The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-05-07
NEW S SUMMARY

rormer senator Camden of Mary. |
land is dead at the age OF 80, after an |
illness of several months
The Republicans of Maryland have |
declared in favor of Secretary Tarts
candidacy for the presidency.
Fire at Various, N. M, which for
a time threatened to destroy the en-.
tire town, did damage to the amount
OF $4,000.
Two men we're drowned while at.
tempting to run tde rapids in the Pts
catiquiS river, near Mile Junction,
Me-, in canoe.
BY a vote of 1877 to AZ. the house
| refused to accept the senate amend
ments to the naval appropriation bill,
and sent 1t to conference.
The explosion of boiler tube on
the British battleship Britannia, dur
ing a full speed trial. injured five
men, four of whom may not recover
The report from Tangier that the
bandit Raisuli had been assassinated
proves to be untrue He was am
pushed by the Elkmes tribesmen, but
escaped.
Three men, suspected of being the
stephen, Mimi, bank dynamiters, have
been arrested at Emerson, Manitoba,
and taken across to st. Vincent, Mimi,
and placed in jail.
One hundred and forty-eight big 10.
comotives are being hurried to the
Hartman lines as fast as the Brooks
Locomotive Works of Dunkirk, N. Y,
can turn them out
A serious conflict occurred Sunday
at Lola, capital of the province of
Lola, in the southwest of Ecuador,
between soldiers and police. Several
were wounded on each side.
All southerners residing in New
York will be invited soon to attend a
meeting, the avowed object of which
will be to place southerner upon
the Democratic national ticket.
Although probably more actively en-
gagged in business than any other
woman in the country, Mrs. Hetty
Green has never used a telephone
She says she has an attendant trans
NIT messages for her.
The presidents suggestion looking
to legislation authorizing the govern
ment to make charge for the use OF
the water of streams for power pur
poses was turned down by the senate
committee on commerce.
Miss Minnie Cox, a prominent so
ciety girl of Martins Ferry, O., dice
last week from spider bite she re
ceived three days previous. The
girls body became terribly swoller
and she died in horrible agony.
Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix, rector of Trim
ity Protestant parish since 1862, ant
. one Of New York City's most promi
nent clergymen, is dead at the ag'
of 81. Death was due to heart fail
ure, and followed brief illness.
The monthly statement of the pub
lilo debt shows that at the close
business April 80, 1908. the debt, les
cash in the treasury, amounted t
1925. 1926, which is an Increase a
compared with March 80, 1908, of S15
4A5,S99.
A general strike of motormen an
conductors, employed by the Municipa
Traction company, the new holdln
company. which took over all of tn
Cleveland, O., street railway lines III
der the recent peace agreement, al
pears to be imminent.
Sophie Suderman, years OF ag'
was run over and killed at New Ha'
en-. Conn, by an automobile owned b
Huntington Smith, Yale studen
whose home is in st. Louis. Inc ca
was occupied by Smith, two other fal
students and chauffeur.
William r. Wheeler of Californl
has notified the president OF his az
ceptance of the assistant secretar'
ship of the department OF commere
and LABOR, in succession to LaWrene
O. Murray. recently appointed com
troller of the currency.
The town of Antipolo in the pro
: ince of Morong, p l., with popul
4 tion of $500, has been practically q
m stroyed by fire. Four hundred mouse
~ were burned and hundreds OF Peep
are homeless. The famous shrll
was saved. The fire was caused
m. lightning.
~ Four armed men held up the guar
m who were conveying $4,000 fro
nd Welch to Dairy, w. Va. TO pay
at. employees of the United States Coal
ne Coke company. There is no clue
ie. the robbers, but sherihs posse
- securing the country in the hope
70 capturing them.
"Drp w w. Goelet, graduate
Columbia college and traveller w
was married to young society "
- man of Oakland four months ago
: in the Berkeley, Cal, city prise
&. charged with the burglary OF eight 81 o n
=. licences and apartment houses in Va
-y land and Berkeley.
4 Secretary straus of the departing
I of commerce and labor has been rel
pointed for another term OF SIX ye'
1 as one of the American members