The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-03-19
NEWS SUMMARY.

trolley cars in Los Angeles resulted
In the serious injury of seven pas
sengers.
King Alfonso has signed DEGREES
ratifying the arbitration convention
between Spain and Great Britain and
Spain and France.
A st. Petersburg dispatch declares
that the emperor will assume com.
mand Of the troops in the far cas-,
after the first important engagement
A shooting, the result OF a politicr'
row, occurred at Kansas City, Martin
Martin being fatally wounded by Cash
WEIGH, a deputy sheriff and ward
worker.
Mrs. Eliza Weische. the wife Of
Samuel weische, Slavsh miner, re
siding near Bradenville, Pa, last
week gave birth to bankruptcies. They
are all boys.
According to dispatch from St
Petersburg dated February %, Gen.
eral Sakharoff had been appointed to
act as minister of war in the absence
Of General Kuropatkin.
Serious rioting between TOO Ger.
mans and 200 Czaech students oc.
Cured in Vienna. Forty students
we're wounded. The police had din.
Guilty in restoring order.
President Roosevelt has fixed tbs
salaries OF the isthman canal com
m,ssioners at $4,000 per year, and
in addition thereto SIS per day while
they are on the isthmus.
Colonel William Griffith, the Los
Angeles millionaire who last Septem-
Der shot his wife in the eye, has been
sentenced to two years In the peniten
tiary and to pay n fine Of $4,000.
About seventy-five prominent Iowa
Democrats held conference at Des
Moines last week and launched
boom for General Nelson A. Miles for
the Democratic nomination for presi-
dent.
Mrs. Rebecca Mayo, aged 90. the
last but one surviving widow Of
revolutionary war soldier, is dead at
Newbern. Va. Mrs. Mayo was mar
rled in 1888 to Captain stephen Mayo.
who was then rs years old.
Shep Griffin, a negro, is in Jail at
Meridian, Miss, having been taken
from certain persons in Kemper coun-
ty, who, it Is charged, held him in
enforced servitude. There is much
excitement over the case.
A Japanese shipping agent who was
arrested Monday on suspicion OF sup
plying Russians with information, has
committed suicide in the military
prison at Tien Tsin. II is said several
other Japanese are under suspicion.
Rather than coutnenance in church
membership a man engaged IN the
liquor business, the Rev. Edwin NJ.
Martin, assistant pastor OF the Lewis
Avenue Congregational church in
Brooklyn. has handed in his resigna.
ton.
The report comes from Germany
that Colonel Lieutwin, governor OF
German southwest Africa, has asked
for reinforcements to the number OF
800 men and two mounted batteries
He has found the Hereros to be more
numerous and better armed than he
supposed.
The second annual report Of the
United States Steel corporation, dated
March list, shows the net earnings
for the year, after deducting expendi-
lures for maintenance and interest on
bonds and fixed charges Of subsidiary
companies, were $lO9.171,15 com.
pared with $l33, 3OS .763 in 1902.
By direction Of the president the
new military post under construction
at Haines, Alaska, will be known as
Fort William H. Seward. in memory
OF the services of the secretary OF
state in negotiating the purchase OF
Alaska
Abraham Newman, an old and
wealthy money lender and diamond
dealer, has been found dead in his
office on the Bowery New York City
Robbery had been committed, but
whether or not It followed murder Is
question.
Yielding to the pressure of public
opinion, the commissioner Of police
has prohibited colored persons. In
Guiding coolies, from using the side
walks of johannesburg, The better
class of colored persons are exempted
from this ruling,
A daring and clever feat has been
performed by Japanese woman who
escaped from Dalny. by means which
are still shrouded in secrecy. 1t Is