The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-27
NEWS SUM MARY.

u Sdt lOsS VI ME anu property.
Seven people, all colored, were IN
stantly killed by the explosion OF a
boiler in a sawmill in James City, N. q.
The striking street railway en-
ployees at Bloomington ILL.,. have in
augurated competitive automobile
system.
The war feeling in Colombia is dying
out, and there is a general desire TO
allow the Panama secession to pass
without a disastrous war.
Mayor Gaus of Albany, N. Y. has re.
voked the license of the Empire the.
atTe and ordered radical changes In
the other three theaters of that city.
Mrs William II. Crocker of San
Francisco has given $25 900 for archae-
illogical work in Old Mexico. Excava-
tions are now being made at Cayocan,
Mexico.
The latest reports from the relief
centers in Macedonia show that there
are now 100000 persons who are home
less and without means of support for
the winter.
The monthly statement OF the collec-
tions of internal revenue show that
the total collections for December.
1903, we're s2O,577 $780, decrease for
the month of S16G,061.
Lewis Radford. negro. was
lynched at Guthrie, Ky, by a mob OF
about forty negroes, for assauting
and killing Priscilla Frozell, eolored.
Radford admitted the crime.
Strong indications that there will be
no war between Panama and Colombia
have been observed by Bishop Jun
quito, who has just returned to Pan
ANA from Cartagena and Barranquilla.
The Iroquois club TO which promi-
nent Chicago Democrats belong, IN
preparing to boom General Nelson A..
Miles as the man to nominate for
president on the Democratic ticket this
year.
Lee Turner, proprietor of the GUAR
terhouse," who was charged with kill
ing Deputy Sheriff Charles Cecil in the
famous "Quarterhouse" battle in Ken
lucky. has been acquitted by the grand
jury.
The total number of deaths in the
Alabama tornado Is thlrty-eight. six
Of whom are white. The number of
injured is estimated at sixty-hve
twelve fatally. Citizens OF Tuscaloosa
are caring for the destitute.
AS result Of the breaking of gov
ernor belt. allowing an immense fly
wheel TO run away and burst In a rail
mill at Johnstown. Pa, three men are
dead. three are fatally injured and
six are more or less severely wounded.
The jury in the case OF Martha u.
Bowers, on trial In San Francisco on
the charge of numbering her husband.
Martin Bowers, brought in verdict
OF munrder In the first degree and
fixed the penalty at imprisonment for
life.
The state department is informed
of the intention OF the authorities in
control at San Domingo City TO main
tain blockade of all Of the other ports
OF the republic, to become effective for
vessels from the United States Febru-
airy LIST.
Advices from Somailland say that
Kenna's Somali mounted infantry sur
prlsed body OF the Mad Mullah's
forces on January II in the vicinity OF
Kilinaad, killing fifty spearmen and
J capturing 5000 camels and thousands
Of sheep.
Ned Howard Fowler. leading man of
, the Empire stock company at Column
bus. o., shot and killed himself in the
. presence OF his wife, Laura Nelson
Hall. whom he married recently. Ner-
yousness Is assigned as the cause, duo
to overwork.
+. William Balsamo, an Italian, has
4. been murdered in a little grocery
3 store in Buffalo, N. " OF which he
, was the proprietor. At first the Malta
/. was suspected, but later four boys.
D ranging In age from 10 to II years.
:. were arrested.
: About thirty persons were drowned
i and three hotels and one hundred and
4 seventy-six houses destroyed as the re-
. suit OF burstj' reservoir at Bleam.
a fontein, Orange diver Colony. Hun
! dreds OF persons have been rendered
- homeless and destitute.
or all the articles for use in the re-
ligious services OF the Central church
taken 10 the Ironnols theatre the day