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Show BISHOP SPAULDING KILLED. Head of Episcopal Church in Utah Run Down by Automobile. Salt Lake City. -Bishop Franklin Spencer Spalding, head of the Episcopal Epis-copal church in Utah, was almost instantly in-stantly killed Friday night when he was struck by an automobile driven hy Miss Adrienne King, the 18-year-old daughter of Judge William H. King. After striking Bishop Spalding, the heavy Lozier touring car swerved across to the south side of the street and crashed into a steel trolley tower. Miss King fainted after setting the emergency brakes of the machine in her effort to avoid hitting the bishop. When the car crashed into the tower she was thrown against the steering wheel and injured about the chest. Bishop Franklin Spencer Spalding, son of the Right Rev. John Franklin and Lavina D. Spalding, was born in Erie, Pa., March 13, 1865. iBishop Spalding began his church work in charge of All Saints church in Denver, Colo., in 1891. The following fol-lowing year he was appointed princi-pay princi-pay of Jarvis Hall, a boys' school, at Montclair, Colo., where he remained until 1896. He was ordained deacon In 1891 and priest in 1892, in both instances by his father, who was then bishop of Colorado. In 1904 he was consecrated missionary mis-sionary bishop of Salt Lake and in 1907 the title was changed to missionary mission-ary bishop of Utah. |