The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-02
NEW S SUMMAR'

tanila. celebrated his 10th birthday
dn December &c.
| | Leopold Vilsack. millionaire banker
and brewer, dropped dead of heart
failure at his home in Pittsburg.
BY a majority of 545, Raleigh, N,
lC., on December 26th, voted out its
liquor dispensary and will become a
prohibition city.
The Hamilton bank, of New York
city, which paid out s1,5OO,OOO during
the panic and then closed its doors,
aas resumed business.
The Christmas present of Mrs. VIII
liam Luck of Roanoke, Va, to her
husband, was two boys and two girls
at birth All doing well.
The families of more than 200 men
who are serving terms in Sing Sing
ate Christmas dinners furnished by
Mrs. Ballington Booths Prison league
A bad fire in the snow sheds on the
Southern Pacific near Truckee de-
|layed many trains and cut off all tel
legraph communication with the east
for a time.
Cracksmen entered the postoffice at
Campbell, Cal, blew open the safe,
and abstracted $7O0 in stamps and
$500 in coin, overlooking 800 in
greenbacks.
The American board of commits
sioners for foreign missions has re-
ceived advices from the interior of
Turkey showing unusually severe
amine conditions.
Five persons were burned to death
n a fire that destroyed the house of
John Clark at Watertown, Mass
Every member of the Clark family
met death in the flames.
AS the result of the explosion of
quantity of dynamite at Ottawa, Ills,
upwards of dozen houses were
wrecked and glass was shattered in
more than fifty homes.
Bertram Sommers, of Los Angeles.
shot and killed his little boy, aged
years, having mistaken him for
burglar. The child, it is believed,
vas walking in his sleep.
Seventeen Italians arrested in
Pittsburg, charged with being mem
bers of the Black Hand society, have
received sentences of from thirty to
ninety days in the workhouse.
John Andrews, formerly chief clerk
in the comptroller's office in Atlantic
City, N. j., has been found guilty on
charges of forgery and embezzlement
of sums aggregating about $4,000.
Robbers entered the home of Cam
eron Cool, the race horse breeder, at
West Pittston, Pa, and after fractur-
ing his skull with blunt instrument,
robbed him of $780, He cannot sur
yive.
In Roosevelt place, street in Kan
sas ~City, triplets were born to Mr..
and Mrs. Barton Curry on December
%. The babies are girl and two
Curry is laboring man.
Albert G. Loenhart, carpenter,
was mysteriously murdered at Tue
son, Arizona. 1t is believed he was
murdered by highwaymen who were
frightened away before they had time
to go through his pockets.
Wallace Dyal, woodman employed
at turpentine still about eighteen
miles from Waycross, Ga was shot
down by crowd of negroes who were
fighting among themselves. Before
dying he shot and killed two negroes. |
The Asszes court at Paris, France,
has sentenced Gustave Herve, the |
leader, tc one years i'm
Drisonment and to pay fine of $3.50 |
,or defaming the army and navy and |
netting the troops to mutiny by his
Jackson Stilley, so years old, well |
Known resident of West Elizabeth. |
Pa, while stealthily trying to escape |
he eyes of the younger members OF |
he family and hide Christmas pres
nts, fell down stairway and broke
lis neck
Milton b. Owen, 10 years of age, is |
nder arrest, charged with attempt |
ng to kill the entire family of his
mployer, Richard Owens, of the town
( Algoma, Wis, by putting poison
lto the teapot Sunday night. He said |
e thought 1t would be fun to kill the
amily.
Charles Schroff, proprietor of sa-
BON and bowling alley in Buffalo, N. |
=, was shot and killed by his son
,harles, aged 23. Schroff, Sr., had
cen drinking heavily, and quarreled |
nth his wife, and. it Is said, struck
er, when she called upon her son to
rotect her.
A 25 per cent increase over the
anne period last year in the immigra-
ion from all countries is shown in |
he November statement of the bu-
eau of immigration. In that month
17.476 immigrants arrived at the
arious ports, against 94,621 in No
ember, 1906.
William Bell, an animal trainer
.nown TO circus men throughout the
ountry, dropped dead at Kansas City
f heart disease. Bell, who was