The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-29
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| pointed the Moret ministry, which
has consented to continue in Office.
The draft of proposed income tax
law has been compiled at the Russian
capital. 1t is estimated that the tax
will bring in s26 500 900 annually.
Representative stephens of Texas
has introduced bill prohibiting rail-
ways in New Mexico and Arizona
from charging passenger rates in ex'
cess of cents mile.
Lawlessness and crime are keeping
pace in Russia with the repressive
measures of the government. Col
umns of newspapers are daily filled
with records of murders and robberies.
The United States battleship Wis
consin sailed Saturday from Manila to
| there, rush orders to that effect hav-
ing been received from Rear Admirai
| Train.
Six of the men who raided the saw
ings bank in Sabalkanski prospect,
February 13, have been sentenced.
| Five of them were condemned to
death and one to twenty years i'm.
| prisonment.
At the home of William Roswell, a
| farmer living near Kelley, o. T., Rob-
| ert Vinson, of Bradford, Ark, aged 70
years, was shot and killed, and Ros-
well was mortally wounded in fight
| over a woman.
William Tellsrow of Cleveland and
| Raymond Wesley of Lorain. Ohio,
were overcome by gas in the Office
of the J. M. Basore livery in Lorain,
and when found Tellsrow was dead.
| Wesley will die.
Reports received from many of the
peach growing sections of Georgia
indicate loss of between 40 and SO
per cent from the cold last week. This
would mean a loss of s2,000,000 to
Georgia growers.
The South African compensation
committee examining claims for Boer
war losses has completed it's labor.
The claims aggregate $310, 100000, for
the settlement of which $47,000,000
has been allowed.
w. A. Smith, a white man, and two
negro women were shot in race clash
near Alden bridge, Bossler parish,
twenty miles north of Shreveport, La.
Smiths wounds will result fatally.
One of the women is seriously hurt.
Morris Buck has been convicted at
Los Angeles of murder in the first de.
gree for the killing of Mrs. Charles A.
Garfield, wife of the millionaire oper-
ator. Buck was at one time employed
as coachman in the Garfield family.
Mrs. Ida Donielson who, during tn.
course of dinner party at her home
in Kansas City, shot and killed E. c.
Harris, a painter, who was one of
her guests, because of an insulting re-
mark, has been discharged from GUS
tody
Mrs. Mary E. Aiken, who confessed
to having buried alive her eight
months-old boy, has been found not
guilty of murder in the first degree
by the jury that heard her case at
Carlsbad, N. M. The jury pronounced
her insane.
Fire originating from spontaneous
combustion in the starch bins of the
Western Candy company's plant in the
wholesale district of Denver caused
damage to the building and stock of
four manufacturing concerns estima.
ted at 100000.
The body of William NJ. Mariner,
son of Ephraim Mariner, one of Mil
waukees richest men, was found In
his room at his hotel with bullet
hole In the head. 1t is supposed that
he committed suicide No cause for
the act Is known.
The Volks Zeitung says that a stran.
ger was arrested at Essen. after of.
fering a soldier several thousand
marks If he obtain a plan of the mob.
ilization in the Essen district The
military authorities regard the pris.
oner as Frenc hspy.
The London Daily Telegraphs cor.
respondent at Toxic says the govern.
or-general of the island of Formoso,
reports that 6163 persons were injured
and 2677 houses destroyed by the re
cent earthquakes. Other reports as.
sert that 1890 houses were damaged
The American, Spanish and native
press of Manila, in commenting upon
the recent battle of Mount Dajo sus
tain Maj-Gen. Wood against the
charge of killing women and children
of the Moro outlaws during the action
which they claim was unavoidable.
The news comes from London that
Waldorf AStOr will narry M. No.