The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-04-18
NEWS SUMMARY


oaOi' lataliy injured as the result
Oh what is believed to be the work =,
'rain-wreckers at Cheneyville Iowa
The Tulsa q. To- Commercial, o,,,,
mas formally invited both the Renuh
means and Democrats to hold tho,,
national conventions of 1908 in thai
city. =" 'ua'
Premier Stolypin has submitted ,
VII 10 parliament providing for the
appropriation of 81 500 900 as sun
Elementary credit for famine relief T.
Russia. -
Russia is experimenting with ~.
24-hour time system the hours heiro
numbered consecutively from one r.
twenty'four instead of two periods n,
twelve hours.
riiteen people We're burned n
death in an apartment.house ero a.
LisDon. 1t is believed to be a caes
vi arson, and three people have beer
arrested on suspicion.
The Texas legislature adjourned =,
O'Clock on the 18th, after n for,
months session, and was reconven,5
IN extra session within ten minnie,
by Governor Campbell.
jonathan Langston, a non-union
foreman, was shot and seriouslv
wounded in a clash between strikins
Italian and negro hod-carriers and
non-union men at Elizabeth. N. J.
Inc directors of the State Bank ot
Goddard, Kan, whose cashier. w. II
Dwight committed suicide last week
nave announced that over $4,000 was
missing from the vault of the bank.
The historic Camden church in Peck.
ham road, London, where Ruskin was
worshiper, was seriously damaged by
ire last week. The chancel, which
was partly designed by Ruskin, was
destroyed.
Despondent because his wife had
recently left him, Charles Loush, of
st. Louis, cut his throat with a razor
and then smoked cigars for two
hours until he finally fell over from
loss of blood.
Nine men are missing from the
navy barge No. 1, which after being
lost at sea for some days in heavy
weather off the Florida coast, has
finally been towed into Newport,
near Jacksonville, Fla.
Broken rails and weakened road
beds caused more than 60 per cent
of the railroad wrecks in the United
States in the last five years, accord.
ing to statistics compiled by the New
York Central engineers.
A jury in San Francisco returned a
verdict Of murder in the first degree
against John Bynre, who shot and
killed George l.. Cornell, retired po
liceman, while attempting to hold up
a saloon last November.
Judge Cowan of Devils Lake directs
that the station of the Great Northern
railroad at Church's Ferry, N. D., be
closed for year because a drayman
used it for storing beer, thus violating
the state prohibitory law.
A strike by sailors employed on oil
steamers on the Caspian sea is caus-
ing considerable uneasiness to the
Russian government, which fears an
extension of the movement among the
workmen of the Volga industrial re-
gion.
Four miners were killed and two
others seriously injured in an accident
in Santa Eulalia camp, Mexico. The
miners were descending one Of the
deep shafts in cable bucket when
the cable broke, precipitating them a
distance of ITO feet.
The mercantile suburb of Hardin,
Manchura, known as Fudcadam, in
which many large warehouses were
situated, has been destroyed by fire.
The burned area covers almost a
square mile. The loss Is estimated at
$1,000 900.
The charges recently made against
Douglas W. Ross, the engineer in
charge of the Payette-Boise reclama-
ton project in Idaho, and F. c. Horn,
consulting engineer for that project,
have been dismissed by the secretary
of the interior.
DR.. ]. Herman Feist, a prominent
physician, recently convicted OF the
murder OF Mrs Rose Mangrum, whose
body was found in the river at Cairo,
Ill.,. has been denied a new trial by
the criminal court, and was sentenced
to be hanged on June 2l'
Mrs. Sarah Miles Hanna, one OF the
Oldest members of the Daughters OF
Rebekah and the only woman upon