The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-08-06
NEWS SUMMARY.

IL Is hHnOunCeu lndI inc DOleTluah
ers' strike on the Southern Pacific has
been settled.
Spanish Honduras is on the verge
of another revolution. President Bo
nilla is maintaining martial law.
The drouth has almost destroyed tn
maize crop Of Roumania and the gov.
eminent has prohibited expectation OF
maize.
Salaries of employees at the Exposi
ton in St Louis have been cut from
to 20 per cent in an effort to curtail
expenses.
Twenty-three persons were hurt as
she result of rear.end collision be
tween two trolley cars near Noting
ham, Ohio.
In a freight wreck on the Southern
railway at Patton's Mill, Tenn,
caused by spreading rails, five persons
were injured. two seriously.
Thomas n. Watson of Georgia has
decided to accept the nomination for
president recently rendered him by
the national Populist convention.
According to the schedules of the
estate of the late William c. Whitney,
which were filed in New York City
last week, the estate is estimated at
$21. 1884 ,101.
The hop crop of Sonoma county,
Cal, this year is placed at 10000
bales, conservative estimate, and
considerable increase over the pre-
vious season.
The three plants of the Interna.
tional Harvester company at Chicago
closed down for an indefinite period
and $4,000 workmen will be thrown
out of employment.
A newspaper says that within the
last few days Russia has made con
tracts for nearly 100000 tons of Welsh
coal, which is supposed to be for the
Vladivostok squadron.
Russia has expressed her pleasure
at being able to accept the offer OF
the United States to take part in the
protection of the seals at the Kom
mander islands during the war
In one OF the fiercest battles ever
witnessed in San Francisco Battling
Nelson of Chicago on the Goth defeat
ed Eddie Hanlon of San Francisco,
the end coming in the nineteenth
round.
Isaac V. Barnum. inventor OF the
hemming attachment for sewing ma.
chimes and who is said to have pos.
sessed fortune of 100000 few
years ago, died in poverty last week
in Brooklyn.
during which he continually wept and
prayed, Frank Benedetto, who muir
dered his wife during a fit of jealousy
committed suicide in his cell at the
county Jail in Chicago.
William Pickens, a negro who grad
uated with high honors at Yale q
month ago, has just been advised Of
his election to membership in the PHI
Beta Kappa society. ne is the only
negro belonging to the society
The Russian statement that vessels
OF the volunteer fleet hereafter viii
not be permitted to operate for wal
purposes is regarded in Turkish OIL
cial circles as settling the question OF
their passage through the Dardanelles
Forest fires in the ella forest re
serve, Arizona, which have ragged fol
the past two months, defying all eff
forts OF forest rangers and devastating
an area of fifteen square miles of fine
timber have been put out by heavy
rains.
Three Mexican prisoners charged
with numbering and robbing American
prospectors in Sonora have escaped
town In Sonora, opposite Douglas
Ariz. 1t is said woman liberated
them.
James Barrett, foreman of a gane
Of pipe layers in Derby Conn.
crawled into a 24-inrh pipe and, wher
he did not come forth after two hour!
time, was rescued by his men, wher
it was found he had become hopeless
ly insane.
A Paris dispatch says the Baroness!
de Roques and her daughter, Mrs
Maybrick, complain bitterly of thu
persistent efforts of the press to OBJ
tain information concerning thei
movements, which they are determined
not to give.
From January to July 26 inclusive
77,S25,SG6 Japanese yen have been re
, ceived at the United States mint II
: San Francisco and converted int
, money for the Philippine islands. TIL
aggregate amount in American none,
is s3S ,912,033.