterworks, has beer
decided by the supreme court of the
United States in favor of the city.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt shows that at the close o.
business December 80, 1905, the tota
debt, less cash in the treasury
amounted to s994,S69,7 1S, which is ;
decrease as compared with Decembel
1, 1905, of s4SSS.113.
At Acme, Ore, Frank Anderson, {
10-year-old boy, was accidentally sho
and killed by Paul Besse, an older lad
Besse had been hunting with shot
gun and met young Anderson a
whom he jokingly pointed the weapon
with the usual result.
Editor o. f. McCannley of the Cam
eron, Texas, Herald, was killed in hi
office at that place by Writ Terry, al
employe. McCannley's throat wa
cut from ear to ear with poke
knife. The difficulty is said to hav
occurred over private matters.
The appeal of the counsel 70
Charles L. Tucker. who was convicte
nearly year ago of the murder c
Miss Mabel Page at Weston, Mass, TO
rehearing of two of the exception
taken at the trial, was denied by tn
supreme judicial court in Boston.
The supreme court has affirmed tn
decision of the Kentucky court of al
peals in the case of James b. Howard
Howard was tried three times in tn
circuit court of Franklin county, KeI
lucky, on the charge of murderin
Governor Goebel, and convicted eac
time.
Frank Physator, a. millionaire Ala
Kan miner, ended his life in his apar
ments in a San Francisco hotel,
cutting his throat with razor. Phi.
sator is said to have been one OF tn
pioneers of the Klondike and was {
Forty Mile at the time of the gref