The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-05-21
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badly damaged the town of Bollin-
ger. In.
General Lorenzo Torros, comman-
der of all the troops in Sonora, has
concluded peace with the renegade
Yaqui Indians.
The armored cruiser Maryland was
the trophy winner in the recent tar
get practice at Magdalena bay. The.
Illinois was the former holder of the
trophy.
A tornado which swept through,
Mercer and Henry counties, Illinois.
last week. touching several towns and
did considerable damage. Mrs.
Gottch, an elderly woman, was killed
at Cleveland
Senators Morris and Roddie en-
gagged In a fist fight on the floor of the
senate at Guthrie. Oklahoma, as a re-
suit of Rodde calling Morris a liar.
Senator Eoddle sustained serious
bruises on the head.
John w. H, Geiger convicted OF mis-
use of the funds of the Central Ma
tional bank of Baltimore, of which he
was cashier committed suicide on
May IA. He was about to begin five
years prison sentence.
More cars are idle OF the present
time than for years. The latest re
port on the number OF idle cars in
the country is that of April 20. This
shows 413,605, an increase of s7,S3a
over that of April 10
Governor Allen Gard of Lanao prov
ince, p. l., who was injured by Moro
bolomen recently, is not dead as re-
ported. He is now said to be improv
ing, and 1t Is expected that he will
recover from his wounds.
The director and vice-director OF
the prison at Astrakahn, Russia, have
been condemned to eight years in the
penitentiary for having inflicted on
certain prisoners such cruel treat
ment that one Of the men died.
A call has been issued by the ma
tionsl body OF the first National Good
Roads congress. to meet In Chicago,
June Is, and in Denver, July 6, the
day before the opening OF the Repub.
lican and Democratic conventions.
Jim Lynn, negro, who murdered
Sarah James, white girl is years of
age, and fatally shot her mother, Mrs,
Julia James at Pueblo. Colo, was ar
rested at Limon Junction, Colo, while
seeking friends with whom to hide.
The st. Paul railway will begin at
once construction of seventy locomo-
tives of the highest type. This will
result in. restoring to employment in
the west Milwaukee shops of that
company the full force OF 5000 men.
The Republican state convention,
held at Macon, Ca, selected four I'M
instructed delegates to the national
convention. Three delegates are said
to favor the nomination Of Taft and
the fourth is a supporter OF Governor
Hughes.
Two twin children, years of age.
were burned to death in ~ fire which
destroyed their home in OAKLAND, Cal.
Mrs. Robert Nunemacher, whose hus-
band 10 a gardener, carried her other
children to safety. but could ont res
cue the twins.
rhe National Drainage congress met
in Washington on May IL. Interest
Bryan, who was the principal speaker
at the afternoon session. Senator
Francis G. Newlands of Nevada spoke
at the morning session.
The wives of the members of the
diplomatic corps at Pekin were re-
ceived by the Dowager Empress in
audience at the summer palace on
May 15. 1t was noticed that the en-
press had aged materially since the
last audience Of year ago.
General Snarski commander of the
Russian punitive expedition into Per-
sian territory, has been ordered to re.
sumo his advance into Persia and to-
punish the bandits with fire and
sword. He will destroy villages, but
spare the women and children.
The right of President Roosevelt
summarily to dismiss negro soldier
of the Fifteenth infantry for alleged
participation in the riot at Browns
Vile, Texas, was sustained by Judge
Hough in the United States district
court, New York City, last week.
The jury in the case of Robert H.
Hollowell, of Paducah, Ky, who sued
his brother, John H. Hollowell, and.
twenty-seven other alleged night rid
ers, for $4,000 damages for driving
him and his family from the state,
brought in a verdict awarding the.
plaintiff $4,000
An official telegram received in
London by the Indian Office reports
twenty-seven deaths from cholera In.
fha rapiuanf of Munstaf Euciliara
which week ago was sent into the
cholera camp from Major General
Willcock's force now operating
against the Mohmands.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad,
acting for the Western Pacific. has
sold $15.000,000 two-year per cent
notes. with the privilege of extending
| them for three years. from 1910 Pro.