The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-06-10
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freight train at Mars, IA.
The senate judiciary committee has
decided to report favorably the nomi.
nation of A. w. Cody as federal Judge
in New Mexico.
Six young men were seriously in.
jured. one probably fatally, during an
automobile hill climbing contest at
Bridgeport, Conn.
BY thepremature explosion of can
ION at Wapakoneta. o., on Memorial
day, Henry Mahan aged 20 years, a
former soldier, was killed.
A tornado in the San Jose mining
district in Mexico did considerable
damage. Practically all the native
shacks in the district were wrecked.
Two men lost their lives by tha pre-
mature explos on OF charge NJ ma
mite in the Coalinga, Cal. oil fields.
The bodies we're frightfully mangled.
Luke ODonnell and his wife were
drowned and two others narrowly es.
capped the same fate in a row boat col
lison at Washington park, Chicago.
The premier of the province of Que
bee declares that the policy of Canada
will be to prevent the expectation of
pulp wood from the crown lands to
the United States.
Charles Barr, who claims to be a
bricklayer. has been arrested at Los
Angeles on suspicion of having stran.
gled to death Laura Register, &c years
old, In Providence. r. l., on the night
of May 10.
Bert Simpson, an Englishman well
known throughout the southwest, was
shot and killed by S. S. Carpenter at a
ranch near Clint, I'exas. Carpenter
is one of the most prominent ranch.
men in west Texas.
Wholesale harness and saddle deal
ers of the middle west, at conven-
tion at Des Moines, Iowa, adopted reso-
lutions demanding free hides. Present
high prices of leather the resolutions
declared, are due to the tariff.
One was drowned and five others
narrowly escaped drowning in the Po-
tomac river at Washington when
large gasoline launch carrying three
young married couples caught fire
from the explosion of the oil tank.
Mrs. Catherine Teal, wealthy
apartment house owner, was muir
dered in her home in st. Louis, pre-
sumably by robbers. Her face was
hacked almost beyond recognition,
and her skull was fractured She
also was shot.
Sheriff Frank Cazalas, of Mobile
Ala, has been ordered removed from
office by the state supreme court az
a decision which followed the trial of
Cazalas on a charge of dereliction of
duty in allowing negro to be lynched
in Mobile on January 81.
Calvin Johnson, a negro, has been
convicted at Alexandria, Va, of the
murder of Walter F. Schultz, Chi.
cago artist, on March last. Schultz
was lured to a field just outside the
city of Washington, and his throat cut,
robbery being the motive.
The new freight rates on coal re-
Gently announced by the National
Railways of Mexico went into effect
on June 1. 1t is declared by promi
ment coal men that in six months the
revised rates will result in an annual
saving to Mexico of 100000.
Flying into a rage when told. that his
twenty-year-old sister, Bessie, was to
be married, William B. Blessing. so
years old, attacked the girl in their
home, in New Orleans, with hatchet.
inflicting several serious wounds. He
then threw acid in her face.
Official notices have been posted in
all the mills of the American Sheet
and Tinplate mills at Wheeling, W.
Va. announcing that after June 80 all
of the plants of the company would be
open shops. The order affects about
10000 men, and a strike is expected.
For the first time in history wheat
has been shipped back from New York
to the west for consumption. Recent
inquiries have been received from as
far away as Texas for New York red
wheat This is result of the great
scarcity Of wheat all through the west.
The Chicago Journal published an
affiGavit sworn to by Alois Jaeger
masseur of Chicago, in which the lat.
ter states that in 1S74-75 he was valet
to Joann Salvador, archduke of Aus.
tria, and that on June 2, at Paines.
Vile, o., he recognized Joann Salvador
as the lost archduke.
The test case of the Southern Rail.
way company against the interstate
commerce commission, involving the
right OF the commission to fix the
charge for the consignment of hay
shipped through East st. Louis, has
been decided by the supreme court
against the commission
At the United Presbyterian general
assembly at Knoxville, Tenn. Dir
former pastor, now editor
of an Iowa publication, declared that
the entire United States is over.
and that the church at large
would be in better condition with half
the number of preachers.
y %a"eY o~7 who shot and
seriously wounded B. C. Bowers, a cir