The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-18
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bullet into her temple.
The bill providing for the abolition
Of the death penalty in Russia. which
came up for discussion on February
TO- has been indefinitely tabled
The house has passed the Mondelf
bill to permit change of land entry in
case OF a mistake in description or
tracts intended to be entered.
The steamer America has been
wrecked off the coast of the province
of Castellon, Spain. Sixty of her pas
sengers and crew were saved.
There has been serious outbreak
of the Asiatic cholera among the STAFF
Of ST. George hospital, an institution
maintained by the Red Cross in st.
Petersburg.
Three worlmen were suffocated to-
death as the result of fire In an
apartment house in Manchester. or
fifteen dodgers who were removed by
the fire, five failed to recover.
Another earthquake is reported In
the vicinity of Colima, Mexico. vio-
lent eruption Of the volcano followed.
A ridge of lava mile long in steam
ing down one side of the volcano.
Joseph Hopkins colored, arrested
at Ottumwa, Iowa, in connection with
the murder of Clara Rosen. has been
released. The police have now set
free all of the persons apprehended.
Resolutions condemning the agita-
tion against the Japanese in California
were adopted by the executive coun-
ell of the Massachusetts states board
of trade at meeting held in Boston.
The territorial Legislature of New
Mexico has adopted a bill in both
branches providing for an issue of
100000 worth of bonds. to aid in ex.
tending the public school system in
the rural districts.
An imperial edict issued February
Q appoints Hsu Shih Chang. viceroy of
Manchuria, to the post of professor OF
the board of communications, made
vacant by the dismissal three days
previous by Chen Pi
Ashutosh Biswas, a public prosecu-
tor, was shot dead today in the court
at Alipur, a suburb of Calcutta, by a
young Bengali Biswas was the Off
cial who prosecuted the recent anar-
chist conspiracy case.
The recent changes in the Turkish
ministry are due to the discovery OF
plot against the sultan that had
for its object his deposition, accord
ing to the Constantinople correspond
ent of the Frankfurter Zeitung.
France and Germany have signed a
far-reaching agreement concerning
Morocco, thus banishing spectre
which for years has loomed up inter
mittently as the cause of strained re-
lations between the two countries.
Satisfied that Turkey has renounced
It's intention of demanding a recti-
flcatfon OF the Turko-Bulgarian from
tier, the Bulgarian government has
issued orders disbandng the re-
cruits called out few weeks ago.
Two girls were burned to death and
their mother was fatally injured and
two other children of the same fam
lily were badly hurt in fire that de-
styoyed the farm dwelling of Albert
Bennison, near the village of Rexville.
N. Y.
The report comes from Washington
that Secretary of the Treasury Cortel-
you has accepted the presidency OF
the Consolidated Gas company of
New York Mr.. Cortelyou has de-
clined to either affirm or deny the
statement.
The case brought at Ballston, n. Y.
by Sylvester C. Corning against Lii
lian Russell, the actress, Corning
claiming that he had been run down
and injured by an automobile in which
Miss Russell was riding, has been set.
tied out of court.
A dispatch from Odessa announces
that Captain Niketini of the general
staf has been condemned by court
martial to death by hanging, after hav-
ing been found guilty of conducting
revolutionary agitation among the
men of the army.
windstorm of almost tornado pro-
portions struck the upper part of
Delaware and southeastern Pennsyl-
yania, February 10, causing the death
of one man aud a child and doing
much damage in the narrow path it
made through the two states.
President Roosevelt vetoed the SEN
ate bill authorizing the secretary OF
the navy to mitigate or remit the pen
alties of loss of citizenship imposed
upon deserters from the army and
navy. The objection Is based upon
the Infringement of the executives
power of pardon
After taking Charles Crumley a ne
gro, from the Jail at Lakeland, La.
and binding him to stake, heaping
wood about his body and pouring oil
over the mass. a mob was induced b.
the shellf to desist and allow the
man to be tried on the charge OF at
tacking a woman.