The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-05-10
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tramp near Humphreys, Cal
August Braun a citizen of Cincin.
natl, committed suicide by jumping
from the Eiffel tower, Paris, while de-
ranged
Eight thousand men and women took
part in labor demonstrations in HYDE
Park, London, May l. Complete order
prevailed.
The electricians of all the telegraph
companies in Minnesota, North and
South Dakota, are on strike, about 500
men being out.
Harvey M. Hutchinson. for eight
years mail clerk at the Peoria, ILL.,,
postofiice, has confessed to a shortage
of nearly $4,000.
Seven hundred structural iron
workers struck at Pittsburg on MAY l
for an increase in wages and recog-
milton of the union.
Eight thousand men and women
took part in labor demonstrations in
Hyde Park, London, May 1. Com
plete order prevailed.
The president has signed the bill
making an appropriation of $4,000 to
meet emergencies in the postofi1ce de-
partment in California.
Sir Henry Taschereau, chief justice
of Canda, has resigned He probably
will be succeeded by Charles Fftzpat-
rick, minister of justice.
Able Morales murdered the Jesuit
Father Mutinez in the sacristy of the
San Domingo church at Murcia, Spain,
and then committed suicide.
1t is officially announced that Maxim
Gorky will be prosecuted again on a
charge of fomenting an anti-Russian
and revolutionary movement abroad
1t is difficult to tell exactly how
many temporary buildings are being
lCStCu III Gan II dntlpCO, DuL lut Car
penters' union report over 1000 men
at work
The National Machine Builders as.
ISOLATION in convention at Atlantic
City, N. j., decided on per cent
raise in the price of tools for the ensu.
ing year.
Colonel Sableoiff, commanding the
troops of the garrison at Viatka, Rus.
STA, has been stabbed and mortally
wounded by an unknown man. The
assassin escaped.
In the reichstag last week Herr Be-
bel, the socialist leader, made the
statement that during the disturbed
period Russia fugitives deposited $751;
100000 in German banks.
Two hundred men calling them.
selves Socialists attempted to march
through the streets of Chicago on
May 1 under the red flag and were
prevented by the police.
In a fight which occurred in the vi
cinity of the Mullaya valley with
troops of the sultan, the pretender to
the throne of Morocco lost thirty men
in dead and wounded
The senate has confirmed John H.
Edwards of Ohio as assistant secre-
tary of the treasury, and julius Jacobs,
California, as assistant treasurer of
the United State at San Francisco.
A statement has been issued by the
Aetna Fire Insurance company Of
Hartford Conn, on its liabilities re-
sulting from the San Francisco fire
and the loss of the company is esti'
mated at $2,700,000.
In the presence of a number of dep
uties from the county clerks Office the
vaults in that department of the ruined
city hall in San Francisco were opened
and the contents found in good con.
dition. The vaults were not reached
by the fire.
Elizabeth Gates, ia years old, said
to be the Oldest person in the state,
died at Brunswick, Ca, on the 5th.
She had been married three times and
leaves four children, twenty-three
and nineteen great
The home of w. j. Eckers, a coal
mine superintendent at Smithton, Pa.
has been partly wrecked by dynamite.
None were injured. Eckers had been
threatened by "black hand" letter
following the discharge of two en-
ployes last week.
John w. Ruggles, member OF the
firm of Dodd, Sweeney & Co., which
lost a great deal by the fire in San
Francisco. committed suicide in the
back yard of his residence in Ross
valley, by shooting himself in the
head with a revolver.
Eight unconscious men were taken
from the McAdoo tunnel under the
Hudson river after an explosion in the
t1nnel. Five of them are removed