The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-17
NEWS SU MN A r Y

dNd1 WIN HhtNN's
The bill prepared by the postal re-
vision commission will probably be-
presented to congress during the
week.
The Rose county option law waa
declared constitutional by Judge
Duncan OF the common pleas court a,
Finlay, Ohio
The constitutionality of Pennsyl
vania's two.cent fare law is again at.
tackled In an equity suit filed in tho
common pleas court of Pittsburg.
A New York chauffeur convicted for
the third time OF violation OF the au'
tomobile speed laws, was sentenced
to pay fine Of $3.50 and spend thirty
days in jail.
Triplets were born last week &C.
Mr.. and Mrs Ambrose Il. Calhoun of
Columbus, Ca This couple now has
twenty-five children. The father Is
So years old.
John Solomon and Frank BabinsKv
were killed by an explosion vi dust
following a windy shot in the Spring
field Collery company's mine at
Springfield, ILL.,
Speaker Cannon has made known
his unalterable opposition to the pro
position of financing waterways I'm.
improvements by the issuance OF
government bonds.
Charges of criminal libel preferred
against Omar X, Benedict, manager
of the Oklahoma City Times, by
Governor Charles N. Haskell of Ok
lahoma. have been dismissed.
Licking county, Ohio, last week
voted dry by 700, doing away with
oighty-four saloons. Harding county
was carried by the "drys" by 1900.
Twenty-one saloons are affected.
The town OF Pine Bluff, Ark, is
again endangered by food waters OF
the Arkansas river, and unless some
plan Is conceived to check the wa
tiers there will be heavy property
loss.
James Gordon Bennett has present
ed to the French Aero club an inter
rational aviation cup, valued at
| $4,000, as well as three sums OF $4,000
| to be added as prizes in the first
| three annual competitions.
A concurrent resolution provid-
ing for the appointment of three sen
ators and three representatives to
make the necessary arrangements
for the inauguration OF President
Taft has been adopted by the senate.
In a speech to the delegates in at
tendance upon the Southern Com
mercial Congress- held in Washing
ton, James Bryce, the British embas-
sador, expressed the conviction that
great future Is about to dawn upon
the south.
Appropriations aggregating $685.
800 were made at the annual meeting
of the board of trustees of the Car
negie institution of Washington.
This amount ia to be used in 1903
merely to continue projects hereto
fore initiated
It develops that some one stole a
pocketbook containing $4,000 belong
ing TO Senior Don Juan Barrios, minis
ter of foreign affairs of Guatemala,
cs he was lying unconscious by the
roadside after an automobile accident
near Washington.
The coroners jury in the inquest
at Trnchera, Colo, into the killing
Of the Garcia family, returned a YER
dict that the five persons had been
murdered by Francisco Martinez,
who then committed suicide by blow
|, Ing out his brains
. President Roosevelt and President
h elect Taft publicly put themselves on
e record last week in advocacy of the
issuance of government bonds for the
a construction of permanent public i'm
@ provements to conserve the natura
If resources of the nation.
C The long overdue British ship
e Hadden Hall, over whose safet!
IS much anxiety was caused, arrived a
6 Seattle, 245 days from Liverpool viz
Montevideo. The ship had mos
IT tempestuous voyage, during whlcl
n. many OF her crew were injured.
n Governor Hughes of New York dc
Is clares that he does not deem 1t &C
f. visable to at this time appoint con
ID mission of citizens to investigate tn
Re conditions surrounding the life II
surance companies of New Yorl
V. state, and report 10 the leSisldture'
I'd Sixty.five years is the age limit fo
b. members of the University of Mil
C. nesota faculty. The board of regent
e. decided that contracts with member
ne of the faculty should expire whe
to they reached that age The rule wi
lie applied beginning with this wee
W. Becoming suddenly insane, Hira
tie Radger of Wakefield, Mass, kille
he his two daughters, then ran amuC
'al through the town, shooting at pc
en- sons he met and into the store wi
he dows. A grocers clerk received
In wound In the leg. Badger was final
captured.
I'm Advocates of the establishment
he an Appalachian and White mounta
ed national forest reserve, headed
he governors from all sections OF u