The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-09-24
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have threatened Port Arthur, Ont,
for the past few weeks has been
everted by rain.
Five men were killed and sixteen
others injured by boiler explosion
in the Laura mine. near Heerlep. on
the Dutch border
II. II. Smith. father of Governor
Hoke Smith of Georgia. and one of the
best known educators in the south. is
dead at the age Of IS.
Fire which started In the village OF
Santa Angelo, Italy, was extinguished
by the use OF wine, which is more
plentiful there than water.
The chemical engines of the fire de.
partment are being used in Manila in
dislnfecting houses suspected TO have
contained cholera patients.
The first downpour OF rain in Chi.
cago since August 10, started on Sep.
TEMPER 10. The past summer has
been remarkable for the absence OF
moisture.
In the postmasters' convention at
Chattanooga, Tenn, resolutions were
unanimously passed urging congress
to pass the proposed postal savings
bank bill.
A dispatch from Bachelor, La,
says a negro named John Miles was
lynched there for shooting white
man. The white man was not seri.
ously hurt.
Italian emigration to the United
States is still decreasing During the
month of August only 1896 emigrants
left Italy for America, while 20,S20 re.
turned home.
Professor Kirshner of the Prusslan
ministry of public health says that
there is not single case of cholera
in Germany, the system Of inspection
seemingly being perfect
One man was killed and seven 9th.
ers injured, two of them fatally in
collision between yard engine and
work train on the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie railroad at Gibsonton. Pa,
The light on Mount Lagloria. Curua-
milla point, which marks enc of re
hppIouCiieS w Ndipdiaib iIoih INC
southwark, has been re-established.
This light was destroyed in 1906.
1t is reported that the scheme of
the Americans to control horse racing
at Jamaica, Kingston, has dropped
through, 1t being impossible to raise
the necessary capital in the United
States.
DR.. George Clark, who was the. old
est living graduate Of Union college,
and a young teacher who "whaled'
Roscoe Conkling when he was stu
dent, is dead at his Nome in New York
City, aged 80 years.
Four persons were killed and
twenty-six injured in wreck on the
Yazaoo & Mississippi Valley railroad
near Clarksdale, Miss, when two
coaches of passenger train rolled
| down an embankment.
A dispatch from Perry Sound. Ont
says: An almost impenetrable vel! OF
rmoke overhangs the whole north
country and the forest fires continue
to rage with undiminished tlerceness.
Many villages are threatened.
The Rev. John Bandlnelli former.
| ~ provincial of the Passionist Faith
ers in the United States and Mexico
died at the Passionist monastery in
DunlSirk N. Y, on the 18th. He was
norn In Genoa seventy-four years ago
A fog of London-like density in Chi
| Gago was responsible for three rail
road wrecks of minor character
flight injuries to over a score of per
and minor accidents all over the city
sons, two deaths at Grand Crossing
The citizens of Salida, Colo. are
much exercised over the Sale oil
Babies" advertised by the Salvation
army. Eight children are advertised
to be sold, and there is said to be =
movement afoot to stop the sale by
court proceedings.
Three cadets attending the military
school at Wilma, Russia, were last
week condemned by court-martial t:
exile in Siberia for having formed &
society, which operated through thu
cadet officers, to capture the cadet:
for revolutionary activity.
The average wages per hour in the
principal manufacturing and mechan
ical industries of the country were g.
per cent higher in 1907 than in 1906
while retail prices of food were A..
per cent higher, according to the Jul.
report of the bureau of labor.
An unknown man, apparently q
years of age, a passenger on the west
found Union Pacific overland limited
killed himself with knife while thu
train was in the yards at Kearney
Neb. After inAicting fatal wounds h
threw the knife from a window.
Thirty men descended on the camp
ing ground of the Irvinites, a religiou
sect which Is holding convention a
Brooklyn, and set fire to two larg'
tents. Both were destroyed and
house in which was stored a quantit.
of provisions was partly burned.
The semi-centennial celebration o
the great debate between Abraham
lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas al
| tracted a large crowd at JonesborC