The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-03-12
NEWS SUM MAR

Ind, on March z, at the age Oh o4.
Mayor Bond has ordered that in the
future no standing room" shall be
sold in nickel theaters in Columbus
Ohio.
The plant of the American Car and
Foundry company at Berwick, Pa
has resumed work, giving employ
ment to 1000 men.
A bill introduced in the Ohio legls'
lature appropriates $25.000 for the re-
lief of people who lost children in the
Collinwood school house horror.
Five thousand stove workers who
have been idle at Detroit, Mich, for
six months, owing to a strike OF 2oo
stove mounters, have returned to
work.
A serious fire occurred at Noda Soy,
brewing town near Toxic. Four nun
dred out of 1000 houses were totally
DESTROYED. The damage Is estimated
at s2,500,000.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Straus has begun a campaign against
anarchists, and steps have been
taken to deport all that can be
brought under the law.
The highest March wind which had
struck Chicago in thirty years conf
menced early on the 9Th from the
southwest, and wrought much damage
i'll the downtown district.
According to P. H. Abbott, secre'
tary of the Great Northern branch OF
the Order of Telegraphers, trouble ls
brewing over the new schedule OF
working hours for operators.
Two negroes, Curry Robertson and
John Henry, were lynched near Hawk
insville, Ca, and their bodies burned.
They were charged with the murder
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Hart.
A violent gale has swept the coasts
of the British isles. There have been
numerous wrecks of small craft. Most
of them were on the east coast OF Ire
land Altogether about twenty lives
have been lost.
Announcement was made last week
by the Missouri Pacific-lron Mountain
railway system that after March lO
the services OF 1000 men employed in
the company's shops in st. Louis will
no longer be required.
4 new social movement of national
scope has established headquarters in
Kansas City. Those interested are
literary and professional men, and
the object is to make the spirit of the
university a force in politics.
Three men were burned to death
and fifteen others seriously injured by
jumping from windows in fire which
destroyed three workmen's shacks on
the north side of Manhasset bay, says
a Port Washington, l.. L., dispatch.
Senator-elect w. o. Bradley Of
Kentucky has given out formal
statement announcing himself in IA
vor of the nomination of Vice Presi'
dent Fairbanks for the presidency by
the Republican national convention.
At the direction of Secretary Taft,
the opening of bids by the Isthmian
Canal commission for supplies of ce'
ment, set for March H. has been ex.
tended until April 13. The commits
sion expects to purchase 100000 bar.
rels of cement.
Safe blowers robbed the Mount
Grab bank in Mount Grab. o.. forty
miles east of Cincinnati, of $4,000. and
escaped in buggy. The explosion
shattered the vaults, partially wreck,
ed the bank building and shocked the
entire village.
Senator Allison was 10 years old
on March 2, and received TIE congrat'
ulations of his colleagues The sena
tor has completed his thirty fifth year
in the senate, which breaks all
records. He has been in congress-
forty-three years.
Ellwood T. Hance, first vice presi
dent of the Union Trust company OF
Detroit, and former postmaster Of De-
troit, shot and killed himself on the
9th in his home. Friends say that he
had been greatly depressed over his
own financial affairs.
Governor Creel of Chihuahua an
nounces the establishment of co-edu
cation in the public schools of the
state of Chihuahua, This Is the first
time in the history of Mexico that
boys and girls have been allowed to
attend the same schools.
Senator Tillman wants to have the
comptroller of the currency send to
the senate a detailed statement of all
loans made by national banks in New
York City upon collateral securities
from June to December /, 1907, with
the full names of borrowers.
The advocates of female suffrage
were on March given their annual
opportunity to present pleas to con
gress, the presentation to the senate
being made before the committee on
woman suffrage and to the house be-
fore the judiciary committee.
A contract has been signed between
the Rawhide Western Railway com.
pany and the California Construction
company for the immediate construc-