The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-04-30
NEWS SUMMARY

ton will be held in Cleveland, Ohio.
June 20.
The churches of Burlington. N
nave proposed a bar on the Merry
Widow" hats in the congregation dur.
ing the service.
BY the discovery OF two more boa.
les last week, the number of lives
lost in the fire at Chelsea, Mass. 10
brought up to fifteen.
The Russian government has order.
ed five new warships, each one to be
larger than the Dreadnaught from a
FIRM of Clyde ship-builders.
A federal grand jury is about to
begin an investigation OF several of
the largest manufacturers of manila
wrapping paper in the state of New
York.
A serious fire which for a time
threatened to wipe out all the prop
erty at Cape May Point, N. j., de-
stroyed dozen buildings before it
was gotten under control.
William N. Cleveland, nephew of
ex-President Grover Cleveland, has
been sentenced, as a bridge trust
agent, to pay a fine of $500 and serve
five days in the Toledo, Ohio, Jail.
Ex.President Cleveland is i'll at
Lakewood, N. j., but the latest bulle.
tins issued would indicate that there
Is no cause for alarm, and that his
recovery is only a matter of time.
Count Szechenyi and the countess,
formerly Gladys Vanderbilt, had
narrow escape from drowning a.
Vienna, when their boat capsized,
they being forced to swim to the
| shore.
Two prominent business men of
Milan, Mich, were instnaly killed
when their automobile was struck by
passenger train while they were at.
tempting to cross the track near
Dearborn.
Frank Schneck, on trial at Ottawa,
Kans., for the murder of his wife and
Two children, at their home at Cen
tropolis on February 3, 1907, was
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree by the jury.
The town of Cairo, H., at the cleo.
ton last week, decided against clos
ing the saloons. At Thebes, where
the prohibitionists were victorious,
there are six saloons which will be
compelled to close their doors.
David Wetherbee, aged rs, his wife
aged Go, and their daughter were ere
mated, and Albert Lemm, the daugh
ter's husband was probably fatally
burned in fire that destroyed tho
Wetherbee home at Centerville, Pa
1t has been definitely decided that
the American feet of battleships will
not call at any European port on its
way home, with the exception OF Ger
tain points in the Mediterranean
where it will be necessary to stop fol
coal.
Harry Thaw is to have chance to
prove his sanity, and Will be taken
into court in the near future and eX
amined by experts. If the court de
cides that he is sane, the chances OF
his release in the near future are
very bright.
A dispatch from Winnipeg an
nounces that while on their way tc
the Peach river country. Emil Cardi
nal, wife and child. were drowned in
the Athabasca river. They were tray
cling on the ice with a dog train and
fell through.
A baseball tossed by boy struck
Mrs. Catherine Murray of New YORK
over the heart, death resulting a Few
hours later. An autopsy disclosed
the fact that Mrs. Murray's heart mad
swollen to an abnormal size as re
suit of the blow
The Northern Pacific Railway com
pany HIS posted bulletin oHering a
reward of $500 for the arrest and
conviction of the bandits who at
tempted to hold up the North Coast
Limited near Homestake, fifteeI
miles east of Butte.
Bernard, the 2-year-old son OF
Bailey B. Nagal, president OF the
PENNSYLVANIA boiler works, and grand
son of T. NJ. Nagal, mulu-miiiioh
aire. died at Erie, Pa, on April "a
"a the result of taking medicine pre-
scribed for his mother, believing i
to be candy.
Four men were killed, three seri
ously injured and 100 others haa
marrow escape efrom death when al
explosion occurred in Mine No o
the Ellsworth Golfers company
Ellsworth, Pa. The dead are foreign
ers, Their bodies were mangled ah'
badly burned.
Flores Ontaneda, noted Ecuado
rean chemist, is dead Guayqull
Ecuador, from bubonic plague, Wnici
he contracted at the municipal iaoor
atory while preparing Hahkines pro
phyiactic. Twenty new cases ana NM
deaths have occurred at Guayquli II
the past week
EXPERTS of the water pollution CON
mittee of the New York Merchants
association declare that 1860 death
annually from typhoid fever ana XII
dred diseases are directly attripu'
an house v.