The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-03-11
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The salary of the president has been
definitely fixed at $4,000 per annum,
without any additional allowance for
travelling expenses.
Miss Belle Hagner. social secretary
to Mrs. Roosevelt has been trans
ferred to position in the bureau of
trade relations of the state depart
ment
a number of the women of Colum-
Eus, Ind, have been circulating pc
ttion asking Mrs. Taft not to permit
the serving of wine at White House
dinners.
The bill prohibiting free lunches in
saloons was killed in the Wisconsin
assembly, and the bill prohibiting
grossment
The New York suffragettes have or
ganized crusade for the furthering
cf their propaganda among the news
Laper men who work on the morning
publications.
w. H. Tilford, one of the vicepresi-
dents of the Standard Oil company,
|
March 2. Mr.. Tilford was former
treasurer of the corporation.
When Charles Williams, beggar,
was locked up by the police of Chi
| cago. he confessed that he had reach
| cd such a stage of thirst for whiskey
that he had pawned his artificial leg
| for SIS.
While being shaved. In Bromley.
| KY, Joseph Stolzer Jumped from the
barber chair, grabbed razor, and, be
fore anyone could interfere, cut his
throat from ear to ear, dying almost
Immediately.
Guy Razor was found guilty of man
slaughter at Medina, o., by the jury
trying him for the murder of his
| sweetheart, Orie Lee. October s. The
penalty is from one to twenty years
in the penitentiary.
Miss Fannie Hageldant, aged 40,
was found dead with bullet hole in
her head at her home near Columbus,
Ohio. The body was tightly wound
about with bed-clothing. The house
had been ransacked
hiS. TGleI D6ItuDItCutl Oi san
Diego, Cal, was fatally burned in the
explosion of gasoline stove. She
was in her room preparing breakfast
when the gasoline stove exploded, en-
yeloping her body in flames.
The annual report of the Pennsyl-
yania Railway company for 1868, made
Public last week, shows decrease in
urpcc na nj N orc oppnnorad ,.,ith ha ,,to
oeding year of $52,446,722, and de
crease in net earnings of S7,436,297
The anti-cigarette bill was passed in
The house Of the Missouri legislature
last week. The bill prohibits the man
ufacture, sale or giving away of cigar
cites, cigarette papers or wrappers.
the penalty is fine of from $40 TO
$500.
DR. g. G. Throckmorton, aged 65
years, of Piqua, o., has beaten the mil
itary ride of President Roosevelt OF
nlnety-siX miles military gait when he
lode three horses on the relays 12O |
miles in thirteen hours and forty-five |
minutes.
Returns just completed by the for.
June and December, 1908, 1854 Jap
anese left the empire bound for the |
United States, while $500 returned
from the United States during the
same period.
A conference of prohibitionists of
Tie New England states was held in
Boston last week, the meeting being
r. 10 nt cin
llans for an active campaign to be
waged by the party from now on to
the presidential campaign of 1912.
Mystery surrounds the killing of
Mrs. Jerome Hoover, wife of an At
Gibson, Kans., tanner, who was found |
dead at her home. Thursday the un-
6ertaker discovered small wound |
behind the right ear The wound |
was probed and a bullet taken from |
1t.
Permanent headquarters for the |
National League of Republican clubs, |
of which John Hays Hammond is |
president, will be established in |
Washington in the near future, in or
der to keep the $500 clubs and l POO |
900 members active throughout the |
:ear
What to do with our vice presidents |
is question which has been solved |
by at least one of them for himself. |
hdlai +. Stevenson according TO a
Chicago dispatch will retire from his
law business and his coal mining to
establish the La Sale Extension uni
versity.
Two foreign mine workers were |
kIlled, another is missing and about |
twelve were badly burned by an ex-
llosion of gas in a colliery of the Erie
Coal company at Port Blanchard Pa.
Fire followed the explosion, and sixty
miners were entombed back OF the
fire for several hours.
Upon the recommendation of Secre-