The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-08
NEW SUMMARY


the council of empires.
Attorneys for Banker Charles w
Morse have succeeded in having his
bail reduced from $4,000 to 5000.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
at San Barnardino, Cal, on July /,
about the same time the shocks were
felt in Messina.
Edward Cooley was killed near
Elizabeth, N. j., when tire on his
automobile burst and the machine
crashed into telegraph pole.
Two negroes were killed and five
others were wounded in a fight start
ing over crap game at a stone
quarry near Ripley, Oklahoma.
A mutiny in the prison at wilma,
Russia, led to pitched battle in the
court yard. Four wardens and seven
convicts were killed and six wounded.
Because the spectators applauded a
winner. of prizefight at Vera Cruz,
Mexico, the loser of the fight emptied
his revolver into the crowd. Four per-
sons were wounded.
Major General Franklin ]. Bell
chief of staff of the army, has left
Washington for Seattle, after which
he will visit Alaska for the purpose
of inspecting the military posts.
Official orders have been issued at
Winnipeg, Man., prohibiting any Unit
ed States circus from parading on the
streets of Winnipeg unless it flies the
British instead of an American flag
1t is announced that the Interna-
tional Harvester company of Chicago
has contracted for 100000 bales of
s.sal hemp, to be delivered by Yucca
tan planters in monthly installments
till May 81, 1910.
The thirteenth vain attempt of the
militant suffragettes TO Obtain access
to Premier Asquith resulted in excit-
ing scenes in Parliament square, Lon
don, June 20, and the arrest of more
| than 100 women.
DR.. Haldane Cleminson of Chicago
has been indicted Tor the murder o.
his wife. When DR.. Cleminson was
arrested, following his wife's death,
he told the police she had been chloro-
formed by burglars.
Pr nee Won Ruelow has authorized
the announcement that he intends to
retire from the chancellorship OF the
German empire as soon as the pend
| ing finance reform measure is dis
i posed of in one way or another.
Inspector McCaffery, chief of the
New York detective bureau, an.
nounces thatfthere is no doubt. that
Leon Ling, the Chinaman who muir.
dered Elsie Sigel, will be captured in
time, providing the murderer is still
alive.
All present legal barriers to the
long contemplated municipal water
supply scheme for San Francisco, were
removed last week by decision o.
Superior Judge Sewell, and the
Hetchy-Ketchy project will now &c
through.
Because he interfered in behalf OF
some overworked and disabled mules
George F. Guernsey, humane oIncer
was shot and killed near Memphis
Tenn. Charles w. Siler, foreman Of
construction camp, was arrested
charged with the murder.
James Treadwell, a former director
of the California Safe Deposit ant
Trust company, of San Francisco, un
der indictment charging embezzle
ment of bank stock valued at sos, 900
has been freed, the charge being dis
missed on motion of the state.
Gen. j. Franklin Bell, chief o
staff, in a speech before the arm.
service schools at Fort Leavenwortl
at the graduation exercises held OF
June 30, declared he saw Indications
Of war and insisted that the day o.
international peace was far off.
Two companies of white soldier,
will occupy Fort Brown, Texas, for
merly held by the negro soldiers wht
were dismissed from the service b,
President Roosevelt. This Is the frs
move on the part of the government
to fill the places of the discharged sol
diers.
Kentucky now has but twenty-foul
counties in all parts of which liquo
can be sold. AT midnight, July 80
Ashland, in Boyd county, became dry
and twenty-six saloons closed thei
doors for three years. This Is tn,
most prominent town in eastern Ken
lucky.
The verdict of the coroner's jur.
in the Woodill murder case was tina
Lame Bob" Eastman killed Edit
May Thompson Woodill or was acces
sorry to the murder" four of the mem
bers refusing to sign the verdict I'm
til the words "or accessory" wa
added.
In her anxiety to kiss her HUSBAND
farewell at the Charlerio station
Pittsburg, Mrs. Marie Antonio of Cal
ifornia neglected to take the car win
dow into account and thrust her heat
through the glass. She was severed.
gashed on the neck and is not expect
ed to survive.
The municipality of Odessa, now Ii
the hands OF the reactioMsts, ha