The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-12-26
NEW s SU M NJ r Y

Senator Gore OF Oklahoma mas lh
troduced bill providing for the cleo.
ton of United States senators by pop
ular vote.
The Filpinos are to have their rep
resentatlves In Washington within a
month, Just as the Porto Rlcans are
represented by Delegate LarTinaga.
Tire Bank of Mendenhall. at Men
denhall, Miss, has been placed In the
hands of receiver. 1t is small state
bank, with capital stock of $lS,5O0
and deposits of $4,000.
Van Leer Polk, one of the editors
of the News-Scimitar, ex.consul gen,
eral at Calcutta. and grand nephew
of President Polk, died suddenly at
Memphis. Tenn, last week.
BY an almost unanimous vote the
Republican committee of New York
county refused to adopt a resolution
endorsing Governor Hughes for the
Republican presidential nomination.
At meeting of the nut and bolt
manufactures of the United States.
held in Pittsburg last week, 1t was de-
cided to reaflirm the prices which
have ruled for 1907 for the next year
Thinking It unloaded, John Meyer
farmer boy living near Holy Cross
Iowa. pointed shotgun at his sixteen.
year-old sister and pulled the trigger.
Her head was blown from her shout
ders.
Senator Scott has introduced joint
resolution providing for the appoint
ment of q committee of three sena
tors and three representatives to in
yestigate the recent explosions In Goa
mines.
A. A. Wilson, prominent merchant
shot and killed Bud Doughty, o
wealthy planter, in the formers store
at Shaws, Miss. 1t Is claimed that
Doughty was using improper language
before women.
Joseph H. Choate, in an address at
the annual meeting Of the State Char.
tiles Aid association In New York
City advocated adherence to the old
Mosaic law that one-tenth OF all prop
erty be given to charity.
Judge Ball has adjourned the an
nual meeting OF the Illinois Central
Railroad company to some day In Feb
ruary next, the day to be determined
later by the attorneys representing
Mr. Hartman and Mr.. Fish.
Edward Clifford, aged %, was
hanged at Peoria. H., on Friday for
numbering his father. November %
1906. Clifford walked to the scaffold
with q firm step and repeated
prayer, led by Father Samon.
Professor Anichkoff, who holds the
chair of literature in the University
of St Petersburg, has been sentenced
to confinement In a fortress for eigh
teen months for being member o
the peasant league of Novgord.
The annual report OF COMMISSIONS
Capers of the internal revenue bureau
shows that for the fiscal year ende
June 20, 1907, the receipts OF this bu
reau were S269 1894, 022.S5, an exces
of sec, 561, 284 over the preceding veal
Eminent men in New York an
other cities have begun movement
for the release of Nicholas Tschaiko'
sky and Catherine Breshkovsky, tn
Russian revolutionists now impri'
oned at st. Petersburg for politics
reasons.
Horribly mutilated and her bod
riddled with shot, Mrs. Mary Nelson
most respected woman, was foun
dead in Happy Woods roads, mel
Hammond La. Suspicion has falle
upon a negro with whom Mrs. Nelsc
had quarrel.
1t has been announced authorit
lively that Governor Dawson wi
ira session of the West Virginia lie
islature to convene January 28. I
the consideration of more stringe
mining laws.
, The wife of Henry Clay Ward
we'll known millionaire of Points
Mich, and son of the late David Wal
has petitioned the court to declare h
husband insane. Mr. Ward is W
known In California, where he h
|, spent considerable time
Mrs. Nellie G. Cochran. who "
Q found with bullet wound in her he
l. at the home of her sister In Chica
died at the hospital. It is believed
the police that she was murdered
M. L. Dillon, salesman, whose dc
o body was found in the woman's roc
Indictments charging j. DALI
Brown, general manager of the I'M
vent California Safe Deposit q
Trust company. and Walter j. Bi
nett, a director in the institute
with two counts of embezzlem'
were returned by the grand jury
week.
The woman who, on December
made an unsuccessful attempt to
Lieutenant Juerschelmann, COVER
general of Moscow, by means o
bomb, was executed at Moscow on
goth On the scaffold she said to
executioners: 1--WE will soon s
your hangings,"
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