The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-11-21
NEWS SUMMARY

In future
Judge William Hogan Reid, aged 55
years, formerly judge of a court at
Tacoma, Wash, died at Lynchburg,
Va, on the 10th
Because of lack of cash. Houston,
Texas, is forced to pay employees
with checks. This is the first city in
Texas compelled to do this.
The money exported from Chill dur
Ing the recent financial stringency in
Europe and America Is estimated to
have been one million pounds.
The Sanford Plush mills, at Sand |
ford, Me, will be operated but three
lays week until further notice.
Eleven hundred hands are affected
1t is announced that the recent GEN.
sus taken shows that Havana has a
population of 299,27S, being an In
crease of 45,S60 over the census OF
1899.
Ten million dollars in gold bullion
from England has been received at
the Philadelphia mint, and will at
once be made into eagles for Ameri-
can circulation.
Daniel G. Mcknight, cashier of the
Foster State bank, of Foster, KY, is
under arrest charged with embezzling
$4,000. 1t is said Mcknight lost the
money in speculation.
Large reductions in working forces
in many industries in Chicago have
been made within the last few days,
owing directly to scarcity of orders
and business depression.
The jury in the case of Leonardo
and Nickolina Gebbia, ON trial at New
Orleans, charged with completely in
the kidnapping and murder of Walter
Lamana, brought in a verdict of guilty.
The mint at New Orleans has re-
ceived an order directing overtime in
order to coin monthly 100000 of the
subsidiary coin in addition to the
regular coinage of 100000 per month.
Two lives were lost in the fire that
visited Iquique, Chile, and destroyed
large section of the poorer residen'
tial quarter. A total of 5000 people
are homeless as a result of the con-
flagration.
Since Comptroller of the Currency
Ridgeley issued his circular urging ma
tional banks to take out additional cir
culation, the total increase from No
vember l up to November 16 amount
ed to s23, 4S0,9O0.
The Hercules nitro-glycerine fac
tory, located mile from Bradner, O..
blew up with terrific force. Only
three employees were in the neigh
borhood when the explosion occurred,
and all were killed.
Dexter M. Ferry, head of the great
seed house which bears his name. was
found dead in bed at his home in De-
troit. He retired at night in apparent
good health, and died from heart dis
ease during the night
Herlanda West, of Mexico City,
Mexico, was burned to death at the
home of Deputy Sheriff Bert Rico in
Los Angeles, where she was visiting,
Her clothing became ignited from the
flames of a gas stove.
For the second time in seven
months Louisville is suffering frsm a
street car strike, the 500 union en-
ployees of the Louisville Railway
company having walked out shortly
after midnight on the 10th.
j. B. Thomas, aged 65, cashier of
the Bank of Albany. Mo, committed
suicide at a hotel in Kansas City by
shooting. Thomas walked into bath
room and deliberately blew out his
brains. No motive is known.
The outlaw Stout, wanted for the
shooting of Williams at Little Fort,
B. c., last week, has been shot and
killed about thirty miles north of
Kamloops, by Charles Mclean, a
member of the pursuing posse.
The negotiations which J. Pierpont
Morgan & Co. have been conducting
with the Bank of France to obtain be
tween twenty and forty millions in
gold for direct shipment to New York
were definitely broken off last week.
Forty tons of powder and shells
passed through Omaha last week over
the Missouri Pacific and the North
western on its way to Gettysburg, s.
D., the scene of the Ute trouble. The
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also including several gatlfng guns.
Secretary Metcalf last week signed
contracts aggregating S2,270,000 with
the Electric Boat company of New
York for the construction of seven
submarine torpedo boats, several Of
the same size and type of the Octo
pus, and others of the same type but
larger.
The steam schooner Berkeley, ir
ballast from San Pedro for San Fran
cisco, was destroyed by fire about fiji
teen miles from Gavitoa, Cal. The
vessel was an oil-burner and the fire
started in the engine room. All OF
board took to the boats and were
saved.
Ernest Thompson Seton, the author
who has returned to the United States
from an exploration trip of severa
months through northwest Canad;