The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-04-22
NEWS SU NJ NJ A r Y

The CADlDGl has utNlutu hNihAttiS
that the Spanish feet shall be recon-
structed The work will be entrusted
to British firms.
Adyices from various north and east
Texas points are to the effect that
heavy frost April ~ seriously damaged
the fruit and corn crops
Rev. C. w. Fldredge of Cincinnati.
while delivering a speech in favor of
the dry" at Adelphi, small town in
Ohio. was given a shower of rotten
eggs.
Richard Stedman, deputy warden
in the Alberta penitentiary at Ed
monton. Alberta, was killed by a con.
vict, who struck StedmaW on the head
with an ak.
The Atchison, Topeka e. Santa Fe
Rail.,ay company has asked the Kan
sas railroad commission to allow the
road to issue seventy-three million
dollars worth of common stock.
Charles Dewes and Moses Lantz
we're blown to atoms when the nitro
glycerine factory of the Independent
TSrpedo company at Gordon, His,
was. destroyed by an explosion.
An investigation conducted by the
Des Moines Qowa) Tubercular asso
citation has resulted in the discovery
that six out of every ten children ex
amined are infected with tuberculosis
President Taft has instructed Di-
rector North of the census bureau to
disregard party lines in securing suit
able men for supervisors and other
appointive places under the new CEN
sus act
John .Bullette, a wealthy Indian
landowner, widely known throughout
Oklahoma, Texas, and old Mexico,
was assassinated while sitting at his
desk in his office at Claremore, Okla
Eoma.
Colonel Moses Gibson, who served
in the confederate army during the
c2mpaign in Virginia, committed sui
eide at Louisville, KY, by drowning
in bathtub, after sashing his wrists
with razor
That a combination of silk indus
tries in southern France representing
S10,OO0,O00 of capital, will transfer it's
plants to this country, is stated by
Jean Duplan, head of large silk dye
works at Hazleton, Pa.
During March 4,7S3 settlers from
the United States entered Canada. al
North Portal, on the 500 line, with 726
cars of effects. During the year end
ing March 81, the total was 19,099 set.
tiers and ! 759 cars of effects.
Mrs. Blanche O'Neill, once a we'll
known opera singer, is in a Provi.
dence. r. l., hospital, under treatment
for illness said to be due to hunger
and exposure. The woman has been
living in. poverty for several years.
A vacancy as chaplain in the navy
will be filled by the appointment of a.
minister of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and Secretary Meyer will
ask the board of bishops soon to meet
in Richmond to nominate a candidate.
Stanley Ketchel, who has been
matched to fight Jack Johnson for the
heavyweight championship of the
world, will fight the breach of prom
ise case brought against him by Miss
Elizabeth Houman of Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Seven young farmers from the town
OF York, Mimi, We're lodged in Jail last
week charged with trying to black
mail DR.. D. Beckman out Of Sc, 900, the
alternative being the burning of the
Beclman residence and the kidnapping
of his son.
While attempting to cross the Pa
cific Electric tracks near Pasadena,
Cal, in an automobile. Mr.. and Mrs.
II. b. Hoffman of Pasadena were in
lured in a collision with a car. Mrs.
Hoffman died fifteen minutes after
the accident.
Ihe japanese government Is nego-
tiating with an American builder OF
submarine boats for the purchase OF
plans and specifications for a new
type or submarine of smaller model
than the type now in common use, but
OF double speed.
The strike of coal miners at the
Port Hood, N. s., mines ended fruit
lessly last week, $50 miners who had
been out for several weeks returning
to work under conditions which were
practically the same as those existing.
previous to the strike.
Steps have been taken to hasten
hnal adjudication by the Kentucky
court of appeals of the test case to.
determine the status of the Latonia
Jockey club. A decision by that body
is expected before the opening day
OF the Latonia spring meeting, May
John Craig was killed in his home
at Roaring Fork Va, and his two
sons, aPtrick and Arthur, aged 9 and
IL respectively, were arrested
charged with the crime. 1t is said
Craig had been brutally treating the
boys and that while he was asleep.
they shot him