The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-04-01
NEW s SUM A R Y

States was ratified on March 81.
A bill prohibiting the manufacture
and sale OF intoxicating liquors has
been killed by the Minnesota legisla-
ture.
Rittani. the priest who has been
preaching a holy war in Morocco in
support of the pretender, has been
captured.
Attacks by Arabs on steamers ply.
ing in Tigris have been so persistent
that the British line has been com.
PEELED to suspend.
BY the falling of cage in a coal
mine at Sewickau, Germany, four men
were killed and more than twenty
others injured, six seriously
In order to be prepared for a strike
IL one Is ordered, the Lehigh Valley
Coal Co. has begun repairing the high
fences surrounding the collieries in
Hazleton, Pa.
AS result of a quarrel over land,
Edward Rienert, a German rancher,
residing at Lobo, Cal. shot twice and
probably fatally wounded G.. ~ Garry,
lanu dealer AT BeneulCl.
About twenty students captured l..
A. Wiltsey, the new instructor in the
University at Fort Worth, Tex, and
clipped his long side whiskers. Sew.
eral expulsions are expected.
Joseph Genaro, cigarmaker. was
shot and killed in New York City in
"A fusillade of bullets from seven
Italians, said to be members of the
Black Hand Five men were arrested.
The Pennsylvania legislature has
adopted concurrent resolution offer
ing a reward of $4,000 for informa-
tion leading to the arrest and convic-
tion of the kidnapers of Willie
Whitla.
A. holy war Is again threatened in
Morocco. Reliable news received in
Washington says that Fez and the
surrounding country, including the
town of Mcquinz, is in revolt against
tne sultan.
The South Kansas conference of
the Methodist church, in session at
Coffeyville, Kans, has voted against
the restoration of the game of foot
ball at the Baker (Kan) university,
church college.
Reginald McKenna, first lord of the
admiralty. said in the house of com
mons last week that the British gov.
ernment had no intention of purchas.
ing the Brazilian Dreadnaughts now
being built in that country.
The harbor at Vera Cruz, Mexico,
has suffered from the recent earth.
quake by receding waters, rendering
it so shallow that ships drawing
twenty-four feet of water touch bot
tom. Dredging will be necessary.
President Taft has not yet decided
definitely upon his proposed trip to
| the west this summer. He will de-
termine the matter definitely after
| the close of the extraordinary, session,
of congress. He has had in mind
trip to Alaska.
Governor Gillette of California has
signed N. W. Thompson anti-land
grabber BILL which provides for the
sale of public lands at public auction
at $1.25 an acre, and is designed to
prevent fraudulent acquisition to
such property.
General William Booth, command
er.in.chief of the Salvation Army, is
in St. Petersburg negotiating with
the government for permission to es
tablish there branch of the Saliva
tion Army. He is strongly opposed
by the holy synod,
Twenty-Five death sentences passed
/ uDD, politinal p,.iconare ,yara cnu-
| firmed by the supreme military court
at st. Petersburg, Fifteen of these
were convicted of an attempt to es-
cape from the Irkutsk prison when
prison guard was killed.
Rudolph Won Feneres, one OF the
most eminent physicians of Germany,
| is dead as result of an operation for
gall stones. He was physician to the,
late Empress Frederick and the Chan
cellor Won Buelow. He often accom-
panied Emperor William on his
| travels.
| A feud between the Chavez and the
| Padilla families, living on adjoining
ranches north of Padina, Mexico has
already resulted in three deaths, and
it Is feared another outbreak may
/
occur at any time. The trouble orig
mated in quarrel over the boun-
dairy lines.
Former Queen Liliuokalani of Ha-
wall, who recently went to Washing
ton in an attempt to expedite action
by congress on her claim against the
government of $250,000, which she
desires as compensation for the loss
of her crown lands, returned to her
home last week.
Four men were killed and FIVE seri-
ously injured when thirty-five-foot
brick wall, left standing after fire
a month ago, which destroyed the
butterine plant of Swift & Co, in Chi
cago, crashed down on them without
warning. The men We're erecting a
building adjoining
The first year of the NDes Moines