The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-09
NEW S SUMMARY

with declaration in favor OF Senate
Foraker for president.
Edward Hanlon, ex-champion oars
man of the world, is dead at Toronto
Ont. from pneumonia
Curtis Glild, Jrt, was inauguratet
on January for third term as gov
ernor of Massachusetts.
A school building at Santa Monica
Cal, was destroyed by fire, but the 40t
pupils all escaped without injury.
Mrs. A. Mosler while smoking G
pipe in bed in Lincoln. Neb., set hel
coverlet on fire and was burned tc
death.
Transatlantic passenger traffic dur
ing 1907 was increased by nearly
100000 passengers over the traffic
in 1906.
The bubonic plague in San Fran.
cisco has been almost entirely stamp
ed out, there being but three cases in
the city on January l.
Cracksmen blew the safe of Miller
G. Sons bank at Tructon, N. Y, secur.
ing $4,000 in cash, and escaped with
q stolen horse and buggy.
Altogether 1926 men and 80 women
sought tho assistance of the London
anti-suicide bureau to save them from
selfdestruction during the past twelve
months.
The district court has upheld the
Omaha blue laws" as being entirely
constitutional and in the future the
Sunday closing law will be enforced
strictly.
William p. Harris, brakeman, was
shot by holdup in Minneapolis, and
died later without having given any
coherent statement of what had oc.
Cured.
Thomas West, of San Francisco
was shot five times by Paul Mullen,
an ex-pugilist, as the result of quar-
rel over the Attell-Moran fight. West
may recover.
Work which was discontinued in
December for the purpose OF curtail
mills, was resumed on January /, with
full force.
In his annual message, Governor
Warfield OF Maryland advocated an
amendment to the constitution which
would practically eliminate the ignor.
ant negro vote.
At the age of 107, Rhaun Tharp
died on January 4, at Nashville, Ohio.
Mrs. Tharp lived under every admins.
tration except that of Washington. She
was born in Virginia.
Adding the value of cotton. meats,
dairy products, poultry, eggs, and all
other items raised by the agriculturist,
the years total attains the phenome
nal value of $7,400,O00.000.
A total of s2,OOo,OOO spent in the
installation OF safety devices with
view to lessening the possibility OF
accident Is the record of the Union Pa
cific for the past twelve months.
A. ]. Ballard engaged in a shotgun
duel with Allie and Boone Henry.
brothers, OF Yale, KY, a mining town.
Ballard and Boone Henry were fatally
wounded. Further trouble is feared,
In thirty minutes trial, the death
penalty was passed upon Robert Wes
ton, a negro, at st. Francisville, La.
On December 81 he shot up a passen
ger train near Baton Rouge, killing
A. X. Wridert, a student.
One of the most complete bomb fac.
tories ever discovered in Russia has
been unearthed at farm house TWEEN.
ty miles from Sebastopol. 1t consisted
Of a complete apparatus for the man.
ufactme Of high explosives.
Two men stole a chest containing
$2,859 from street car standing in
front of the Main street east car
barns in Rochester, N. ", at 6:25
o'clock in the morning, and got safely
away with it in an automobile.
Announo ement is made by the pro.
vincial government that the Bell Tel
ephone system in Manitoba has been
purchased by the government. The
price paid was $3,300,O0O. The gov
ernment will assume control on Janu-
airy 18th.
Mrs. Mollie Lisnen, aged 100 years,
died at Pueblo, Colo, last week. She
served as nurse during the war be-
tween Denmark and Austria in 1867,
and told many "reminiscences of the
German rebellion of 1S48 and the
French war of 1871.
After shooting and killing his
mother-in-law, 70 years old, driving
his wife and children from home and
holding at bay sheriffs posse which
surrounded his house, Edward Butter
held, Sutton, VT, farmer, was found
dead in bed, having shot himself.
The monthly statement OF tne gov.
ernment's receipts and disbursements
shows that for the month of Decen,.
Der, 1907. the receipts were $47,2S3,- !
S25, and the expenditures S55,912,Y93,
leaving a deficit for the month OF S8,- /
$4,000.