The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-01-02
NEWS SUMMARY.

political parties have commenced.
Morocco has accepted the invitation
for an exhibit at the st. Louis fair.
The will of Mrs. U. s. Grant divides
her property equally among her four
children.
Hadda Mullah, who caused 30 many
outbreaks on the northwest frontier of
India, died Dec. %. ,
One hundred miners were caught In
q mine fire in a Russian colliery and
but twenty escaped.
The finances of Guam are in a seri-
ous condition, as reported by the gov.
ernor of the island.
Thirty persons were killed in the
wreck OIL the Colorado & Southern
near Trinidad, Colo.
Nine people were injured in a trolley
car accident at Pittsburg, Pa, caused
by the car running away.
The strike of Illinois Central freight
handlers has been declared off and the
men have gone back to work.
Notification Of the conclusion OF an
arbitration treaty between Spain and
Uruguay is gazetted in Madrid.
Fire In the factory of the Standard
Rock Candy company in Brooklyn did
damage to the amount of 800, 600.
While coasting in st. Louis two
girls, aged Is and II. were plunged
into the Mississippi river and drowned.
In a head.on collision on the Grand
Trunk railway at Wanstead, Ontario,
five persons were killed and sixteen
injured.
The Greek steamer Parthenon, hav-
men and six passengers, Is reported
to have been lost.
A severe earthquake was expert
enced at Syracuse, Sicily, Sunday
evening. 1t was preceded by subter,
ranean rumblings.
The Association OF 300 and Shoe
Manufacturers of France a decided
to Immediately advance the scale Of
prices for footwear.
The secretary of state is preparing
y suitable response to a special mes.
sage to the president from the dow.
ager empress of China.
At Springville, Ala, Professor Jacob
Forney Of the state university was &C.
cidentally killed while shooting spar.
rows with a parlor rife.
John u. Rockefeller is said to be one
of the chief stockholders of the billion
dollar gas company that has secured
the contract to light Paris.
The warships of the allied powers
are using searchlights to watch the
coasts of Venezuela. Forty vessels are
detained at La Guayra.
Robbers dynamited the home of Rob-
ert Floyd Of Warrington. W. Va Mr..
Floyd was instantly killed and Mrs.
Floyd and a servant girl seriously In
1ured.
Secretary Root has decided that It
was impracticable for General Chaffee.
General Smith and others to go to the
Philippines to testify at the Glenn
courtmartial.
Judge Samuel j.. Clarke, who led an
overland expedition to Colorado in
1S49, and said to be the last survivor
Of the first legislature of that state.
Is dead In Geneva, N. Y.
James Peterson, a widower. aged
b2, and his daughter. aged Is. were
found dead at their home in Racine,
Wis, having been asphyxiated by coal
a escaping from a stove.
Several alleged anarchists who were
refused admission into the United
States have arrived at Genoa on the
way to their homes. They have been
placed under police surveillance.
It is said that the mob which
lynched Montgomery Cooley at Pitts
burg, Kan, for the murder Of a police
man, hanged the wrong man, as 1t was
Godley's brother who committed the
crime.
After spending Christmas pleasantly
with her family, Mrs. Ella Sweetland
of st. Louis killed herself by shooting.
She had expressed a fear of paralysis,
and it is believed brooding over this
prompted the deed.
The funeral Of Aaron Burton, the col
ored bodyguard of Colonel John f.
Mosby, the well known confederate
cavalry leader. has been held at the
home of his daughter in Brooklyn.
Burton was 80 years old.
When Mr.. Marconi lectured at Dun
dee he gave full credit to the Scotch