The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
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bills introduced by Senator Foraker.
Frank Hannum OF Laporte, Ind, Is
dead at Seattle, Wash, Of Injuries re
oeived in a football game. He was
&c years old
Robbers dynamlted the safe of the
FIRST National bank at Eufaula, Okla,
and escaped with sum said to be
about $4,000.
Indications multiply that the liquor
question will be burning one before
the legislature which meets in Nash
Vile, Tenn, in January.
The house has passed bill placing
an annual tax of 800 on all dealers
In cigarettes and cigarette papers In
the District of Columbia
James Curren. IS years old, was
killed in boxing bout with Benjamin
Barnet, II years old, at the Broadway
Athletic club, Philadelphia,
Two colored men lost their lives in
a fire which destroyed the home OF
"Auntie" Matte Crosby, an old col
ored woman in Columbus, Ohio.
Ten persons were instantly killed
.when two passenger trains ran to
gether between Pouche and Limoges,
France. Many others were hurt.
An unknown man was instantly
killed and Marshal G. +. Woods Of
Greenwich. Ohio, was seriously
wounded in an encounter with five
men in the railroad yards of that vii
lage.
Four men were instantly killed and
four others seriously injured by
portion of a concrete pier of the new
bridge being erected over the Poto
mac river at Williamsport, Md, col
lapsing.
A Northern Pacific coast train was
damaged by fire to the extent of $40,
000 while at the station at st. Cloud
MINI. A lighted match dropped by
passenger on window curtain start
ed the fire.
The report Of the state tobacco mo
nopoly filed last week shows that the
| French nation last year consumed
| $10OO0O0O0 worth of tobacco upon
which the government made a profit
| OF Sl5,OUU,OUu.
BY the arrest of nine of the most
| important Bengali leaders and in their
! deportation to secret destination it
/ Il believed the authorities have sue
cessfully put down the sedltious move
ment at Calcutta.
Miners and operators on Paint
| Creek, Kanawlra county, Pennsylv
ania, where 1900 miners have quit
work following reduction of wages
| posted by operators, are considering
compromise proposition.
Senator Bourne has introduced a
bill providing for an increase in the
! salary of the president of the United
\ States from $4,000 to 100000, and
in the salary of the vice-presideni
from $4,000 to $4,000.
The Lisbon correspondent of the Co
logne Gazette says in dispatch that
he is authorized to deny the. story
| from Paris that Germany is about to
acquire the Bergelen islands. off Por-
tugaI, for coaling station.
| DR.. Thomas Birdson, slayer OF DR..
| A. B. Pitts, prominent physician OF
! Hazelhurst, Miss, last week entered
plea of guilty and, in accordance with
! an agreement between counsel, wat
given a life sentence In the peniten-
tiary.
BY unanimous vote the house has
| adopted q resolution presented by the
special committee of five calling on
the president for proof of his charge
that members were fearful of an in
vestigation by the secret service
agents.
The S-months-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Spomer of Fesno, CAL, died
while its parents slept. 1t had been
sick from brain fever while teethins,
and at an inquest the parents de
clared they had cured it by means OF
prayer
Statutes fixing the official status OF
Prince Chun, the regent, were pub
lished in Pellin last week. The prince
IL given an annual salary of 100000
and Is made commander-in-chief OF
both the land and sea forces of the
empire.
passed a resolution requesting GOV
ernorelect Pennewell to provide, If
possible, the substitution of water for
wine at the naming of the new battle
ship Delaware at Newport News in
February.
General Tasker H. Bliss, In com
mand of the forces of the Philippines,
has reported the death of eleven en-
listed men of the Eighteenth regi-
rnent. stationed at Camp Keithiey
Mindanao, from methyl poisoning. re
sulting from drinking Columbian spir
its.
Eight foreigners were injured, two
of them fatally, three houses were
burned and four others dynamited &c
prevent futher loss at Newbury, Pa
as the result of a powder explosion
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