The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-09-12
NEWS SU NJ MARY

Western Federation of Miners, was
tho principal speaker at the Labor day |
picnic at Omaha
There are no signs of abatement in
the smallpox epidemic at Vienna. Du'
ring the last few days 10000 persons |
hare been vaccinated.
Building construction in Havana is |
at a standstill because oil a strike OF |
masons, who have demanded the pay. |
ment of wages in American money.
Six men were blown to pieces at Bos.
tov-on-the-Don, Russia, by the acciden-
tai discharge of two bombs which
they were carrying through the streets.
William II. Abercrombie, formerly
United States consul at Nagasaki, ia
pan, committed suicide by asphyxiation
at his apartments in Washington, ID. G.
John j. Phillips, a prominent coal
operator, was shot by q burglar at his
home in Cleveland, Ohio, and died
few hours later. The murderer es-
capped.
A heavy wind and rainstorm, with
binding electric flashes, passed over
Fort Gaines, Ga, causing much dam
age to property, but no loss Of life is
reported.
A political sensation was caused In
Pittsburg last week when the grand
jury indicted four prominent politi.
clans for participation i'll the alleged
tax receipt frauds.
The finding of the deao body of Jer-
ry Johnson, colored, with five bullet
holes piercing it, is believed to be the
sequel of an attempt to assault Mrs.
w. W. Ellard, at North Birmingham,
Ala.
Mrs. George P. Clifford, of Grand
Forks, N. D., was probably fatally in.
jured near Ashby, Mimi, by the over
turning of an automobile in which she
and her husband were touring to st.
Paul.
King Edward has commissioned Mrs.
Leslie Cotton, a portrait painter of
New York, to paint his portrait Two
sittings already have been given and
the results so far are most satisfac-
tory.
The general land office announces
that the total cash receipts from the
disposal of public land for the fiscal
year ended June 80 last, were $S,494,-
1888, an increase for the year of
| $1,S99,414.
Moronto Chico, matador, was caught
on the horns of bull in the ring at
Ell Paso, Texas, and horribly mangled
| in the presence of thousands of specta-
tors. 1t is believed his injury will
prove fatal.
Mrs. Louisa Hill Car;ibajal, wife of
farmer, and seven children, were
drowned in a flood, resulting from
heavy rains, in Alamo creek, Sierra
county, New Mexico. The food caused
damage estimated at 100000.
General Pleasant Porter, the noted
chief of the Creek Indian nation, died
at yinita, l. t., following az stroke of
paralysis, aged &C years. Second
Chief Mety Tiger will succeed General
Porter as chief of the nation.
The navy department has decided to
christen the 20000-ton battleship No.
80, a sister ship to the Delaware, the
New York. This can lie effected by
changing the name of the armored
cruiser of that name to the Saratoga.
A wireless outfit which the police
believe was used for transmitting race
news to the pool rooms of New York
City, was seized in cottage near the
Sheepshead Bay race track on the Bird
Two men were arrested in the apart
ment.
Fifty persons are said to have been
buried alive by vast avalanche OF
snow that has rolled down the noun
tain side and obliterated the Chilean
custom house at Juncal. This station
Is on the Argentine frontier, high up
in the Andes.
BY the explosion of lamp in an up
stairs room, the two young children o.
/ Aaron Anderson of Cowan Hollow, Pa,
were burned to death. Anderson and
his aged father were helplessly Ill and
we're so badly burned that they, too,
will probably die.
The Korean insurgents are abandon
ing organized resistance to the Jap
anese. They now destroy the rail
ways and telegraph lines and murder
unarmed Japanese, Of whom they al
ready have killed seventeen, shocking
ly mutilating the bodies.
A dispatch received in Paris from
the governor general Of Indo-China
declared that Thanh Thai, the deposed
king of AMMAN, has abdicated in favor
of his S-year-old son, who now rules
AMMAN with the aid of regents, con-
sisting of the counsels Of ministers.
James Bellows McGregor, said to be
the oldest Mason in the world. com
pleted his 1O6th year with public re
ception at Mount Sunapee, N. Y. on
the 9th. He was born in 1901. His
joining of the Masonic order in 1877
makes him a member oil 80 years
standing.
Twelve persons We're killed and
twelve others injured in a wreck of an