The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-03-05
NEWS SUMMARY

priation bill increasing the pay of pri. |
Yates and non-commissioned officers !
has been stricken out.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria and |
Elenonore Caroline Gasparine Louise.
Princess of Reuss, were married at |
Coburg, Germany on the 2Sth.
Three men were killed and fourth |
mortally wounded in a battle with
revolvers following quarrel in a
lumber camp near Evelyn. Ky.
Al mother and her three children
were burned to death and several per-
sons were injured by a fire in the dis
trict inhabited by foreigners in Pitts.
burg.
The Reading, Pa, plant of the Am.
erican Iron and Steel company, has
resumed operations after two months
idleness, and 1000 men are again at
work
Cadido Garcia, wealthy stock
grower, was shot and almost instant
ly killed from ambush near Clayton,
n. M, and a neighbor is charged with
the crime.
Justice Day, in the New York SUI
preme court, set aside the verdict of
a jury and fined twelve jurymen $50
each for deciding the verdict by the
flip of a coin.
Nunzio Nasl the former minister Of
public instruction of Italy, has been
sentenced to term of Imprisonment
on the charge of embezzlement from
the state treasury.
The vault of the First State bank
of Clear Lake, Mimi, was blown ear
ly on the morning of the 2Sth. The
craftsmen secured $4,000 in currency
and ESCAPED on a handcar.
Dial Hawkins, now confined in the
Tucson, Arizona, Jail, has confessed
to killing Albert Leonhart, carpen-
ter, on December %, whose murder
has been complete mystery.
Discussing the recent financial
crisis in the senate, Senator Nelson
said that it was not due so much to
the scarcity of money as to the diff
Guilty in keeping money in circulation.
The senate has confirmed the nomi-
nations of Louis A. Coolidge of Massa-
chusetts, to be assistant secretary of
the treasury; and Charles P. Grand
field of Missouri, to be first assistant
postmaster general.
Conductor L. d. Cook of the Rio
Grande, Yaqui & Pacific railroad, re-
ports that Yaquis killed three Mexi-
can members of his train crew, but
spared himself and the engineer be-
cause they were Americans.
The indictments against Judge Pc
ter s. Grosscup of the United States
court and four other directors Of an
electric railway, of Chicago, charging
manslaughter, because of an accident
last August, have been quashed.
The Women's Municipal league Of
New York City is investigating dish
water. 1t has been suggested that an
organized effort to purify dishwater
in New York's hotels and restaurants
will be of great value to the city.
From present indications it is esti'
mated that there will be about fifty
United States warships Of the various
classes assembled in the San Fran
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Admiral Evans feet early in May.
Whether or not republic is soon
to supplant the monarchy in Portugal,
it is practically the unanimous opin-
ion in Lisbon that the near future will
witness violent struggle in which
the life of the monarchy may be at
stake.
Receiver Strawn of the defunct
Farmers & Drovers' National bank
of Waynesburg, Pa, has notified the
former directors of the bank thai
they will have to contribute the sum
of 81. 500, 900 as a result of the failure
of the bank.
An opinion written by Judge CAN'T
was handed down by the supreme
court of Missouri last week, holding
that the law creating the court OF gen
eral sessions in the city of st. Louis
is unconstitutional and the court is in
valid and void.
]. P. Morgan sailed for Europe, on
the 26th. The fact that Mr.. Morgan
regards the financial situation as suf
ficiently cleared to permit him to &C
abroad was Interpreted as a favorable
indication in Wall street and in bank
ing circles generally.
Three children of Mrs. w. A. Davis
were burned to death in a fire which
destroyed their home in Santa Rosa
N. M. It is supposed the fire was
started by explosion of gasoline
stove while Mrs. Davis was calling
upon sick neighbor
William Jones and his wife, Irene
Jones, have been sentenced to the
penitentiary for the kidnapping or LII
liam Wulff, an eight-year-old Chicago
girl last December. The man "a'
given a thirty-year term and the "o
man twenty-five years