The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-13
NEW s SUMMAR Y

me plant OF the jenkins Rubber
company at Elizabeth. N. Y, has been
practically destroyed by fire, causing
loss of 100000
John Gregson. stockman of Colum.
Kenzie, S. D., while en- route to Chi.
cago with a shipment of cattle.
The Shevlin- Mathiu Lumber com.
pany's sawmill at Beaudette, Wis,
caught fire and burned to the ground,
causing loss of approximately $780,.
900.
The Hearst Independence party is
planning to put full state ticket in
the field in Kansas by means of
petition containing the names of $500
voters.
The new Finnish diet was formally
opened at the palace at Helsingfors
on August 5, by ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Boeckman, with the customary cere-
monials.
Formal Publications of the new
trademark and copyright treaty be-
tween the Japanese government and
the United States were exchanged on
August G.
In an encounter between the police
and band of brigands, who have
long terrorized the suburbs of Tifis,
FIVE of the latter we're killed and the
others captured.
John Zett, farmer living on the
Bolton road near Vernon, Conn, killed
his wife and granddaughter and tried
TO kill his son. using sledge ham,
mer and knife.
William Il. English. private in
company lis, coast artillery, awaiting
trial for desertion, was shot and
killed at the Preside, San Francisco,
while trying to escape.
Three children, aged /, Q and 4
years. respectively, were burned to
death at Minneapolis. The mother
Mrs. Frank Lindberg, locked the chill
dren in a room and went shopping.
A number of persons were burned
70 death and 100 houses were de-
siroyed by fire at Donauschingen, Ger
many. Fortunately heavy rain fell
and stopped the progress of the con-
Migration.
China has formally accepted the
date, January /, next, and the selec.
ton of the. city of Shanghai, as the
time and place for holding the meet
ing of the international opium COM
mission.
The people of Constantine. Algeria,
are still in state of terror from the
earthquake shocks Of few days
ago, fearing repetition, and there is
in consequence. a steady exodus to
the country.
The Orthodox Missionary congress,
which is now in session at Kiev, has
taken a backward and unpopular step
in petitioning the government to again
make obligatory in Poland the use Of
the Russian calendar.
William +. Downing, a member of
the old Stiles Alvord band of outlaws,
who ten years ago operated in south.
ern Arizona, was killed In his saloon
at Wilcox, Ariz., by Ranger William
Speed, while resisting arrest.
The First National bank of Bell
PLANE, Mimi, has been closed by or
der of the comptroller of the cur
rency. The bank was reported insol-
vent, followed by the suicide OF the
president of the bank, ]. G. Lunde.
Official estimates of the fire losses
to the insurance companies as the re-
suit of the forest fires In British Co
lumbia have been prepared by the
special representatives and adjusters.
They place the amount at $3.50, 900.
Members of the United Brother
hood of Taiors of New York City are
again threatening a general strike.
which, IL called, will involve 10000
| coat makers and helpers. Al present
the men are working from ten to
| eleven hours.
Bronson Howard, the dean of Amer
lean playwrights, died August 4, at
| Avon-by-the-Sea. He was born in De-
troit, in 1912. Like most men of his
profession he began his career in a
newspaper office, being reporter on
the Detroit Free Press.
Miss Elizabeth Barnett, recently
acquitted of the murder of Oscar Pet
erson, bachelor farmer, and rear
rested on a charge of forgery. escaped
from Sheriff Hartley to the brush-cov-
cred sand ridges on the shore OF Sagi-
nav bay, ten miles northwest OF Bay
City, Mich.
Scott Pound and Ray G. Baird, two
Seattle youths, about IS years of age,
were surprised at work robbing sa.
loon in San Francisco, into which
they had forced an entrance, and In
trying to escape Pounds was shot and
killed by a policeman after a chase
Of two blocks.
While clearing away the ruins of
the explosion in the Rikovsky mine,
which resulted in the death of about
two hundred men, the authorities
found a set of counterfeiting tools
and a quantity Of spurious money. II
is believed the counterfeiters caused
the explosion.
The record run from Denver to
Cheyenne in an automobile was made