The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-09-05
NEWS SUMMARY

cepting the Germans, left on the 25th
Tor El Araish. They were escorted
by troops.
A passenger train carrying Secretary
of War Taft was wrecked near Sprine
Hall, Kans. but none CT the passen.
gers were injured.
There will be no strike of the team.
sters employed by the meat packing
firms of Chicago. Committees repre-
senting both sides have agreed to
compromise.
The historic Dent farm of 49S acres,
outside the city limits OF st. Louis
has changed hands for $4,000 The
log cabin occupied by General Grant
still stands.
Louis Glass, vice president of the
Pacific States Telephone company.
was convicted on the first ballot by
the jury. for bribery of the super
visors of San Francisco.
A platform erected by Oporto, Por.
tugal, newspaper on the occasion of
lottery drawing collapsed, hurting to
the ground about 500 persons, of whom
ten were killed and eighty injured.
An unidentified girl aged about sew.
| en- years was killed by tramp near
Gary, Ills. When discovered by work.
men, the girl had sufficient strength to
| tell of the attack, but died immedi-
| ately.
Searching for an exit, hemmed In
on all sides by fire, Walter and Sadie
Ward, Lillian Rave and vergie Wallace
were burned to death in Oklahoma
City. The fire is believed to be incen-
diary.
A fast passenger train on the ST.
Paul railroad collided with crowded
street car at crossing in La Crosse,
| Wis. One man was seriously Injured.
the other passenger escaping with
| bruises.
| Witness fees and mileage claimed
by John d. Rockefeller for his appear
ance before Judge Lands in Chicago
| some weeks since were paid last week.
check for $S3 was mailed to him in
| Cleveland
| Raymond w. Clark, late captain OF
troop 50 of the Indiana regiment, and
veteran of the G. A R., killed him.
self in Oakland by gas asphyxiation
His action is attributed to financial
embarrassment.
SsH Advices received from the American
| consulate at Hakodate place the loss
caused by the confagration there at
$40. 900. 900. About $4,000 houses, vary
in in value, were burned and $4,000
people were rendered homeless.
Miss Josephine Murphy, teacher in
the high school at San lose, Cal, was
drowned in Coyote creek by the cap
sizing of row boat in which she was
| seated in company with Miss Kate
Below, daughter of wealthy rancher
A dispatch from Morocco, dated
| August 20, says Mulai Hafig made sew
eral charges in his ministry before
departing for the east and also re
leased all the prisoners incarcerateo
at Morocco City during the reign Of
Abdul Azaz.
AS the result of a tornado at Ell
Claire, Wis, Mary Thompson and Thos
Hague are dead and one boy was in
iured. Five residences q barns, twt
schools, one church and many ha,
stacks were destroyed. The loss Ii
over $4,000.
Severe floods throughout centra
Japan has caused many millions
dollars damages, and have not we
abated. 1t Is not believed that thu
loss of life will be heavy, although
detailed reports from the flooded dis
tricts are lacking.
John Oster, a youth, is dead
Moscautah, Ills, of wounds alleged t
have been inflicted by his father. Tn
elder Oster had quarrehed with HI
wife, and the son went to his mother
defense, enraging the father, who thel
attacked the son.
The war department has decline'
TO grant the request of the mayor
San Francisco for tents to accommo
date the patients in city hospitals "h
are to be removed from the building
10 reduce the chance of extending tn
ravages of the plague.
Congressman Joseph G. Cannon
Illinois, is quoted as replying IN al
swer to the question as to whether n
was candidate for the presidency
"Am a candidate for the Repubiica'
nomination for president? NO, nav
, not the bee, personally.
| Charles A. Andrews. a former res
, aurant keeper of Elkhart, lnd.' she
and killed Ethel Blaine of Flora, IND
and then committed suicide in Chic'
/ 90 hotel. Andrews had been infat'
I ated with the Blaine woman, and ha
, left his own wife and children IN II
. diana.
/ Wesley Christopher, youth VIII
3 killed Charley L. Stanley, CONNIE
D cial traveller at st. Joe, Mo-, Marc
! 20 last, has been sentenced to tie
I wears in the penitentiary. Christoph'
|. assaulted a woman In an alley an
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