The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-08-02
N EWS SUMMARY

-. Lee colored, was hanged
at Crisfield, Md. for assaultinp two
white women. "
ne striking freight handlers OF the
southern Pacific company at Oakland
nave resumed work
lie gas workers at Lublin. Russian
roiand' have gone out on strike and
'ne city streets are in darkness
severe crop damage is reported from
several points in Minnesota. North Da
hota and Iowa, resulting from hail, rain
and windstorms.
Despondent over ill.health. Jame
Major, cashier of the Carlton. Kan
state bank, shot and killed himself in
room of the bank.
II. G. Holmes, merchant while
insane, opened FIRE on Policeman Ros
sitter In Cincinnati The officer re-
turned the fire, killing Holmes.
Richard oggendun, recently arrived
'rom Switzerland, was killed at On.
lario, Cal. by the accidental DISCHARGE
Oh shotgun while hunting rabbits.
American dairy and stock farms are
needed in the Panama canal zone, &C.
cording to q report from Consul ]. C.
Kellogg to the bureau Of manurao-
lures.
The first death from smallpox at
Colon was reported to the Washing
ton office OF the isthmian canal com.
mission last week by Governor Mo-
COON.
AT Kingston, in Williamson county,
tennessee. a negress gave birth to
six children. The children are well
formed and all were alive at last &C.
counts.
Three men were killed in the yards
OF the Erie railroad at Jersey Oity,
when q spreading rail sent a fast
freight train plunging down an EN-.
hankment.
In consequence of revolutionary ter
rorism, the administration of the vice.
royalty of the Caucasus has been com.
pletelg paralyzed and officials are re-
signing in large numbers.
Captain Castillo of the artillery, a
son of General Castillo, was danger.
ously and probably MORALLY wounded
in duel with swords, fought with
Senior Arroyo at Madrid
The Democratic executive commit
tee of the Eighth district of Missis-
sippi has formally declared John
Sharp Williams the party candidate
FOR congress from that district
On account of the long continued
drought the water supply of the
Khanate of Bokhara, Central Asia, is
practically exhausted. The people are
drinking from thick, stagnant pools.
A baby boy was born to Mrs. Stella
Brennan in the state prison at Still
water, MINI. Mrs. Brennan is serving
a life sentence for the murder of her
step-children in Minneapolis about a
year ago.
During the fiscal year ending June
30, 1906, the United States sold to the
people of other countries products of
the value of $1,743, 7G3,612 and bought
from them goods in the total sum of
s1,22O,615,379.
Charles F. Murphy, Leader of Tam
many hall, says that 1t is possible
that Tammany hall will support Will
lam Il. Hearst for the Democratic
for governor In the next
state convention.
The demand for labor in California
promises to exceed the supply for
many months to come. Altogether.
California offers employment to not
less than 10000 men at the highest
wages ON record.
A whitehead torpedo fred from the
dock at the torpedo station during
the practice at Newport, r. l., struck
and sank a boat in which four sea-
mer gunners were seated. A life-boat
rescued the seamen.
Three of party of six persons who
were boating on Lake Hopatking, N.
J.. were drowned when their craft
capsized through the apparent mex
perience of the man who had under
saken 20 handle the boat
The budget committee, in taking up
he estimates of the French govern
nent for 1907, struck out the salary of
N. Diebler, Jr, the public execu-
ioner, thus foreshadowing the disap-
OF the guillotine.
Every dollar of Russell Sage's great
'ortune of $6O,OO0,0OO is left to Mrs.
Sage by a will made in 1901, except an
bequest made to Mrs.
Fannie Chaplin of Oneida, N. Y, an
,pJy sister, who died two years ago.
Russian officers spending leave OF
bsence at Austrian watering places
ava been ordered by telegraph to re-