The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-12-12
NEW S SUM MARY

The second trial OF Harry X. Thaw,
on the charge of killing Stanford
White, has been postponed until Jan
uary g.
Twenty-one sailors implicated In
the recent mutinies at Vladivostok
have been condemned to death by a
courtmartial.
In the United States district court
at Norfolk, Va, last week. Judge Wad-
din decided to appoint receivers for
the jamestown Exposition company.
Thousands of mill operatives
throughout New England resumed
work last week In most cases the
mills hereafter will be run on full
time.
Herbert l.. Pudyear. house paint
err. was called to the door of his home
in Kansas City, Kan, late at night,
and fatally shot by one of two would
be robbers.
Mrs. Holly Hollingsworth, of Green
vile, Tex, was arrested at Alberta
Okla, last week, on a charge of hav-
ing murdered her brother, William
Riley, near Greenville month ago.
The value OF the coin executed at
| the minis of the United States during
November. 1907. was $35.963.260; of
which S33,S40,000 was gold, and g..
100000 silver, and s121,000 minor
coins.
The London Tribune declares that
will return from America and will be
succeeded by Sir Henry Howard, the
minister at The Hague, are without
| foundation.
New Berlin, eighteen miles east OF
Jacksonville, KY, was visited by flre
early Sunday morning. Loss, $4,000.
| The First National bank and the War
rem & Boynton bank were among the
buildings burned.
The Brazilian coasting steamer
Guasca, Captain Ramos, $50 tons. has
| gone down off ParanaQua, Brazil, as
result Of collision with an unknown
vessel. Thirty persons on board the
Guasca were drowned.
| Colonel Cocktails, chief engineer of
the Panama canal, has cabled the ca
nal officers In Washington that ell
records were broken for the month
of November in the matter OF exca-
| walton on the isthmus.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt shows that at the close Of
business November 30, 1907, the debt,
less cash in the treasury, amounted
to $S74.479.S39, which is a decrease
for the month of $1,746,794.
Physicians are greatly interested In
the case of Edward Shea, a well
known young man of Montclair, N. j.,
who has been in trance for ten
days, only occasionally becoming
partly conscious for a few minutes.
Over score OF persons, mostly
women from Xenia, Ohio. were more
or less seriously injured when a. Day.
ton and Xenia traction car got beyond
control of the motorman on steep
hill east of Dayton and overturned at
q curve.
BY vote of 124 to 4. the house
Democratic caucus voted down the
proposition of Representative Jones
of Virginia to take the designation of
minority members of the committees
out of the hands of Minority Leader
Williams. +
Robbers who tried to loot the Sails
bury (Mo.) Savings bank shot and
dangerously wounded Ashley Dam
eron, the city marshal, who slept in
| a In ha f.f H
ing. The robbers failed to get into
the safe.
The Lincoln league, the leading Re-
publican organization of northern
New York, with a membership of L.
500. has adopted resolutions recon-
mending Governor Hughes to all Re-
publicans as the next Republican
nominee for president
The Banco Mobilario, an important
nitrate bank of Santiago, Chile, sus-
pended payment on December z, and
, the Bank of Chile took charge of the
, situation. The liquidation is still
general and the financial crisis con
tinues to be very acute
t One of Van Dykes great master
J pieces, The Erection OF the Cross,
has been stolen from the church OF
: Notre Dame, Belgium. The thieves
: carefully cut off the canvas from the
frame and carried 1t away. They are
r believed to have been experts.
3 Morris Buck, who murdered Mrs
3 Charles A. Garfield. wife of a wealthy
Los Angeles oil operator, on January
3 H. 1906, paid with his life for his
4 crime on December upon the scat
: fold at San Quentin prison. He dice
S game and expressed no regret for his
crime.
)" The superior court has refused th'
y petition of A. Augustus Hartje 0
, Pittsburg for re-argument in his sui
o for divorce from his wife, Mar.
= Scott Hartje. The court recently al
filmed a decision of the Alleghen.