The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-12-20
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companies in New York state show
a decrease of about s30,0OO,0OO in
three months.
The Citizens bank of Cedar HILL
Texas, was robbed of $500, the rob
bers using nitro-glycerine in forcing
open the safe.
Representative Lacey of Iowa has
introduced bill making $12 the MIN
imum pension to be paid veterans of
the war of 1861.
The Senate in executive session or
the 18th ratified treaty with
Guatemala for the reciprocal protec
ton of patents.
The war department mas selected
the site for the government powder
factory, for which congress appropr
ated $4,000 the last session.
The steam trawler Forsoga has
been sunk in a storm off Christian
sand, Norway. All of her crew, mum
bering twelve men, were drowned.
Fourteen merchants and business
men of East st. Louis have entered
pleas of guilty to charges of VIC.
lating the Illinois child labor laws.
julius Persky, of Hammond, Ind,
died lasts week from excessive smok.
ing of cigarettes. He said that he
had smoked 100000 cigarettes during
his lifetime
Mrs. Frank Coonrad is believed to
have been killed and property valued
at $4,000 destroyed in 3 fire which
consumed the American house block in
Burlington, VT.
Ten prominent lumber dealers have
been indicted by the grand jury for
an alleged violation of the Oklahoma
antitrust laws by entering into com.
bination to fix prices.
John c. Brain died at Tampa, Fla, of
paralysis. During the civil war he
commanded several warships. He
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be released after the war
In response to cables from the chief
of police of Warsaw three Russian i'm
migrants were arrested Immediately
after leaving the North German Lloyd
steamer Halle at Baltimore.
The passenger steamer Monarch
with ten passengers and a crew of
thirty is a wreck on Isle Royale,
Lake Superior. The passengers and
crew succeeded in reaching shore.
The differences between the federal
and insular governments over the di.
vision of the public lands in Porto Rico
have been amicably adjusted, subject
to the approval of the secretary of the
navy.
1t is the opinion of Representative
Victor Murdoch of Kansas, as he out
lined his position in a speech in the
house, that the government is paying
too much for the carriage of railway
mail.
B. C. House, proprietor of a laun
dry at FL Paso, Texas, shot three
men whom he claims attacked him
in a saloon, fatally wounding two
of them and seriously injuring The
other.
For the first time in 20 years the
great Treadwell mines of Alaska are
closed. Douglas and juneau are suf
fering from coal famine and lack o
fuel has resulted in the closing of tht
mines.
Andrew Carnegie has sent to The
board of trustees of st. Viateurs col
lege, Kankakee, H., check TO
1900 for the rebuilding of the col
lege building, which was recently de
stOyed by fire.
Emperor William has authorized
Chancellor Won Buelow to dissolv,
the reichstag and order new elections
if the supplementary appropriations
asked IOr ny the government are no
granted by the house.
DR.. George NJ. Gray, citizens can
didate, was elected mayor of Kansa.
City, Kan, by a plurality of 800 vote!
over NJ. j. Phelan, democrat, anC
John p. Sims, republican, at specia
election held last week
Changes in administration in six o
the nineteen Massachusetts cite,
which held elections on the 18th will
take place on January l, and mex
May three cities where liquor ha.
been sold will return to no licens,
communities.
One of the most important ethnolo
gcal expeditions in the history o
Harvard university has left, under tn,
leadership of DR., w. c. Faradee, 70
South America, to make an investiga
ton among the Indian tribes of tn
Andes mountains.