The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-02-27
NEWS SUMMARY

Neneral nelson A. Miles left Boston
Tor washington, ID. C., last week, and
1t is understood that he will make his
future home in the latter city.
Ben Roemer was murdered in his
home near Wabasha, Mimi, by two
unknown men. He was ~ years OF
age and a bachelor, quite wealthy.
The comptroller of the currency has
issued call for statement OF the
condition of all national banks at the
close of business on February IA last.
Mrs. Edward Lutzenburg was
burned to death and her son, Joseph.
probably fatally injured in fire that
tor time serious threatened the town
OF Barnesboro, Pa.
II is estimated by one of the man.
ayers of the Association for Improv.
ing the Condition of the Poor that
there are approximately 10000 home.
less men in New York today.
The court of appeals of New York
has sustained the constitutionality OF
the gas and electricity commission
law. giving the legislature authority
to delegate the rate-tixing power.
Brown Hal, 2:121s, for many years
champion pacing horse of the world
and the sire of the PAGER Star Pointer
l.: SO 3-4, died last week at Ewell farm
In Maury county, Tennessee, aged 20
years.
Jake Kilrain, the former pugilist,
has filed petition in bankruptcy.
Schedules declare that Kilrain has
debts of $1,203 and assets OF SGT. The
principal creditor is Ernest Roeber,
the wrestler.
The Iowa supreme court has hand
ed down an opinion regarding the
constitutionality of the Des Moines
plan of municipal government by a
commission, UNFOLDING the law in
every particular.
The death sentence against Mrs.
Violet Goold, who, with her husband,
We're st. Leger Goold, was convicted
of the murder of Emma Levin at Mon
te Carlo, last summer, has been com
muted to imprisonent for life.
Speaker Cannon has been endorsed
for the presidency by the Republican
organization of Guilford county, North
Carolina. Mr.. Cannon is a native of
this county, having been born at New
Garden, seven miles from Greensboro.
General Tung Fuh Slang, the leader
of the Boxers in the uprising of 1900,
is dead. He had been banished to
Kansu. General Tung Fuh Slang was
regarded at one time as the ablest
and most powerful of the Chinese gen.
erals.
The cotton mills of the Boston Man
ufacturing company of Waltham
Mass, hereafter will be closed on Fri
days and Saturdays, a reduction in the
working time from So to AZ hours a
week. Nine hundred hands are at
fected.
A special dispatch received from
Lisbon says that the greatest uneasl
ness prevails there. The palace has
been surrounded by troops, the entire
garrison is confined to barracks, and
ball cartridges have been issued tc
the men.
Charles ]. Romadka of Milwaukee
has instituted suit for divorce from
Evelyn Game Romadka whose sen
sational escapade in Chicago resulted
a few months ago in her imprison
ment in the penitentiary at Joliet fol
burglary.
John Med. Hopkirk is dead from
malignant scarletina. Mr. Hopkins
was manager of Mills hotel in New
York City, in which cheap lodgings
are given to the poor, and in that ca
pacity handled hundreds of dirty
germ-laden bills.
The French forces have recently
had a serious battle with the Moors
at point fifteen miles southeast OF
Fedala. The French had two officers
and several soldiers killed and three
officers and twenty men wounded
The loss of the Moors was heavy
Alexander E. Butt. cashier OF the
wrecked Peoples bank of Portsmouth
Va, after making restitution to the
depositors to the extent OF $4,000 or
the total shortage of $252,OOO, was
sentenced to three years in the peni
Tertiary and to pay fine OF $7,1S4
Judge Charles G. Richie, formerly 9
probate Judge and once candidate fol
governor of Kentucky, has been helo
for trial in an Oakland Cal, police
court on the charge Of passing 6
bogus check for $40. His case is
mystery to his family and friends
Claude Brooks, negro who con
fessed to killing Sidney Herndon,
well-to-do butcher in his apartments
In Kansas City, January Il, has been
found guilty of murder in the first de
gree. and his punishment hxed a.
death. Herndon was murdered for Ms
money.
James A. Deane broke into the
home of Charles Mckay at Wes'
Forks, Me-, at midnight, killed MRS
Mckay with an ak, after chasing hei
TO the yard of neighboring mousse
- tbo,, committed suicide by cut