The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29
TELECRAPHIC BRIEFS


A strike in every city and town in
Oklahoma In support of the eight-hour
law, involving 10000 laborers, is pre-
dicted.
twenty workmen were killed and
large number injured at St. Peters
burg by the collapse of building in
course of construction.
William C. Heron. brother-in-law
of President Taft. is to be the candi-
date for the Democratic nomination
for vice mayor of Cincinnati, on the
ticket headed by Alfred NJ. Cohen.
Colonel Roosevelt and his son Ker-
nit arrived at Nairobi, on April "a,
from Naivasha, thereby bringing to
close successful ten days hunting
tour on the south shore OF Lake Nal
vasha from Captain Attenborough's
ranch.
The arbitration board that has been
seeking to settle the Usage county.
Kansas, strike. adjourned without
reaching an agreement and the strike
will continue. The strike, which has
| been in effect for nearly year, affects
several hundred men.
Announcement of proposed line OF
| freight and passenger steamers be-
tween Havana and Philadelphia, is
made by General Carlos Garcia Velez.
| Cuban minister to the United States.
Charles M, Schwab is understood to
be among the Americans interested.
| Survivors of the explosion on the
| gasoline schooner Charles Hansen.
which blew up off the Mexican coast
| June &c, have arrived at San Fran
cisco. The crew existed for ten days
| on shell bsh and sea weed the COOK,
Harry Knordeck, dying of starvation.
Because she had Tilted him, Private
Charles O'Neil. of the Thirteenth cav
| airy. stationed at Fort Leavenworth,
| Kan, shot and killed Minnie Schar-
bora, aged 23 years, French maid.
| O'Neil called the girl to the door, and
without word OF warning, shot her.
Advices were brought by the EN-
| press of China that DR.. Sakow, for
mer president of the Nippon Sugar
company, who committed suicide after
| Inc graft trials at Toxic, left pa
thetic WILL in which he stated that
his soul would still Loyalty serve ia
pan.
Standing over an unexploded
charge of dynamite to see why 1t had
failed to go off, j. w. Carter, aged
so. one OF the wealthiest residents OF
the Ell Cajon valley, California, was
blown fifty feet into the air, receiving
injuries from which he died an hour
later. VIII
The government steamer Seestern,
belonging to the German New Guinea
colony, Is five weeks overdue. She
g. bound for Adolph Haven. where she
ought to nave arrived luAe a.. ..,-
eral steamers are searching for the
Seestern.
Upon an appeal for rehearing, the
French court of appeals has reduced
the sentence OF Jean Mattis, the Paris
waiter, who last Christmas attacked
President Fallieres and tried to pull
his beard, to three years imprison-
ment, followed ny me years nallsn-
ment from the boundaries of Paris.
An attorney for the Public Defense
association has prepared new appli-
cation for an injunction against the
Pressed Steel Car company and its
striking employees 1t asks that the
workmen be enjoined from interfering
, with the company ON tne nlring VI
men to take the places of the strikers
and from committing acts of violence.
John A. e. Anderson, the former
: ledger keeper of the Bank of Mon
treal, in Toronto, who Is wanted by
the police of three countries on
charges of passing checks with forged
: acceptances, has been arrested at
Vancouver, b. G.. These checks have
been cashed In cities all over the
umLed states and one iii Paris
France.
Stanley Ketchel, the champion mid
dleweight pugilist, was painfully in
|, jured by being thrown against the
front of the automobile in which he
|, was riding when the machine collided
|, with wagon in San Francisco. 1t
: was feared at first that his arm had
been broken.
The Iowa board of pardons has rec
commended an unconditional pardon
for Francis Smith, son of the author
of the hymn America" who was con
victed five years ago and sentenced
to the penitentiary for eleven years
on charges of perjury. larceny and
embeZzlemenl.
The suffragettes who recently were
sent to prison for taking part in dis
turbances in Downing street, London
: were liberated from Holloway jail last
week as the result of hunger strike
One of them, Miss Roberts, refused
food for l26 hours She is now un
= der medical care.