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

break all Fourth OF July recorus ioi
the big metropolis.
Threa miners we're hurled down the
shaft of the La Sale County carbon
Coal company, at Cedar Point H.
and were instantly killed. The men
fell n distance of 525 feet.
The centenary of the birth OF Gil
useppe Garibaldi, the Italian patriot
was observed in Rome with great re-
,oicins 1t is estimated that o0,oVo
persons marched in line in Rome.
Twenty.one persons are now known
IN have been killed in the tornado
which swept path 100 miles long ana
from a mile to few rods In width
through the counties Of central WIS
consin.
Firecrackers and fireworks were
barred I'm San Francisco on the Atm,
but the parks and pleasure grounds
we're thronged and music and athletic
sports furnished entertainment TO
thousands.
Secretary of the Navy Victor M.
Metcalf in an interview with the Oak
land Tribune, confirmed the report
that a large part of the United states
navy will be seen in Pacific waters
next winter.
1t is announced that the Italian gov
ernment granted amnesty to all politi'
cal and press offenders, with the ex-
ception of anarchists, on the occasion
of the centennial jubilee of the birth
of Garibaldi.
The crusade against the deadly toy
pistol seems to be bearing fruit, as
this year only 205 victims are report.
ed throughout the United States after
the celebration of the 4th as against
304 last year.
Forest Fires are ranging in the Gila
reserve near Silver City, N. M. One
thousand acres of timber have already
been burned. There is no water avail
able and rangers are fighting the
flames with backfires.
The recent Tennessee legislature
passed an act allowing Nashville to
confine the saloons to the uptown dis
tricts. This saloon segregation act went
into effect on July /. 1t puts about
100 saloons out of business.
Mayor Harper, of Los Angeles, has
decreed that he will exert all his au.
thority to prevent a renewal of racing
at Ascot park which, by a special
election held last winter, was brought
within the limits of the city.
All records of fatalities following
the celebration of Independence day
at Pittsburg were broken this year
Nineteen violent deaths were report
ed to the coroner's office, while the
number of injured was three more.
During heavy rain at Youngs
town, Ohio, several. men took shelter
under a train when a switching en-
gine backed into the cars ant
knocked the men down, one being
killed and several seriously injured.
Carlos Waddington, son of Luis
Waddington, who was charge dat
faires of Chile at Brussels, has beer
acquitted of the charge of murder
ing Senor Balmaceda, secretary of the
Chilean legation, on February "a, 1906
1t Is stated in military circles that
Major Alfred Dreyfus, the former
captain of artillery, who was sen
fenced on a charge of treason to i'm
prisonment on Devils island, is shortly
to retire from the army, accepting q
pension.
Two cars. heavily loaded with steel
hpnnminu
the steel works at Bethlehem, Pa.
crashed into shifting engine, killing
w. A. Gross, Harry ]. Marsh, vii
liam Dorney and Rudolph Nuss, EN-
ployes.
Fire started by burglars who loot
ed a small grocery store at Houston
Texas, caused the death of three boys
sons of Jacob Prayer, the storekeeper
who lived on the upper floor. Prage,
succeeded in rescuing his wife ano
two daughters.
The town of Polk, Nebraska, was
badly wrecked by wind and hail
storm early Sunday morning. The
best business buildings in the town
were demolished or damaged. ant
crops over considerable distance
ruined. Mrs. Lee Miller was slight,
injured. W
A special dispatch from Mellila
the Spanish seaport upon the NORTH
coast of Morocco, says that a heavy
but indecisive engagement betweer
Moroccan rebels and imperial troop,
looks place on the 4th, and that amons
aldy. '''h
Four pounds of giant powder explod
ed IN rowboat, near Cedar Rapids
iowa, killing two persons and iniur
ing i've others. The powder was +,
be used TO make the noise for a
small picnic, The survivors saw thai
one of those killed threw a cigarette
on top of the can. - { '''
Honduras Is to remain neutral of an,
entanglements in central America
ahairs' according to information re
celVed in Washington nv Ca,,o, r,