The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-01-24
NEWS SUMMARY

truck at Barstow, CAL
The Alabama senate has passed the
house resolution calling for an inves-
tigation of the methods Of the Booker
u. Washington school.
A stove in the home of the Chill
dren's Aid society, at Vancouver, b..
c., exploded. wrecking two rooms of
the building and injuring six children.
Fred Elenbrock, who on December
Il attempted to assassinate Judge
Charles S. Cutting of the probate
court, of Chicago. has been adjudged
insane.
| Prof Matteucci, director of the OBJ.
servatory at Mount Vesuvius, re-
ports increased agitation of this vol
cano coincident with the Kingston
earthquake.
The chief of the rural administra
ton, N. Brollau, was killed at Smo
lensk, Russia, by n school boy named
| Boriokoff, as the chief was leaving a
concert hall.
| Several hundred families of Ports.
mouth. Ohio, have been forced from
their houses by the rising river. The
school buildings were given up to
flood sufferers.
The chiefs of the Ben M'Sur tribe,
with which Raisuli sought refuge,
are negotiating with the Moroccan au-
thorities to obtain pardon for them
selves and Raisuli.
| The boiler of a Philadelphia &
Reading freight engine exploded at
Bridgeport, Pa, and five trainmen
were killed. A portion of the boiler
was hurled $50 yards.
The second lava flow from the vol
cano of Mauna Loa on the island Of
Hawaii is now only two miles from the
sea and is half q mile wide. It is
moving at the rate Of thirty feet an
| hour,
/ A dispatch has been received at
Hamburg announcing that the Lucie
| Woermann had been wrecked near
LONE, the chief port of German Togo
land. Her passengers and mail were
saved
Oliver Dyer, who Is said to have
introduced stenography into this coun-
try and was the first short hand re-
porter in the United States senate,
died in Boston on the 14th, aged SO
years.
Mrs. J. G. Holman, mother of Evyln
Nesbit Thaw, denies a report that she
was going to Europe to avoid testify
ing at the trial of Harry X. Thaw. She
refused to say whether she would APP
pear at the trial.
The need of merchant marine as
q means to the greater commercial
development of the United States was
urged by Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw, in an address to Harvard stu
dents on Evolution of Self-Govern.
ment"
| From the eruption of Maunaloa, Ha-
wall, lava is flowing down the western
side at the rate of seven miles an
hour and in three streams. One
stream has crossed the government
road and reached the sea, thirty miles
from its source.
The public gardens in Odessa on the
| 18th were the scene OF triple exc
cntion Three Terrorisus were hanged
in row after having been condemned
to death for the robbery Of a shop.
Their trial took place before a drum.
head court-martial
The American Sheet and Tin Plate
company of Pittsburg, announces an
advance of two per cent In wages to
all hot mill tonnage employees in tin
mills. 1t is said that sheet tin mill
men will receive an advance of &c
per cent about March /.
United States Senator ]. w. Bailey
addressed the Texas house of repre-
sentatives on the 18th on invitation of
that body. Senator Bailey's speech
was an impassioned denial of anything
| improper in his relations with the
Waters-Pierce Oil company.
King Edward has headed the man.
sion house Kingston relief fund with
subscription of $4,000, the corpora
ton of London Immediately adding a
similar amount. The principal the
Rters are organizing special perfor-
mances In behalf of the fund.
President Roosevelt has written
letter to Chairman Foss of the Naval
Affairs committee, urging that an APP
preparation should be made at once
TOR two first-class battleships of the
maximum size and speed and with
primary batteries, all of 12-inch guns.
Reports from Zelwan (Selouan),
south of Melilla, where the Moroccan
pretender has his camp. indicate
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