The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-05-02
NEWS SUMMARY

me latest funds received at, Shane
nal Tor the Chinese famine sufferer,
VIII feed $4,000 additional persons
Swept over the falls, four mon wo.o
drowned in Cape Fear river nj puo,,
morn falls, 30 miles from Raleigh 9 q
Hundreds of men in China are he,ro
employed filling swamps and renairint,
roads, being paid from S to 10 cents
per day.
"oid comes from Cartagena that
the plague is raging at that mart ord
'hat Soo persons have been sent IN
the hospitals.
Judge John Edmund Wentworth Al.
dison, who was the prosecuting conn.
sci In the famous Maybrick case, died
In London last week.
The new field gun with which the
Japanese artillery is being armed has
an effective range of about $500
yards Each gun costs $4,000.
Twelve persons were seriously in.
Jured and a dozen or more were more
or less badly hurt in the wreck of n
passenger train near Blaisdell, N. ID.
May l dividend and interest disburse.
ments in New York will aggregate
$SO,O0O,000, which is $4,000. 900 over
the corresponding date in May. 1905,
BY the capsizing of the schooner
Eben in the Delaware river, Archibald
Mcbride, George Edgar and Edward
Murphy, of Philadelphia, were
drowned.
A resolution asking President
Roosevelt to be a candidate for a sec
ond elective term as president was
DEBATED in the house of representa-
tives in Pennsylvania.
An automobile factory to employ 400
men and turn out 1000 finished motor
cars in the first year of its existence
will be erected in Los Angeles as soor
/ as the work can be done.
! Miss Winnie Strong, daughter of c
wealthy farmer was shot and killed
near Dresden, Tenn, by William Saw
yers, because she refused to accep
Sawyers' offer of marriage.
| Three young women, employed a
J the Wheaton glass factory in Millsville
N. j., were killed by the collapse o
smokestack, which crashed through
! a room in which they were working.
Four children of Mr.. Hodad,
Greek merchant, were cremated at FIJI
ton, KY, in a fire that destroyed thei
home. Mr.. and Mrs. Hodad were bad
ly burned and the latter may not re
cover.
The drouth is affecting the suga
plantations in Porto Rico. No raj
has fallen In the southern district
for six months and the loss Is est
mated at 40 per cent of the values {
the crops.
The joint legislative committee
Minnesota on free passes has agree
to recommend a bill providing that a
free privileges on railroads, telegrap
and telephone lines be prohibited ate
December 81 next.
The appeal of Count Boni de Caste
lane from the decision of the coul
which, on November IA, granted d
yorce to the Countess de Castelar,
formerly Miss Anna Gould, OF Ne
York, has been listed for May Il.
S. B. Owens, owner of large a
falfa farm near Roswell, N. M, wa
killed at Allanreed, Texas, by b.
Turbyfill in a quarrel over a a con
mission on big land deal. owen
13-year-old son then killed Iurpynl
A band of armed Terrorists droV
IN ia the postoffice in Sabastopo
made the officials hold up their name
under penalty Of being shot, too
81. 600 of the postoffice funds ana
capped, LAYING no trace OF their iue
tity.
The Panama government declare
there is no truth in the rumor that
has received an offer from the unlte
States for the purchase of two strll
of territory, each five miles wide al
situated on either side of the can
zone.
The chief of the political prison
Odessa was killed by four lerro'is'
whose Indignation he had provoke
by alleged atrocities upon prisoner
One of the Terrorists committed 81
eide, another was captured ana Nv
escaped.
A detachment of Turkish troops al
a band of Greek brigands mad
sharp fight April &c, near MorihoFe
in Macedonia. The Turks ultimate
routed the raiders. The Greek chi'
/ seven of his men and twenty FUR
were killed.
Minister Dawson, at san Donllns