The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-25
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Baron Monsieur, the Belgian minis
ter to the United States. has been
transferred to Constantinople.
AS the result of a coasting acct
dent at Alfred, ~ ", six professors
and students in Alfred university
were injured
With both houses controlled by de.
tided Republican majorities, the fifth
Hawaiian territorial legislature con-
vened February II.
Believing that war with Austria is
imminent, 800 Servians have left
Pueblo, Colo, for their native land
during the last month
Three passengers were killed and
thirty-siX injured when a passenger
train was wrecked by running into a
lroken rail near Murphysboro, Ill.
Three persons are dead and five
others in serious condition at Mem
phis, Tenn, as q result of eating sau-
sage supposed to have been poisoned.
the relations of the United States and
Japan, the Kansas legislature killed
bill preventing the intermarriage OF
whites with Japanese.
Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt, who
sailed for Europe after he had been
subpoenaed to serve as juror in he
supreme court, has ben fined $3.50 by
Justice Guy, of New York.
Pool selling at fairs in Kansas will
be done away with entirely, II bill,
passed by the house committee of
| the whole, becomes law. 1t makes
betting and pool selling. illegal at all
| times of the year.
The news comes from London that
one or more of the neutral powers will
very shortly offer it's good offices to
| Austria and Servia in the hope of
| settling the differences between these
| two countries.
Mrs. Edward Wehn killed herself
Ut Seward, Neb. nv setting fire to her
clothing and har ing herself. Fire
men found til. wpmans partly Gre
mated body Sudden insanity is the
explanation given.
1t is believed that the unknown man
who took his life in a cigar store AT
Pueblo has been identified as Samuel
| We'll of greensboro. Ky. We'll is
said to have wealthy relatives In
Owensboro and in Evansville, Ind.
Patrick Kelly, mayor. of Trout
Creek, Mont, and prominent in west.
ern Montana affairs, died February 81,
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tive of Ireland, and before coming to
Montana was sailor on Lake Erie.
John Mcdonald, farmer near
Cages Mills, Wis, shot and killed his
sweetheart, Nancy Lenox, and her
mother, Mrs. Oscar Lenox, at their
home. The murder followed a love
ers' quarrel. Both women were killed
instantly.
man known as Pap" Johnson, a
notorious "jointist," or keeper OF an
illicit saloon, shot and killed Mrs.
Frances Switzer at the womans home
IN Lawrence, Kans., and then commit
ted suicide. No motive for the trag-
edy is known.
Word has been received of the death
in the Philippines of Captain Charles
| w. Mead one of the most prominent
of the National Guardsmen of Mon.
tana. Captain Mead went to the Phil
ippines with the First Montana at the
outbreak of the Spanish war
Members of the committee on for.
eign relations of the senate have de.
termined TO press the treaties with
Panama and Colombia for ratification
at the present session and to let the
Canadian boundary waterways treaty
| go over until the next session.
Americans who have served two
years consecutively in government
service on the Panama canal zone will
be presented with the Panama canal
medals, to make which one thousand
| pounds Of old French scrap has been
shipped to the Philadelphia mint.
That strict Interpretation will be
Tut upon the court order allowing
Charles w. Morse to leave the Tombs
| prison for the transaction of urgent
business was indicated last week
when he was refused. permission to
take an automobile ride with his wife
and sons.
The charity of a gambler was high
ly emphasized at Reno, Nevada, when
]. c. Miller, d roulette wheel turner
in a local resort, won in the neighbor
hood of $500 at faro, and then invit'
ed every one in the place to have a
square meal" Over $40 people &C
cepted.
Grant Haney, ranchman. was ia
tally stabbed at his ranch ten miles
from Hugo, Colo, by Chas. and VIM.
Banning. The trouble grew out of a
| long standing quarrel over the break
ing of fences on the Haney branch. A
posse has started after the Banning
brothers.
1t developed at conference last
week between President-elect Taft,
| Senators KnOY and Hale and Sneaker