The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-13
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Dispatches from Teheran say that
the Shah of Persia has accepted the
project for reforms advanced by Great
Britain and Russia.
Schutler Holly was instantly killed
at Logansport Ind. by "a trap he had
prepared to kill thief that had been
raiding his chicken house.
Missouri will likely haae a chance
to vote on statewide prohibition. The
senate has passed the prohibition con
stitutional amendment, which already
had passed the house.
A tornado struck Kentuckytown,
Texas, May 5. The Baptist church
and school house were destroyed and
other property damaged. No casual
ties have been reported.
Buenos Ayres is still in the grip
of the strike inaugurated as
protest against the action of the au-
thorities in firing upon a crowd of
demonstrators on May day.
The entire yellow pine lumber
schedule of rates west of the Missis-
sippi river is involved in a complaint
of excessive rates filed with the inter
state commerce COMMISSION.
Judge H. H. Willis, in delivering
charge to jury at New Martinville,
W. Va, instructed them to indict all
church workers who obtain money
through the medium of raffles.
The Chinese government has invit-
ed Sir Robert Hart, former director
general of Chinese customs, to return
TO China. Sir Robert has reached no
decision regarding the invitation.
According to a report received in
New Orleans, the Honduran govern
ment has taken back the Inter
Oceanic railroad, the transfer having
been made by the Valentine syndi-
cate about May L.
Governor Hughes, of New York, has
signed bill aimed at immoral plays.
The new law makes 1t a misdemeanoi
to advertise or present any obscene
immoral or impure drama, play, exhi-
bition, show or entertainment
NJ Forsinetti the military governor
of Monaco, died May g. He was com
mandant of the Cherche Midip prison
at the time of the incarceration of
Major Dreyfus, but lost that position
because he gave testimony favorable
TO Dreyfus,
More than 100000 is given to char
fly in the will of Otho S. A. Sprague,
late president of the Sprague-Wainer
company, of Chicago, who died in
Pasadena, Cal, February 90. The rest
OF the estate, valued at s3,50o.000, is
left to his children.
During April seventy-seven new
cases of hubonic PLACE were reported
in Guayquil Ecuador, with twenty
three deaths, During the same pc
riod there We're seventy-tive new
cases Of yellow fever of which sew
enty-two cases were fatal.
William +. Eberhard wealthy
plantation owner and Memphis mel"
chant, his sisterin-law, Mrs. b. f,
Chiles, and her daughter, Virginia
Chiles were drowned while crossing
the Mississippi river near Pecan
Point, Ark, in small craft.
Camille Guyot de Villeneuve, mem
ber of the French chamber of deputies,
who was prominent in the Dreyfug af-
fair, died May A. In 1905 he made
sensational revelations in the chamber
concerning a system of secret reports
on army officers by Masonic lodges.
Believing that kidnapers killed sew
en,year-old Antonio Malfetu. and
threw his body into the East river on
discovering that no reward would be
paid for his recovery, the Brooklyn
police have arrested two men on sus-
t. al tssA1 fnrT 4 A
Francis l.. Welman, the noted
cross examiner and authority of court
procedure. declared in a speech to
the Catholic club. in New York City,
that perjury is increasing to an alarm
ing extent. There is scarcely trial
where it does not appear he said
The situation In Central America
appears to be getting more complicat-
ed every day judging from the news
that comes slowly into Panama, rrav-
elers say Nicaragua, in spite of the
vigilance of the American warships,
is trying to invade Salvador by way
of Honduras.
Fred ID. Warren, business manager
OF the Appeal to Reason, a Socialist
publication, charged by the govern
ment with sending scurrlous and de
famatory matter through the mails
was found guilty by a jury in the fed
eral court at Fort Scott, Kans. An ap
peal will be taken.
Fourteen thousand acres OF land in
one of the richest 'reclamations OF the
San Joaquin valley of California, the
principal crop of which is barley
were flooded last week. The loss will
approximate 100000, 1t is believed
that the flood was due TO gopher
holes In the levee.
The police of Paris last week found
a ragged starving Italian boy on {
bench in the boulevard, Through al
interpreter he said all of his friends