The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-09-19
NEWS SUMMARY

emma, were destroyed by fire, which
broke out there on the 18th.
Telegraph operators working under
contracts with brokerage firms and
newspapers will continue at work. This
decision was reached at meeting OF
operators held in Chicago.
The great council of Red Men. in
session at Norfolk, Va, adopted an
amendment prohibiting membership to
all saloon keepers and bartenders.
This is not, however, retroactive.
The board of police commissioners
has elected w. j. Buggy chief of po-
lice of San Francisco. Buggy served
a short term as chief of police under
Mayor Phelan several years ago.
Five negroes who were shooting
craps on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad track near Newbery, w. Va,
were run down and killed by train.
The bodies were horribly mangled.
w. f. Lawrence, a liveryman of Ka-
doka, s. D., shot his wife at Sioux City,
Iowa, as she was boarding an outgo-
Ing train. He then committed suicide.
The woman had refused to live with
him.
The Sax war ministry, says a Berlin
dispatch, has accepted the delivery of
an armored motor car, capable of re-
sisting rifle fire, carrying machine
gun and having Accommodations for ten
men.
The Siberian postal train was held
up by highwaymen at a point near
Tomsk Siberia. They separated the
engine from the freight cars and then
seized $4,000, with which they es.
capped.
w. H. Rogers, the only colored mem,
Der of the Georgia Legislature, has re-
signed his seat. He gave no reason,
but 1t is believed that the passage OF
the negro disfranchisemen bill influ.
enced him.
A general railroad strike is threat.
ened in England as the result of the
long struggle of the Railwaymen's
union with the British railway com.
panies for the recognition of thei,
organization.
Anthracite and bituminous operators
say that the coal situation is grow.
ing serious throughout Pennsylvania
and it is freely predicted that before
midwinter there will be a famine in
many places.
Chester R. Runyan, paying teller Of
the Windsor Trust company, Of New
York, who confessed to sealing $780,.
600 of the company's funds, has been
sentenced to serve seven years in
Sing Sing prison.
M. Borodulink, superintendent of the
Aquitita political prison at Trans.
Baikalia, Russia, was asassinated by an
unknown person on the streets of Pa
koff, his home village, where he was
spending a vacation.
The anniversary of the admission OF
California into the Union was celebrat-
ed at San Jose, in splendid style, by
the Native Sons of the Golden West.
A parade in which 10000 persons par
ticipated was the feature.
The coroner's jury has rendered a
verdict that it could not state the real
cause of the fall of the Quebec, Cana
da, bridge, but declared that, according
to the evidence adduced, all necessary
precautions were taken.
Emperor William it is stated, will
make special effort to give the Amer
lean secretary of war, William H.
Taft, hearty reception and memora-
BILE entertainment during his sojourn
In Germany two months hence.
The United States army transport
Thomas, which sailed recently for
Manila, was in communication by wire
less telegraph with San Francisco
while off North Head, WASH, dis
tanca OF 720 miles from San Francisco.
AS q measure to promote the eradi-
cation of the plague, the San Francis
co board of health has offered a boun-
" of ten cents on every rat caught
in the city and county of San Francis
60 and properly delivered to the health
officer
John r. White, wealthy South Da-
kota stockman has been convicted in
tho federal court at Deadwood, S. d.,
of illegal fencing of government lands,
and sentenced to thirty days impris-
onment in the county Jail and to a fine
of $500.
An insane man named Loiski, arrest
ed on suspicion that he was the rip
per" who murdered several school
girls recently, has escaped from the
observation ward of the prison hospit'
al at Berlin. 1t is feared he will per-
petrate fresh crimes.
Mark Twain will not pilot President
Roosevelt's steamer down the Missis'
sippi when the president makes his
southern and western trip. Mr.. Glenn
ems has declined the invitation to at
tend the waterways convention in
Memphis next month.
Edward w. Vanderbilt, the aged re-
tirad merchant of Brooklyn, who mar