The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-02-07
NEWS SUMMARY

The senate has passed a bill plac
ing the control of the Panama railroad
under the Isthmian canal commission
The snow which has fallen upon the
vest Alps is the heaviest In twenty
years 1t is five feet deep at Grenoble,
France.
BY the explosion of powder in the
Johnson City and Big Muddy coal
mines at Johnson City, Ills. five were
killed and eleven hurt.
The Indian appropriation bill re
ported to the senate carries S14,5O9,
201, net increase of S6.306,132 over
the bill as passed by the house.
Otis Eddy, aged 1902, died at Rock
ford, Ills, last week. He was believed
to be the oldest Mason in this coun
try, having been initiated in 1926.
George Burnham, Jr., former gen
eral counsel for the Mutual Life In
surance company, was put to work IL
the printing shop in Sing Sing last
week
Mrs. Russell Sage has given mil.
lion donars to the Rensselaer, Poly.
technic Institute. Announcement of
the gift was made at meeting Of the
Institution.
Four men were killed and sixteen
others seriously injured as the
result of the explosion of an ice ma
chine in the power house of Armour
G. Co. at Chicago.
The Wheeler-Simon bill, to abolish
capital punishment, has passed the
house and senate of Kansas and now
only awaits the governors signature
to become O law.
Fire which started with an explo
sion in the paint shop, destroyed an
entire section of the big Baldwin loco
motive works at Philadelphia, entail
ing loss of S1,0O0,O00
The Alabama senate passed a bill
classifying all the railroads in the
state and reducing freight rates on
more than 100 commodities. 1t is ex.
pected that the bill will pass the
house.
Masked men called Jesse Phelps
from his home at Morgantown, KY,
and whipped him severely. Phelps
| was accused of sticking pins in his
s-year-old child and burning it with
a hot poker.
The overfiowed Mississippi river
which is filled with great blocks OF
floating ice, has swept away two resi-
dences and the school house at Dorent
o village twenty-five miles south Of
Charleston, Mo.
John S. Corsyee, proprietor of
lace store In West Hoboken, was sho
| and killed in his store at night by one
of a gang of nine men who broke into
the store to rob it. They also wound
ed John Ged, an assistant.
AS the result of a fire which de
stroyed the Columbia building, in Buf
falo, N. Y, occupied by about twent!
tenants, three tiremen are dead ant
eighteen are more or less injured. Thu
fire loss is estimated at 100000.
Archbishop S. G. Messmer, in an in
| - ra. oct II
lishment of the canteen in militar.
posts and soldiers homes. Il an
firmly convinced that the canteen Il
a strong temperance factor" he says
Mrs. F. B. Green of Oak Park,
suburb of Chicago, was bitten by he
5-year-old-son whom she was treat
ing for scarlet fever, and may as
result lose her hand. Infection from
the bite caused blood poisoning. Am
putation of one finger has failed to al
rest the malady. The child die
January 25.
Henry Magruder, son of the Confet
crate general, John Bankhead Magrt
, der (who died in Houston, Tex, Il
1871, is dead. Mr. Magruder has bee
travelling in Italy with his niece, Mis-
Buckler, who nursed him during hi
, illness.
While suffering from a fit Of ten
, porary insanity, Hamilton Wright,
: prominent citizen of Sharon, Pa, she
and killed his wife in their bed room
Wright then telephoned the police ST
ton and was found sitting near tn
body of his wife.
On account of the failure of the Il
cal wheat crop, Russia this year wi
be a purchaser of American whea
!, and the first shipload will arrive SOC
! at Riga from London, on its way
4 Rybinsk. The price on the Russia
d market will be $1.15 bushel.
After being chased for four year
IN oho,ood with hainp Ona