The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-05-28
NEWS SUMMARY

reached st. Louis.
Rear Admiral Joseph Filibert. the |
French commander in Moroccan
waters, has been promoted to the |
grade of vice admiral.
President Roosevelt has signed The |
bill providing for the participation of
this country in the exposition to he
held in Toxic in 1912.
A tornado which came down the
valley near Abba, Iowa, DESTROYED all
the buildings in its pathway, ]. M.
Taylor. aged rs. being killed.
Headquarters for the presidential
candidacy of Governor Hughes of
New York have been established in
Chicago by the National Hughes
| league.
A cloudburst near Wichita Falls,
Texas, washed away railroad tracks
and damaged farm property Four
persons are reported to have been
drowned
| Night riders destroyed the tobacco
sheds Of Walter Hook, six miles from
Ripley, Ohio. Hook fired at the men
and in return they riddled his house
with bullets
The police of Chicago are search.
ing for tive boys, Ralph McCabe, aged
7, and Chester Mccormick, years
old, who are believed to have been
kidnapped by gypsies.
Over 10000 deaths have resulted
from the severe famine prevailing in
the Usoga province of Uganda, Brit
ish East Africa. The government Is
feeding 10000 of the natives.
After September 1 1t will be fel.
ony to conduct bucketshop in the
state of New York, Governor Hughes
having signed Senator Cassidy's bill
amending the penal code to that eff.
feet.
Professor Leslie A. Lee Of Bow
dom college, noted especially for his
research expeditions in Labrador and
South America, is dead at Portland,
following an operation, at the age
of 56.
There is possibility that Evelyn
Nesbitt Thaw may abandon the pro-
|
marriage to Harry Kendall Thaw, &C.
cording to statement made by her
attorney.
Twenty-four battleships will be re
viewed by President Roosevelt in
Hampton Roads, February % next
the date OF the return of the Atlantic
battleship feet from its cruise around
the world.
Four deaths resulted from the
wreck OF the Oregon express on the
Southern Pacific railroad near Pinole,
CAL, the wreck being caused by the
front truck of the baggage car jump
ing from the track.
Eduardo de Eranzo, coffee plant
er from Venezuela, met death in
New York City as the result OF a
drug clerk putting the wrong drug
in a prescription which the Venezue'
Ian had him prepare.
Mrs. Bessie De Eason shot and
killed her husband at their home on
farm near Memphis, Tenn. She
claims that her husband was intoxi-
Gated and started shooting at her,
when she fired in self-defense.
Monroe NJ Harkell, a newspaper
man from Oklahoma, was shot and
killed at Ell Paso, Texas, by j. f.
Mitchim, proprietor of the Ell Paso
Evening News, who claimed that Har
kell had threatened to take his life
The International Brotherhood ol
Locomotive Engineers have decided
to include the countries of South
America and Panama in the Brother
hood. and a canvass Of these coun
|. tries for membership will begin al
once.
Mrs. Ann Darhinger OF Sharon, "a
who pleaded guilty to killing her nus
band, has been sentenced to serve
eight years in the penitentiary. inc
:. woman is alleged to have shot mel
= husband to obtain $4,000 life insur
| ance.
!. AS the result of the breaking OF
n dam near Ashland, Wis, caused D!
"a the heavy rains, hundreds OF resi-
"A dents we're driven from their MONIES
Ie and many head of stock were
drowned, while three bridges wer'
a swept away.
1t After more than four months con
sumed In the taking OF evidence
q. counsel began last week their argu
If ments in the supreme court In tn
ar government suit to compel the dlssC
~ tuition of the American Tobacco com
20 many ON allegations that the compan'
"A IS a monopoly.
The adjustment of the sweat snol
conditions which exist in France
= the object of serious experimeh
~ being essayed in Paris in the form
;, tho establishment of workshop
APARTMENT building in which worn
men may perform their daily iapor
and have their residence
40 A scene was created in the lowe
~ 10 tho Oklahoma legislator