The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1902-02-07
NEWS SUMMARY.

St Petersburg
A covering OF two inches OF solid ice
extends over the entire southern por.
tion Of West Virginia.
A strong detachment OF Colombian
troops has reached Colon from Pan
anna Everything is quiet
South Carolina and Mississippi are
the only two states now in which the
negroes outnumber the whites.
General chaffee still hopes that by
the end Of February the island Of
samar alone will remain not paciGed.
General Pinto. with 5000 men. hoe
marched from Cali to Bogota to rein.
force the government troops at the
capital.
j. Santos zelaya was Saturday In
augurated president OF Nicaraguan
congress and a large assemblage OF
citizens
Despite contrary dispatches from
Washington II is said that samuel Par
ker has been offered the position Of
governor Of Hawaii.
The sum Of nearly 1900, 900 kroner
was sent by postal orders from persons
In the United States to friends In Nor
way during the year 1901.
All danger Of u flood in the Ohio val
ley has passed, the cold weather hay.
ing checked the rise In the Ohio river,
which Is now falling rapidly.
A blizzard that promises TO be the
severest In years prevails throughout
Nova Scotia, having been proceeded by
n wind Of almost hurricane force.
The resolution for the investigation
OF the cause leading TO the explosion
at Lost Creek mine, by which twenty
two miners were killed, has passed the
Iowa house.
Montreal is he'd tightly in the grasp
OF the worst storm Of the season, that
has driven the street-railway compan-
les practically out OF business. Many
railway trains are snowbound.
II Is said the geological survey has
promised to send a geologist to the
Thunder Mountain district to study
the formation Of the ore and to report
upon the fabulous wealth Of its lodges.
The State department is disposed to
attribute the failure Of the negotia-
tlons looking TO the release OF Misa
Stone to the newspapers. The recent
arrangements for her release have
completely miscarried.
Private advices from Manila received
in San Francisco state that there are
over 100000 cigars on the way from
the Philippines to tbs country. The.
only tax ON these goods under present
laws is internal revenue.
Two men, Michael Collins and John
J. Kearns, were burned to death on
the Kidd ranch at Undine, -four teen
miles west Of stockton, Cal, In Ore
which destroyed the clubhouse OF
Williams, Bixler & johnson.
DR.. faeundo Mutis Duran, former
governor OF Panama, has left for
Washington TO act as special commits
sioner TO assist Minister Silva In re-
gard to the necessary treaty arrange
mepts In the event OF the purchase Of
the Panama canal by the United
States
A Michigan Central train coming
from Maclinaw City was held up at
0rayling, Mich, for three hours.
There was case of smallpox on
board, and the health officers would
not allow the train to proceed until
every person on board had been vac
cinated.
Alvin Charles, member OF proml-
nent family In Maryvllle, Mo-, aged 05
years, has been lodged IN Jail on the
charge OF embezzlement OF $1,000, funds
belonging to the local Odd Fellows
lodge, OF which he was for thirteen
years secretary. Charles is a justice
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Fireman r. Stronaeh, OF La JuutA,
Colo, was instantly killed at bridge
over the Little Colorado river near
winHlow, N. NJ. While leaning far
out OF the cab TO make some observa-
tions on his engine his head was stuck
by an iron girder and he was thrown
from the cab.
Roland Seller. II years old, en-
ployed as clerk by the Langley &
Michael's company, was fonnd dead In
his bed In his room at 1910 Jones
street, San Francisco. He had been
suffocated by gas escaping from an
open burner.
In Valley, FEB, Mat Rubin, a sa-
loonkeeper and a number OF citizens
hada fight with two burglars who had
broken into the saloon, in which both
OF the burglars were shot, one Of
them, George Myers, probably fatally
The other escaped.
The story originating In Vienna,
that Germany would buy the Philip
pine islands from the United States