The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-10-08
NEWS SUMMARY

NJ, IL last losing ground in
wanna before the vigorous campaign
"aged by the authorities.
hev. NJ. +. Hill, formerly OF Lexinr.
Ton KY, with his bride. was drowned
near Chaplin, N. Y. Hin WAC Iood.
er IN the Methodist church in Ken.
lucky. al NeH
me choiera In the Yang Use valley
Is abating, but the toll of death This
season has been heavy. In Hankov
o'VVv natives and a score OF foreign
ers have died of the malady.
Inc two-cent postage rates on let
ters between the United States and
lhe British Isles. including England
scotland, Ireland and Wales went
INTO effect Thursday, October /.
ROBERT Louis Stevenson's former
nome on the heights of Russian hin
san francisco, has been purchased by
Mr. and Mrs. Francis ]. Sullivan for
the establishment of a nunnery.
An explosion of gas at the plant
Oh the Pittsburg Plate Glass COM
pany s works No. 2, at Tarrentum,
"a resulted in a loss by fire OF
S5VO,OOO, and threw 800 men out of
employment
rearing to face disgrace, which he
felt would follow his arrest on
charge of abusing his wife, Leonard
j. Schmidt, a piano maker OF New
York City, killed himself by inhaling
Illuminating gas.
What Is practically the final settle
ment of the estate of the late Archi.
bald Blount of Orelton Manor, Hert.
Yorkshire, England, shows that Yale
university will receive from the estate
about $32S,000 net.
A London dispatch announces that
the kings gardeners have plucked 900
punches OF big black Hamburg grapes
from the 150-year-old grape vine at
Cumberland lodge, one of the kings
many little country houses
Robert HUI Tung, the Hongkong
millionaire, with his two wives and
three children, who arrived at San
Francisco from the Orient on the
steamer Korea will be deported to
the land from whence they came.
Massachusetts Democrats in state
convention at Boston nominated Sen
ator James H. Fahey of WATERFOWL
for governor by reclamation. Edgar
Brown of Brockton the only other
candidate for the office, withdrew.
The promised fight of the Anti
Saloon League of America against the
Cannon is almost at hand, according
to statement issued by General Su.
perintendent Baker of the league.
Director of the Mint Leach an.
nounced last week that he would re.
sumo the purchase of fine silver for
subsidiary coinage. He states that he
expects to purchase about $4,000
ounces each week for an indefinite
period.
Ignorant of the fact that her two.
monthsold child was asleep under the
cover, Mrs. Mary Storti Of Brooklyn
closed up a folding bed in darkened
room and the little one was smothered
to death before his mother realized
what had happened.
Losing her bearings in the dense
smoke and fog, the steamer Neshoto,
bound down with iron ore, ran ashore
on Crisp Point, eastern Lake Superior,
and was broken to pieces by the gale
raging. She is a total loss. The crew
was rescued by life savers.
A gang of robbers blew open the
safe of the State bank, at Ladysmith
Wis, taking about $4,000. They shot
a policeman in the arm and fired sew
eral shots at the Baker hotel to keep
anybody from coming out. They then
took a handcar and escaped.
; The San Francisco Call says that
Comte Camille de Rudio, the Italian
exile who threw one of the bombs that
shattered the carriage OF Emperor
Louis Napoleon III and Empress Eu
: genie, killing ten persons and ,nJur
ing $50 others, in Paris, on the night
of January IA, 1858, is living quietly
In Los Angeles with his English wlie
With her right arm tightly clasRet
about the dead body of her year-olc
baby boy, whose life she ended wits
her own, Mrs. Eric Sutherland OF Cam
bridge. Mimi, was found in the shal
low water in Powderhorn lake al
Minneapolis. Domestic trouble led u
the deed.
The great historical and industrial
parade. the most important event o.
, Pittsburgs sesqui-c entennial ceiebra
. ton. was held or October 1. Hun
dreds of thousands of persons
crowded the streets along the route
/ of the parade, distance OF aoou
four miles.
STANDARD Oil company attorney
presented evidence before Judg'
Franklin Ferriss, at Chicago, on DC
tober /, in support of the contention
that the oil company has not beef
, the recipient of preferential rate
: from railroads in different sections o
the country.
Charles Edward Davis charge
, .Io,. ,f mr. Frederick Rms