The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-01
NEW s SUM N A r Y

The Italian car in the New York-to-
Seattle race abandoned the race at
Cheyenne.
Five men were killed In a freight
wreck near Kamloops, b. c., when, a
wheel broke and the train was
ditched.
Rev. j. J. Porter, one Of the most
widely known Baptist ministers in the
United States, is dead at Winchester.
Ky. at the age of 5S.
William Jennings Bryan, in an inter
view in Denver last week, declared
that he was not candidate for the
Nebraska senatorship.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fox, aged 112, died
at Smithton. Mo, June %. She was
native of Kentucky, but had lived
In Missouri thirty years.
The house has authorized an emer-
gency appropriation Of $1O,000,0O0 for
defraying the expenses of taking the
thirteenth decennial census.
Queen Victoria of Spain gave birth
70 a daughter on June %. The fact
lldl lHtlT lulIu Cuilu iS q SiIl 10 very
pleasing to the king and queen.
Judge Wilson, in common pleas
court at Philadelphia has declared
unconstitutional the 2-cent fare Law
passed by the Legislature in 1907.
Miss Margaret Shepenson, of San
Francisco, stewardess of the Pacific
Mail Steamship company's liner
| n ma committed suicide in N d-ocean
June 30.
Two baby antelopes, sent by express
from Colonel Roosevelt to his daugh'
ter Mrs Nicholas Longworth were
received in New York last week in
good condition.
John ID. Rockefeller, Jr., and James
A. Moffett raye been elected NOe.
presidents of the Standard on com
pany, to succeed w. II. Tilford and
Fl. II. Rogers.
A theater panic resulting in the
death of Isabel Romero and the in
jury of many persons followed jok'
er's cry of Fire" in the Apollo the
alter In the City of Mexico,
Joseph Seaton, 20 years of age, an
old government scout, in an attempt
to walk across the burning desert OF
Nevada, in a trans-continental walk
was overcome by the heat at Oreana
and died
John X. Considine. formerly pro
prietor of the Hotel Metropole, ano
widely known among sporting am
theatrical men, died of pleusal rheu
monia in his hoe in New York City
June &C.
Walking from Boston to San Fran
cisco on a wager, Melvin M. Lien,
mute, tutor in the Perkins Institute
for the blind, was killed near syria
cuse, N Y, by being ruin down by
passenger train.
The training squadron of Admira
Ijichi composed of the cruisers As'
and Soya, arrived at Honolulu June a
Hundreds of Japanese assembled q
the wq3tr frp 10 the YES "a
an enthusiastic reception.
Albert Siegele, of Buffalo, N. Y
one of the pioneer brewers Of Amer
lea and the first man to manufacture
lager beer in this country died at tn
home of his daughter in Sacramento
Cal, June 81, at the age OF 81.
A street car got beyond control OF
steep hill in Los Angeles an
.-1as through 9
ed section, collidng with another cal
smashing both badly and iniuring
dozen passengers, none seriously.
In turning a spadefull of earth a
Bournedale, half was across Cape Coo
on June 90, August Belmont, of Ne'
York, declared that a formal begir
ming had been made in the construc
canal.
The city of Halifax, N s. was estat
lished one hundred years ago on Jun
%, by Lord Halifax, and named in hi
honor, The anniversary this year wa
observed as a public holiday. with his
torical exercises, public concerts an
variety of athletic sports.
Mark Woodruff has been arreste
at Plattsville Colo. on a charge of en-
bezzlement, it being charged tina
while state register of lands of Cole
RADIO he embezzled funds from the sal
of school lands to the amount OF abou
$4,000. Woodbury. declares he ca
clear up the matter.
After being beaten and robbed, Cai
Schurz was thrown from the Mort
Clark street viaduct, in Chicago, t
the tracks of the Northwestern raj
road He fell across the tracks, an
would have been run over by switc
engine had the engineer not seen hiI
and stopped his engine.
The trial of Joseph Bertucci, /
Chicago on charge of murder, wa
suddenly stopped when an Italian ell
tered the court room and waved
handkerchief at the chief witness fC
the prosecution, who refused to testif