The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-07-23
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Cal, cost TWO lives ana monetary
loss of Sl50,000.
The Elks' reunion of 1908, held at
Dallas Texas, came to a close on
July II. The next reunion will be
held in Los Angeles.
The town OF Baltic, Ohio, contain.
Ing 500 people, was practically wiped
cut by fire which ragged all night
starting in a -four mill.
President Roosevelt has refused an
offer to make speeches into the re-
ceiver of talking machine for the
purpose of making records for public
use.
Mrs. Walter Teage, wife OF the
Standard oil official, who shot herself
at her home in Los Angeles, died
without having regained conscious
ness.
Mrs. Hannah Louisa Whitman
Helde. the last surviving sister of the
poet. walt Whitman, died at her home
in Burlington, VT, on July IS, aged 81
years.
Five men we're burned. two per.
haps fatally, by an overflow OF molten
metal from n furnace in the plant OF
the Wisconsin Steel mills in South
Chicago.
In compliance with orders just re.
ceived at the Mare Island navy yard,
the work of overhauling the cruiser
Raleigh. at cost of nearly 100000,
will begin MS soon as the Pacific fleet
sails in August
That Hazel Drew came to her death
as result of an accident instead of
being victim of foul and deliber.
forth as possible solution of the
Teal Pond. N Y, mystery.
The cost of the Pacific coast extern
sion of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st
Paul railway, which 1t is expected
will be open for traffic on July l. 1903
will be about $5,OOO,0O0 more than
the company originally reckoned.
Twenty-Five hundred children's
Jacket makers who went on strike in
) New York five weeks ago against q
reduction in wages have won their
strike in all but few shops ond re-
turned to work at the former pay.
In view of the unsettled condition
at Porto Cortez, Honduras, and the
revolutionary movement there, the
navy department has ordered the gun
boat Marietta, now at Port Antonio,
Jamaica, TO proceed there without de-
lay.
Illegal transactions, shady business
/, deals and violation Of trusts were
charged against the supreme lodge OF
the A. o. U. W. by the grand lodge
of Wisconsin, in lawsuit involving
half a million dollars, filed at Des
Moines, la.
Commander Robert e. Peary sailed
from Sydney, N. s., on June II on the
steamer Roosevelt in another attempt
, to reach the north pole. His last re
mark as he went over the ships side
was that he expected to accomplish
his purpose.
Robert Gardner, a deputy marshal
was fatally wounded and at least 0
L dozen miners were more or less seri
J. ously shot as the result Of an attack
on train bearing strike breakers Il
y take the places of striking union min
. ers at Jefferson, Ala,
; The Georgia railroad commission
has ruled that the newspapers of the
J. state may accept transportation II
q exchange for advertisements. This
= decision Is of particular interest II
q view of the ruling of Federal Judge
y Kohlsaat of Chicago.
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. pageant ever witnessed in Honolulu
$500 men OF the Atlantic battleshiI
fleet paraded on the morning of June
II II, arousing enthusiastic cheers from
d the dense crowds which lined the wa,
+ along which they passed.
According to the Czech newspapers
= Narodny Lysty, the Princess Ameli
. Louise of Furstenberg, and Gustav
,, Kozian, an employee of an automo
u bile firm, with whom she eloped las
y May, were married last week in tn,
castle chapel at Kammerburg.
y Contrery to the rumors that Mrs
II Frank j. Gould has been reconcile'
5, TO her husband, and that their dill
a ferences had been amicably settled
MIS-. OOulu . buiI lOI uiNoiSS 10 vi
g the motion calendar and we'll b.
n brought to trial within the next fey
weeks.
" When the auxiliary cruiser Buffal
e sails on August Is from San FTar
e cisco with supplies for the Atlanti
70 battleship fleet, her cargo will II
IL clude, among other eatables, G00,00
m pounds of flour, 100000 pounds OF pc
N tatoes, canned meats and dessicate
vegetables.
IS William Campbell, New Yor
n bricklayer, who on June killed hi
al wife Carrie with a bread-knife, stoo
* like man unconscious of what wa
T. about him when the judge sentence
AZ him to twenty years Imprisonment
4. Campbell was intoxicated when tn
crime was committed.
at John w. Tomlinson, the Alabam
a ,,a.,hor 30 tha national DemOcrat n