The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1902-09-23
NEWS SUMMARY.

been made compulsory.
Near Covington, Va, by cave-in at
the Stack mines, four men, all colored,
lost their lives.
Business conditions iu Central Amer.
Sea, which have been depressed, are
elowly improving.
Al Belleville, Kan, two bohemian
boys, Frank Zateck and Timothy Run
dus, were killed by lightning.
There has been copious DOWNFALL
OF rain at this critical time in the ag-
ricultursl districts Of Australia
Growls from Mont Pelee are dimin-
ishing. The volcano Is still In erup-
tion, but its activity is now ihsignid-
cant
II is semi-officially stated that the
transfer of Delagoa cay, Portuguese
East Africa, to British control is immi-
nent.
Three hundred British troops have
occupied the Malay principally of
Kalanatan, French Cochin China, at
the request of the Sultan.
There have been collisions between
troops and strikers a. Guarda, near
Oporto, Portugal, during which num-
Der Of workmen were killed.
The British government has raised
the British flag on the island Of Palos,
which is near Trinidad, potwithstand-
ing the protest OF the Venezuelan gov.
eminent.
A parliamentary return issued last
week at Capetown shows that 3,437
rebels who surrendered under the
peace proclamation have been disfrau-
chised for life.
At Pawnee, Kan, r. J. Morrison, a
pioneer, was called to the door OF his
store, where he slept, and was slugged
and his throat cut from ear to ear by
an unknown assailant.
The Venezuelan govern ent has pro-
tested against the British flag being
raised on the island of Palos, over
which the Venezuelan government has
claimed It's sovereignty.
Peter Herlia, who was hanged at
Hackensact, n. j., for murder, made a
desperate fight for liberty on the way
to the gallows, and had to be carried
to the place of execution.
After an expenditure of $4,000, 900
and the sacrifice of twenty-four human
lives, the Rapid Transit subway under
construction in New York City is ex-
actly three-fifths completed.
Jesus Hernandez was killed, two
other Mexicans fatally injured and a
fourth severely hurt in premature
explosion Of blast in q construction
camp near Fort Worth, Texas.
L. Rowe, a farmer living near Bran.
don, Man, shot Thomas Law and Miss
Sherwin, because they had shot two
prairie chickens on his farm. Rowe
then suicided. Miss Sherwin may die.
Hermosillo, Mexico, military author
1ties have received word of desperate
battle between a band of thirty Yaqui
Indians and party Of Mexican farm
ers near Tomatal. Six Indians were
killed.
Two hundred gens-d'armes are scour-
ing the district around Ybbs, lower
Austria, in search Of a lunatic named
Thebold Wingate, whose robberies
terrorized the inhabitants of the To-
cality.
At Fairport, Mo-, Marion Lucas, q
young farmer, shot and probably IA
tally wounded Maude Chisam, aged l6.
They had just returned from drive
when Lucas, drawing a revolver, fred
four shots at the girl.
In Wichita, Kan, when Tom Diffen-
dorfer, convicted of burglary, was sem
fenced to the penitentiary for ten
years, he turned to the judge and said'
"May the curse of God rest upon you,
you bald-headed tyrant."
More than 900 of the leading resi-
dents of the Danish West India island,
including merchants, planters and
householders, have petitioned the Dan
ish Ministry to expedite the transfer
of the islands to the United States.
Both McGoveIn and Corbett have
left their forfeit OF Sc 700 in the hands
of Mr.. Laybertson of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, and have made verbal
agreement to fight in December before
the club Offering the largest purse.
Secretary Root has issued instruc-
tions to reduce the transport service
between San Francisco and Manila to
one ship each month, such sailings To
be on the first of each month. Hereto
fore two transports have sailed each
month.
Peter Reminski, a Georgetown miner
who applied for work at the Lehigh 4