The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-01
NEWS SUM NJ LAR Y


According to the present program
President Roosevelt will stop at San
Juan, p. r., on his way back from
Panama
over 200 soldiers of the garrison at
Cronstadt have been arrested on the
charge of being members of the revo
lutionary organization
Tom Crompton, negro, was lyched
near Centervlle, Miss. 1t is alleged
that he confessed that he murdered
Ely Whitaker, a farmer.
The Bank of jamestown, in Moni-
teau county, Missouri, was entered by
robbers, who blew open the safe, Sc
cured $2,7O0 and escaped.
The bodies of three miners who had
died by inhaling gas were found as
the day shift of miners went to work
in the James Mullen mine No. l, near
Philadelphia
Charles o. Hutchinson, an old man
who lived in a cabin at Alpine, Cal,
and who had been missing for several
days, was found dead about three
miles from his cabin.
A board of bishops of the Metho-
dist church, in session in Rochester,
N. Y, decided to raise 100000 to re-
build churches destroyed by the San
Francisco earthquake.
Three hundred chaffeurs employed
by the New York Transportation com
pany, which operates $50 public cleo
trio cabs, went on strike last week for
an increase in wages.
More than a dozen persons were in
jured and II is believed that one or
more lives were lost in fire which
destroyed the Chamber of Commerce
building in Kansas City.
William u. Hammond of Whining
ton, Della, has been left $4,000 by a
stranger whom he befriended some
years ago while running as a news
agent on the Delaware railroad.
While the second torpedo boat flo
tilla was in Newport waters recently
for target practice, it is reported to
have excelled any previous marks
manship by a torpedo fiotilla of the
navy.
Judge Brentano of Chicago has au-
thorized the sale of the Milwaukee
State bank, which was wrecked by its
president, Paul o. Stensland, to the
Assets Realization company for ap-
proximately $750,000.
Two farm hands were murdered
near Bristol, MINI. Their bodies were
discovered in hayloft a mile north
west of Bristol. The indications are
that the murder was committed while
the men were asleep
Forty-seven of the passengers and
thirteen members of the crew of the
Russian cuasting steamer Variagin
have been rescued by Chinese boats.
hC val uih II hOulihSS
and sank near Vladivostok.
Governor General Magoon Is not
likely to request Venezuela to extra
dite Manuel Silveira, the fugitive
banker Of Havana, who is understood
to be In Caracas, as no criminal
charges have yet been made against
him.
A daring attempt to liberate fifteen
prisoners from Harlem, New York, Jail
was frustrated, but not until one
keeper had been so seriously beaten
that he may die, and another sus-
tanned a broken arm and serious
bruises.
A man named Spoggs, once a prom
inent revolutionary in the Balkan
provinces, was killed at Mitau while
on his way to America, because he
had betrayed his party. He had just
recovered from wound inflicted on
him by revolutionists
George M. Pool was arrested at Los
Angeles as fugitive from the justice
Of Texas, where, it is alleged he is
wanted for the murder at Beaumont in
1898 of two or more men in the
course of family feud, and Of Unit
ed States Marshal Jim Jett.
Every railroad in the country on
which members of the Switchmen's
union of America are employed has re-
ceived from that organization a de-
mand for increased wages and an
eight-hour day. Unless the demand is
granted the men will strike.
Raisuli. the bandit chief, has replied
to the message of Mohammed Eli
Torres, the representative of the sui
tan of Morocco, asking him to restore
order in the district of Arzilla, saying
that he had charged his brother with
the task of restoring order there.
The president has received the re-
report of committee recently sent to
Oklahoma to investigate charges pre-