The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-07-02
NEWS SUMMARY


Mount Vernon, S. d., was struck nv
i'ghthing and killed during an cleo
trical storm.
Twelve deaths from drowning were
reported from the different beaches
IN New York City and vicinity one
lay last week.
As the result Of a passenger train
wreck near Baton Rouge, La, one
man was killed and fifteen injured.
several seriously.
William Waldorf Aston has given
$4,000 to assist the British school at
Athens In carrying on It's excavations
IN Laconia, Greece.
A bill to prevent the drinking of In
toxicadng liquors on passenger trains
IN Louisiana has been passed by the
Louisiana legislature.
1t is reported at Tangier that Mu,ai
Hand, the insurgent brother of Sultan
Abd-el'Aziz, has been proclaimed sui
tan Of Morocco at Mogodar.
The International Sunday School
convention, held at Louisville last
week, decided to hold their next con-
vention in San Francisco in 1911.
General Bell, chief of staff, U. s. A.,
has ordered that the new special bull.
let, being in an experimental state,
shall not be used in the national
match this year
Henry Miller, aged 104 years, grew
tired of life at Harrodsburg, KY, and
committed suicide last week by TAX,
ing Paris green. He was one OF the
Oldest men in Kentucky.
A man named Moreland was
drowning in the Yellowstone river near
Billings, Mont, being thrown from a
raft by railroad riprapping. A com
panion narrowly escaped drowning.
President Roosevelt has appointed
John c. OLaughlin of Washington as
secretary to the American commits.
sion to the Japan exposition at Toxic
In 1912. His salary will be $4,000 a
year.
Geo. Willoughby, prominent mer
chant of Prospect, Wis, who shot and
killed his wife on March %, threw
himself on the mercy of the court and
has been sentenced to life imprison,
nlent.
A tornado passed about five miles
northwest of Mountain Lake, Mimi,
i5molishing at least a dozen farm
houses, killing one child and wound.
ing scores of persons, some Of whom
may die.
Mrs. William D. Watkins and her
seven-year-old daughter were drown
ed in canal near Long Beach, Cal
1t is thought the child fell in and the
mother was drowned in attempting tt
rescue her.
Secretary and Mrs. William H. Taft
will close their home in Washington
within the next two weeks and, &C
companied by their younger son
. Charles, will go to Hot Springs, Va.
for the summer
A son was born to Queen Victoria o.
Spain on June 2. Queen Victoria
formerly Princess Ena of Battenburg
and King Alfonso were married a
Madrid on May 81, 1906. Their frs
son was born on May 10, 1907.
The city of WI Chow, China, is In
undated by the abnormal rise of n
feet in the Flu river Many casual
ties are reported and much damage
has been done along the river banks
which are Uttered with refuse.
Leon de la Grange, the French aer
to L.. ~ so
all previous records by flying for six
teen minutes and thirty seconds. Dur
ing that time his machine was from
ten to eighteen feet above the ground
VASTLY Rebikoff, Russian invent
or has arrived in America to exhibi
his new motor boat to the United
States government He asserts tina
with 12-horse power he can maintain
speed of thirty-one miles an hour
Heavy floods have cccurre'
throughout the valley of the Yves
river and it's tributaries, inundatini
the large cities of WI Chow in tn
Kuang Tung province. The loss Of lif
and damage to property is reported t.
be enormous.
A sheriff's posse from Flagstaff
: Arizona, last week broke up gam
( of thieves in the North San Francisco
mountains, twenty miles north o
Flagstaff, arresting three alleged rust
t lers, named Wiley, Taylor and Bates
4 with over 100 head of horses in thei
5 possession.
The Republican congressional cam
! paign book will be out UNUSUAL,
/, early this year, probably six week
: sooner than it was issued four year
, ago. The proofs are practically col
rected up to date on such matter a
can be handled before the Democrati
convention meets.
! Judge Philips, in common plea
court of Cleveland, o., last week
!, granted a mandatory order compel
ing the Municipal Traction compan
IN give good service and the sam
+ rate of fare to the town of East Clevt
+ land. a suburb, as is enjoyed by tn
city of Cleveland.
John Mitchell, former president O