The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-11-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

near Newport, Ky. during the storm
on the 18th.
It is said Colombia is preparing for
war ito wipe out the indignity i'm.
posed by Panama"
Chicago street car men are still ne.
gotiating for peace, and settlement
may be reached at any time.
1t has been discovered that IL
year-old boy of Kokomo. Ind, has been
running a matrimonial bureau.
Negotiation of a treaty of peace be-
tween the rebels and the government
of President Wos Gill OF San Do
mingo has begun.
1t is reported that eighty or more
beet and cane sugar factories in Spain,
all except two or three, have just been
merged in sugar trust.
The report OF the labor commission
estimates the shortage of laborers at
241 900. of which 10000 are needed In
the mining industry alone.
The potato crop of England is fail.
ure this year. and English buyers are
already securing the continent to sup
ply the threatened deficiency.
The tallest boy in Indiana is dead
William B. Keplinger, aged IT, and
standing feet 3 inches, succumbing
to brain fever at Alexandria, Ind. on
Sunday.
Proof has been secured that Satur-
days explosion at Cripple Creek,
which killed ten men. was diabolical
plot. carefully and deliberately
planned.
The Oregon legislature will hold a
special session TO raise money for de-
fraying public expenses for which
there is no fund, owing to a defect in
the tax laws.
Samuel Gompers has been elected
president of the American Federation
of Labor by large majority, and San
Francisco selected as the place for
holding the next meeting.
Charles Wright, aged 10, has con-
fessed that he wrote the letters threat
ening to blow UP the Plaza hotel in
Chicago unless the management placed
$500 at a point he indicated.
A table just issued shows that 1854
persons, were killed and 1927 injured
on railroads during the year ended
June 80. During the previous year
2,S19 we're killed and $4,000 injured.
James Dunn, saloonkeeper OF
Sioux City, Iowa, shot and perhaps
fatally wounded his young wife be-
cause she refused to live with him,
and then shot himself, dying almost
Immediately.
Matthew Nelson, colored, after a
quarrel with his sweetheart, Tillie
Moore, also colored, shot and instantly
killed her on the streets of Bloom
ington, H., and then shot himself,
dying instantly.
Advices received here from Lloyd
minister, n. w. T., declare that the
Barr colony, composed of 100 immi-
grants from London and envtrons, is
m danger OF serious disaster because
Of lack of food.
Shippey, a lumber merchant, Sunday
night, and attempted to cut off the fin.
gers of his daughter Edith to secure
her diamond rings. The girls screams
caused the burglars to flee.
The use OF Finsen rays for the cure
of consumption is claimed to have
worked three cures that are pro
nounced permanent, and further ex
periments are said to show the ben
eflcial effects of the treatment.
The body of an unknown man, well
dressed, was found in a burning box
car attached to a Great Western train
at Hayfeld, Iowa. The man is be
,ieved to have been murdered and
the car fred to hide the crime.
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A chemist named Belchier, with
two companions, members OF wei
known families made a balloon ascen
sion from Oporto, Sunday. After
reaching a considerable height the
balloon was carried to sea, and 1t Is
feared that its occupants were
drowned.
The National Grange in session al
Rochester, N. Y, elected Aaron Jones
of Indiana national worthy master ant
]. N. Newcomb of Golden, Colo, stew
ard. The resolution favoring woman
suffrage offered was adopted after {
long discussion.
Representative Richardson OF Ten
nessee has introduced a bill TO place