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Show VOL. IV. NO.' 7. SPANISH FORK, UTAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, FATAL ACCIDENT AT FUNERAL. DISASTROUS MINE EXPLOSION ' Floor Collapses and Eleven Are Killed and Fifty Injured in Wreckage. ; i Eleven persons were killed and : more than fifty injured, some probably ! fatally, by the collapse of the decayed of the flooring of the Fleet i supports Street African .Methodist Episcopal I church, in Brooklyn, N. Y., Monday wo-- . night. Of those killed, eight were men, two men and one child. Death In nearly every case resulted from suf- j focation. t 0 Arrangements had been made to fiold funeral services for Sidney Tatn-- i iy 0 ter, one of the oldest members of the church, and the auditorium, which Is Rear on the second floor of the building, the Mrs, , ground floor being used by the Sun- audl-- . , iay school, was crowded with an of I ence of more than 300 persons, f whom the majority were women. Uari Suddenly a splintering of timbers was heard, and in an Instant the half j bee of the auditorium nearest the door ney i collapsed, carrying down more than a I hundred persons, who were crushed In the wreckage of the flooring and om$ pews. ham A great volume of dust for a few m- moments hid from view the victims. The remainder of the audience, finding themselves cut oft from the door naa and expecting every Instant that the rest of the flooring would collapse un:rip der them, fought madly to reach the fof and In some instances windows, sli. , leaped from them and sustained seri- - !. 1 ous alt ch i J at injuries. JUDGE SWAYNE NOT GUILTY. I Cerate Acquits Florida Charges. ce for for , f ia lc. i ic i IP- - i iO. I it, All to convict. The closest vote was on the last ar- tide, the contempt case .of V. C. senators vot- ONeal, when thirty-fivnot guilty, ed guilty and forty-sevewhile on two articles only thirteen The senators voted for conviction. on was most parfor the part, voting, ty lines, though there was not a strict Alignment on any article. At the conclusion of the toting tho piesiding officer directed the secretary o enter an acquittal upon the records, and the court then adjourned without delay. s e n iT ' , v, ' f ) f I EXPELLED FROM SENATE. Californians Lose Their Seats ,in Sen ate for Accepting Bribes. The galleries and lobbies of the senate at Sacramento, Cal., were crowded Monday, in anticipation of a debate on .he reconi numdatlon of the special nvestlgating committee that Senators and Bunkers, Emmons, Wright French be expelled from the senate i for receiving bribes. Mrs. Emmons left the bedside of her husband at the hospital to be present in the senate when the report came up. She sat at her husband's desk. In the vote for expulsion, each name was considered separately, each of the accused men being expelled by a practically unanimous vote. NIEDRINGHAUS f WEAKENS. Will Withdraw if Supporters Agree on Anybody Other Than Kerens. At a caucus in Jefferson City, Mo., Monday night, attended by sixty members of the legislature who have been voting for Thomas K. Nledrlnghaus s for United States senator, Mr. made a speech in which he said he would release bis supporters from the Republican caucus obligation to vote for iiim, provided they would agree upon a candidate other than 1L L Kerens. Kled-ringhau- . ; f ; ? j J ; j IN e JAPS WERE VICTORS. Author Will Be Deported From SL Petersburg. Maxim Gorky, the Russian author, had but a short glimpse of liberty Monday. Released on $3,000 ball, the noted author was Immediately rearrested and conveyed to a place of confinement pending deportation to some distant city or province, where bis continued resistanro, it is thought, will not be so dangerous to tho welfare of the government as It would be in St. 1etersburg. But Their Advance Wat Literally Over Bodies of Their Own Men. s General Sakbaroff, General In a of chief staff, dispatch dated Saturday reports that when tho f Japanese stacked and captured Ib hill on February 24, after severe fighting, they were In superior force and advanced literally over the bodies of their own men. The Japanese loss was very heavy, the dead lying In heaps. The Russian Iohhcs have not yet been ascertained. Prospects of Statehood f E EXILE FOR GORKY. Russian f Canton, Ohio, Woman Victim of the MEN KILLED Terrible Cruelty of Her Hucband. WEST VIRGINIA MINE. Nick Buccl, an Italian of Canton, Ohio, became enraged at his wife, and, dellbreaitely heating a poker, Loss Would Have Been Much Greater back, plunged it Into tho woman's but for the Fact That a Small out it where stuck by until pulled Force Waa Working on the who were attracted by the neighbors, Sunday Shift womans screams. The flesh and The clothing were badly burned. As a result of an explosion in shaft between over inch an No. 1 of the United States Coal & Coke poker penetrated the ribs, but did not penetrate the company at Wilcoe, W. Va., on Sunlung cavity. When the neighbors arminers are suppose day, twenty-thre- e rived upon the scene the room was to have lost their lives, and It is posfilled with the odor of burning flesh. sible that the number will exceed this, The police were notified. Bucci fled, Fifteen bodies had been recovered but was apprehended, and is In Jail. at last reports, although a large resadmitted the deed and manifested He cue party Is at work in the mines. no remorse. An Infant child of the It is barely possible, but not likely, died three days ago. that some of the remaining entombed family miners will be rescued alive. The exSEETHING WITH REBELLION. plosion was of terrific force and shah tered windows a mile distant. Imme. Batoum Strikers Aided by Jews and Armenians. dlately after the shock a great numi Advices Batoum say The perfrom of her miners, who were off duty, rushed to the shaft to find great fect of police and several leading merclouds of smoke and dust gushing from chants of that city have been assassiits mouth. Mothers, children and nated and that numbers of Ottoman other relatives were soon weeping and subjects have been murdered by Grepleading for the rescue of those dear gorian strikers. Revolutionary manifestations in fato them entombed in the mine. The vor of a republic are being canted officials of the mine were soon on the In Batoum. broadcast scene. The dead miners thus far reThe whole of the Caucasus is said covered are all Italians and Hungarians. The company usually work in to be seething with disaffection. Arthis shaft about seventy five miners, menians, Jews and people of other nabut it being Sunday the men were not tionalities and creeds are aiding tho all in and the small loss of life can be strikers, who appear to be acting unattributed only to this fact. The Unit- der the orders of a committee at St. ed Coal-Coke company, with prin- Petersburg. cipal offices in Pittsburg, Pa is part of the United States Steel corporaREFUSED TO TALK. tion. The cause of the explosion has hot as yet been determined. Mrs. Chadwick Declines to Answer Questions in Court. TOLD HIM TO SHOOT. Mrs. Chadwick, when placed on the Boy Kills Mother's Par- stand in the bankruptcy proceedings at amour at Her Command. Cleveland, on Wednesday, before RefSheriff Graham has arrived at Mis- eree Remington, refused at first to bo soula, Mont.,' with the entire Culber- sworn. After a consultation with her son family of Heron, under arrest. attorneys, she finally consented to take January 28, Mike Grau, a lumber- thq oath. She was then asked to state man, who was living with Mrs. Cul- her name. She refused to reply to this or any of the questions that followed. berson, was shot by Joseph, the Mrs. Chadwick sought refuge in her son of the woman, and died as an accused person, and privilege In a hospital in Spokane, Sunday she refused to answer n.ost of the night. The boy was ordered arrested questions, on the ground that what upon receipt of the news of Graus she said might tend to aid (he prosecuerimiual case i. Referee death, and Sheriff Graham left for tion of her found in her favor, alRemington Heron Sunday night. Upon reaching though he insisted, against her coun-- ; the scene of the shooting, evidence set's wishes, in making her give & was gathered showing that Mrs. Mary quasi explanation of her refusal. Culberson had told her son to shoot Senate Committee to Hear Evidence Grau, while Grau and the woman were Regarding Freight Tariffs. scuffling. Upon that evidence a charge The senate committee on interstate of murder was placed against Mrs. commerce baa agreed to report a resoCulberson, and she is now locked la lution that the committee be asking the county jail. The four children, two boys and two authorized by the senate to sit during girls, were taken to a private board- the recess of congress and take testiing house, where the boy, mony for the purpose of preparing Joseph, will be kept under surveilsome measure for the regulation of lance. No time has been set for a railroad rates. exbearing in the case, and it is not A consisting of Senpected that any charge will be placed Kean ators and Carmack, met Foraker, the against boy. and drafted the resolution. It provides that the full committee or a quorum, BIG FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS. of the committee meet Immediately Twelve Squares in Ruins, Lots Being after the present session of congress and thereafter at the convenience of Estimated at $5,000,000. the committee, and report to the next Fire Involving millions of dollars session, loss in property and that strikes a ADAMS MADE UTTER FAILURE. serious, If temporary, blow at the Immense export trade of New Orleans, This la Only the Opinion of Peabody, swept the river front In New Orleans, However. Sunday night, and wiped out the vast The brief of James H. Peabody, who freight terminals of the Illinois Cen- fa contesting the seat of Governor tral, known aa the Stuyvesant docks. Alva Adams before the legislature of Nearly a dozen squares of modern Colorado, waa filed Saturday with the wharves and freight sheds, two magasnificent grain elevators, hundreds of committee appointed by the joint loaded cars and vast quantities of sembly to hear evidence In the case. freight, Including 20,090 bales of cot- The brief Is voluminous, containing typewritten pages, and exton, were destroyed, together with a alxty-onpresses the opinion that Governor large number of small residences. Actual estimates of the losses are Adams has failed utterly to disprove Impossible to obtain, though they may the charges made In the eontestor'a petition. exceed $5,000,000. TWENTY-THRE- & The senate, sitting as a court of Impeachment for the trial of Charles Bwayne, district Judge for the northern district of Florida, on Monday acquitted him on all of the twelve articles of impeachment brought by the bouse of representatives. On none ol the articles was there even a majority for conviction, although it required two-third- il6 n- it6 Jurist of ITALIAN BRUTE STABBED WOMAN WITH HOT POKER Bill Passing Ars Not Promising. The prospects of the statehood bill dill are unpromising. As the sltua-- , tlou now stands only by unanimous eonsent can any statehood bill bo passed through the senate. In the house of representatives the fate of statehood rests practleally with half a dozen men. But In the senate any one senator may interpose with an objection and In the present crowded state of business before the senate that objection would be sufficient to prevent aa action on the bill. Knro-patkln- res-nef- Panic In a Church, panic waa caused by a Are which broke out In the Catholic church in Norfolk, Nebraska, during service on Eight hundred worshipers, Sunday. women and children, were in mostly the church when the flames burst through the first floor, and there was a rush for the exits. The priest attempted to quiet tho audience, but did not succeed In doing so until several women had fainted and a number of were Injure 1, none fatally. children The financial Iom was not groat. A Homes Plundered and Burned. Details of the recent street fighting at Baku show that thirty five persons Were killed or wounded February 20, and that on the following day the racial bitterness between the Mussel-man- s and Armenians reached a climax. Street murders were Incessant, and firing lasted ail day long. Altogether 190 people were killed or wounded. Shops were plundered and Resithe garrison was Inadequate, dences of the wealthiest Inhabitants were plundered and burned. Hard Timas in Hawaii. A dispatch from Honolulu says the Is continued prevalence of drouth to losses serious plantsugar causing ers, especially In the case of young cane. Water for jousehold purpose is being sold by tbs gallon in several districts. A serloui forest fire Is raging on the Island of Hawaii, endangering hundreds of atres. Forest Commissioner llosmer left Honolulu on Saturday for tbo Island on ths reventts cutter Rear, with the purpose of orgaAre. nizing a brigade to Ugtu Entered Feb. 21, 1902, as eecond-cln- s matter, Post otrtoo at Spanlah Fork, Utah. Act of Congress March 8, 1819. 1903. e miUiUm HUUUilia lilHlUli tLiiilii ii liu ililii mum n mg' CITY DRUG STORE JNO. J. BANKS, Prop. SENDS INFERNAL MACHINE TO PENROSE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Box Found In Hallway Contained Gunpowder and a Bottle of Nitro-Gtycerin- e. PURE AND DRUGS MEDICINES s Addressed to United States Senator PRESCRIPTIONS COMPOUNDED BY EXPERIENCED PHARMACISTS. Penrose, a small Infernal machine was found done up In an innocent- airnfMnnmrmuntwiTnmiwwfinnnnnfMinffiiwnmfWffHWTmfimwTrmMmnT looking package In a private mail box n the hallway of a building In PhilaDR. W.E. WARNER, delphia on Thursday. The box contained gunpowder and a liquid In a Office and Residence jnsk bottle, supposed to be nitro glycerine. Greatest Insurance Agency south of City Square. On portions of the wrapper of the box were pasted clippings containing the names of different corporations. On another wrapper was the Inscription: "President Roosevelt. We are not In any trust; time limited; inauguration." There were other inscriptions In the wrapper and also on the box. It Is the opinion of Captain Donaghy that the Infernal machine Is undoubtedly the work of a crank. There Is no clue to his identity. SPECIAL SESSION OF SENATE. to Called Meet at 12 on O'clock 668. 416 - UTAH Boast and Ahobiw B. Moboai, PROVO Building Telephone 21 X A. SAXEY, the Lead Twenty Years. ATTORNEY-AT-LA- Jex Lumber Sompany. 3 Conveyancer and Notary Publlo, OfUre Over Bank of , Bpunlth Pork. , Spanish Fork, Utah. ' NOTICE If you want to buy, or if you want to sell Farms or City Property of all descriptions anywhere in this AND county, see Buildingjilaterial. Hay & Produce. Bailed lohn Christianson Real Estate Agent COMPLETE LINE OP opposite Tostofflce Spanish Fork, Utah SHERWIN-WILLIAM- S PAINTS.. SPANISH FORK MEAT COMFY DEALERS IH FRESH AND CURED KEATS San Pedro, FANCY AND STAPLI GROCEEM Los Angeles 2-- QASH PRICE PAID FOR HIGHEST Lake R. R. Salt PELTS. jtlDESytNO LORENZO THOMAS DIES BY HIS OWN HAND. mnioxiBLi Salt Lake Druggist Blows Out His Brains With Pistol. W. A. Nelden, president of the Drug company, one of the most widely known business men in Salt Lake City, committed suicide Thursday as the result of nervous prostration brought on by Involved financial affairs. Mr. Nelden left his room, , atwhile Mrs. Nelden was tending to some i his affairs which were to be settled during the day. He went to the attic of his home on First South, corner of Twelfth East street. There be placed the muzzle of a revolver In his mouth and pulled the trigger. No one heard the noise of the shot or the falling body. Nel-de- One block north of Bank, n WAR. TIME TABLE Nort- h- m arrscr sovimbir, rd- - FLIRT WITH WHITE GIRLS. to Prevent Hoosier Misses From Marrying Filipinos. Senator Davis of Monroe and Croon counties has Introduced a bill in the Indiana ecnate to prevent white! marrying persons having more than Filipino blood. Tho bill grew out of a situation at Bloomington, where Fllplno students are attending the state university and are flirting with white girl. Fucrnts of these girls are fearful of marrlagea and have requested tho passage of the bill. Southward p. m a os sttst T 00 06 PORTRAIT AnTIST Studio la Mortal! bundles, Mate (treat. Open every day from to . m. U1I I p. m. Wortmen-sht- p Pee ead materiel fuerantoed rreaeleoo eed New York etylae. BpatUAFerfe, T0 2 IS B. H. BROWN, a w Llvory 26 8 00 a. m. t oo w Juab p. m. 19 I T IS . m. m. to oo p. m. I as Milford Newboue Celleutea p, m. 8 S so p. I So p. w. m. No, tend 4 mkee dlreet eonnnotiont tSelt Lake for ell point eeal end north Tretne vlnOropon Short Line. Aient. Avsut. Moo. Dl.trlot Peasnnger N. Depot Ticket Agent. K. W. UII.I.STT. Uenerel Paaaenfor J. I mrntfgtmm tt T Pstki, od Stable. Hack Meets all Trains 'rnoxi No. It. , Clfk ipaalsh Fork, Spanish Fork Co-Operat- ive TIME TABLE Arrival end depertor of train from Depot: Suflnsvlli ProvoAult Lake No. e.ateed went ,,.6.06em end ell Provo Kelt Leke Mo. 29 PorSprlngvill en I il ..6 42 p m end ell polote eod SuJto. B For Eureke, eur City 9:40p m Kurake. M in moth end till- Mo. te-r- or Institution,- Fnr et General Merchandises I:l6em vertdty Onnneotlone marie In Ogdee Onto depot with train of Southern PeolBo end Oregon Short Lloo. offers ffr citoicr. of FAST THROUGH TRAINS DAILY n DISTINCT SCENIC RODTES AMD THREE Flour, Grain O and Harness, Pulmen Peter end ordlnery Sleeplef eere to City, St, Louie end tie. For rat, folder ri MrlM LA. io . Inqntra .' nHoAN.Tiakot Afeni, A. U. P. u.i Kelt Laid Cits, BENTON. Produco. Uaanfaoturers of Omehe. Keneee fnvr, ghloepo wtvbvet Ohen,. Fra Iteellntn Chelr Cera: Pro1ty Azouralonei a perfeet Dtutnf Cnr Her - Dealers in 11 I one-eight- h Utah. G. O. EIRIKSSON, toot. jfTl Sud- denly Become Silent The emperor of Russia has elected to continue tbo war. Ills position Is absolutely firm, and the German court bas been advised In that sense. The war will be pressed with the utmost energy, the domestic situation now being within control ot tho authorities. Those who have advised peace and suggested Inquiries for Japan's terms by tho French and British government are for the present silent, and are likely to remnln so, unless something extraordinary shakes the emperor's resolution. - Ipaalsh Fork, down-town- BUI Utah. ATTOKNirS-AT-LA- K eight writ ua port SATIS. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By the president: John Hay, Secretary of State. Those Who Advised Peace Have Baolst. ..INSURANCE.. twenty-ninth- . CZAR WILL CONTINUE C. Spaelili fork, BAGLEY& MORGAN Firs, Life, Accident, Ntallh and Plate Clan the executive; Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the senate of the United States to convene at the capltol In the city of Washington, on the 4th day of March next at 12 o'clock noon, ot which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States at Washington, the 23rd day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and of the Independence of the United Statea the one hundred Office el CREBR BLILDINO. HUM oelle enewered from Jemea liobertsoa'i. Independent Insurance Agency. In Utah, DR. C. T. KENDALL, S. Academy Are. PROVO, March 4th. The president has issued a proclamation convoking the senate In special session at 12 o'clock noon on March 4 next to receive such communications as may be made by the The proclamation folexecutive. lows: By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation: Whereas, public interests require that the senate of the United Statea be convened at 12 o'clock on the 4th day of March next, to receive such communications as may be made by Spanish Fork, W. H. RAY, Phone Boots and O Shoes. JOHN ."LIES, 8c pt Ipaalsk frk. CUh. |