The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-11-07
NEWS SUMMARY

sion of dynamite at Venice, Pa, four
men were killed.
Rumors that the Pennsylvania rail-
road will lay off between 10000 and
10000 men are denied by high officials
of the company.
Mrs. Evelyn Romadka, wife of
Milwaukee millionaire, has been in
dicted on six counts, alleging burglary
and receiving stolen property.
Mile. Ragoznikova, who, on October
20, killed General Maximoffsky, d.
rector of prisons of the ministery of
the interior, was hanged October 81.
A committee has been organized at
Madison, Wis, to promote the candi.
dacy of Senator Robert Nj. LaFollette
for the Republican nomination for
president.
Bank robbers in Pskoff, Russia, at
tackled seven men VINO were escorting
cashier carrying 1900 roubles, MUIR
dered the whole party and decamped
with the money.
There appears to be no immediate
occasion for alarm among silver pro-
ducers that the price of the white
metal will drop in sympathy with cop
per, lead and zinc.
1t is reckoned by the shippers that
there are 141, 100000 bushels Oh wheat
available for export to Europe this
year. There will also be a very heavy
expectation of -four.
Because he failed to carry out an
errand of vengeance, Vito Grenada.
member of the Black Hand society,
was stabbed to death by members of
his own band in Brooklyn.
The supreme court, in deciding
against the validity of a voting ma
chine in Massachusetts, declared that
any method of voting which hides the
ballot from the voter is unconstitu-
tional.
John Mitchell day was observed as
holiday throughout the anthracite re-
gion of Pennsylvania on October 20.
Many meetings were held and prayers
| were offered for the recovery of Mr..
| Mitchell
An unknown man was killed at On
tario Oregon, trying TO board
through freight train. Both legs were
cut off and the body was mangled.
There was nothing on the body to
identify it by.
The official cholera statistics pub
lished in st. Petersburg for the week
ending October %, show that with the
APPROACH of winter the epidemic is
being checked. There were 1899 new
cases and 41G deaths reported.
| The Inflated French submarine boat
Lutin, which sank with all hands al
Bizerta, on October 19, 1906, had an,
the bottom second time, but no lives
were lost this time.
One hundred and ten feet is the
width which the navy department has
finally fixed upon as desirable for the
locks of the projected Panama canal.
This is an increase of ten feet in
width over the plans on which the
commission is now working.
The supreme court of the United
States has begun the hearing of the
important case involving the constitu-
tionality of the act of congress Of 1898
making 1t misdemeanor to discrimi-
nate against employees because they
are members of labor unions.
A suit for collection of judgment
against Charles w. Clark, son of for
mer United States Senator Clark of
Montana, which was filed in the fed
| eral court at Helena last week by a
Mexican bank, charges that certain
| transfer of stocks by Charles w. Clark
| to his father was fraudulent device
| to hinder and delay creditors"
| A northwest storm of short dura-
ton, with heavy rain, struck Calves
ton, Texas, on the 30th. The wind at
tanned a velocity of seventy-two miles
an hour. One woman was killed by
| being crushed in a falling house.
| Twenty frame houses were blown
down.
1t is stated that railroads in the
| Ohio River Passenger association
have succeeded in increasing their
| passenger earnings this summer to
such an extent that 1t Is now deemed
useless by the most conservative to
|
senger rate law.
Judge Grosscup of Chicago, of the
| United States circuit court, has been
served with a warrant charging him
with manslaughter as one of the di-
| rectors of the Electric railway in the
electric railway accident at Nation,
where several were killed. The bail
| of S5 600 was furnished ~
Ocean freight rates to Europe are
from ten to twenty per cent higher
than last year, and they are likely to
go still higher before they reach their
former level, but there is no fear OF
scarcity of room, in spite of the in
creased exports to which the shippers
are looking forward this fall.
Tho United States court of appeals
held that Judge Holt of New York had
no authority to issue an order re-