The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-06-17
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causing a loss of $4,000.
Cholera has again broken out In
St Petersburg, there being as many
as sixteen cases day reported.
During the month of May there
were 81 cases of bubonic plague, with
"a deaths at Guayquil, Ecuador
The strike of the Georgia flrcmen
for seniority of white men over me-
groes. has passed to the arbitration
stage.
Four women were drowned wher
an automobile ran into the river at
Knights Landing, Cal The chauf-
feur escaped
cracked and much other damage was
done as the result of an earthquake
at Copiapo. Chile.
The people of Santa Fe, N. NJ, have
decided to allow the saloons to con
tinue business, the vote, however, be.
ing very close one.
The wage scale of the Pennsylvania
Steel company, cut 10 per cent on
April 1, is to be restored on July l.
About 1000 men are affected.
William F. Downs a 5000 year
clerk in the registers Office at Bal
timore, is to be placed on trial on the
charge of having embezzled $4,000.
The governor of Missouri has s.saY
ed the bill prohibiting the smoking
of cigarettes In public places by per
sons between the ages of 10 and ~
years.
The report comes from Berlin that
the Turkish authorities last week
executed twelve of the rlngleaders,
including six Armenians, concerned
In the Adana massacres.
Post Office inspectors from Cincin'
natl believe they have discovered
the headquarters of the BLACK
Hand society in Marion, Ohio. whore
three men have been arrested
The strike which has closed TWEEN.
ty-two hat factories in Danbury, New
Milford and Bethel, Conn, for the last
five months has been practically end
ed, both sides making concessions.
Mistaken train orders resulted in
bad smashup on the Great Northern.
FIVE miles out of Vancouver, B. G..
Engineer McCade was killed and q
number of passengers were badly in.
| jured.
The head of one of the auditing de
partments of the Union Pacific at
Omaha has issued orders that none
OF the men may chew tobacco while
on duty, and has removed all the GUS
| pidors from his offices.
Lazarus Silverman, a pioneer bank
er and financier of Chicago, who is
credited with originating the plan for
the resumption of specie payments IL
| 1873, known as the Sherman bill, died
in Chicago, June 8, aged 70 years.
Secret service men have been EN-.
gagged by the federal authorities tc
prevent the importation and sale ..
lottery tickets in Porto Rico from
Santo Domingo. The tickets are being
seized and confiscated by the authori
ties.
Fred Moheie, on trial at st. LOUIS
for the murder OF Constable Sam
Young. was assassipated in the corr
dor of the Four Courts by William
Kane, an ex-deputy constable and a
friend of Young, while Moheile was
being taken into court for trial Kane
is under arrest.
Mrs. Electra r. Beard, convicted OF
misappropriating about $4,000 OF
the funds of the Children's Hospital
association, of Denver, while she was
acting as treasurer of that institu
ton, has been sentenced to from eigh
teen months to three years in the
state penitentiary.
The town of Korinchi, 1875 miles to
he southeast of Padang, Sumatra
was destroyed by an earthquake on
the night of June ga Two hundred
people were killed and many Others
injured. The shock was accompan
led by tidal wave which swept
away the native huts.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sharp, a prominent
society woman of Salem, o., killed
her 12-year-old son and then ended
her own life Grief over the incur
able nature of her sons malady, who
had been mentally deficient from
birth, is supposed to have caused the
woman to lose her reason.
The Observation-Disclosures Steamship
company has contracted with the
Pennsylvania Steel company for the
construction of three steamships o.
5000 tons each, at cost of S1,700,00G
These vessels will form an addition
to the feet maintained by the com
pany on the Pacific ocean.
NJ Guchkoff, leader of the October
list party in the Rssian duma. has in
stituted proceedings for criminal Ii
bel against DR.. Dubrovin, editor o.
the organ of the Union of Russian
People, which printed an article al