The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-04-25
N WIS SU M NJ A r Y


with $4,000 in cash
Second Assistant Secretary of State
Adee has started for Europe with the
intention of making a 2,000-mile bt
cycle tour of France.
During the last four weeks over 100
workmen have been killed or wound
ed at LODI, Russian Poland, as the
result of labor feuds.
Robbers dynamited the safe of the
Farmers and Merchants bank at Blk
bic, l. T., secured several thousand
dollars in currency and escaped.
For the second time in ten years
Los Angeles will entertain the Ma
:ional Teachers association, which
will meet in that city July s to 10.
The United States Steel corporation
has fixed the selling price for rails
for the season of 1908 at $2S per ton.
This is the price which has obtained
for several years.
Mrs. Aggie Myers was delivered to
the penitentiary officials at Jefferson
City, Mo-, on Friday to serve life
sentence for the murder of her hus.
band at Kansas City.
Mrs. Esther Mcneil, founder of the
Women's Christian Temperance union,
and first president of the organiza.
ton, died at her home in Fredonia,
N. Y, last week, aged "a years.
In an attempt to escape from the
state penitentiary at Raleigh, N. c..
by three young convicts, one of them,
C. L. Scruggs, was killed by the
guard. The others were recaptured.
The assembly Of New York passed
by vote of n to SO the bill to per.
NIT amateur boxing matches of not
exceeding firteen minutes duration
under the authority of the Amateur
Athletic union.
Professor c. B. Berkeley, of the de.
partment of geology at Columbia, says
that the earthquake conditions pre-.
vailing in Mexico are exactly similar
to those which prevailed in San Fran
cisco year ago.
From 1897 to 1904 the United
States spent 1907, 100000 for military
purposes. An expenditure of $780,.
100000 is now considered normal, SC
great has been the increase during
the last few years.
Governor Hughes has signed the so.
called Bingham police bill, which will
permit practically a reorganization of
the New York City police force and
greatly increase the powers of the
commissioner of police.
State Entomologist Smith has re
ceived reports from the various peach.
growing districts of Georgia, a sum.
mary of which shows that at least rs
per cent of the crop has been killed
by the recent cold weather.
At meeting of the Republican edi.
tors of the Tenth Indiana congression-
al district, resolutions were adopted
endorsing Vice President
Charles w. Fairbanks for the Repub-
lican presidential nomination.
1t is announced that in the course
of police Investigations into the re-
cent murder of physician at Warsaw
by hired terrorist, it was estab.
lished that SIS each is the price paid
by the terrorists of Warsaw for muir.
ders.
There were $4,000 deaths from the
plague in India during the week
ending April 10. Seventy thousand OF
these occurred in Bengal, the United
provinces and the Junjab. The epi
demic began in the Punjab in October
1897
The fires in hand window glass
plants under nearly 400 pots in Pitts.
burg, were drawn Saturday as the re
suit of a decision of the manufactur
ers to close for the season. Between
100000 and 100000 employees are af
fected.
Mrs. Mary Johnson, negress, was
found dead in rooming house in Chi.
cago, her head having been almost
severed with a Ratchet Otis John.
son, negro, was arrested and admit.
ted he killed the woman because of
jealousy.
The international commerce of the
world now exceeds $26,000,000, 900, of
which $13,5OO,OOO,O0 is imports and
s12,50O,000,00O exports, according to
statement issued by the bureau of
statistics of the department of com.
merce and labor.
The British steamer Andalusia, from
Swansea, for Barcelona, foundered
April IS off the Spanish coast. Her
captain, first officer and sailor were