The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-03-07
NEWS SUMMARY

courtmartial for participating in IN,
recent rising at Tukum, were shot q,
Riga, Russia.
by vote of 43 to 10 the senate rat
med the Santo Domingo treaty THE
was one more vote in the afirmativ,
than was required.
The announcement is made of the
resignation Of John F. Stevens rs
engineer in chief of construction nj
the Panama canal.
Adolph Tingle, a British subject
was court-martialed and hanged AT tho
citadel at Warsaw for having robbed -
street car conductor.
Governor Beckham has determined
TO send troops to Jackson, Ky. dur
Ing the trial of James Hargis
charged with the Cox murder.
Robert G.. Gill, a broker, was fined
$3.50 in Chicago for operating a buck.
ct shop for women. The court over.
ruled a motion for a new trial.
The police and private detective are
searching San Francisco for William
Walker, the missing bank treasurer
Of New Britain, Conn. They be
lieve he is there.
The governor Of Indiana has signed
the two-cent railroad fare act. 1t has
no emergency clause and goes into
effect with the publication of the new
laws about May or June.
Two men were killed and five bad.
ly burned by an explosion of gas In
the Woodward mine at Kingston, Pa
The mine is very gaseous and the
men work with safety lamps.
Thomas Baldwin, rich farmer and
former merchant of Colfax, Ills, shot
and killed Charles Kennedy and wife
and Mrs. Sim Eisman and daughter
Cora. Baldwin was arrested.
Replying to a correspondent, Lord
Curzon says 1t is his desire to re
enter public life next autumn and, il
suitable opportunity presents itself,
to obtain seat in parliament.
Senator Joseph S. C. Blackburn OF
Kentucky, who will retire from the
United States senate on March 4, is
to be made a member of the reorgan.
lied Panama canal commission.
James NJ. Parsons, formerly of Bos
ton, Mass, was shot and probably
fatally wounded in Sonora, Mex, near
the Sinallo state line, in defending his
mining claims against two Mexicaps
A. r. Lawshe has been selected tt
succeed Third Assistant Postmaster
General Madden. Mr.. Lawshe is
from Indiana and was auditor for the
postoffice department under President
Mckinley.
A bill for the creation of commit
tee to consider and recommend leg
islation for the improvement OF
rivers and harbors was favorably re-
ported by the house committee on
rivers and harbors
The nomination by the president
Of Amor Smith to be surveyor of GUS
toms at Cincinnati, removes from the
list one of the places to which the
president had in mind the possible ap
pointment of negro.
Bridge No. S2S, near Iser, on the
Southern Pacific, fifty miles east OF
El Paso, Tex, was destroyed by in
cendiarles with the evident purpose
of wrecking passenger train. The
fire was discovered by the crew OF
an extra train, whiCh barely escaped
running into 1t.
Senator Bailey of Texas, who has
lust returned to Washington from that
state, was in his place on Sunday 1ol
the first time this session He re
ceived a hearty welcome from botf
sides of the chamber
Nothing that has happened for
long time in Hawaii has created the
same widespread interest as Cover
aor Carriers recent announcement
in an interview, explaining his attI
rude toward the Japanese; that he mas
been willing that his daughter shoulc
marry a Japanese.
Frank Mabry, a well-known banKe
of McGregor, Texas, entered a plei
Of guilty to the charge OF embeZzie
ment and misappropriation OF 1unu'
Of a national bank and was sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary'
The result of the negotiations tina
have been going on for some time be
tween Vice-President G. H. Hudsoi
and a committee representing the en-
eineers of the Mexican Central rail
road is an agreement by when Ih'
engineers receive an increase OF aoou
10 per cent in wages.
The California senate killed Har'
mans anti.prize fight bill by vot