The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-12-19
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oning. which 1t was feared would ter.
inmate fatally.
In a fire that destroyed the resi-.
dence of Charles GLIDE, in Watertown,
N. Y, his two children, aged and
years, were burned to death.
The directors of the Western Union
Telegraph company have declared a.
quarterly dividend of tx per cent
payable in stock of the company.
Mayor William Green has notified
Chief of Police Eaton that nothing but
the necessities of life shall be sold In
Topeka. Kans.. hereafter on Sundays,
w. B. Thomas has been elected act
ing president of the American Sugar
Refining company to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of H. o. Have
meyer.
At meeting of the Ohio Brewers
association, held at Cleveland, the
campaign to reform the saloon was be
gun. No beer will be sold to dive
keepers,
Because he and his wife of two
months quarreled over his desire to
spend his evenings at his bowling
club, Jacob Victor of New York City
killed himself
One man Is dead, another probably
fatally wounded, and third is suffer
ing from serious injuries, as the re-
suit of supposed "black-hand" out
rage in Pittsburg.
m IL he txxyr rntf Cd
States senators from the new state OF
Oklahoma resulted in Robert l.. owen
of Muskogee and Thomas P. Gore OF
Lawton being chosen.
The Federal assembly has elected
DR.. Ernest Bremen, radical, to be
president Of the Swiss republic for
1908. Mr.. Bremen Is vice-president
of the Federal council.
Tanning and Washington islands, OF
the Tanning islands group, in the
South Pacific, were sold by auction at
Suva, Fiji, recently, to Father Brough.
Ter for the sum of $125,000.
The commissioner of Indian affairs,
in his annual report, says that the In
dams lose millions of dollars every
year through dead timber on the res
ervations, especially in the southwest.
C. M. Colby, a janitor in the Oxford
fat building, Omaha, killed his wife
by nearly severing her head from her
body with razor, and then attempt
ing to kill himself. He cannot re.
cover.
Owing to the financial conditions In
the United States, the repatriation OF
Italian emigrants Is assuming vast
proportions. About $4,000 have re-
turned to Italy since the first of the
month.
The Amalgamated Window Glass
Workers of America have obtained a
IL per cent increase in their wage
scale from the window glass manufac.
turers, as a result OF series of con-
ferences.
George s. Best, the actor whose
marriage with Miss Cecile Fleming OF
Los Angeles was annulled recently,
pleaded guilty to charge of bigamy
and was sentenced to ten years i'm.
prisonment.
With but twenty-four hours of his
term to serve, Convict Polk Mackey,
in the penitentiary at Nashville,
Tenn, committed suicide with short
knife. His mind, 1t Is said, suddenly
became unbalanced.
Representative Dalzell of Pennsyl'
vania has introduced bill making 1t
a misdemeanor to publish an untrue,
derogatory statement about a national
bank and penalizing such an act by
fine or imprisonment.
A bill designed to restrain the Unit
ed States circuit and district courts
and judges from issuing temporary In.
functions against the operation OF the
state laws has been introduced In the
house by Mr.. Clayton Of Alabama.
The president has nominated Thorn
IS ]. Atkins of Missouri to be assist
ant treasurer of the United States at
st. Louis, and William H. Pope OF
New Mexico to be associate justice of
| the supreme court of the territory or
| New Mexico.
Two alleged night riders, Will Gray
and Ed Cook, are dead at Mayielc.
| KY. as the result of wounds received
during the visit of the 500 night riders
at Hopkinsville. Both are young men
and reside on Muddy Fork, in Trigg
county, near Welloma.
An Internal machine placed at the
costly home of Samuel Baum, a re-
tired farmer living in Danville, Ills.
exploded and partially wrecked the
| house. Mr.. Baum and family were
not seriously injured. Other houses
nearby were damaged.
Dressed in boys clothes, Miss Cath
crime Andrews called at the United
States receiving office in Sioux City
Iowa, to enlist in the army for ser
vice in the Philippines. Sergeant Hal
| accused her of being girl and she
broke down and cried.
A member of the Canadian house
has asked for all correspondence In
regard to the Japanese treaty. In do
ing so he said that Japanese would