The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-06-28
NEWS SUMMARY

band murdered eight bulsari"ns'
Guiding two priests.
A building in course OF construction
at Hamberg fell, six workmen being
taken out dead and four injured.
The house has passed bill granting
10 the state OF California five per cent
Of the ne, proceeds of the sale OF pup
lie lands.
DR. e. M. Sutton, one OF the leading
surgeons OF Illinois, committed sui
eide at Peoria, by shooting himself
through the head.
MD. Wilcox, merchant and post
master at Dixon, 8. D.. has been con-
yicted in the circuit court at Fair
fax Of hoIse-stealing.
AS a result of an inquiry by Gov
ernor Pardee, 1t is ascertained that 3Oo
Grand Army men lost their homes In
the great fire in San Francisco.
The cotton manufacturers OF Falls
River, Mass, have granted the opera
tiyes a IA per cent increase in wages.
About $4,000 hands are benefited.
Information has reached Washing
ton that Jiminez. one-time president
of Santo Domingo, has taken com
mand of the revolutionary forces
there.
A captain of gendarmes named
Sherenatieff was killed on the streets
bt Kertch, Russia, by revolutionists.
His wife, who accompanied him, was
seriously wounded
A primary election bill containing
a provision which is intended to re-
strict the voting Of negroes at the
primaries has been passed by the
Louisiana legislature.
All records for large trees in Brit
ish Columbia forests have been broK.
en- by the telling of gigantic Douglas
fir at Rocky Bay, B. c. The tree con-
tains 1880 feet of merchantable lum.
ber.-
The Duke of Almodovar, minister Of
foreign affairs, who acted as presi-
dent of the conference on Moroccan
reforms held at Algeciras early in the
present year, died at Madrid, Satur.
day
Two men lost their lives, another
was fatally injured and six more were
severely hurt as the result of an &C.
cident in the Pennsylvania tunnel be-
tween New York and Long Island
City.
Adherents of the Sultan of Morocco
unsuccessfully attempted to assassin.
ate Buhanara, the pretender, while he
the pretender's guards were killed and
others wounded
Four men are dead and one perhaps
fatally injured, all white men, as the
result of an attempt by three life-term
convicts to escape from the Angola,
La. state convict farm, seventy miles
from Natchez, MISS.
William Bates. clam fisher at Red
Wing Mimi, has found a pearl in a
clam shell which is said to be the larg.
est fresh water pearl in existence. It's
worth is estimated at anywhere from
$4,000 to 100000.
Mrs. Minerva Williams, tried as &C
cessory before the fact in the murde,
Of James Leigh last January at Evans
Vile, Ind, has been found guilty of
murder in the first degree, and SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment.
G. w. Martin, a farmer his wife and
three children were drowned near Sis
seton, s. D., while returning home
from circus. In the darkness Martin
drove off the bridge into the river,
which was baalg swollen from recent
rains.
DR.. w. T. Harris, commissioner of
education, has rendered his resignation
to the president and the latter has an
nounced the appointment of DIR. Elmer
e. Brown, professor OF education in
the University of California, as his
successor.
J. B. Baremore, a, farmer residing
near Fort Smith, Ark, and two OF his
children, are dead of ptomaine pois.
oning. A daughter. aged seven years
is at the point of death. They had
eaten sausage purchased from a street
lunch stand.
Governor Folk has granted re
spite until September 8 next in the
cases of Mrs. Aggie Myers and Frank
Hoffman, under sentence of death fol
the murder of the womans husband
Clarence Myers, at Kansas City two
years ago.
Clarence M. York, private secretary
for many years to Chief Justice Fuller
of the Supreme court of the United