The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-10
NEWS SUMMARY

hoopers secured $4,000 In cash from
the safe of the State Bark Of Dickey
S. D., and escaped.
An explosion of gas in a coal mine
at Pratt City, Ala, caused the deatb
OF four men and the injury of several
| others.
The supreme court of Illinois has
handed down an opinion declaring the
new primary election law unconsti,
tutional.
Fire which started in a hotel de-
stroyed every building but one in the
block which forms the business sec
ton of Yuba, Cal.
Forty-two persons, including thirty
japanese soldiers, were killed or in.
jured by the derailment of train
near Seoul, Korea
The balance sheet of the Standard
Oil company has been made public for
the first time. 1t shows total sur.
plus of 1861 100000,
The Russian authorities have or.
dered the confiscation of Count Tol.
stoi's book entitled "a Comparative
| STUDY OF the gospels.
The management of the Illinois
| Central railroad has decided to throw
its influence in favor of deep-water-
way from the Great Lakes to the
Gulf
A special dispatch from Picking says.
the dowager empress has issued de-
cree declaring the government OF
| China to be a constitutional mon.
archy."
A new law by which boys under the
age of fourteen are prohibited from
selling papers between 10 p. m. and
G a, m. has gone into effect in New
York city.
Ludwig Szczygiel, the Polish priest
convicted at Pittsburg of the murder
of Andrew and Stephen Starzynsii,
has been sentenced to thirty years i'm
| prisonment.
Mrs. Susan Wallace, widow of Cen
eral Lew Wallace. is dead at Craw-
fordsville Ind She had great literary
ability and assisted her husband in
his writings
One man was killed, and three, IN
Guiding Bobby Walthour, the Ameri-
can rider, were seriously injured in
a series of accidents on the Spandau
bicycle track.
The announcement of Miss Gladys
Vanderbilt's engagement to Count Las
zlo Szechenyi of Budapest, was made
last week Miss Vanderbilt is the
youngest child of the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt.
The De Beers Diamond company,
known as the diamond trust, is report
ed in cable advices as having formed
a pool with the principal Independent
companies in order that prices shall
be maintained.
All danger of strike of the marine
engineers on the ocean and coastwise
steamship lines, whose vessels sail
from New York. bearing the American
flag, has been averted. Both sides
made concessions.
The coroner's jury summoned to in
vestigate the mysterious murder. at
Sioux Falls. S. D., of John w.
OGrady, an aged pioneer, returned a
verdict holding Mrs. O'Grady respon-
sible for the death
Another county in Kentucky has
gone dry" in local option election.
In Mclean county the temperance
forces were victorious by majority
of 1865. Only nineteen OF the ll9
counties in Kentucky remain wet.
The mutilated body of George Han
son, of the Caucasian Printing COM
pany of Shreveport, La, was found
under a bandstand on Douglas island.
Hanson had been beaten to death with
a heavy railroad wrench and robbed.
Professor Jacques Loeb, the famous
biologist of Berkeley, Cal, makes the
statement that he believes the germ
of life can be discovered, providing
the chemical reactions surrounding
the process of fertilization are investi-
gated.
A terrible explosion occurred at the
Tamatsuke factory, Osaka, Japan
where u number of girls were at work
sorting shells and cartridges which
had been condemned. SiXty-three
girls were killed and over sixty in
jured.
The immense cotton shipping bust
ness of New Orleans has been tied up
by the strike of 800 members of the
dock and cotton handlers union. The
cotton handlers have arrayed against
them all the business exchanges OF
New Orleans.
The general officers of the Western
Union Telegraph company, IN New
York. have been advised that at a
meeting held in Toronto on Sunday
the few operators remaining on strike
declared the strike a failure in Can
ada and agreed to apply for reinstate'
! mcnt
That Harry Huber and S, V, Barrett
voung men of Wichita, Kans, put
dynamite on the Santa Fe railroad
tract, four miles north of that city.
| -, 40 to win Carnegie medal