The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-01-18
- NEWS SUMMARY ~

The pope has expressed his approval
of the intention of Italy to undertake
the cause of the Jews and OF religious
liberty at the Algeziras conference.
NJ. Fallieres was reelected presi-
dent of the French senate by large
majority. He is one Of the most
prominent candidates for the presi-
dency Of the republic.
Isaac Saylor, his daughter. Mrs
Peter Martin, and her Ave children
were burned to death at their home
in Pleasant View. Pa. in fire which
destroyed their home.
Geronimo, the famous Apache war
rior, was married on Christmas day
for the eighth time. The bride is
Mary Lotto, widow of prominent In.
dian who died two years ago.
Delegate h. s. Howell has intro
duced in the Virginia assembly bill
to prohibit the game of football in
| Virginia. A penalty from $50 to 500
is prescribed for each offense.
The International Cigarmakers'
union has declared the strike of the
Key West cigarmakers OFF, and work
will be resumed at once. The strike
has been on nearly two months.
BY a fall of rock at the 160.foot
level of the High Peak mine, near
Julian. Cal, Sidney Petit, miner.
was killed and w. w. Boswell, the
mine superintendent. was badly in.
| jured.
Project Lunatskevich was assassi-
| mated at Novominsk, Russian Poland,
while he was driving in a sleigh from
the railway station. His little daugh
ter, who was sitting by his side, was
wounded.
A cable car on the Rue de Belle
| vile, Paris, descended an incline at
| full speed. the brakes not working.
| The passengers jumped from the car
and fifteen were injured, three of
| them dangerously.
The third trial at San Francisco of
f, Mrs. Minnie Adams resulted in the
| jury returning a verdict of not guilty.
/ She was accused of numbering her
F., baby boy seven years ago by admin
| istering carbolic acid
The jury in the case of Mrs. Mary
j.. Mckinney, on trial at Aledo, Ill.,,
| for cruelty toward a small child she
had taken to raise, found her guilty,
the punishment being an indetermi-
nate sentence in prison. -
Pat Grove has been indicted
by the Pottawottamie county, Iowa,
grand jury for alleged completely in
a street car hold-up July 2, 1905, when
| about $50 was secured from two con-
| ductors and a motorman.
Nearly $50 persons were killed or
| injured as the outcome of an attack
made by cossacks on the Armenian
| seminary at Tiflis, following the
throwing OF two bombs from that in
stitution at passing patrol.
| Mrs. dilemma Cost, who was at one
time domestic in the home of Gov
ernor Charles s. Deneen, in Chicago,
was acquitted at Murphysboro, H.,
Friday, on a charge Of having muir
| dered Tony Rossi, an Italian.
| hn nj
Bakersfield, Ore, for some days and
who claims Tacoma as his home, has
identified George Gilmore, the man
who was shot to death by Officer Mort
Bell some weeks ago, while attempt
| ing to escape from custody, as his
brother, Henry Rousseau, resident
of Tacoma.
The Tamarack copper mine, at
Calumet, Mich, the deepest in the
world, is on fire, with three men miss
ing and almost certain to have met
death in horrible form half to three
quarters of a mile below the earth's
surface.
The new estimates of the cotton
crop of Mexico reduce the amount to
$4,000 bales, which shows far less
than was at first anticipated. Much
cotton may be lost in the Laguna dis
trict, owing to the scarcity of people
to pick it.
Information has been received al
San Francisco that the schooner Jen
ME Wand. bound from Astoria to La
Paz, Lower California, has gone
ashore two miles from LaPaz, and
probably will be a total loss. The
crew was saved.
The house committee on Indian af
fairs decided to report favorably one
Curtis bill, which provides for the
winding up of the affairs of the five
civilized tribes in Indian territory
and for the disposition of their lands
not yet disposed Of.