The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-07-04
NEWS SUMMARY

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the 2-cent railway fare bill.
Hoke Smith was inaugurated COVER
nor of Georgia on Saturday
The schooner Violette with nine
teen hands, has sunk off the coast OF
Iceland
A balloon fell into the sea near
Newport. Belgium, and the aereaau;
was drowned
The Indiana supreme court holds
that the state has the right to regulate
traffic in liquor.
by the explosion Of an Internal ma
chine, prison wall at Sebastopol was
shattered and twenty prisoners es-
capped.
Robbers entered the residence OF
Prince CharvodeZe at Tiliis, Russia.
killed the prince and plundered the
house.
Mrs. Katherine f. Fiske, aged 104.
| died at Grand Island. Neb.. last week.
| She was the oldest person in Me-
| braska
Gus Beckman was killed and John
| Field and Harry Larson were seriously
| injured in n premature blast at He'll
Gate Mont.
Three men now under arrest at Dill
Ion, Mont, robbed the Oregon Short
| Line section house at Feeley s station,
securing 500,
| General Lono, minister of war or
Spain, died on Sunday. General Lono
received his portfolio from Premier
| Maura last January.
The incendiary movement among
the Russian peasants in revenge for
| the dissolution of parliament has as
sumed serious proportions.
A revolutionist dressed as an officer
of the frontier guards, drew $4,000
from the Russo-Chinese bank at Har-
bin, on forged check and decamped.
The assembly of Wisconsin by
vote of 60 to 3, passed the senate
resolution favoring the election OF
United States senators by direct vote.
James e. Brown was shot and killed
by II. T.. Daniels. saloonkeeper OF
Globe, Arizona. An insult to Daniels
sister was the motive, according to
Daniels.
immigration officials at San Antonio.
Texas, have received information that
there are 1000 Japanese In Mexico
awaiting chance to slip into the
United States.
The strike troubles in the province
of Aerrera. Italy, are becoming worse.
The troops have been forced to
protect the workers. Many persons
have been injured.
An edict issued from Pekin orders
all officials to carry out the anti-opium
edict and commands an investigation
into the quantity of land at present
devoted to the cultivation Of opium.
In sensational advance caused by
the covering of shorts the price or
wheat on the Chicago exchange on the
9th shot past the dollar mark the
December delivery selling at $1.03A.
Six men fell over fifty feet from
collapsing scaffold on building In
course of construction In San Francis
co. All were badly injured, one dying
on his way to the Receiving hospital
Prince Egbir Mira. the son of for
mer Governor Zuli Sultan, killed his
mother at Ispahon, Persia, shooting
her three times because she refused
to furnish him money to continue his
dissipation.
A tornado swept Tucumcari, N. NJ,
demolishing numerous buildings. Mrs.
Ed Miller and daughter, whose home,
six miles from town. was badly wreck
ed, were injured. A heavy hailstorm
followed the wind.
A tornado struck Recreation park
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row of horse stalls. killing three val
liable race horses. William Wide
mayer, 80, was killed by coming In
contact with live wire.
The political situation at Lisbon
is much improved. Opposition to the
ministry is dying out, the politicians
apparently realizing that this would
only lead to disturbances. discrediting
them and strengthening the ministry.
China is on the eve of an upheaval
that will be much worse than the
TAPPING rebellion, according to Cap
tain A. Smith, master of steamer
of the Yangtse Kiang. who arrived az
Victoria, B. c., last week by the steam
err Shinano Muru
James " Barnes, former president
of the Title Insurance Trust company,
of Minneapolis, now defunct, has been
arrested on bench warrant charging
him with embezzlement. There is
shortage of over $150,000 on the com
pany's books.
Causes of wrecks on the Union Pa
cific are TO be officially announced to
the public hereafter by the board OF
inquiry, and the board, which conducts
the investigation is to include one
or more leading citizens OF the com
munity in which the accident oc-
Cured.
County Treasurer ]. G.. Randolph
stabbed County Commissioners Ander-
son Burleson to death with pocket