The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-10-15
NEWS SUMMARY

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Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, who
cas ambassador to Spain In 1S9S-19O0,
lied at Brighton, England, October
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Fire in the White House stables
was discovered in time to prevent
terious confagration, but small dam
lge being done.
Harry Augustus Garfield, son o.
President Garfield, and brother of the
secretary of the interior, was last
week indicted into Office as president
II williams college.
For the three days of registration
nst week the corrected figures snow
TOR Greater New York a registration
of 540,O95, as compared with 573,b23
four years ago-a loss OF 23,42Sq
Mrs. Robert Cummings and her two
grandchildren, Harry, aged 3 years,
and James, aged 10, were burned to
death in a fire which destroyed Mrs
Cummings cottage at Yonkers, N. Y.
A mob took Ben Price, negro
from iail at Granfloram, Texas, and
hanged him to tree In the city
lark. The man was charged with
having crminally assaulted his
daughter.
The Journal Of the American Med
;cal association, published at Chi
cago, has just completed It's returns
| from the years Fourth OF July cele-
brations. 1t shows that there were
16S deaths and as many more In
jured.
A London dispatch says the Mar.
quis OF Ripon, lord Of the privy seal,
has resigned, owing to his advanced
age. The Earl of Crewe succeeds to
the office, and in addition will retain
the portfolio of secretary of state OF
the colonies.
Two masked men entered the pool
room of ]. Strasle at Dazey, N. D.,
and lined the twenty-odd occupants
of the place against the wall. The
robbers then took the watches and
jewelry and about $40 In cash from
their victims.
Henry Mcbride, supposed to be
New York fireman, was killed from
falling from an electric light pole,
from which he was trying to get
view of the ball game for the cham
pionship between the New York and
Chicago teams.
After rescuing an aged woman
from a burning house, Policeman
Nicholas Nestor of Jersey City, NJ.
J., plunged again into the blazing
building and met death by suffoca-
ton. Firemen found his body four
hours afterward.
There is great rejoicing among
the Christians In japan because the
authorities have decided to eliminate
dancing girls and liquor from the re-
ceptions planned for the American
sailors with the battleship feet when
it reaches Yokohama.
John w. Richardson, young far
mer living near Norfolk, Va, believ-
ing that his wife's relatives were re-
sponsible for the young couple being
separated, shot and killed his sister
in-law and his aged father-in-law. and
then committed suicide.
At the regular annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Lake Erie &
Western Railroad company, held at
Peoria, H., w. ]. Vanderbilt and j.
Z. Morgan were reelected as direct
ors, and William Rockefeller was
elected to the directorate.
George II. ellison, of Chicaso, shot
and porbably fatally wounded his
wife, attempted to kill Miss Jennie
Barnes, then turned the weapon upon
himself and committed suicide. GIL
son and his wife recently separated
His rash act is attributed to jealousy.
United States Senator La Toilette
has announced his intention to pro
ceed at once with the regular publ
cation of weekly magazine, devoted
to the public interest upon lines
broad enough to appeal to the pro.
gressive people of the entire coun-
try"
In collision between an eastbound
Rock Island passenger train and
freight train at Yukon, Oklahoma.
seven coaches of the passenger train.
which was loaded with state fair Wis.
ilors, were derailed. Twenty-Five
persons were injured, only one seri-
ously.
Upon the representation Of Charles
Page Bryan, the American minister
to Portugal, the minister of war of |
Portugal has telegraphed to the gov |
ernor of Angola, Portuguese West |
africa, demanding an explanation for
the recent expulsion of an American
missionary.
Henry Baker, aged AZ years, once a
noted heavyweight pugilist, was run
over and killed by train at Kansas
City. Baker fought Jim Jeffries TO a
standstill for eight rounds May 10,
1907, in San Francisco. In the ninth
round, however, Jeffries knocked
Baker out.
The British government has tele-