The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-09-03
NEWS SUMMARY

hhlellCtn CLERICAL cupluyceS are 10
be given the preference over the alien
employees on the lshthmus of Panama
by the canal commission.
President Roosevelt has declined
the invitation 10 attend the Trans.
mississippi congress at San Fran
cisco, beginning October 6.
The thirty thousand employees OF
he International Harvester company
Of Chicago are to have their own sick
benefit and insurance association.
Four flremen were injured and prop
erty valued at 100000 was destroyed
by fire in the plant of the Overlook
Carpet company, in West Philadel
phia.
Mark A. wilkins, recently convicted
at Oakland, Cal, of the murder of
Mrs. VERNE Carmin. formerly OF
Leeds, Mo, has been sentenced to be
hanged November 10.
The postoflice at Waukegan, Chi
cago suburb, was entered by robbers
the safe blown open by the use OF
dynamite, and stamps and cash to the
value of $4,000 stolen.
c. II. Watson shot and killed his
son-in-law, Elijah Crabtree, at Allison
Okla. Crabtree had eloped with wat
sons daughter, and domestic troubles
resulted in the shooting.
A rumor, coming from an authorita
tive source, says the Canadian Pa
ciflc railroad officials are getting tired
OF the strike and negotiations will be
begun with view to ending 1t
Rev. I. d. Mllligan. pastor of the
First Presbyterian church at Canton
Ohio, killed himself by charge from
a shotgun. The coroner Is inclined to
believe the shooting was accidental.
Five men were killed, another Is
expected to die, and five others were
seriously injured in collision at the
Warrior colliery of the Havemey Coal
company, six miles from Wilkesbarre
| Pa.
Wade II. Ellis, now attorney gen.
eral of Ohio, has been rendered by
| the president and has accepted the
! position of assistant to the attorney.
general, recently held by Milton ID.
| Purdy
| F. r. Easley, superintendent Of the
Rock Island railroad, has issued a bull
letin notifying all employees THAI Gig
arctic smoking will not be permitted
and that violators of the order will be
discharged.
Mrs. Kate Howard, AZ years old,
one of the leaders in the recent riot
in Springville, Ills, committed sui.
eide by swallowing acid while being
placed under arrest She died as she
was being led into the jail.
The rolling mills of the National
Enameling and Stamping company al
Granite, ILL.,, which have been closed
since June 80, reopened Monday and
within two weeks the complement of
1000 men will be employed
A thirty-foot brick wall which was
being erected for a building on the
site of one burned in the fire at Chel-
sea, Mass, last April, collapsed and
buried more than score of workmen.
Seven of the workmen were killed and
fifteen injured.
dienne, died at her summer home in
Lynnfield, Mass, on August 81, after
long illness of tuberculosis. She was
the wife of Harry Vokes Of the Ward
&c Vokes company, and was one of the
famous DAILY family of dancers.
Missouri, Kansas & Texas train
inbound to st. Louis, narrowly es.
capped a serious accident when the
train passed over a trestle $50 feet
high at Gore, Mo-, just moment be-
fore the structure collapsed owing to
weakness caused by a washout.
Mrs. S. ]. Rosenbloom and her
daughter, Eva, arrested In Baltimore
in connection with the death Of S. j
Rosenbloom of Windber, whose body
was found in a trunk at Camden, N
j.. have furnished bail in the sum OF
$1,000 each for their appearance fol
trial.
The state department has received
assurances from David z. Thompson
ambassador to Mexico, who was in
jured by being knocked down by bi
cycle in the city of Mexico, that he
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from a badly broken and dislocatet
arm.
With a reward of $500 said to be
standing for his capture and return to
vladivostok, where he is alleged to be
wanted to servo life sentence fol
murder, o. HARRISON, alias Bemert, 6
local grocer's clerk, was arrested a
Seattle last week on statutor!
charge.
Friends OF Mrs. Harry X. Thaw
who has been suffering from worry
over her husbands case and the loss
of her income consequent to the bank
iuptcy proceedings, declare that he
condition is not serious. They denie'
that she is a nervous wreck, as haC
been reported.
John Henry Briggs, aged 62 years,
millionaire cattle raiser, shot ant
killed himself at his home in Attica
ind. Standing before a mirror, h
showed the muzzle of revolver int