The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-11
NE VS. SUM MARY

According to dispatches received In
El Paso, Texas, 1t Is openly predicted
in Mexico City that the gubernatorial
campaign in the state of Mozlas will
result in bloodshed
Reports received from orange grow
ing sections south of New Orleans in.
dicate that serious damage to orchards
was done by the freezing weather,
which extended to the Gulf coast.
Mrs. Sydney NJ. Colgate, a wealthy
woman OF Orange, N. j., and Mrs. Ed
ward Olds, of New York, were severe.
ly injured in an automobile collision
on the Meadow road, near Kearny.
N. J.
Eighteen persons, including several
women and children, were carried
out of blazing tenement house II
Brooklyn, by policemen, after som
of the former had been overcome by
smoke.
| Seventeen men are dead as the re-
suit of an explosion in the Short Creek
mines of the Birmingham Coal G. Iron
company, near Birmingham, Ala. Five
of the dead are white and twelve are
/ negroes.
Six men were killed and several in.
| jured when construction train on
| the New York Central railroad ran
down party of Italian trackmen
near University Heights, in Bronx
borough.
Ex-Chief of Police s. c. Hodgkins,
of Oakland, Cal, was shot twice and
seriously, but not fatally, wounded
while attempting to capture Charles
Clifton, who had attempted to hold up
drug store on Telegraph avenue.
The lower house of the Texas leg
islature has, by vote of S5 to A, de,
feated the resolution to submit state
wide prohibition to a popular vote.
The prohibitionists lacked two votes
necessary to a two-thirds majority.
The home of Mrs. Frank Lathrop,
near Brentwood, Ark, was burned on
February 4, and her two sons, Will
lam and Frank, aged Is and % years,
respectively, and George Burris,
young visitor, were burned to death,
The International Harvester com
uany will pay the fine of $4,000 as
sessed against it by the district courl
of Shawnee county, Kansas, and ap
proved by the Kansas supreme court
for violating the Kansas anti-trdst law
The house committee on public
buildings and grounds has agreed to
a favorable report on the Rodenbere
bill to purchase the Oldroyd collec
tion of Lincoln relics now located III
the house In Washington in which
Lincoln died.
Before special master In Cleve'
land O., February 13. Government At
torney Frank B. Kellogg will seek to
show, IL possible, that the merger OF
the Union and Southern Pacific rail
roads under the control Of e. H. Har
r!man Is monopoly.
Mayor Taylor of San Francisco has
issued proclamation setting aside
five days in October for celebrating
the one hundred and fortieth anniver.
sary of the discovery of San Fran
cisco bay by Gaspar de Portola, first
governor of California.
Brown fired two shots at Henry Loeb
ard near Madison, Ind, whereupon
Lochard returned the fire, shooting
Brown in the head, killing him in
stantly It is said the trouble grew
out of Browns wife deserting him.
The coroner's jury investigating the
death of Bruce Shelter, a San D'sgo
Cal, contractor, who was shot to
death, returned a verdict finding Mrs
Effie Duden, sisterin.law of the dead
man, had fired the shots. Mrs. Duder
has been held in Jail without bail,
A bold daylight robbery in Chi
cagos most crowded retail street was
successfully perpetrated by lone
robber. The thief hurled brick
through the window OF the Jack-on
Jeweiry company, and secured. $4,000
worth of watches, rings and dia-
monds,
Mrs, Mary Wright is on trial al
DeHrs Lake, n. D.. charged with the
murder of Beulah Wright, aged six
teen years. The state alleges that
Mrs. Wright strangled the girl and
then smeared carbolic acid on the
girls lips to make it appear a case OF
suicide.
When the British steamship Shi
mosa leaves New York for the far
east she will carry away the remark
able cargo of 5000 dead Cinnamon.
F7om all points east of the Mississip-
pi trains have brought numbers OF
pOfined Chinese tp he sent 10 the
Flowery Kingdom.
Wireless telegraphy has saved Its
first Mexican ship. The revenue cut
ter Jose Yves Ilmantour became dis
abled fifty miles off the coast, near
Culiacan. and her calls for assistance
by wireless were caught up by the
Alamos. which Immediately steamed
nnt and hrnnnht her 10 mort