The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1902-08-22
NEWS SUMMARY.

Cholera is increasing in Cairo, Egypt,
aud in the provinces.
Puerto Cabello. Venezuela. has no,
been captured by revolutionists.
The woman franchise bill lras passed
both houses Of the New south Wales
legislature.
II is said that France has rejected
Russia's proposal for a fresh sugar
conference.
The three Boer generals, Dewet, De
larey and Botha, were given warm well
come In London.
During torch light procession at
Antwerp the dress Of woman caught
Gre aud She was burned to death.
The damage 20 German harvests pro.
duces the belief that there will be q
large import OF Russian grain into
Germany.
An American Express agent in Ken.
lucky town alleges he was robbed Of
sss,OO0 lie is under arrest charged
with conspiracy.
In a fight among Kiowa indians near
Auardarko, Oklahoma, Frank Basin. a
sub.chlef, has been killed by a faction
led by his mother.in.law.
The arrival at The Hague soon Of the
Boer generals, Botha, Dewet aud De
larey' is expected to put a check to
the recently renewed anti-British prop.
uganda.
Attorney General Taylor, Of Indiana.
has decided that Governor Durbin has
no right to interfere with boxing con.
tests, but that local police officers must
control them
Minister King, at Bangkok, Siam,
cabled the state department that quiet
has been restored In Siam aud that
the troops are in control. lie says
American interests are secure.
With the signing Of the scale Of the
Merchants Coal company Of 1unneltou.
w. Va, II is thought that the miners
strike In that district has come 20
an end. The miners got all they asked
for.
The government OF Paraguay has
formally recognized tile republic OF
Cuba, aud has accepted the United
States Consul Mt Ascension, the capital,
ms the representative OF Cubn In Para.
quay.
A serious peasant riot has occurred
at Palamonia. Sicily, where great dis
tress prevails. One soldier was killed
In an encounter with the rioters and
several soldiers aud peasants were
wounded.
In Custer City, $. d., Roy Streeter, a
colored lightweight pugllist, was shot
and killed on the street by another
puRilist, John German, better known
as kid" Hogan The men renewed
an old quarrel
Five men, supposed to be the escaped
Tennessee couvicts, have been euconn-
tered twenty miles north Of Florence,
Ala, by Deputy sheriff White OF
waynesboro, Tenn. White exchanged
shots with the men.
Negpikao. formerly chief consul at
Singapore Straits settlement, has &C
quired the opium monopoly Of Canton
by undertaking to contribute $1,000.
600 annually toward the indemnity
China is paying the ro-ers.
The viceroy Of szechuan reports
that imperial troops attacked the rebel
headquarters at luehawun, China, Au-
gust ie. One thousand rebels were
killed and their leader, Tong Lu Hung,
was captured and executed.
Al Walnut Grove, Lake county, Miss.
Charles johnson, colored, was lynched
by a party OF citizens for making an
assault ON u young white woman.
johnson was taken from officers who
were carrying him TO prison.
In San Francisco United States Judge
Dehaven has decided that persons
whose relatives have been killed on the
high seas by drowning or otherwise
have no legal redress for damages
against steamship company.
In Houston, Texas, eleven white
men are in jail as a result OF battle
between whites and negroes at the
Creosote works, seven miles
from Houston. One negro was killed
aud one white man aud one negro
wounded.
The wage scale committee OF the. dis
trict mine workers ana the Coal Creek
aud Jellieo, Tenn, operators have
reached an agreement. An advance OF
~ cents ton on screened coal and
cent ton on run OF mine was granted
by the operators.
The agricultural position in the
whole OF the Bombay presidency is eN-
tremely critical The rainfall has been
80 deficient that young crops are with
ering, and unless there should be album
dant rain soon the autumn haryests