The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-31
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viding for the arbitration of disputed
questions which may arise with that
country.
Patrick Sullivan last week found n
$4,000 bill in the bottom of an old
tomato can which he picked I'D in an
alley in the residence part of East
st. Louis, III.
Practically the entire business sec.
ton of Ravia, Okla, town of 900
inhabitants. was wiped out by fire on
Christmas day, the loss aggregating
about s55.000
The German government resents
statements attributed to the Amer.
lean press that il has shown an un.
Gully friendly attitude toward presi.
dent Castro.
A battle betkeen striking miners
and five United States marshals took
place at Stearns KY, a coal mining
town, on Christmas day, and resulted
in the death of two men and the
wounding of several others.
Pushed by crowds OF Christmas
shoppers, Elmer A. Birdseye, the Z.
year.old son of George Birdseye.
wholesale grocer of Seattle, Wash,
was crushed to death in an elevator
of the Boston store, in Chicago
According to news from a reliable
source from Hermosillo, capital OF
the state of Sonora, mysterious dis
case Is killing many people there.
The inhabitants are terror-strcken
and are leaving as fast as possible.
G.. r. Moore, a young planter and
w. T. Smith, a well to do middle
aged neighbor. are dead and Smiths
only son Is in jail at Bishopville, S.
c., charged with murder as the re-
suit of fight, brewing out Of an old
feud.
Spanish exiles in southwestern
France are said to be cooperating
with the revolutionary leaders OF
Spain and Portugal in an effort to
consolidate the entire southwestern
European peninsula into a single re-
public.
Man catching" by frivolous wo-
men was deplored in sermon by
Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf at Kene.
seth Israel temple, Philadelphia.
This, he declared, was responsible
for a good portion Of American d.
vorces.
After celebrating eighteen hours
the jury in the case of Harvey Hazel,
the seventeen-year-old boy charged
with murder in the first degree for
killing his mother at Toledo, O., re-
turned verdict of murder in the sec
ond degree.
An explosion of hot water heater
in the stables of the Montana cab and
messenger Service, in Seattle, fatally
injured L. Carroll, a stableman, and
wrecked the corner of the building,
hurling pieces of metal more than a
hundred yards.
A mail coach loaded with Christ
mas presents was burned, five mail
clerks barely escaped with their lives,
while one was injured in jumping to
safety, and an engine was overturned
when two trains collided In the west
side of Chicago.
Molie Hillman, who for fifty years
up to 1880, appeared all over this
country and Europe as one of the
foremost circus performers, died last
week in the poor house at Greenfield,
Pa, aged 80 years. She was a ia
nous equestrienne.
Van Dwight Sheldon Of Lockport,
n. Y, aged 10, student in the school
of engineering at New York unlver-
sity, lost his life in battle with
burglar in the cellar of the home OF
Dean Snow, Of TIE school of engineer.
ing, in New York City.
One man was killed. two injured,
and five others were plunged into
Cheat river near Uniontown, Pa.
and rescued with difficulty when
portion of the false work under
rev county bridge slid into the river,
carrying eight workmen.
The Illinois Manufacturers asso-
citation has addressed to all transcon'
tinental roads vigorous protest
against the increase in all transconti'
mental freight rates applying between
points east of the Missouri river and
the Pacific coast on and after Janu-
ary 12.
In a revolver duel at Cripple Creek,
Colo. Arthur J. Lake was instantly
killed and Tony Cuaz was shot
through the right eye and is in Sc
rious condition. Frank Taylor, be
lieved by the police to have fired the
shot that wounded Cuaz, is being
sought for
The United States navy stands sec.
ond among those of the great world
powers, according to the navy year
book prepared by p. l.. Pullsifer,
clerk to the senate navy committee
Germany follows third, while France
has dropped to fourth place, and ia
pan is fifth.
While helping her mother decorate
a Christmas tree in Chicago, Pearl
Locke. 3 years old, picked up an old
revolver and said to her mother,