The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-08
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NJ A. Despeyer, the Russian minis
ter at Teheran, Persia, has been re-
iieved OF his post on the ground of III
health.
Japanese officers have assumed
control of the Imperial war college.
trade and commercial schools at
Canton.
Thirty men were drowned by the
wreck between Haughesund and Ber.
gen, off the Norwegian coast, of the
steamer Thor.
Five burglars dynamited the Peo-
pies bank at Kenny, ILL.,, securing 5000
in coin, but failing to open the inside
safe containing $4,000.
Six men were killed and twelve SO
badly injured that most of them are
expected to die by an explosion in
mine at Birmingham, Ala.
Mrs. Krupp, widow of the German
steel manufacturer has given $250,00J
to charity in recognition of the impe
rial silver wedding anniversary.
Ton men forced entrance into the
Russian State bank at Helsingfors
Finland, shot the guardian and Sc
cured $4,000 The robbers have not
been captured.
The Nanchang magistrate who was
wounded during a dispute with Cath
olic missionaries recently, resulting
in a riot and the killing of number
of missionaries, is dead.
Albert II. Patrick, convicted of the
murder of Millionaire Rice of New
York, is to be reprieved, his attorneys
having fled motion for new trial,
which win be heard April 3.
frankie Neil, the American bantam
weight champion, successfully defend
ed his title by knocking out Harry
Tenny in the fourteenth round at Me-
chanics pavilion, San Francisco.
Fearing that she would die soon
and that he would wed again. Mrs.
John Il. Longbaugh killed her hus.
band with an axe while he lay sleep.
ing in the farm home, near Tiverton,
Ohio.
Secretary of the German Admiral
ty Won Tirpitz at session Of the
Budget committee has denied that the
German port of Tsiung Tau, China,
was to be made a fortress of the first
class.
The senate committee ON foreign re-
lations, by a party vote, agreed to IA
vorably report the San Domingo
treaty. A number of amendments
were made to the treaty before it was
reported.
Reports from the Artega district,
State of Chichuahua, Mexico, state
that fines aggregating $127,000 have
been imposed on several miners o,
that district for infractions of the
stamp law.
A Havana dispatch to the New York
Herald says that it is reported that
an American, acting as postmaster for
the territorial aspirants in the Isle
of Pines, has been arrested and con-
fined in jail.
M. Waddington, son of the Chilean
charge d'affaires, who killed Senor
Balmaceda, secretary of the consul
ate, has decided to submit to the au-
thorities and stand trial before Bel
gian tribunal.
The body of Mrs. William Hyman,
sixty years of age, was found In the
ruins of the Williamsburg (Pa.) opera
house, which was destroyed by fire.
1t was supposed that every person
had gained the streets in safety.
Secretary-Treasurer Wilson of the
the United Mine Workers has issued
a call for the sepcial national conven-
tion to convene on March Is, and
again 1900 delegates will gather for
the purpose of considering the wage
scale.
Weak, but feeling no i'll effects of
his captivity, Col. Robert Hannigan.
who was kidnapped in the Mogolon
mountains while travelling in New
Mexico and held prisoner for ransom.
arrived at his home in Deming, Tex
as, last week.
Death came to Bessie Cole, daughter
of Stephen Cole of Bloomingburg
Ohio, after a spell of sneezing, which
lasted ten hours. A physicians ef
forts to check the sneezing were of
no avail. The breaking of blood
vessel ensued.
Ralph Earl Sampson, son of the late
Admiral Sampson has re-entered the
naval academy. Young Sampson was
recently dropped from higher class
on account of deficiency in studies
but was at once leappointed by Pres.
ident Roosevelt.
Pittsburg street railways and gas
supplies, both natural and artificial.
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