The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-05-23
NEWS SUMMARY

lumous, Ohio, postofiice has suicided
HIS accounts show a serious short
age.
A police census just completed
gives the population Of the District OF
Columbia as Ss9,591, of whom s6,1Ss
are negroes.
There will be no strike of the train
men of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad as result of the differences
over the wage scale.
Harry Marshall. bystander, was
killed and another man was wounded
as a result of a row growing out OF
/ the longshoremen's strike In Hobo
! ken.
Three hundred and seventy.two |
banks of California were represented |
in aie bankers convention which |
held three days session at Santa
Barbara.
David w. Ross, general purchas ng
agent of the Panama canal commits.
sion, will resign shortly to become
president of a large manufacturing
concern in Chicago.
The village of Goreville, Ill., has
been swept by fire, entailing loss
of $4,000. Sixteen buildings we're
destroyed. 1t is believed the fire was
started by incendiarism
Governor Carter of Hawaii arrived
in San Francisco on the steamer ST
ezra. He will remain in the United
: States several weeks and will visit
President Roosevelt at Washington.
Orrin w. Potter, the pioneer steel
man and multi-mlllionaire, retired
whose life was linked with the devel
= opment of the steel industry of the
United States, died in Chicago on
the 18th.
The military has taken charge Of
the Jail at Brunswick, Ca, to protect
: a negro, Lee Holmes, who is charged
- with killing A. A. Sands at Darien
!. Junction. Sands was prominent
whit" man.
t. o., ornamental returns show that
e the deaths from the plague through
Y, out India for the six weeks ending
If May IL reached the appalling total OF
W 455,S92. In the Punjab alone 2S6,771
deaths occurred.
The sultan of Morocco has decided
to comply with French demands FOL
reparation as the result of the muir
- der of DR.. Mauchamp, according to {
letter from Fee, handed to the Frencl
minister at Tangier.
-. No special delivery postage stamp
is will be needed after July / to insur
rs the immediate delivery of letter
The afixing of 10 cents extra postag
at and marking the covering "specii
he delivery" will suffice.
er Five masked men at Elletsvill'
IN ind, bound and gagged the tow
20 marshal. took from him the jail Key
OF and secured the only prisoner, Oscf
~ Norris whom they dragged to tire
and whipped severely.
,st The imperial conference at its clio
al ing session in London adopted II
va notion of Sir Wilfrid Laurier in +
60 yor of an allBritish subsidized steai
no seip route from the United Klngdo
ON TO Australasia, by way of Canada.
ev. The street cars of Evansville, I'M
ue- began to operate again Saturday wi
1on.union men imported from
Ire Louis and Nashville. Mayor Bob
I'M has ordered the enlistment of speci
ldt patrolmen to handle the situation.
AZ. Governor Hughes of New York h
'' heen elected president of the Mort
40 western Baptist convention. This
est lion was taken at the general me-
ing of the delegates to the genel
,ss. Baptist Societies in session in Was
at ington.
sed The lockout in the building trad
but began in Berlin on the 18th. ado
sly. 60 900 men are directly affected, a
leir 40 900 are affected indirectly. 1t
res the most serious labor difficulty
ore Germany since the great coal stri
of 1905.
IN After ordering supper and stat
nm. he would return in few minutes,
IN. S. Clarkson, a prominent mining M
ngs formerly of Detroit, left his boardi
and house in Guadalajara, Mexico, TIL
900 weeks ago, and he has never be
sold seen since.
one B. w. Franks and David Mce
' Tough, charged with being memb
of the gang that robbed the Bank
'a' Asher, Okla, last Christmas,
',o' $4,000, with another prisoner. hi
escaped from the county jail
ring Shawnee, Oklahoma.
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