The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-03-26
NEWS SUM M A RY

In an amateur boxing tournament
in Philadelphia. Willie Robinson, 10
years, was killed while boxing with
Charles Wolf. same age.
The senate has accepted the
OF the legislative bill in-
creasing the salaries of surveyors
general from $4,000 to $4,000.
The steamer Pomona, which PHYS
between San Francisco and Eureka,
was wrecked near Fort Ross on
March II. All her passengers were
saved
Three men were killed and four in
jured, two fatally, by the blowing up
of one of ten wheel houses of the
United States Powder company at
Coalmont, Ind.
An unknown negro shot and NOR
tally wounded Baxter and Rufus
Burns at Burns, Miss. Both are rela-
tives of United States Senator Nc
Laurin of Mississippi.
Senator B. r. Tillman of South Car
olina. is dangerously i'll at his home
at Trenton, s. c., suffering with re-
turn of the disease which affected his
health three years ago.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
j. P. Edwards, whose resignation was
accepted last week, has accepted the
receivership of the New Amsterdam
National bank of New York, which
recently suspended.
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Kalamazoo, Mich, whose two-year-old
son Walter died last December from
pneumonia while under treatment by
two mental healers, was last week re.
arrested and charged with man.
slaughter.
Walter r. Day, secretary of state OF
Kentucky under the Republican re
gime of Governor Taylor in 1900, has
been sentenced to serve one year in
the penitentiary for forging the name
of his uncle, Floyd Day. to check
for $4,000.
The bubonic plague in Ecuador is
increasing and the sanitary condition
of Guayaquil and other towns is caus-
ing great alarm. There are fifty-one
cases of the plague in the Lazaretto,
besides several cases of smallpox and
yellow fever.
AS the result of an unsuccessful at
tempt to assassinate Federal Judge
Lira, of the northern district of Chi
huahua by firing two shots at him
through door, four alleged plotters
hN1l ~, inil in, Tn q
of conspiracy to murder.
Frank Kito, Japanese cook, fired
five bullets into the body of Mrs. Liz.
zie Hulse of New York City, who
had spurned his love. Kito then
drank carbolic acid and died. Mrs
Hulse will recover. Both had been
employed in restaurant.
The Notifications bill, carrying to-
tai Appropriation of SS,210,611 instead
of the $3S,443,945 asked for by the
war department, has been reported to
the house committee on appropria-
tions by Chairman Smith of the sub
committee on Notifications.
Under pressure exerted by the
rransvaal government, which is en-
titled to 60 per cent of the company's
output, the Premier Diamond Mining
company has refinitely refused to re-
new rs agreement with the diamond
syndicate, and will market it's own
output.
Two men were killed and five per-
sons seriously injured when an excur-
sion train on the International Il
Great Northern railway bearing a
party of homeseekers from Kansas
and Oklahoma en- route to Las Pal
tenas. Mexico, was wrecked at Pear
sail, Texas.
In the arrest OF Fanny Ritchie and
Harry McCuen at Dea'son Texas, tha
mystery of wholesale murder in
Oklahoma City last August, involving
the death of five persons, Is cleared
up. The woman declares McCuen
committed the murders, robbery be.
ing the motive.
The government of the little
African republic of Liberia has ap.
pealed to America to protect her ter.
ritorial industry against France. The
state department has been informed
that delegation is now on it's way
from Monrovia to Washington to
make personal appeal
The suggestion has been made in
the Australian senate, and greeted
with enthusiasm, that the federal gov
ernment invite President Roosevelt 10
come to Australia as the guest of the
commonwealth during the visit next
winter in Australian waters of the
American battleship fleet.
So badly do the farmers of Lancas-
ter county, Pennsylvania, require help
on the farms that the Farmers
league has issued an appeal to the
unemployed of the cities and towns
to go to the country for work, and an
appeal has been sent to the bureau
of labor and immigration.
The supreme court of Missouri has
decided that city ordinances prohibit
ing persons from lounging or loafing
on street corners are unpon stitutionaI