The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-01-07
NEWS SUMMARY.

Mass, have voted to continue the con.
test.
Three persons lost their lives in a
Are that destroyed the farm residence
ri Charles Mcmillan near Genesse,
N. Y.
Many persons were killed or injured
In Belgium by a terrific hurricane,
which also caused much damage to
property.
Two firemen were killed, two others
and one spectator were injured by the
falling of portion of the wall of
burning building in Chicago
Bruce Metcalf, photographer. was
shot and killed in his room in San
Francisco and his wife has been ar.
rested, charged with his murder.
Elmer Dover. private secretary to
the late Senator Marcus A. Hanna. is
collecting data to be used in the Of
hcial biography of the statesman.
For the first time in years not a
suit for divorce was begun in Chicago
on the 2Sth. Often as high as forty
such actions are brought in day
In a hear-on collision near Okla
homa City, Okla, Frank Curry, engi-
neer. and r. l.. Butts, fireman, were
killed and several passengers injured.
The plague district in the Ural re-
-,
Cossacks, and the disease has been
localized The mortality has rapidly
decreased.
The state department has been ad.
vised by Minister Russell at Bogota
that martial law has been declared in
the departments of Cundinamarca and
Santander.
Henry c. Hopkins president of the
Harry c. Hopkins Printing company,
was shot and killed by his wife in
Chicago during a quarrel. Jealousy.
It is said, was the cause.
The bureau of engraving and print.
Ing has submitted to Secretary Taft
designs for series of stamps which
the government proposes to issue for
use in the Philippine islands.
Statistics show that more than $50.
100000 worth of property in the
United States was destroyed by fire
in 1904, making the largest annual ash
heap in the history of the country.
John Guy, foreman of bricklayers,
vas burned to death and five others
seriously injured in an explosion in
the Edgar Thomson plant Of the Car.
negie Steel company at Braddock, Pa.
After being imprisoned on the
wrecked oil steamship Northwestern
nine miles off Cape Hatteras for thir.
ty-six hours, Captain Wilder and his
crew Of twenty-one men were rescued.
In an opinion rendered by Frank L.
Campbell, assistant attorney general
of the interior department, it is held
that the laws of the United States are
not applicable to the Panama canal
zone.
Charles ]. Russell of Chicago, who
pleaded guilty to having used the mails
to promote wildcat" insurance com.
panies, has been sentenced to one year
in the house of correction and to pay
fine of $500.
Elias Hatfield, noted for his con.
nection with one of the bitterest Of
the mountain feuds, was accidentally
killed near Blufield. w. Va. He was
walking through a tunnel when over
taken by train.
James Robinson was sent to jail
in Mobile, Ala, for thirty days for an
assault The offense for which he was
committed was kissing a young wo
man against her will at Bayou La
Batre, during a party.
The city council Of Tuskegee, Ala,
has unanimously passed resolution
inviting President Roosevelt to
visit Tuskegee on his southern trip
and has appointed committee OF
three to present the invitation in per-
Bon.
William Symlngton, manager ana
director of the West Indian fruit
trade, and Dr. T. Murray were acci-
dentally run over and killed on De.
cember 2 by freight train on the
railway in the fruit packing shed in
Port Of Spain.
Engineer John Neubarr was killed
and Frank McCord, an express mes
senger, was seriously injured in a
head-on collision between passen-
ger and freight train on the Mime
apolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie
railroad at Beaver Junction, MINI.
Ada Wilson, aged IS years, and her
brother John, aged II, children of
Thomas Williams of Lawnsdale, and
Elizabeth Morrison, aged IS, and her