The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-03-24
NEWS SUMMARY.

Sankey, the nOted evangelist, nus
lost his eyesight.
General Funston Is to be sent to
Alaska to investigate military con IL
lions there.
Battles are reported to be daily Of.
fairs between the Liberal and Conser-
vative armies in Honduras.
The Kansas legislature adjourned
Friday, after being in session ten days
over the constitutional limit.
Tho London Times predicts that
there are breakers ahead for the bust
ness world of the United States.
The reciprocity treaty with the Unit
ed States was approved by the Cuban
senate by sixteen votes against i've.
The Venezuelan revolutionists claim
they now hold all the eastern ports OF
Venezuela from the Orinoco down to
Rio Chico.
The strike on the Canadian Pacific
IL extending. The freight handlers and
clerks at Winnipeg to the number Of
$50 are out.
The Missouri senate has passed the
bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes
and cigarette paper to children under
IS years Of age.
A pet cat last week aroused Penn.
sylvania family from their slumbers
and saved them from cremation In
their burning house.
Report Of the American Tract 80
ciety shows that wonderful work has
been done in past years in spreading
gospel to the world at large.
The sultan Of Morocco has recently
purchased an estate in England, and
has deposited q large treasure Of gold
and Jewels in q London bank.
Thomas Byrnes, one of the men Ar.
rested in the recent raid on "get-rich.
quick" concerns in New York, has been
sentenced to a years Imprisonment.
August Krauss, the wealthy farmer
living near st. Louis, who killed the
wife and six children with sledge
hammer, is dead from self-inflicted
wounds.
At Mcpherson, Kans., DR.. B. Rayno,
convicted Of shooting Maude Holmes,
with whom he was in love, has been
sentenced to a year and half in the
penitentiary.
A resolution was introduced In the
Kansas senate last week recommend.
ing that when the battleship Kansas
Is launched the christening shall be
made with water instead Of wine.
The Caribbean squadron, under com.
mand of Admiral Coghlan, has
been ordered to Honduras, where the
revolution Is assuming serious proper
lions, to protect American interests.
After q series of skirmishes between
the government troops and the la.
drones in Rial province, Luzon, the
ladrones have been badly scattered.
Many of their leaders were captured.
Considerable excitement prevails at
Wynne, Ark, over an exposure Of an
alleged gang of white cappers, and
eleven white men are under arrest,
charged with the killing Of q private
detective.
Advices from Obbia, Somaliland, say
that during the recent fight between
the followers of the Mad Mullah and
the Abyssinian forces cooperating
with the British, the former lost q
thousand men.
The British postofiice authorities
have decided to remove the grievance
Of the Marconi company by connecting
the wireless telegraph station at Pol.
hu, Cornwall, with the nearest regular
| telegraph station.
w. w. Turney of FL Paso was elect.
ed president of the Texas Cattle-Rais'
ers' association by unanimous vote.
The other officers were also chosen by
reclamation. Jerry Simpson addressed
the convention in typical style.
William Crozier, editor of the Manila
American, who, with reporter Of the
paper, was arrested March on the
charge of libeling General Davis, com
mander of the American troops, has
been convicted, but not sentenced.
The mayor of an Ohio town last
week ordered that the first man found
| drunk be arrested by the police; he
spent the night in the drunk house,
having been seen staggering around
the streets after he issued the order.
A bill has passed the Missouri leg.