The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-02-13
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dozen injured by the explosion of
boiler in a rolling mill at Northumber
land, Pa.
Commander Peary declares that he
VIII make another attempt to reach
the north pole, and is preparing to
start next July.
Jack Long, accused of numbering
John Sapp, was taken from the Jail
at Newberry, Fla, by mob of 200
men and lynched
The house has passed the Sulloway
Dill granting fiat pension of SIP
monthly to all widows of honorably.
discharged soldiers.
len thousand men have been laid off
since December by the Baldwin Loco.
motive works of Philadelphia. because
OF lack of orders for engines
Fourteen sailors were wounded
five of them seriously, as the result
of an accident to the boiler of the
cruiser Jeanne dare off Tangier.
A bill appropriating $3,563,OOO for
famine relief in addition to the sum
voted by the duma has been submitted
to the Russian cabinet and soon will
be introduced.
At Grand Cascapida, a Quebec Dor.
der town, the four members of the
family of Andrew Campbell were
burned to death by a fire which de
stroyed their home.
Captain John e. Deidish and four
other firemen injured, and a loss of
$4,000, was the result of a fire that
broke out in the club rooms of the Ra.
cine club, in Racine, Wis.
One thousand men formerly en-
ployed by the Pennsylvania Steel com.
pany at Steelton, Pa, have been
called back to work after an enforced
idleness of more than a month
Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens of Haverhill,
Mass, killed her little daughter, aged
s, and son, aged 8, cutting their threats
with razor. The woman was at one
time in an asylum for the insane
Vice-President Gallivan of the In.
ternational Union of Boilermakers an
nounces that the strike of boilermak-
Minnesota has been declared off.
A band Of outlaws recently waylaid
two sergeants of the rural police near
the village of Cheromkhovo, Russia,
and murdered them, chopping off the
hands, feet and heads of their victims.
Three foreigners were killed and
six others seriously injured when the
boilers in the WEIGH brick plant at
Monaco, Pa, exploded. 1t is sup
posed frozen water pipes caused the
accident.
A movement was inauguratted at
johannesburg last week at largely
attended meeting to boycott Asiatic
traders and all employers of Asiatics.
1t is an outcome of the recent anti
Asiatic agitation in the Transvaal.
Three coaches of the Western
Maryland passenger train left the
track a half mile north of German,
Va, and rolled down hill into the
river. Express Messenger Charles
Cochrane and Adam Refill were killed.
In spite of winter weather, work on
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miles east of Arden, N. Y, is being
kept up. A large force of men is en-
gagged on the work. The monthly pay
roll during the winter reaches $4,000.
Senator Gallinger has favorably re
ported from the committee on COM
merce a bill increasing the mail sub
sides on steamship lines between the
United States and ports in South
America, the Philippines and Aus
tralia
In the midst of a wild blizzard the
steamer st. Cuthbert was burned to
the waters edge off the Nova Sco-
tan coast. Fifteen members of the
crew were drowned by the swapping
of a small boat in which they attempt
ed to leave the vessel.
The American Railway association
at an executive session in Chicago, de
cided to submit to the various roads
of the country a proposition to reduce
the per diem charge on freight cars
to 25 cents, effective March l, instead
of so cents as at present.
A vote of sympathy with the family
of the late King Carlos of Portugal,
moved by the Hungarian cabinet in
the diet, had to be withdrawn because
the independents opposed it on the
ground that King Carlos had violated
the constitution of his country.
Because the girl to whom John Mol
lett has been engaged refused to talk
to him. Mollett fatally shot himself
while standing at a tlphon In
Chicago The shot was heard over
the telephone by the girls mother
who had just telephoned the girls re
fusal.
The body of DR.. F. H. Moss of Pale
Alto was found on the railroad track
near the station at Morgan Hill, Cal.
completely cut in two DR.. Moss re
Gently had been residing on farm
at Madrone. 1t is presumed that he
was killed by the early north-bount
coast train.