The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-04
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at Rantoul and Thomasboro. Ills. was
struck by train at Thomasboro and
in1tantly killed.
John Southwind, a giant Winnebago
Indian, who came TO Sioux City, be-
came intoxicated and the next morn.
ing was found on a sand bar frozen to
death.
The attempt by the strikers to stop
the operation of the railroads in Pc.
land has not been successful and a
majority of them are still running
trains.
Glasses to give instruction in Eng
lish to the Russian Jews, who are ex-
pected to come to America as refugees
will be started at once by the Chicago
Hebrew institute.
The gigantic dry dock Dewey has
made an suspicious start on its $4,000
mile trip to the Philippine islands. I'M
der the direction of Commander II. II.
Hosey, U. s. N.
While driving in a runabout across
the tracks of the Long Island railroad
at Brooklyn Hills, N. Y, James Kelly
and Harry Galway were struck by
| train and instantly killed.
| In his annual report, First Assistant
! Postmaster-General Hitchcock says
that the low salaries paid clerks in
first and second-class postoffices is de-
| creasing the standard of efficiency.
Fred Gillette, w. B. Warner and
Fred Englebracht, three men who
broke Jail at Kearney, Neb., have been
captured near Heldredge, where they
were brought to bay in haystack.
Jeddiah Allen, eighty4four years old.
at one time the leading attorney at
Delaware, O., choked to death on a
piece of meat while eating his dinner
at the Marion county, Indiana, poor
farm.
The anarchist who attempted to
stab Cardinal Sartos Cassanas y
Pages, bishop of Urgel, Spain, as he
was leaving the cathedral, committed
suicide by taking poison soon after his
arrest.
Frank Downing of Batesvllle, Ark,
shot and killed T. w. Madcliffe at a
telegraph office in Hoxie, Ark, where
the latter was employed. A dispute
over the delivery of a telegram led
to the killing.
According to latest reports received
in San Francisco from the Orient the
Gus that a number of American houses
have closed their doors until the con
ditions change,
Howard Chenoweth, under sentence
of fifty years for killing City Marshal
Killburn in Silver City, N. NJ, was res
cued by masked men, who Overpow
cred the janitor and locked him In
Chenoweth's cell.
The Turkish government has pre-
scented a note to the Austro-Hungnl
ian government informing it that the
Macedonian committees in Bulgaria
are preparing for an uprising in Mace
donia in the coming spring.
Alex Mcdonald, Birmingham, Ala.
negro, who attempted the life of Pc
liceman Henry Nichols at Elkmont, in
juring him slightly, was pursued by 6
hundred men and brought back to the
town with rope around his neck ant
his body riddled with bullets, more
than a hundred shots having beer
fired into him.
The officers of the Cleveland Retail
Coal Dealers association, indicted OF
the charge of violating the Valentino
antitrust law, pleaded guilty in Com
mon Pleas court at Cleveland, o., ant
were sentenced to pay fines of $50
each.
Lizzie Parton. twelve years old
: daughter of William Parton, died a
: the home of her parents in Covington
KY, all efforts to remove small chin'
doll she swallowed nine days ago fail
ing She swallowed the doll while a
play.
At the point of a pistol Mrs. Hetti
Works, wife of wealthy farmer liy
ing near Lexington, Ky, yesterda
) forced John Taylor, neighbOr, to pa
her debt owed by Taylor to her hus
; band. The hold-up occurred on tn
public highway.
The st. Petersburg correspondent
of the London Times reports tina
the relations between Russia and Gei
many are distincly estranged an
that there is possibility of interna
tional complications arising from tn
rebellion in the Baltic provinces.
. Nicholas Jerue of Cedar River