The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-11-14
NEWS SUMMARY.


One hundred and fifty houses were
destroyed by fire which visited Je.
renie. Haiti.
The estate Of Sir Michael Herbert
late ambassador to the United States.
was last week sworn by his wodow at
$S9,620.
Harold Hanie, the young dry goods.
clerk who turned holdmp in Seattle.
has been sentenced to six years in the
penitentiary.
twenty-five cases of Asiatic cholera
occurred In Vigan, the capital Of o.
locos Sur, Luzon, last week. Twenty.
one deaths are reported.
Prompted by jealousy, a japanese
cook named Ogawa shot and killed a
Japanese woman named Emma No
ruma at Aberdeen, Wash.
There have been twenty.nine deaths
from the plague at Rio Janeiro dur.
ing the past week. There are 100
plague cases under treatment.
Angus McPhail, a saloon keeper Of
Everett, Wash, who murdered Q
business rival last May. has been con-
victed, the jury recommending hang.
ing.
A dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria
confirms the reports that the sultan Of
Turkey may, within q few days, issue
an trade proclaiming general amnesty
for the Macedonians.
Four children, playing with q can
Of nitro lycerine, at Bucks Run.
Ohio, struck it with stone. and all
were insanity killed. the bodies be-
ing terribly mutilated.
During meeting of the Scientific
society in the Anthenaeum at Mula,
in the province Of Mursia, Spain, the
building collapsed. killing several per
sons and injuring twenty fatally.
Governor Peabody of Colorado set
aside the verdict of the courtmartial
which found Brigadier General John
Chase guilty of disobedience of orders
and sentenced him to discharge.
The list of dead as a result of the
fire in the Kearsarge mine at Virginia
City, Mont, now numbers eight. All
the bodies have been recovered ex
cept that of Superintendent Turner.
Six men are dead and ten others
wounded as result Of series Of ex-
plosions on the Iona island, in the
Hudson, used by the government as q
storehouse for dynamite and powder.
Cyprian Clay, 80 years old, a neph-
ew of Henry Clay. died at San
Diego, Cal, last week. He was a ma
tive Of Louisiana and came to San
Diego from Dallas, Tex, sixteen years
ago.
Nine bucks and twelve squaws Of
the party Of Sioux that killed Sheriff
Miller and Deputy Falkenburg In
Wyoming were captured on the Chey.
enne river near the South Dakota
line.
Oscar c. Simpson, son of A. B.
Simpson, one of the most prominent
men in Tucumcani, N. NJ, was shot
and instantly killed by Peter Ezra,
after a quarrel that originated at
dance.
Designers employed in the silk in
dustry at Paterson, N. j., have struck
and 1t is excepted the trouble will
spread to other cities. The designers
are the artists Of the silk trade and
their wages run up to $40 q week.
Caspar J. Ernst, st. Paul capital.
list and promoter, has been arrested
on the charge of embezzlement. It 10
charged that he has victimized mum.
Der Of Catholic priests who sent him
their private fortunes for investment
The Democratic members of the
house caucus selected Representative
John s. Williams of Mississippi as the
unanimous choice of the minority for
speaker. This action makes him the
minority leader Of the present ses-
sion.
At Naniamo, B. c., Rennie Bernard.
aged 9, shot Percy Smith, aged Q.
killing him instantly, at the Bernard
home. Rennie was exhibiting q "a
caliber rife, in which his father had
left cartridge, to several other chill
dren.
Mrs. L. Parks, living in the north
end Of Lyon county, Kans., last week
drowned herself and her infant child.
The woman bound the baby to her
breast before jumping into the river.
She is believed to have been d.
mented.
A press dispatch announces that the