The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-27
NEWS SU NJ NJ A r Y


The third federal grand jury called
to investigate the Muskogee town lot
frauds has been completed.
The town OF Alger, O., has been al
most entirely wiped ont Dv ti"e George
Phillips, fireman, was killed.
In clash between union and non
union seamen al Toledo, u, FRANK
Hoffman, a fireman, was shot In the
head.
Bank robbers secured $4,000 from
the Cairo tNeb) state bank, demoi-
isAng the safe and building by three
explosions.
The four children of Ernest Old
field of Toronto, Ont, were burned
to death as the result of the explosion
Of lamp in their home.
1t is announced that Mrs. William
e. Annis, wife of the man for whose
death Captain Peter c. Hains is now
serving a sentence in Sing Sing, is to
go on the vaudeville stage.
Western Texas and southern Okla
homa were swept by q severe wind
and rain storm May IS, that did much
damage to growing crops and houses.
Octavius Dodge of Bonham was killed
by lightning.
The local option bill, giving cities
and villages the right to vote on the
saloon question regardless of the
township vote under the present law,
was passed by the Illinois house by
vote of 7S to TO-
Climbing merrily to the top of a
steel light tower in San Diego Cal,
15-year-old Earl Weston came in con-
tact with an uninsulated electric light
wire and was knocked to the ground,
dying four minutes later.
The censor has prohibited the pro-
duction in London of George Bernard
Shaw's new pla'', Tile Showing Up
of Blanco Posnol" The play was on
theological subject and was in ad-
vanced rehearsal for an early produc-
ton.
report received from st. Anne
des Monies, twenty-five miles east of
Quebec, says that while party was
crossing the river at that point the
boat upset and fifteen persons were
thrown into the water. Five were
drowned
Adeline Hawkins. negro woman,
was frightened to death at Foroche
La, by a powerful searchlight of the
battleship Mississippi on its way up
the river to Natchez. Its de judg.
ment light she screamed, and then
fell dead.
There are still 100 Armenians in
prison in Adana, according to a re-
cent dispatch, and many of them are
In chains. Christians alone are being
punished for the recent outrages, and
1t is apparent that those really guilty
are immune.
Ex-Warden A. N. Armstrong of the
Michigan state prison, has made an
affidavit that Mi'tcn A. DAILY OF Chica-
go paid him $1,000 for helping get a
lot of second hand machinery accept
ed In the state binder twine plant as
new material.
Secretary Ballinger has decided to
create a bureau of colonization in
connection with the reclamation SER
vice to take charge of immigration
to lands as they are opened to set
tlement on completion of various gov
ernment projects.
The wife of Fay Irish OF Thorp.
Clark county, Wisconsin, has given
birth to five babies, three daughters
and two sons. All are alive and we'll
There are now ten children in the
family The other five were born
singly, and all are living
Limitation of armament and the per-
manent establishment cIf peace
throughout the world by arbitration of
international disputes is the purpose
of the Mohonk Lake conference on
arbitration, which opened
at Mohonk, N. Y, May 19.
The incubator forcing process failed
tragically at Los Angeles, when Rich
ara II, spain, one of the city's most
promising young inventors, tried 1t on
his two-m nths-c'd baby. The cork
blew out of the hot water bottle and
the babe was fatally scalded.
All Of he oluceis g 1t men of the
United States army who served in
Cuba during the period of pacifica-
tion, from October 6, 1906, to April /,
1909, will receive from the govern
ment service medals with ribbons in
recognition of that service.
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the
president has accepted an invitation
to unveil the monument erected at
Gettysburg, Pa, in memory of the
soldiers of the regular union army
who participated in the Gettysburg
campaign. The ceremony will take
place May 81
Nord Alexis, deposed president of
Hayti, will come to Peru, Ind, for a
visit, as the guest of James Turner,
colored Turner and Nord Alexis have
landed in New York from the West
indies Turner is wealthy and has
invited the eX-president to spend the
summer with INN
F. w. Lurvey, ranchman, was
struck by lightning at Grand Juno