The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-03-27
NEWS SUMMARY.

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The state of Missouri is considering
the erection of new $4,000, 900 capitol
building.
Chicago police have captured Paris
criminal, who is said to have got away
with $4,000.
Five boys we're playing on a raft at
Chant, I. T., when It capsized and they
were drowned.
A broncho ran amucK in New York
last week and tried to break into the
Waldorf-Astoria.
A Cincinnati planning mill collapsed
last week. killing two men and injur-
ing twelve others.
Three Rhode Island young women
were run down by passenger train
and instantly killed.
Famine has appeared In the north
ern provinces of Japan, and thousands
Of people are starving.
Two big passenger steamers crashed
into each other on Long Island sound
and six lives were lost.
1t is reported that treaty Of peace
has been signed between the Uru-
guayan government and the rebels.
The Soufriere volcano, on the island
of st. Vincent, Is very active, and is
discharging dense clouds of smoke.
A Kentucky grand jury has returned
an indictment against man who went
to church while suffering from small
pox.
Advices have been received that the
war in Uruguay was brought on by the
unpopularity Of the new president OF
that country.
An old paper, found at Pottsville,
Pa, may liberate three young men
who were sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for burglary.
Roughly estimated, the 10 per cent
Increase granted the Pennsylvania
miners by the strike commission will
amount to nearly 100000.
The dowager empress has ordered
an appropriation of half million taels.
to be made for the Chinese represen.
tation at the St. Louis exposition.
The sultan of Turkey has ordered
that the sister Of the khedive be kid
mapped and taken to Constantinople, to
be punished for renouncing her faith.
The private levee protecting the
Hamp Davis place in Issaquena coun-
ty, Miss, gave way Sunday, flooding
thousands of acres Of cultivated land.
Joseph Leonard is dead at his home
In Brooklyn as the result of a dose Of
chloride of potash administered to him
In beer by his wife in mistake for
salts.
A st. Louis Judge has decided that
the widow of fraternal lodge mem
Der who has failed to pay his dues
cannot enforce the payment of life in
surance.
Statistics published by the bureau Of
insular affairs shows that there has.
been a great increase in the revenues
from the Philippine islands during the
past year.
Ole Olson, who killed his daughter
with a butcher knife because she in
tended to marry contrary to his
wishes, was hanged at Atlsin, Mimi.
last week.
Carlos Ezeta, ex-president of the re-.
public Of Salvador, has died at Mazat-
Ian. Mexico, in exile, poor and almost
friendless. Governor Canedo paid the,
expense of his burial.
During the coming visit OF the car
and emperor to Rome there will be
hundreds OF detectives disguised as
nuns and priests to protect the rulers
from surprises by anarchists.
Henry Waterman, formerly post-
master of Millbury. Mass, who claimed
the distinction of having issued the
FIRST postage stamp used in this coun-
try, is dead in Woonsocket, r. l., at
the age Of sc.
j. B. Sitsenstratter of London has
signed contract with the Mexican
government to provide Mexico City
with a modern system of underground
telephones. The new system will also
utilize the federal telegraph wires for
long distance service to the remotest
parts of the republic
During the rioting at Coimbra, Por-
tugal, caused by the refusal of the in
habitants to pay their taxes, and which
resulted In three persons being killed.
mob attacked the courts of Justice.
broke up the furniture and stoned the
troops.
The steamer Marlposa, from the Sa.
moan islands, brings further particu.
lars of the terrihIa bur,;ooa -,