The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-02-08
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according To the latest returns near
ly million persons in Japan are on
the verge of starvation
Provincial Councillor Filonoff was
hred at five times and killed at Pal.
Java, Russia, by an unknown assassin.
Many people are burning corn at
Lubbock, Tex, as it is the only fuel
they can get. Coal is worth $50 per
ton.
Vast quantities of soft coal are be-
ing stored in vessels at lake ports in
anticipation of possible strike of the
miners
Fifteen persons were injured, two
probably fatally, in railroad wreck
near Durham. ~ NJ, seven cars being
ditched
1t is announced upon reliable au-
thority that Admiral Togo will visit
America in April with two armored
cruisers.
One miner was killed and three
Others were seriously injured by an
explosion in Ball Knob mine No. 2,
near Delorme. w. Va.
An agreement providing for the es-
adjustment of parcel post at cheap
rates between Sweden and the United
States has been concluded
A race war has again broken out in
the region between Elizabethpol and
Shusha, where the Armenians and
Tartars are massacreing each other.
Four more anarchists, making six
teen during the past fortnight, were
shot without trial in the citadel at
Warsaw, OF the total fifteen were
Jews
The double tracking of the railroad
across the Isthmus of Panama is pro-
crossing rapidly, and it is expected
that both tracks will be ready for ser.
vice in July.
The funerals of the thirty-two men
who were killed by machine guns at
Vladivostok January 20, near the com
mandant's house. were held in solemn
state on the Both
Rocco Bell, who had been arrested
on a charge of burglary, committed
suicide in the county Jail in Chicago
hanging himself with a rope made
from the bed sheet.
The president has sent the nominal
ton of James Smith of California to
be governor general of the Philippine
islands vice Henry Clay Ide, resigned,
to take effect June /, 1906.
Lady Grey of London, wife of Sir
Edward Grey, the foreign minister,
who sustained conclusion of the brain
by being thrown from her trap at FL
bingham, Northumberland, is dead.
1t is reported in Vienna that mill
tary convention has been concluded
between Italy and Montenegro, for the
purpose of breaking down Austrias
predomnating influence in the Bal
kans.
Frank willard a halfbreed, who
murdered Sheriff Smith at Ukiah,
Cal, on December 90 last, has been
sentenced by Judge Burnett of Santa
Rosa to be hanged at San Quentin on
April 2S.
Doubt as to the marriage of Mrs.
Charles T. Yerkes to Wilson Miner
have been set at rest by the filing of
the certificate of the marriage with
the bureau of vital statistics in New
York City,
House committee on the District of
Columbia has decided to report with
out recommendation the Adams BILL
providing the whipping post as pun
ishment for wife-beaters in the Dis
trict of Columbia
A statement prepared by the depart
ment of commerce and labor shows
that the commerce between Italy and
the United States in the fiscal year
1905 aggregated $77,500,OO0, almost
equally divided between imports and
exports,
Informal negotiations for the float
alton of a Russian loan have again
been taken up in Paris. The amount
mentioned in official circles varies,
but $4OO,OO0,OOO is generally spoken
of, with the price at 80 and interest
at per cent.
William Walter Hamilton, a negro
was hanged in the Jail in Washington
for the murder of Lizzie Lyman, his
common law wife. The drop fell at
o'clock and death ensued twelve min
utes later. The crime was a particu-
larly brutal one.
William Clark was acquitted by the
jury at Dubuque, Iowa, of the murder
of Leroy Summer, whom he found
with is wife, The jury had been out
several hours, The plea of temporary
insanity was made, but the real plea