The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-31
NEWS SUMMARY


OF an explosion which blew up the
two mills of the Atlantic Dynamite
company at Ashland, Wis.
President Roosevelt has issued his
Thanksgiving proclamation, through
the secretary OF state. naming the last
Thursday in November, the 2Sth.
A contract for steel rails amounting
to $4,000 tons is said to have been
closed between the United States
Steel corporation and the Imperial
railway Of Japan.
Three armed men held up freight
train within Ave miles of Los Ange.
les, wounded one of the train crew,
robbed them of $3.50 and two watches
and made their escape.
The physicians in attendance on
Emperor Francis Joseph have decided
not to issue any further bulletins, as
they consider his convalescence liz
progressing satisfactorily.
The stockholders OF the Norfolk &
Southern railway have confirmed the
plan of the directors to Issue S25, 000,.
600 in bonds for the purchase of roll.
ing stock and other Improvements
What Is known as the Little Alton"
case against the Standard Oil com.
pany of Indiana has been set for trial
on January 6, by Judge Bethea OF the
United States district court at Chi
cago.
Miss Helen Gould was accorded the
honors of general officer of the
American army by the officers and
enlisted men of Fort Leavenworth,
Kans., in the review of troops last
week.
The British steamer Cape Corso and
the schooner Albert Meyer, the latter
sailing from Bellingham, Wash, were
In collision Oct. 10, while of. Cape
Flattery. Both vessels sustained
slight damage.
A dispatch from Moi reports that
the Japanese freight steamer Kokwo
Maru, from Hongkong to Yokohama,
went ashore in storm off Rishma,
and Is a complete wreck. The crew
was rescued in life boat.
The purpose of Secretary Taft's Wis
1t to Subig Bay is to endeavo. to rec
oncile a difference of opinion between
the army and navy respecting the con-
tinuance of expenditures on large
scale for the fortification of that bay.
Seven foreign workmen were in
jured, four fatally in an explosion at
one of the blast furnaces of the Clair
ton Steel company, at Clarion, Pa.
1t is said that the accident was the
result of a premature discharge OF
dynamite.
Davis James, one of the owners of
the Globe Electric Light & Gas COM
pany, was shot and probably fatally
wounded at Globe, Arizona. by H. S.
Buckner. 1t is understood the reason
for the shooting was trouble over min
ing claims.
Mrs. Jonathan Culp received tele-
phone message at Oregon, Mo-, saying
her daughter, Mrs. Silas Allen, had
been killed from a shock from an cleo
trio wire, and she dropped Dead.
the same grave.
Relentless war against the bubonic
plague has been declared by the city
and county boards of health at Bel
lingham, Wash. What amounts to a
ban on all vessels arriving from
plague-infected ports, including Seat
tie, has been placed.
Asserting that they could not make
wages on the mileage under the TWEEN.
ty-five miles an hour speed limit re-
Gently imposed on the Missouri Pa
cific, the engineers of that road have
mission of Nebraska.
The report of the board of inquiry
into the cause of the grounding of the
battleship Kentucky, fully exonerates
from blame Captain Barry, the com.
mander. 1t is shown that the acct,
ton Of the roadstead.
Herbert Parkin, passenger on the
steamer Baltic. which arrived at New
York Saturday from Liverpool, leaped
overheard last Sunday night and was
drowned Parker gave a fellow-pas-
senger the address Of woman in
Hull, England, asking that she be no.
tilted.
The supreme court of the United
States has declined to allow the Kan
sas VS.. Colorado case to be reopened,
The case was an attempt on the part
of Kansas to prevent the state of Colo
iado from using for irrigation pur-
poses the waters of the Arkansas
river.
The unexpired portion of the SEN
tence suspending from duty Captain
William Swift, who was in command
of the battleship Connecticut when it
went aground on Culebra island, has
been RENTED and the captain will be
assigned to duty other than command
ing ship.
On October "a. at Sterling. H., Hon.
j. e. Henderson touched gate. which
thereupon raised. permitting the water
to flow through the lllinois-Missis-