The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-20
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Sioux City, Iowa, May IA.
A passenger train ran through an
open bridge into Bull creek, near Ran
dolph. No. and several tra'nmen arc
missing.
A. p. Riddle, former lieutenant-gov-
ernor of Kansas, was killed near Sa-
lima, Kans., May IA, in an automobile
accident.
Fifteen families have been burned
out in the Rush lake, Saskatchewan
district, by prairie fires, two children
losing their lives and others being
badly burned.
Salvador Rizzo, fruit dealer. who
died suddenly at his home in Cincin-
natl, having received threatening let
tiers from the black hand" is believed
to have been poisoned.
A dispatch from Tangier says it Is
reported from Megador that a party of
American tourists has been captured
by natives near Agadir, which is the
most southern part Of Morocco.
Henry Goodale was fatally burned
and his son. Thomas, badly injured at
st. Joseph. Mo-, by an explosion of
gas, caused by lightning during the
worst electrical storm of the year.
Rev. w. G. Barber, superintendent
of the Iowa Anti-saloon league. an
nounces that the league has decided
to abandon the fight for the re-sub.
mission of constitutional prohibition
in Iowa
Ex-President Roosevelt, in the cur
rent number of the Outlook, combats
the statement credited to Count Leo
Tolstoi that Bryan represented the
party of peace in the last presidential
campaign
While clearing lot In Burnaby, a
suburb of New Westminster, B. c.,
workmen found the body of woman
in an advanced stage of decomposition,
death having occurred at least six
months ago,
Five persons. four girls and a
young man, members OF party of
eight, were drowned when a boat in
which they were attempting to cross
the river at Hackensack, n. j., during
a storm, capsized.
Fire accompanied by an explosion
in the big general storehouse of the
Seaboard Air Line railway at Ports
mouth, Va, entailed loss of from
100000 to $3.50 900 and resulted in
, the injury of four men.
Miss Clara Cooper, of Montaur,
Iowa, was suddenly stricken blind on
the eve of her departure for Iowa, af-
ter visit to friends in Redding, Cal.
Miss Cooper had never had any pre-
vious trouble with her eyes.
George Hall, aged 81; R. Fl. Sweet,
aged As; Sweets wife and four chill
dren were drowned in Chippewa river
at Eua Claire, Wis, when Halls gaso-
line launch capsized in midstream
upon striking some sunken piling.
The mangled body of James Moore
waiter of Butte, was found lying
beside the tracks of the Oregon Short
Line, several miles south of Silver
Bow. Moore is supposed to have fallen
from the southbound passenger train.
In an explosion on the quarter boat
No. 3 at Goddess Key, about twenty
miles from Key West, Fla, on the
Key West extension of the Florida
East Coast railway, three men were
instantly killed and twelve badly in
jured.
BY vote of "A to 104, resolution
by Mr.. Garrett. of Tennessee, directing
the speaker forthwith to appoint a
committee on insular affairs to con-
slider the presidents Porto Rican mes
sage, was defeated in the house on
May -.
A large rat" in her hair saved the
life of Mrs. Richard Frost in an auto
mobile accident at Jackson, Mich Mrs.
Frost and her baby were both thrown
from the machine when 1t collided
with telephone pole. Mrs. Frost
struck on her head.
julius Meyer, for many years
prominent figure in business circles
of Omaha, and president Of the Met
ropolitan club, committed suicide at
Hanscom Park, April 10, by shooting.
Dependency on account Of i'll health
is the supposed cause.
The war department at Washington
has awarded to Amos Weaver, of Dun
kirk, Ind, a medal for conspicuous
bravery in the Philippines. Weaver.
on November s. 1899, alone routed a
band of fifteen insurgents, killing four
and wounding several others.
Because his son-in-law, August Loss,
would not pillow furrow the way he
wanted 1t, Herman Rabner, a wealthy
farmer, living near Des Moines, Iowa,
shot and killed the young man, and
then burned his body, Rabner, who
was 70 years of age. then killed him
self.
The Kochnische Zeitung semiofii-
cially announces that the German
banks will not deliver up deposits of
the former sultan of Turkey, unless he
voluntarily renounces them or a law
court orders their delivery to the rep
resentatives Of the new Turkish gov
arnment