The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-06-11
NEWS SUMMARY

mounts IL. w. l., and two susnected
cases are being watched.
Sixteen workmen were huod 49,,
seventeen seriously injured by an ov
plosion in a celluloid factory Of o,.o
warlng. a suburb of Vienna
word has just reached the CITY .,
Mexico that twenty lives were lost
and property damaged to the extent Of
$zo,OO0 by a cloudburst in Guanaiuato
Joseph Stiz, who has been convicted
OF Illegally voting in New York CITY
under the name of Charles Mullen,
has been sentenced to a year in
| prison
| Castor P. Philip, civil engineer and
ciubman of New York and Washing
ton, has been acquitted of the murder
Of Frank MacAboy, cab driver, in
Washington.
The plague at Guayaquil, Ecuador,
seems to have been gotten under
control. Since May Sth new cases
nave numbered forty-two, with nine.
teen deaths.
| The twentytsecond wedding anny-
versary of ex-President and Mrs.
Grover Cleveland was quietly cele-
brated at their home in Princeton, N.
j., on June 2.
Washington dispatch announces
that the name of Senator Dolliver of
Iowa Is to be brought forward by the
administration forces as the running
mate with Mr.. Taft.
Four masked men robbed the State
Bank of Cuba. Kansas, and escaped
on a hand car with between $4,000
and $4,000, after fight with citizens.
No one was shot, however.
In the circuit court at jackson, Ky,
the case of Beech Hargis, charged
with the murder of his father, Judge
James Hargis, was continued until
the October term Of court.
Fred w. Roschen, the Montreal
member of the New York Consolidat.
ed stock exchange, who failed re.
Gently, has been arrested in Montreal,
charged with owing brokerage firm
of that city $4,000.
Earthquake shocks at Yalta, Rus
STA, did considerable damage. The
Inhabitants fled from their homes and
spent the rest of the night in the
streets and on the quays. Many
houses were slightly damaged.
Mrs. Lizzie Gorling, of st. Louis,
who, as she was retiring at night, was
seized by a man coming from under
her bed, who cut her throat, will re-
cover, according to the belief ex-
pressed by attending physicians.
Mrs. Minnie Grunert was found
dead in closet of her home in APP
pleton, Wis, a small cord encircling
her neck, showing that she had been
strangled to death. 1t is believed she
was killed by her divorced husband.
That the Roman Catholic church is
entitled to exercise complete owner
ship of the church building occupied
by that denomination in the city OF
Ponce, Porto Rico, was held last week
by the supreme court Of the United
States.
Twelve persons were injured, two
seriously, when the motor box on
a Fort Worth, Texas, street car
caught fire, causing panic among
the passengers. There was a large
number of women and children in
the car.
Refugees arriving at Athens from
the island of Samos, say that the
Turkish flag has taken the place OF
the Samos flag over the governor
palace. and that before occupying the
town of Vathy the Turkish warshlps
bombarded the heights and drove out
the inhabitants.
Grant Poole, who shot and killed
Mrs. e. II. Orvis at Oakfeld, WIS,
because she objected to Poole's at
tentions to her daughter, was at one
time an inmate of the asylum, and
1. is believed he was insane when he
shot Mrs. Orvis.
In a decision handed down by the
supreme court of errors OF Connects
cut. a new trial was granted In the
case of the state against Frank Nc
Gee. the organizer of the Iron Moul
ders' union, who was found guilty Oh
charges of intimidation.
A tornado which swept over ter
ritory twelve miles west OF Durant
Oklahoma, destroyed a dozen farh
houses. and, with a heavy storm o.
hail which accompanied it, did dam
age estimated at S15O,0OO. A number
of persons are reported injured, some
fatally.
A French system for the employ
ment of alternating instead OF coh
tinuous currents, which 1t is claimed
would permit the use of twelve instru
plents on a single wire, was present
cd at the International Telegraph
congress at Lisbon by NJ. Mercadier
the inventor.
The proposal for union of the Pres
hvterian and the United Presbyterian
churches. or at least to bring the
two denominations into closer reia