The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-09-17
NEW SU M MA RY

She was beached in time TO enable
all on board to escape.
Congressman George l.. Lilly was
nominated for governor OF Connects
cut by the Republican state conven.
ton, receiving 400 votes out OF 577.
Business was entirely suspended at
Strawn, Texas, one day last week
because of the heat, the thermometer
registering 112 degrees. with hot
wind blowing from the south
Two women, one grieving over the
death of her favorite son. and the
other respondent because of Illness,
leaped TO death from windows In
their homes in New York City.
The schooner Phills Gray went
down and her crew of nineteen men
were lost off Devonshire In terrific
storm that swept the English chan
mel and coast on the 9th.
While the parents were away from
home the residence of ]. c. Burdette.
near New Brighton. MINI, burned
and Ave children, ranging from S to
10 years old, met death by suffoca-
ton.
An official statement Of the cholera
situation in st. Petersburg shows
that on the 18th there were fifty-eight
new cases and eight deaths from the
disease, and there are 107 patients In
hospitals with 1t.
Since the killing OF q white man
by a negro at Kansas City last week,
there has been u growing alarm of
race war among the colored popula,
ton and the police have learned that
many of them are purchasing fire.
arms.
Mrs. Sallie Ruthford died at To
peka, Kan, on the 9th, at the age of
113 years. She was born in Middle
ton, KY, in 1896 and had never seen
weeks sickness in her life. Mrs.
Ruthford came to Topeka forty.three
years ago.
Paris Fletcher, member of a we'll
known real estate firm OF st. Paul,
and prominent socially, was instantly
killed and Mrs. Fletcher was severely
injured by the overturning OF their
automobile at Minnesota, near Wa
basha, MINI.
M. Albert. who recently retired
from his post OF minister of justice
at Copenhagen, has surrendered to
the police and confessed to series
OF frauds against the UNDERSTANDINGS
Sparkasse, a savings bank of which
he was president.
The celebration throughout Russia
in honor of the eightieth birthday Of
Count Tolstoi passed off quietly. No
arrests were made anywhere. On the
contrary the authorities at the last
moment relaxed the severity OF their
orders prohibiting the celebrations.
Alexander Berkman. who shot
Henry c. Frick during the Homestead
steel strike in Pennsylvania, was
convicted upon the charge of making
a disturbance at meeting OF the
unemployed in Cooper Union, New
York City, and sent to the workhouse
The Democratic party of the island
OF Porto Rico has nominated Jacinto
Texidor, a lawyer Of San Juan, as Its
candidate for the post of resident
commissioner at Washington. This
Ia the first time the Democratic party
has participated In the island cleo
tions.
During a At of temporary insanity
Pearson Talley, of Wilmington, Del.
60 years of age. attacked his wife
his adopted daughter, Edith Johan
sen, and her husband, Andrew Johan
sen, and inflicted such serious wounds
with an ak that the victims are moi
expected to live.
Mile. Marie LablaChe, one OF the
performers at the Toronto exhibition
was probably fatally injured las
week. Her act was to slide down {
wire. stretched from high pole Il
the ground, hanging by her teeth
The pole became loose, and she fell
her spine being broken.
A pilot steamer in the North sea
picked up a balloon containing two
British aeronauts named Tennett ant
Short. The balloon assembled at Bat
tersea, district of London, at II
o'clock at night and was blown out u
set. When discovered the balloon
was close to the water.
The shrunken and bleached God
of woman, with evidences OF II
having been covered with quicklime
has been found on the West Virsini
shore of the Ohio river, near Wells
vile, o. The authorities believe tn
woman was murdered and an attemp
made to destroy the body.
James Bellows McGregor, the OLD
est Mason in the country, believed Z
be the Oldest white man in the Uni
ed States, celebrated his 10th brit
day at Mount Sunapee, N. NJ, on tn
5th. Mr.. McGregor can read ord
nary print with the aid OF a readin
glass and is hale and hearty.
: After experimenting two year
with concrete ties, the Burlingto
railroad has abandoned them 70
!, wood. The officials believe that tn
y old material, treated with creosote,
y more satisfactory. A creosoting plan