The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-04-19
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N'S siSntlN injured in the collapse OF
a building in Pittsburg.
The Bangor schooner Sallie b
toundered and four of her crew per
ished off the Maine coast
The marriage of King Alfonso and
Princess Ena of Battenburg has
dehnlteiy been fixed for June /.
Two men were killed and eleven
probably fatally injured in collision
of two coal cars at the Territory mine
at Charleston, w. Va
Lewis Persell. a military prisoner
at Fort Mcpherson, Ga. was shot and
instantly killed while making his third
attempt within four months to escape
An official cable from Caracas states
that department secretaries are still
filling the cabinet positions made va
cant by the resignation of President
Castro.
Capital invested in the carpet and
rag industry in the United States in.
creased 2S per cent from 1900 to 1904.
according TO a report issued by the cen
sus bureau
The negotiations between the for.
mer Russian finance minister, NJ. Ko.
kovsoff, and the French bankers for q
loan of s4OO,OOO,00O are proceeding
satisfactorily.
The Kiel Gazette says the German
Crown Prince intends to send his new
small yacht, the Angela IL, to Boston
to compete for the Roosevelt cup late
this summer.
Luang Prabang, capital of French
lndo-China, has been almost destroyed
by fire. Five hundred houses and the
French school were burned. No fatal
! tiles are recorded.
Mrs. Maud Calvin and two of her
children were killed and two other
children were injured near Greene
vile, Pa, their carriage being struck
| by a train at a crossing.
Gen. Cipriano Castro has retired
temporarily from the presidency of
Venezuela Gen. Juan Vicente Gomez,
first vice president of the republic, is
the present executive head.
The output of the Transvaal gold
mines for March was 3,723 ounces,
valued at s99S4O75, which constitutes
new record, being 10000 ounces over
the previous highest monthly output
The Uunited States will have the
support of Great Britain in the effort
to secure a postponement of the sec
ond peace conference at The Hague
to later date than proposed by Rus
STA.
The British ship George T. Ray,
bound for Argentina, being in a sinking
condition, was abandoned and burned
off Port Elizabeth. The captain and
crew were brought to port by a Ger
man vessel.
Mrs. John Pruitt, wife of a travelling
evangelist, while brooding over her
husbands absence and the hardships
she and her children were subjected
to, committed suicide at Crowder, l. T.,
by taking carbolic acid.
According to advices from the City
of Mexico published in Los Angeles,
SIS ,0OO.0 900 will be expended by Los
Angeles capitalists in the institution
and operation of a chain of banks along
the west coast of Mexico
Frank A. Antonini, barber, aged 81
wears, committed suicide at Sonora,
Cal. by shooting himself through the
shop. Ill health and unrequited love
is given as the reason for the suicide.
Alanazkovic, one of the plotters OF
the assassination of King Alexander
and Queen Draga, was placed on the
retired list at his own request last
week. 1t is hoped that this marks tn"
beginning OF the wedding out of the
regicides.
A Great Northern passenger train,
eastbound, was derailed at Cass Lake,
Wis. Engineer OFlaherty of superior
was killed The fireman jumped and
was severely injured, but will recover.
The passengers suffered nothing more
than shaking up.
Fred Miner, aged %, and an un.
known companion jumped from train
at Richmond Cal, when they both
struck a picket fence and were thrown
on the track The train passed s'"r
their bodies, which we're mangled be-
yond recognition.
The Laborites have rejected the pro
posed arrangements with the Protec-
tionists for common action in the com
ing federal elections, says a Mel
bourne dispatch, and therefore will
contest every seat where there is a
possibility of success.