The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-06
NEW SUM NJ A r Y

-Four people were killed, at least
twelve injured and great damage done
! by a tornado in Gold, Mo, April 29.
Eighty-two saloons in Muncie, Ind,
are TO be closed as the result of the
victory at the polls last week OF the
"drys."
Fourteen persons were injured, two
seriously, in a tornado at Knoxville,
Tenn, April 20. Many houses were
wrecked.
The woman's suffrage BILL which
passed the Wisconsin senate some
time ago. was killed in the assembly
| last week.
Cipriano Castro, deposed president
of Venezuela, announces he will wait
in Paris the coming of his wife from
The West Indies.
Four workmen were killed by an
explosion in the glycerine packing
house of the Potts Powder company
at Reynolds, Pa.
Beech Hargis was refused new
trial at Irvine, KY. and Judge Adams
directed that Hargis be taken to the
penitentiary at once.
A cyclone struck Horns Lake.
Miss, April %, killing three white
men Horns Lake is a small town
Is miles below Memphis.
In a fight caused by an election day
arrest at Talequah, Okla, John Taylor
was shot and killed by Peter Smith,
n special election policeman.
Heinrich Conreid, former director of
the Metropolitan Opera house in New
York. who suffered a stroke of apo
plexy at Meran, Austria, died April 81.
The German crop report for April
IS shows the condition Of wheat and
rye to be considerably worse this year
than for the corresponding period OF
1908.
An explosion on the submarine boat
Fcca at Naples killed seven men and
injured several. The boat was sunk
al her dock to prevent further explo-
sions.
Furious because his sweetheart, Mo-
desta F'uentes, refused to elope with
him without a wedding certificate, Pc
dro Secundino of Toluca, Texas, stab
bed her to death.
BY an official majority of 76S, Tip
pecanoe county, Indiana, last week
voted wet in the county option cleo
ton Jefferson, Marlin and Washing
ton counties voted dry"
A verdict of guilty of criminal libel
was found against the publishers OF
the New York American by the iruy
in the trial charging the publication
of an article libeling John D. Rookie
Teller.
Because she had not been. included
in fishing trip, which her husband
had planned, Mrs. Anna Fry, aged "a,
of Los Angeles, placed pistol IN her
mouth and fired a shot which imme-
diately ended her life.
Charles X. Shu. probably the first
Chinaman to be made a justice of the
peace of this country, has been in
vested with that authority by the com
monwealth of Massachusetts. Shu is
native Of Seattle. Wash.
A bill has been introduced In the
Hawaiian legislature prohibiting wom-
ell from wearing sailor blouses, mill
tary hats, hat pins made of military
or naval buttons, warship ribbons, or
other naval or military insignia
Eleven men were killed and eleven
wounded as a result OF the explosion
at Naples on board the Italian subma.
rine Foca. The American gunboat
Scorpion, although only ninety feet
distant from the Fooa, suffered no
damage.
Charles Warren Fairbanks, former
vice-president. has concluded through
agents a deal for the purchase of a
$4,000 residence in one of the fash.
ionable districts of Pasadena, Cal
1t is said he will make Pasadena his
future home.
A pitched battle at Asher okla.
homa, between the families of Stanley
Ware and Perry Brewer over rent due
Brewer from Ware, resulted in the
killing OF Ware. Brewer was perhaps
fatally, and Jesse Brewer, his son,
seriously injured.
Brooding over quarrel with his
sweetheart, Alexander Jennings, 81
years old, the son of wealthy parents,
threw the congregation at a crowded
country church at Little Hickman, Ky,
into panic by firing bullet into his
brain. He died shortly after.
The secretary of agriculture has
sent to the senate the information re-
garding the beet industry for which
he was asked in a resolution. The
data shows that the production of SUI
gar from beets has Increased from
$4,000 tons in 1896 to $4,000 tons in
1908.
Confederate Memorial day was oh.
served at Atlanta. Ga, April &c, with
all the dignity and reverence that has
characterized this occasion for sew
eral years. The graves of the Con
federate dead We're decorated and the
schools and business houses were
closed