The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-04
NEW s SU M NJ A R Y

wiped out by fire.
Emma Goldman, the anarchist
speaker, has been acquitted of
charge of calling an unlawful meeting
in San Francisco.
Slight earthquake shocks, accom-.
panied by subterranean rumblings,
have occurred in the region near Beja,
Spain. No damage has been done.
DR.. William o. Lillbrldge, an au.
thor. died at Sioux Falls, s. d., Jan.
uary 30, Of kidney trouble. He wrote
Ben Blair" and other western stories.
Scores of constabulary have been
sent In pursuit of party of armed
Ladrones who looted three ware
houses at Laguna, p l., and kidnapped
130 persons.
| Senator Cummins of Iowa made his
first speech in the senate on January
26, addressing the senate in support
of his amendment to the postal say.
ings bank bill.
| The Spanish steamer Trinidad has
rammed and sunk an unidentified Bel.
gian steamer off Cape Roca. Eight
members of the crew of the Belgian
vessel lost their lives.
The purchase of an oil painting OF
| Abraham Lincoln for $4,000, to be
hung in the capitol, is proposed in o
bill introduced in the senate by Sen
ator Carter of Montana.
Walter Zeller, the Finn boy recently
convicted of numbering his grand
father at Bridgeton, N. j., has been
sentenced to be electrocuted during
the week beginning March 4.
Three men were killed as the result
of collision of coal cars on the in.
cline railway leading to the mines on
the mountainslde near Piedmont. w
Va, the cars having gotten beyond
control.
Senator Carter, in charge of the pos.
tai savings bank and the omnibus
claims bill, declares that he will keer
the measures before the senate on
every opportunity until they are dis.
posed Of
Fire destroyed several boarding
houses at Ardmore, Oklahoma. T. V.
Littlejohn of Mckinney, Texas, was
cremated and his wife probably ia.
tally burned. They were on their
honeymoon.
/The bill to repeal the whipping post
law was defeated in the lower house
of the Oregon legislature last week,
and the bill prohibiting the wearing
Of hatpins in excess of ten inches in
length was passed.
While fighting their way through
the storm near Fon Du Lac Wis,
John Kettling of Oakland, and Paul
Keath Of Marblehead. were run down
by a Northwestern passenger train
and instantly killed.
Twenty persons were injured
twelve seriously, in payic at bull
fight at Marco de Canavezes, Spain
The bull charged the spectators, go
ing right and left. An attendant final.
ly shot the bull dead.
The official messengers from Mon.
tana and Oregon, bearing the electoral
votes of those states, who failed 10 de
liver them within the time Prescribed
by law, which expired on January 20,
are liable to a 81 1000 fine.
John Bedford confessed to the
crime of killing Oscar Hoganson at
Marengo. Ills. last October, burying
the body and stealing Hoganson's
horses which he sold and shipped to
Iowa, where he was arrested.
Fifty cottages will be built at the
naval hospital at Fort Lyon. near Las
Animas, Colo, operated by the fed
10 ~
tuberculosis patients. The total cost
of the buildings will be s150,OOo.
Frank Kramer, the worlds bicycle
sprint champion, announces that he
has retired from the bicycle racing
game to take up automobile racing
He says there is no longer any money |
for the professionals in the racing
game.
Thirteen men accused of gambling |
on Sunday were arrested in ST. Louis |
after they had FABRICATED themselves !
in a room and resisted the police for
sixteen hours. They will now face a |
charge of resisting an officer in addi- |
tion to violating the Sunday closing |
law.
George Slosson of New York City, |
who eleven years ago won the cham |
pionship at 1871 billiards, and lost it |
two years later, last week regained |
the title, defeating George Sutton OF |
Chicago at the Madison Square gar
den music hall, the score being 500 to |
1928.
Six persons were shot in a revolver |
duel between Thomas Littleton. a |
bricklayer. and police officers at |
Peoria, Ills. The fight started in a
quarrel between Littleton and an
aged man. Littleton was shot twice |
in the stomach and once in the shcul- |
der.
Internal strife, rather than wage |
contest, is feared by the convention OF |