The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-03-14
NEWS SUM MARY

| ~ NaIhelu tOok the oath OF
once as secretary of the interior on
the 9Th.
The British ship Lochgarye is
ashore at Kemalo. on Molokai island
ana viii probably be total loss
a fishing vessel with a crew of
seven men foundered on the coast ot
81 Thomas, N. F., and all hands
were lost
Two explosions in the rock quarry
OF the Chihuahua & Pacific railroad
at sandoval, Chihuahua. killed 9 men
and seriously injured others.
The Missouri legislature has passed
bill giving the cities of the state
the right to fix the rates charged by
public utilities granted by franchise
The bin to extend the right of suf
irage to women was defeated in the
house of commons last week. where If
was talked to death without coming
| to vote.
The California legislature has pass.
ed bill providing an eight.hour day
| for conductors and motormen and
other employees on street and inter
| urban railroads.
Japan is Withdrawing all her troops
from Manchuria except $4,000 rail
way guards. The foreign consuls are
strongly protesting against the non
settlement of the Likin question
Four persons were burned to death
in Brooklyn, Sunday, three in tene
ment fire on Bushwick avenue and a
woman in her home. One man was
fatally hurt in the tenement fire
After being out an hour and a half
the jury In the case of James and
Phillip Strother, on trial at Culpep
per, w Va, for the murder of vii.
liam F. Bywaters, returned verdict
of not guilty.
AS result Of an advertisement in
q pobSi III NilS, beolSc MOOu, a
widower of Ansonia, Conn., has been
so overwhelmed with applicants that
he has posted a mo wife wanted
sign on his front door.
A bomb was thrown into fiat oc.
cupied by Prince Argutynski, director
| of the government high school of
Warsaw. The premises were wreck.
ed but the prince was not injured
The bomb-thrower escaped
Advices received from Chihuahua
state that thirty-tive persons
men, women and children-were killed
at San Andoes, twenty leagues from
there, by the accidental explosion OF
a large quantity of dynamite.
The Missouri senate has passed &
bin providing for the nomination o.
candidates of all parties for United
States senator by popular vote at the
November elections preceding the leg
| is1atures which will elect senator's
The coal-carrying roads Of Illinois
have decided to increase the rates 10
| cents a ton on all coal mined in IL
| linois and Indiana and brought tc
| Chicago for consumption. The in
creased rates will go into effect April
/.
A presidential boom for Senator w
| Murray Crane, of Massachusetts,, is In
full swing in Boston He seems to
| have the backing of his constituency
and other prominent Republicans
Considerable enthusiasm is manifest
| ed.
The Danube is thawing rapidly and
| flooding thousands of acres of Guilt
| waited land, the inhabitants of which
and their cattle are succeeding to es'
cape with great difficulty. The water
| confines TO rise and the danger is in
| creasing.
| A mutiny occurred in the artillery
barracks at Toul, France. The men
| attacked non-commissioned officers
with revolvers and swords. Several
men were wounded on both sides be
| fore the mutineers were captured and
imprisoned.
Failing to get satisfaction for the
recent murder of a German mission
airy, it is reported that Germany in
tends to occupy certain coal lands on
the frontier, near Bagdad, which she
| has long desired for the purpose OF
| the Bagdad railroad.
In order to prevent the Japanese
from poaching upon the sparsely
guarded Siberian litoral during the
fishing season, commencing in April
Russia has decided to send TO the
Pacific two small cruisers, which are
now in the Black sea.
The military secretary's once OF
the army, established for the benefit
of Major General Ainsworth, went Out
of existence on the 9th, in accord
,,ce with the provisions of the army