The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-08-29
NEWS SUM NJ larry

AT the wholesale beer packing houses
in New Yorl; City are on strike
MIR. and Mrs Charles Webster and
their baby were burned to death at
Rochester, Ind, by fire resulting
from a gasoline explosion
A hostler and sixty-two horses in.
Guiding EfIie X and Atwood, 2;l2, trot-
tiers, were burned to death In livery
stable fire at Massillon. Ohio.
Owing to money stringency New
York City has been obliged to raise
the rate OF interest on the bonds It o,
fered for sale from TO Az per cent.
Wheat rose four cents at Toronto
on the 22nd. as result of reports of
frosts in northwestern Canada. The
damage. however is regarded as light.
Fred Kersters. aged II, refused to
jump from burning house at La
crosse. Wis., and was burned to death
in sight of his mother and large
crowd
In free gun fight near the fair
: grounds at Barbervlle, Ky, two men
were fatally shot and three other PEI.
SUNS, ihNiuuihS NNAA"h, D""'S
| wounded.
| Floods which are believed to be the
| heaviest that have been experienced
for years are reported from central
| Japan Some villages have been com.
| pletely submerged.
Two miners were stabbed to death
in the street of Coaldale, Pa, by UNI
known men believed to be members OF
the BLACK Hand" society, which 10
' active in that section.
The attorney general of Texas has
begun suit against the international
I Harvester Company, alleging violations
of Texas antitrust law and demands
| penalties of Sl,l00,00O.
J. c. Broughton, stationary engi-
neer, was killed at Roosevelt dam, near
Phoenix, Arizona, by falling derrick.
| Broughton is the second man to be
killed during the construction of the
dam.
King Charles has granted amnest.
to all implicated in the recent Agra
ran revolt with the exception OF 2oO
priests and those already sentenced
for murders. The number released In
5000.
Eighteen-year-old James Compton,
son of prominent resident OF Santa
Cruz, Cal, has been arrested charged
with burglary in the first degree
Young Crompton has confessed 10 q
series of burglaries.
nj nrio ha IN
lied the purchase of the Cullinan dia'
mond, valued at one million dollars
to present to King Edward as testi'
monial of appreciation for the be
stowal of a constitution.
The World says that more than 1000
New Workers., some of whom are rank
ing millionaire, have sold their auto
mobiles within the last few weeks. Tn.
dealers have attributed the sales tc
the so-called rich mans panic in Wan
street.
Ambassador Reid unveiled tablet
in the ancient Salisbury cathedral a
Salisbury, England, last week, In mem
DRY of the twenty-eight victims, most
ly American, who were killed in Tho
derailing "a year ago OF the American
line boat train.
George Carnie and his sister Marion
have been jailed at Staten lslanC
charged with conspiring to kill broth
er-in-law in order to secure $1,000 lif'
insurance. 1t is stated Carnie admit
ted his guilt, but protested that his sis
ter was innocent.
Ben Mccain, while telling tree a
Dirigo sawmill, near Castella, Call wa
caught by falling tree, knocked owe
on saw and his head and face wer'
badly crushed and his arm, leg ant
body cut ard torn by the saw. 1t Il
feared he will die.
julius F. Eller has been arrested a
! Syracuse, N. Y, and held for return u
Alamosa, Colo, where 1t is alleged h
, stole $4,000 in money orders from tn
, Rio Grande railroad. Eller declare,
he was duped by friend and go
none of the plumber.
| Frances Won Bredow, daughter O
Senator Newlands of Nevada, and wit
of Lieutenant Leopold Won Bredow, q
! the Cuirassiers OF the Guard, formerl
attache of the German embassy a
: Washington, died in Berlin on the %
after long illness.
The government troops under tn
command of Elmerani, the uncle of tn
sultan OF Morocco, have been defeate
by tribesmen. Elmerani retreated !
the direction of Alcazar. Elmerani
defeat means there is danger of tn
hill tribes looting Alcazar.
In desperation. John Foxy, ALA
George Wagner, who is wanted in Su
sun, Cal. for grand larceny, jumpe
! through a window OF a rapidly movin
train, about 100 miles north of Lc
, Angeles. and escaped. Although han,
cuffed, he made the leap without II
, iuring himself.
Russia, awakening from the stupC
[ in which the war with Japan left he
is planning to establish at Vladivosto