The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-05-14
NEW s SUM MARY

raging III the city prison at Kiey.
Russia. more than 200 deaths having
occurred.
Charles Mathis, a Chicago journal.
list OF prominence, suicided at Hot
Springs, Ark, because of continued
Ill health
The miners union hall at Globe
Arizona, has been destroyed by fire.
the loss to tenants and the miners
totaling $4,000.
Five young men out OF party OF
nine were drowned in the Ohio river
near East Liverpool, when their gas
cline launch went down.
Tributes to the memory of the late
Representative Adolph Meyer of
Louisiana were paid in the house of
representatives on Sunday.
Baroness lido Won Ruxleben, who
shot and killed her husband and then
shot herself, at their chateau at Rud-
denberg, Germany, is dead.
Four young women, from 16 to 20
years of age, were drowned at Hart
sizing of their gasoline launch.
AS the result of the embezzlement
of $4,000 by J. w. Sharp a book
keeper, from the Citizens bank OF
Rutherford, Tenn, that institution has
closed it's doors.
The lower house Of the Oklahoma
legislature has killed the hotel bill
which required nine.foot sheets on
beds and provided penalty for the
use of cracked cups.
BY the overwhelming vote OF 167 to
46, the house of representatives has
again gone on record against the re-
establishment of the canteen in the
National soldiers home.
The German reichstag has adjourn.
ed until October 20, about twenty
supplemental appropriations and
other bills being adopted in the last
two hours of the sitting.
BY the explosion of a charge of
dynamite in the gangway of the
Draper colliery at Pottsville, Pa, An.
| drew Cavalage, contract miner,
and four foreigners were killed.
Thirty-five thousand coal miners o.
| Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Ar
| kansas, who have been on strike
since April l, have returned to work
| on a two-year contract with the mine
owners.
Every male in Russia over Is
years of age smokes $50 cigarettes
week, according to a British consular
report on Poland and Lithuania. One
pound of tobacco suffices for 1000
| cigarettes.
A ferry boat on the river Dnieper
caOsized near Bykhoff, Russia, and
40 persons were drowned. The boat
was overcrowded by peasants and
| their wives and children, returning
from church.
The entire front of the postoffice
building at Sunnyvale, Cal, was
blown out by an explosion, and the
interior Of the building wrecked,
when burglar made an unsuccessful
attempt to secure the contents OF
the safe.
The working time of the employees
of the Reading railway roadway de-
partment, according to dispatch
from Reading, Pa, has been In
creased from nine hours to ten hours
day, 1000 men being affected, but
no trouble is anticipated.
Arrested in Denver as one of the
! pair of bandits who held up the
| cashier and robbed the Citizens
state bank of Chautauqua, aKns., on
April II, of $4,000, William Tenant
made a confession and returned all
that he still possessed of the loot
about $3.50.
In a fight at Charlottesville, KY,
Ed. Callahan, former sheriff and feud
leader, was stabbed and fatally IN
iured by his brother-in'law, Jonh
Snver Callahan's son, William, shot
and killed Spyer when his father was
assaulted. The fight occurred In Cal
lahan's store.
Mile. Stolypin, daughter OF tife
Russian premier, who was so serious
Nv injured when the attempt was
made at the Stolypn residence IN ST.
petersburg in 1906, to kill the pre-,
mier by bomb, has fully recovered
and was married on May to Lieu
tenant Dock.
With this session of congress rap
idly nearing the end, 1t seems eVi
dent that there will be no importan,
railway legislation passed, unless II
he the Elkins joint resolution, provlu
ing for a postponement OF the pen
alties of the commodity clause Oh tne
Hepburn act.
AT Phoenix, Arizona, Maggie Was
ner. aged IA, shot herself because o.
narental restraint in her love allalrs
and when her father found tffaI sn'
could not recover. he placed the inuz
zle of a gun in his mouth ana oleM
off the top of his head wagner ""'
a nurseryman.
william Carmen, theatre usher