The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-07-30
NEWS SUMMARY.


Thomas Lester, street sweeper,
was burned to death in FIRE which
Quilted a lodging house in San Fran
cisco.
AS the result of an explosion Of
dynamite under a street car at Hous-
ton, Texas, FIVE persons were hurt,
one seriously.
w. H. Dorchester, n conductor on
Northern Pacific freight train, was
| from the train
The cowboys employed at the Ma.
tional stoctyards in East st. Louis
have inaugurated a strike in connec.
ton with the union butchers and meat
cutters
Mrs. George, widow of the late
Henry George, the political economist
of New York City, died on the goth at
her home at Monticello, N. Y, aged
60 years.
The Russian government has &c.
cepted the proposition of the United
| States to exclude American poachers
from the waters around the Komman'
der islands.
The registration for homesteads on
the Rosebud reservation at the four
land offces-Bonesteel, Chamberlain,
Fairfax and Yankton-to date is up.
wards of $1,000.
The Union mill at Florence, Colo,
has been closed down because Of an
insufficient supply of ore from Cripple
Creek, 100 men being thrown out OF
employment.
William G. Thompson, a prominent
politician of Detroit, is dead at a pri-
vate sanitarium in Yonkers, as the re-
suit of being knocked down by boy
bicycle scorcher on April 81 last.
Hon. Henry G. Davis, Democratic
candidate for vice president, has de.
cided to have the notification meeting
at White Sulphur Springs, w. Va. The
date has not yet been fixed, but it will
be about the middle of August.
The new city directory for Chicago
has been given to the public. Based
on the number of names it gives Chi
cago population tor 1904 of 2,241, 900
The directory of 1903 gave Chicago an
estimated population OF 2,231 ,000
Chew Ian Ong, who murdered 10
year-old Gin Do Hing in a basement
in San Francisco, in july 1908, was
hanged in the San Quentin state prison
Friday last. Before mounting the
scaffold Ong protested his innocence
A report comes from Ichang to the
effect that a rumor is current there
that the French bishop, a priest anC
two converts have been killed, an
other priest taken prisoner and three
chapels burned at Sichuan, near Sin
gan.
A. H. Neighbors, a saloonkeeper, Of
Elizabethtown, Ky, struck Carrie Ma
ton twice with chair, knocking hel
down and producing scalp wound
The assault occurred at Neighbors
saloon, after Mrs. Nation had berateC
Neighbors.
The rolls for the Topeka pension
agency, the largest in the United
States, show a decrease of nine pen
sions for the year just ended. The lis
] contains 1850 pensioners, who drew
. 1924 ,221 last year. During the yeal
; 1892 pensioners died.
The authorities are viewing witt
, equanimity the actions of the Russian
. privateers in the Red sea. 1t is sale
, that there is little chance of Americf
becoming involved because few
American vessels pass through the
Red sea and the Suez canal.
The Korean agitation against thu
granting to the Japanese of the lat
ter's demands for waste lands is be
coming serious, and daily meetings, at
tended by thousands of persons, arr
! being held at Seoul, at which thu
speakers urge moral resistance.
. George Hartman, Jr., of San Fran
cisco, the young man who was shot IL
the arm by August Geber, when Gebe
killed Charles Hartman and tried t
annihilate the entire Hartman family
, is dead. of lockjaw, caused by blooC
: poisoning resulting from the wound.
Attorney General Bell of Austin
Texas has summoned before loca
, magistrate four insurance agents, rep
, resentatives of the greatest insurance
,, companies of the world, in a proceed
ing to disclose information relating t
alleged violation Of the antitrust Law
in Texas.
w. T. Scott, presidential candidate
OF the National Negro Liberty party
who is now serving a sentence in the
Belleville, ILL.,, Jail charged with keep