The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-06-25
NEWS SUMMARY

thousands to the beaches AT New
YORK City for relief. and as q resu,t
e'sn' urownings were reported.
me powers interested have agreed
10 send warship to Tangier To safe
guard the lives and property of for.
The worlds strengthening racord
is z'SS4 animals in nine hours. This
was done at Hawks Bay station. in
Australia. ~
Five unidentified Italians. railroad
laoorers at Lehigh, Pa. on the Pocono
mountains, were killed by a prema.
ture blast.
The public schools Of Cleveland
may be equipped with bookholders
which enable the scholars to sit erect
while studying.
The total value of the crops and
1--we stock In Kansas this year is fig.
ured out by the board Of agriculture
to be $463,64S SOC.
The national congress OF San Do
mingo has proclaimed General Ramon
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pubic for a term of six years.
Governor Glenn. on June 10, amid
imposing ceremonies, signed the proc.
lamation making prohibition effective
In North Carolina, January 1, 1909.
A French engineer named Pom
teaux announces the invention of an
electric gun which, without powder or
other explosive, is capable of firing
1900 shots minute
DIR. Thomas w. Small, surgeon of
the American line steamer st. Louis,
committed suicide in his cabin on the
steamer at New York by shooting.
No cause for the act Is known.
A man and a woman have been
condemned to death at Warsaw on
the charge Of being implicated in
recent attempt to kill General Skal-
Ion, governor general of Warsaw.
Santa Fe locomotive shops of the
entire system were last week ordered
closed until June 20. This will affect
over 1000 men in Topeka, Kansas.
Scarcity of work is given as the cause.
1t is reported that in fight between
Yaqui Indians and Mexican troops, at
a water hole between Guaymas ana
Hermosillo, several Mexican soldiers
were killed The troops are still pur.
suing the Yaquis.
All publications having anrachistic
tendencies will hereafter find it prac.
tipnl1U i'm cihla To oil nf n
United States mails for their distribu,
ton as the result of orders issued by
the postmaster general.
Daniel Jones, Frank Spikes and
Haywood Lee, white, all of Raleigh.
s. c.. were killed at the Raleigh phos-
phate works by the escape Of sulphuric
acid gas. Three others were almost
overcome but recovered.
The Lemoine diamond case came to
sensational ending with an unex-
pected climax in Paris last week. Le-
moine has fed, and his famous for.
mula for the manufacture of dia-
monds is fantastic farce.
Fifty fishing boats have been wreck
ed off the coast of Kagoshima, and $50
of their crews have been drowned.
The governor of the province has re-
quested assistance from the govern
ment navy yard at Sasebo.
The census bureau has issued pre-
lminary report showing that the total
cut of lumber in the United States
during the calendar year 1907 was
47,256,154, 900 feet, board measure,
the number of lumber mills being 2S,-
$50.
The Vigorit powder plant at Pinole,
few miles north of Berkeley, Cal,
caught fire, causing the nitro-glycerine
mixing house to blow up. AS there
was plenty of time for the employees
to escape, none of them was injured
or killed
Six firemen were injured and prop
erty loss estimated at about S50,oO0
was caused in fire which partially
DESTROYED a four-story brick building
In Chicago, coupled by the CONNER
cial Cabinet company and the Amer
| lean Industrial company.
! Wllllam ftdHllltOH iOuh5,
of the Washington office OF the west
ern Union Telegraph company and Ia
military known to newspaper men
throughout the country as Col. Ham
Young, died on June 10. He was one
of the oldest telegraphers of the coun-
try.
The Westinghouse electric interests
in Germany have formed a combina'
ton with the Bergman Electric
company of Berlin, whereby the Berg
MAINS will install the WESTINGHOUSE
electric traction systems IN that
country.
Detachments of the Russian lorce
that recently invaded Persian tern
tory in punishment for the depreua
lions of Persian brigands are WIN
drawing. With the payment by feI'
sia of the indemnity exacted the III,
ficulty with Teheran is consldereu d.
an end.
E. T. Bethel, the British suoleCI
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