The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-07-02
NEWS SUMMARY.


Heavy wind, rain and hailstorms
have seriously damaged the wheat
crop in central Kansas.
Most of the collieries in the anthra-
cite region in Pennsylvania will close
for the first five days in July.
The Portland mine at Victor, Colo,
has resumed work with a non.union
force, as ordered by the board Of d.
rectors
treasurer Of the General Slocum relief
committee a contribution of $500 TO
the relief fund.
Nelson p. Benson, a hardwood nm
Usher OF Kansas City, aged IS, fatally
wounded Miss Mary Dove, aged 35.
and then killed himself.
The total attendance at the Worlds
fair for the week ending June 25, was
$40, ASS, an increase of over $4,000
over the previous week.
Preparations have been completed
for the national encampment at Am
erican Lake. Wash, which is to ex-
tend from July 7 to July 81.
A strike of $4,000 persons en-
ployed in New York City in the cloth
ing trades has been called. Most of
the tailors involved are employed by
middlemen or contractors.
The Rosetufu ferry boat, while
crossing the Khoper river at st.
Petersburg, sunk with all on board.
| Sixty bodies have been recovered
and 100 persons are missing.
That the Inflated steamer Slocum
had no life preservers aboard less
than nine years old was admitted by
counsel for the Knickerbocker Steam
boat company at the inquest.
A dispatch to the London News
| from Lisbon says that punitive ex-
petition Is about to be dispatched to
Portuguese West Africa in conse-
quence Of the threatening attitude of
the natives there.
As Perdicaris and Marley have
been returned to their hoine in Tan
| gier, the navy department has cabled
orders to Rear Admiral Chadwick to
proceed on his cruise according to the
original programme.
| Emil L. Johnson, u miner, who was
deported from Cripple Creek by the
military, committed suicide in Dem
yer. He was respondent because his
wife and two small children were left
destitute in Cripple Creek.
Vice-Consul John Tyler at Teheran
has notified the state department
that at the end of May there were
$50 cases of cholera at Sultanabad,
which is the principal center of the
Persian carpet trade with America.
Consul General Maxwell, in a cable
gram from Santo Domingo, informs
the state department that General
Morales has been elected by congress
to the presidency, and Cacaeres to the
vice presidency. He says the revolu-
ton is ended
Secretary Taft has issued an order
making the terms of the Dingley act
as to tariff rates applicable to the
canal strip on the Isthmus of Panama.
He also Issued an order providing for
the establishment of postal offices on
the canal strip.
The delegate convention of district
No. Is, United Mine Workers of Am
erica, decided by a unanimous vote
at Pueblo that the strike in the
southern Colorado coal fields shall be
prosecuted vigorously and that the
fight shall be to a finish.
Frank Shannon, a bartender, be
cause Of his persistent proposals OF
marriage to Mrs. Bridget Lee, q
widow and proprietress of a saloon In
Brooklyn. were refused shot and
killed her. He then blew out his
brains with the same revolver.
Judge ]. T. Debolt of the First Cir
cult court of Hawaii. has sentenced
Jonah Kumalae, member of the house
of representatives and e. Johnson, a
lawyer, to Imprisonment for one year
at hard labor for conspiracy to dc
fraud the territory.
The president has refused to par
don George Clon Gusho, convicted In
Alaska of murder, and sentenced on
December 10, 1897, to Imprisonment,
for life. He is alleged to have com
mitted the murder on account of his
belief in witchcraft,
The owners of the various salmon
canneries located on Puget sound
within the confines OF the state o.
Washington, held a meeting at Bel
bingham last week, that resulted II
the organization of the Puget Soun(
Salmon association.
Two and a half inches of rain fel
in about an hour at Milwaukee, do
inc thousands pf 1pllara Of a