The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-05-31
- NEWS SUMMARY -

Carter Harrison will be a candidate
for mayor of Chicago at the next cleo
ton.
One man was killed and Ave injured
In head-on collision between light
engine and freight train near OIL City,
Pa.
In a fire at the Kubari colliery, on
the island of Hokkaido, 41S buildings
were destroyed and nine miners per
ished.
A naval lieutenant named Halschev-
nikoff has been identified as the would.
be assassin of the encouragement Of
Moscow
canal should be constructed, the Pan
ANA canal would be in operation July
/, 1914.
| Mrs. Sallei Elizabeth Sneed Vest,
widow of the late United State Senator
George Graham Vest. is dead at st.
Louis, aged "A years.
Tom Jackson, a negro, who had been
arrested for holding.up and robbing
Henry Barnes, a white boy, of one dol
lar, was lynched at Blanchard. La.
Six men were killed and fifty others
more or less injured by an ex-
plosion in the plant of the New York
Glucose company at Shadyside, N. ].
Five persons were injured by coll
lsion between two automobiles near
Springfield, o.. one of the machines
being thrown down ten-foot embank-
ment.
During a ball game near Mobile,
Ala, lightning struck in the midst Of
the crowd of spectators, killing five
and moro or less injuring twenty-five
others.
The residence of ]. w. Duke, near
Waxahachie, exas, was struck by
cyclone and demolished, an infant be-
ing killed and other members Of the
family injured
Count Solslsy has been relieved OF
the presidency of the council of the
empire, or upper house of parliament
of Russia, at his own request. and on
account of ill-health.
The remains of man, supposed to
be II. X. Shaw, mining promoter.
were found under the Mission street
wharf, San Francisco, weighted down
with eighty pounds of scrap iron.
r. Brent Mitchell, the former San
Francisco stock broker who failed for
100000 some months ago and fed the
city a self-confessed embezzler, has
been located in Spanish Honduras.
Charles McEwen, prominent far.
mer and horseman of Cowles county,
Kansas, was dubbed to death by
Amassa Thomas as the elimination OF
feud of long standing between the
two men.
The British steamer Oakbum, which
Sydney, N. S. W., has been wrecked
off Duyker point, near Capetown. Her
crew, with the exception of two China
men, were saved.
The American National Red Cross
received $4,000 last week from the
Japanese Red Cross for the relief of
the San Francisco earthquake suffer-
ers. This brings the total Japanese
Red Cross contribution to $4,000.
The British Felucca Consuelo has
been captured off the Anghera coast
by pirates, who are adherents of the
brigand chief Valente. The sum of
$4,000 is demanded as ransom for the
vessel and the release of her crew.
In thirty fathoms of water and at
the risk of his own life, William Conk-
lin, 14-year-old boy, of Stapleton,
Staten Island, rescued Captain August
schooner Maud s., from drowning.
In the district of Tadiakensk peas
ant couple were killed and their six.
year-old son was wounded and their
home set on fire by band Of revolu-
tionists. The crime was an act Of VEN
geance because the peasant had led a
Cossack patrol.
s. A. D. Puter, accused of completely
in the Oregon land frauds, and who
has been hunted for months by the
federal authorities since he escaped
from detectives in Boston, was arrest
ed in Alameda, Cal, last week by Sec
ret service men.
George H. Younger, a negro, who
shot and killed well-llnown citizen
named Rector at Columbus, Miss,
while the latter, as member of a
posse, was endeavoring to effect the
negro's arrest, was taken from the jail
by mob and lynched.