The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-04-15
NEWS SUN NJ IA RY

w. Va.
A violent earthquake occurred Sat
urday near Sundsvall, Sweden. II
lasted nearly a minute, and, accord
ing to reports, did considerable dam
age.
Wool growers OF Mexico have re-
duced considerably their shipments
of wool to the United States because
of the duty. Most of the product is
going to London.
A 3O0-ton. schooner for the north
pole expedition under Walter Well
man was launched at Christensen,
Norway. last week 1t will be taken
to Spitzbergen in May.
The date for the trial OF the Star
company, publishers of the New York
American, charged with criminal libel
against John ID. Rockefeller, Jr.. has
been set for April 29.
Tom" an elephant in circus at
Des Moines, Iowa. ran amuck, and,
seizing his keeper, Charles Bellew.
hurled him high in the air and when
he fell trampled him to death.
The Illinois Central Flyer struck
Ruby, aged Z, s and IA. respectively,
daughters of Fred Folder, four miles
west OF Dubuque, Iowa, Sunday morn
ing.
BY majority of II ,463. Frederick
Kriesmann. Republican. was elected
mayor of St. Louis. He received So
SIG votes and his Democratic oppo-
votes.
Thirteen school boys were drowned
near Ramnetz. Russia, as a result of
the floods They were on a bridge
over the Morritch river at the village
e Crinira when the structure col
ansed
Governor Shallenberger of Ne
braska has signed the daylight" sa
loon bill. The measure forbids the
sale of liquor except between a. m
and p. m. The bill goes into effect
July 6.
The city council of Santa Fe. n. NJ.
| by vote of five to four, passed an
ordinance closing all saloons in ths
city after December 81, 1909 In the
meantime the license fee for saloons
will be doubled.
A dispatch from Pyatigorsk, wat
ering place in Sis-Caucasia says the
governor of the province has issued
orders that Jews be denied admission
to the health resorts in the Caucasus
during the coming season.
Mrs. Fanny Van Zandt, mother Of
the Texas republic" died at Fort
| Worth, Texas, April s, aged 81 years.
She was the widow of the late Isaac
Van Zandt. who signed the treaty be-
tween the Texas republic and Mexico.
Former Queen Liluokalani of Ha-
waii, otherwise Mrs. Lydia Dominis,
| must pay $11 900 to her court ply.
sician,' under a judgment rendered
By Chief Justice Calbaugh of the su.
preme court of the District of Co
lumbia.
Zoe Landi, miner, has been ar
| rested at Hartshorne, Okla. charged
with being a member of the Black
Hand organization and with trying to
| oxtort 81 900 from ]. II. Baker, vice
president of the First State bank OF
| Hartshorne.
in prospect the Florida legislature
! cony ened at Tallahassee April G. AL
though the prohibition forces have
waged a vigorous campaign, their op
ponents hope to block all dry" leg.
islation from the outset.
! Anonymous blackmailers, who wrote
| from Delavan, Wis, have threatened
the lives of the mother and sister OF
10-year-old Harold Moon, whse body
was found in pond at Flint, Mich,
unless l.. N. Moon. the boys father,
turns over $4,000 to them.
| Sergeant Lima, who betrayed his
comrades involved in the revolution
AIRY uprising of January, 1908, when
King Carlos and the crown prince of
Portugal were assassinated, was
stabbed to death in Lisbon, April 6.
The act was one of revenge.
Just as Mrs. George Gulliver OF
| Usage, la, had started a search for
her aged mother, she was Mortified to
see her plunging to the ground from
fifty-foot windmill TO her death
Mrs j. Pierce was rs years old and
lad been i'll several months.
| me- DIlllSH SledlntT MdDIllld, lTOIl
Calcutta for London, which went
ashore on Goodwin sands. has broken
In two and been abandoned, The pas
sengers were landed soon after the
vessel struck. and all the crew were
rescued The loss is estimated at 81,
100000.
The general land Office holds that in
1rder to enable the heirs of a home,
stead entryman to submit commuta-
ion proof of his entry, they must
show both residence on and cultlta-
ion of the land for fourteen months
by the entryman or heirs, or partly
| by both.
While playing wild west" with ave
companions, at Linton, Ind, Clifford
Wolford, Is years old, was shot and
killed by Loren Hamilton, IS years
old Hamilton then tried to commit
| Suipi1p. but WAS DrpVpntad nv tho