The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-01-13
NEWS SUMMARY.

Albany, N. Y, hackdrivers havs
gone on a strike and much inconvent
ence, especially to undertakers, has
ensued.
II is announced that Great Britain
has agreed to the Anglo-Itaian arbi.
tration treaty, which will be signed
in Rome.
Charles Foster, former secretary of
the treasury and former governor o,
Ohio. is dead, from an attack of pa.
ralysis.
The health officers of Lincoln, Neb..
Indignantly refute the story that there
is leprosy in the Russian colony at
that place.
Three more deaths from typhoid
fever at Butler. Pa, raises the total
to ninety-eight deaths since the
scourge started.
A roitous strike of 1000 coolies for
higher wages occurred on the Ameri
can railway at Sainam, China No
one was injured.
The Argentine senate has voted the
immediate abolition of another per
cent of the customs duty, making the
total reduction 10 per cent.
In Panbasinan province, Luzon, the
rice crop will amount to three million
cavans, sufficient to supply the de-
mand OF the entire archipelago.
There are approximately 1000 cases
of typhoid fever in Montreal, Canada,
and the half dozen smaller municipal.
tiles which join it on the three sides.
Russia is negotiating with Turkey
to permit her Black sea fleet, said to
consist of seventy-six ships, to pass
through the Straits of the Darda
nelles.
1t is officially announced that peace
has been declared in Damaralsnd,
German Southwest Africa, and that
the hostile Hottentots have surren.
dered.
A record of loss by fire in the Unit.
ed States and Canada for the year
just closed compiled by the Journal
1850.
The Russian volunteer fleet cruiser
Saratoff has been ordered to Sebasto-
pool to receive her armament and
thence proceed with all haste to Port
Arthur.
The commissioner of internal rev.
enue has decided that it is permissi.
BILE for state prisons to manufacture
tobacco or cigars for their own in.
mates without paying license.
The senate committee on military
affairs has authorized Senator For
aker to report favorably the nomina
ton Of Governor Taft of the Philip
pines to be secretary of war.
State Bank Examiner drummer has
found only $500 cash in the wrecked
bank of Highland, Kansas. The de-
posits at the time the bank was
closed amounted to more than $50, 900
Apparatus for wireless telegraphy
has been installed at Point Reyes,
forty miles north OF San Francisco. on
the coast line, and on the southeast
Farallon island, which works per.
fectly.
Several Japanese officials who have
been attending the cavalry school at
Hanover have received cable mes
sages from their government instruct
ting them to return to Japan imme
diately.
II is reported that volcano on
Sugarloaf mountain in Rowan coun
ty, Ky, Is assuming alarming proper
tions, smoke pouring from the ifs
sures, accompanied by a deep rum.
bling noise.
United States Consul General Cow.
dy in Paris has received instructions
from Secretary of State Hay to rep.
resent Panama in all consular matters
and that the secretary had notified the
other consuls in Europe to take like
action.
The war scare has caused a furry
In the camphor market. Japan Is the
source of almost all the worlds sup
ply, although lately there has been
little manufacture of the gum in the
United States by chemical process. us
Ing coal tar as base.
Mother Jones, known as the Joan
Of Arc OF the United Mine Workers
is III with pneumonia at her hotel al
Trinidad, Colo. and under the con.
slant care of a physician, who says
her condition Is critical Mother
Jones is Ga years Of age.
Mrs. Victoria Ferston, keeper OF
baby farm and hospital for cats and