The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-08-15
NEWS SUMMARY

United states Senator to succeed Sen.
ator Pettus OF Alabama
In accordance with the ,mperis, 40.
cree recently issued, all the opium
oehs IN Canton were closed on the |
sth without disturbance.
Dr. c. p ninsmore of Deep Valley. |
w. Va. is dead and four others are
dying as the result of family mis-
taxing toadstools for mushrooms.
Mrs. A. l., Ferguson was killed and
her sister Miss Henrietta Sharke.
seriously injured, by falling from the
same street car at Long Beach, Cal.
The British bark Glencairn. Captain
Nlchol, from Rochester, England, for
Seattle, has been wrecked off San
Paolo. Two of the crew we're
drowned.
BY the capslzng OF a boat. Miss
Lucretia Evans and Emory McDougal
were drowned in Bear Lake, 0. Nc
Dougal, in trying to save the girl, was
drawn under by her.
Seven freight handlers of the North.
ern Pacific road were run down by
tug In the Duluth harbor Sunday even.
ing while returning to their homes In
rowboat and drowned
Leon Maille, the naval reservist,
who fired two revolver shots at Pres.
ident Fallieres on the streets of Paris
July IA last, has been declared insane
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Severe fighting Is reported from For.
mosa, where the natives are making
strenuous resistance against the Jap
anese troops. At Taikokan the Jap
anese casualties numbered 200.
Representatives of silk mills In
Lackawanna and LuzeIne counties,
Pennsylvania, have refused shorter
work day to silk workers More than
5000 persons are now on strike.
John Butts shot and killed Tom
Crowley on the latters ranch, four
miles east of Laytonville, Cal. Butts
and his son, while hunting, had q
quarrel with Crowley over a dog.
Commander Robert E. Peary's dash
for the North pole has been postponed
Failure to complete the repair on his
ship, the Roosevelt, compelled the ex
plorer to put off his trip until next
year.
August Rowe was brutally murder
ed near Buda, Neb., his head being
beaten into a jelly with hammer
Ludwig Korcek, a neighbor of Rowe.
is under arrest on suspicion and is
in Jail.
Tom Hall, negro living at Golian,
Texas, was arrested charged with an
attempted assault upon two young
white women. The next morning his
body was found hanging to tree In
front of the jail.
A detachment of infantry, com
manded by two lieutenants, has beer
massacred by rebels in the Mort dis
trict of the island of Celebes. The
victims, including some convicts
numbered forty-five.
Thomas Myer, who claimed that M
hoisted the stars and stripes owe
Santiago de Cuba during the Span
lsh.American war, was drowned OF
Courtown while practicing for an at
tempt to swim ST. Georges channel
Randolph Rucklow, structural
lronworker, who weighs 270 pounds
fell from the fourth story of build
Ing in the course of construction II
San Francisco and escaped with n
more serious injury than sbrokeI
ankle.
If is surmised that Shirley Davit
son. son of Judge Davidson, and MIS-
Kingston, daughter of the late 81
William Kingston, the great Canada
} surgeon, were drowned in the rive
St. Lawrence Sunday, as their sal
boat was found drifting and empty
One of three robbers who attemp
cd the robbery of the Farmers an
; Merchants bank at Strongsville, Ohl'
! was found later wounded and uncol
, scious in a gully near Strongsville. II
had been shot by citizens immedlat
= " following the attempted robDer.
Mrs. Robert f. PeaIy, wife OF tn
Polar explorer has announced DC
intention of remaining all winter
Eagle island, their summer home, an
foregoing all social engagement
Eagle island is a rocky bit of Ian
in Casco bay and four miles out
sea.
The police searched the imperl
technical schools at Moscow ana III
/. covered the central revolutionary Id
oratory for manufacturing bonds OF
new pattern and tremendous expi
siyes. regular supplies of which we
being shipped to various ih'eri'
points.
sensational suicide has occuri'
at Antwerp. NJ. Jacques simon a 81
merchant, in the presence OF CROW
that thronged Cathedral squar
iumned from the second gallery
the cathedral tower. distance
more than 200 feet. Death was
=, Simultaneous.
Congressman Nicholas Longwor,
IN speech made at the Commerci
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