The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-11-12
NEW S SUMMARY

greSsiVe administration.
At Tuesdays election. Ohio polled a
vote that surpasses the 100000 bal
lots deposited four years ago. making
new high record for Ohio voters
The bodies OF seventy.eight victims
az the wreck of the small steamer
which occurred near Tungan on No
vember s, have been taken to Annoy.
China.
The state bank commissioner last
week took control of the Central
Trust company Of Providence, r. l.,
and applied for appointment OF re-
ceiver.
Two motormen were killed and
twenty passengers injured in a col
lision of two cars in the interurban
service between Vancouver and West
minister. b. G.
The strike at the mill OF the Inter.
national Paper company at Palmer
Falls, N. Y, has been settled. The
employees voted to accept the terms
of the company.
Business was suspended at Santi-
ago, Cuba, on November G, and the
entire populace participated in the
funeral of Tomas Estrada Palma. for
mer president CT Cuba.
The town of Pembroke Ont, was
devastated by fire last week. Sixty
buildings were destroyed. Loss esti.
mated at 100000. Pembroke is
town OF $500 inhabitants.
President Charles w. Eliot. for forty
years the head of Harvard university.
rendered his resignation October 26,
to take effect May 10, 1909. The res
ignation has been accepted.
Judge Frank H. Dunno. who has
tried many of the bribery and graft
cases in San Francisco, was re-elect
ed Judge Cook, against whom the
graft prosecution made fight, was
defeated.
Three persons we're asphyxiated by
gas fumes from q kitchen stove in
Washington. The dead are Mrs. Hebe
Cults Bremerman, Mrs. Bremerman,
her mother-in-law, and Quits Bremen
man, aged is months.
Phil Short, one of the best known
newspaper men in South Dakota, was
shot and killed by Clayton Yeakins
while they were hunting deer in Nc
Kenzie county. Short was taken for
o deer by his companion.
While speeding with his automobile,
| j. ]. Radel, an undertaken of Cincin-
natl, caused the death of Albert Alt
feldt. butcher, and the probable IA
tai injury of Radel and William Re
gan, the latter chauffeur
! As the result of fuedal war at
| Campon Junction, KY, Islow Allen,
aged 20, was killed, Alvin Grover seri-
ously injured, and Clarence Sherman,
who did the shooting, was shot in the
read, but managed to escape to the
r1ountains.
1t is reported that the resignation
of the Austria cabinet Is imminent
as the outcome of the dissension
| among the German and Czech minis
| tiers arising from the recent racial
conflicts In Prague and other Bohe-
milan towns.
Herman Krause and William Wa
derse, pioneer farmers, were run
| down by a passenger trai nat But
falo, Mimi, while on their way to the
polls and killed. Emil Krause, son
of one of the dead men, was probably
fatally injured.
In his annual report for the last fis-
cal year Commissioner Fred Bennett
of the general land Office recommends
the withdrawal from entry of all pub
| lie lands which may be irrigated
which are not now capable of being
| utilized for homes.
The election of Taft has produced
| general satisfaction in Italy The
| general opinion is that Mr.. Taft's
election will mean continuance of
stability and revival of business. In
view of this belief many thousand
Italian laborers expect to emigrate to
| America.
Pensions for retired missionaries
were provided for in the closing ses-
sion of the Woman's Foreign Mission
cry society of the Methodist Episco-
| pal church at Cincinnati. This is in
the shape of a retirement fund for the
benefit of superannuated and invalid
missionaries.
Edwin Vandyck, former ink expert
Of the bureau of engraving and print
! ing, indicated in January last, charged
with conspiracy to defraud the United
States in connection with ink con-
| tracts, last week withdrew a plea Of
not guilty and entered a plea of guilty
to two counts.
| d. b. Cook. constable from Null
key, and j, A. Shines, farmer of
Provence, were shot and killed on
east Main street in Ardmore, Okla
koma, by John Braziel, local char
ecter, and James Billings, farmer and
companion of the dead men, was Sc
riously wounded.
Four acres of wood land on Harder
fill, Roslyn, l.. l.. the magnificent
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