The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-02-14
NEWS SUM MARY

lowed.
The Intensely cold weather which
mas prevailed in Spain recently has
destroyed the winter crops in several
provinces.
The coolest weather OF the present |
winter is being experienced in west.
ern Pennsylvania western Ohio and
eastern Virginia,
The January statement of the Lon.
Ion board of trade shows increases
Of s35,SS1 900 in imports and of s21.-
479,OOO in exports.
Troops have been sent to the conner
mines in the Ashio district, japan,
where the miners made an attack
upon the property, using dynamite
freely
The Texas legislature has passed
bill providing that a special tax OF
$4,000 be assessed against every ex
press office in the state handling ship
ments of liquor.
Six miners were killed and twelve
or more injured In a wreck OF a coal
train on the Chicago g. Northwestern
railroad near the corporate limits of
Des Moines, Iowa.
Fifteen wood cutters were over.
whelmed by an avalanche in the Mus
eel district of the Pennsylvania noun
tains. All the men were dead when
dug out of the snow
There is danger of an outbreak of
war in Central America, although eff
forts at arbitration are being made in
the city of San Salvador in the hops
of preventing hostihties.
The state senate of California has
unanimously passed a bill making II
crime to dock horse tails, and pro-
hiDiting the importation into the state
of horses with locked tails.
Representative Hearst has intro
duced bill in the house to prevent
corrupt practices in elections by MAX
ing bribery a felony and prescribing
other safeguards for elections.
President Roosevelt hopes to visit
Alaska on hunting trip after his pres
idential term expires. He expressed
this desire last week to Robert NJ.
Wiley, who has spent several years in
that country.
1t is reported that Count Boni de
Castellane, from whom his wife, who
was Miss Anna Gould of New York,
secured divorce in the French courts
last November, is about to appeal to a
higher court.
| The body of John W. Smith, a
farmer living near Raven, l. T., was
found on the Sth. He left home on
the 9Th during a severe blizzard, and
the supposition is that he lost his way
and was frozen TO death.
Raymond Meyer, schoolboy Of
Brooklyn, who was bitten January IL
by a mongrel dog, died of hydropho,
bia on the 9Th. Three other children
who were bitten by the same dog have
had their wounds cauterized.
Seven miners are entombed in No
10 colliery of the Lehigh & Wilkes
barre Coal company at Wanamie, Pa.
and miners acquainted with the work
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hope of reaching any of them.
In the senate committee on agricul
ture last week an unsuccessful at
tempt was made to insert an amend
ment to the agricultural apropria
ton bill placing the cost of inspection
of meat products upon the packers.
The opposition party are well in the
lead in the elections In European
Russia, having twenty-four seats IL
parliament assured and seventy-five
practically certain. The conserva
tives have five assured and thirty-nine
probable.
CONGRESSMAN William Alden Smitf
has been elected by the legislature t.
fill the unexpired term of Senator r
A. Alger. Congressman Smith had al
ready been elected as Ayers sue
cessor at the expiration of his tern
March 4.
While ignoring the anti-Japanes'
feeling in portion of the American
press, the Japanese public is almos
unanimous in demanding that the so
luton of the San Francisco schoo
question must not involve the labo
question.
The Brazilian government has de
clded, in order to avoid possible dis
agreeable incidents, to exclude negr'
sailors from the Brazilian squadron
which will visit the United States. TIL
opposition newspapers attacks the gov
eminent for this step.
In a sensational speech before NC
hrosl,a senate committee, Senator Pal