The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-20
NEWS SUMMARY


Mayor GriGiths OF Springfield, ILL.,.
was drowned while endeavoring to
ford stream OF water oil horseback
southeast of that city
Lieutenant Hart was killed and
three sailors injured by an explosion
OF gasoline on board submarine
boat at Portsmouth. England.
August Meyer, well-to-do shoe
dealer of Brooklyn, was so severely
beaten by highwaymen that he died
several hours later in hospital.
Col Guessekoffsky, assistant harbor
commandment at Sebastopol. was killed
by revolver shot, In the vicinity of
rested.
Former President Cleveland will de-
liver the principal address at Will
mington, DEL, next Saturday at the
unwilling OF q memorial statute to
Thomas F. Bayard.
A triple drowning occurred Sunday
In the Rio Grande at the Indian Pueb-
10 Isleta, twelve miles south OF AL
buquerQue. N. NJ. as the result OF the
capsizing of ferry boat.
Carrie Nation, after haranguing
crowd in front of downtown saloon
in Washington, was arrested on the
charge of disorderly conduct. She
Observations of Atlantic steamers
arriving recently at New York are
very interesting as showing that the
waters of the ocean of other eastern
coasts are now abnormally cold.
The government reports show that
in the last three months OF 1906, the
most recent statistics available, more
than 10000 persons were killed or in
jured on railroads, or about 700 day.
Twenty.eight passengers. including
twelve women and children. were
drowned by the sinking OF the French
schooner La Jalouse from Cayenne
for st. Lucias. The schooner sank Off
Barbados.
Frank T. Edeson, lodging house
keeper OF Los Angeles, shot his wife
through the head and instantly killed
her and then blew his head off. The
couple had frequently quarreled over
financial matters.
Francis Murphy, the veteran tenn
perance apostle, is seriously i'll at his
home in Los Angeles, with compli-
cation of ailments, and his physicians
are in doubt about the probable out
come OF his case.
A dispatch from Lisbon says that
an explosion of dynamite at Covihilo,
| manufacturing town, killed thirty
persons. 1t is believed the explosion
was caused by dismissed workmen.
who sought vengeance.
The overdue Norwegian steamer
| Preston, Captain Olsen. from New
Orleans, Is ashore at San Andreas,
| says Colon dispatch. The steamer
Ellis has gone to the scene to take
On lut pdoSSuScin anu
George Curry, late governor OF
Iloilo, sailed from Manila on the 18th
on the transport Logan to assume the
duties of governor of New Mexico, TO
which position he was recently APP
| pointed by President Roosevelt.
Don c. Henderson, once private
| oaa.oto,v ~ IInrana Craalav and for
many years publisher of the Allegah
! (Michigan) Journal, has been taken
to the insane asylum at Kalamazoo
| by direction of the probate court.
The grave of Michel Pacha. rne
Turkish admiral who died at Touion
last January, has been desecrated by
thieves, who stole the body The
thieves, 1t is believed, expected to
find In the tomb jewels of great value.
Albert Messenger. plumber, of st.
Louis, has been arrested on the
charge of having thrown vitrol into
the face OF Mrs. Lena Wunach who
had refused to marry him. Both her
eyes were burned out and her face
disfigured.
The government officially declares
tobacco is not luxury, but a neces-
sity, in a decision by the comptroller
of the treasury. The question arose
through a number of Panama canal
laborers held in quarantine demand
ing tobacco.
Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Carne-
gle will be the guests of Ambassadors
and Mrs. Charlemagne Tower during
the Kiel yachting week. 1t has al
ready been arranged that Mr.. Tower
shall present Mr.. Carnegie to En-,
peror William.
The first tornado ever known in
southwestern Iowa devastated path