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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1902
Page
2
J T Jones predicts Vial will lead Dunner iron state in ten years. Salt Lake City fights Koot lardner bout, streetcar expansion to Sandy discussed. July dividends total $25,900 for mining firms. Saloon and Sunday liquor issues spark organizing efforts. Smallpox in Ephraim and a fatal window accident in Salt Lake noted along with local political moves and social unrest.
A cablegram from Commander McCrea aboard the Machias reports Cape Haitien disturbed by an unorganized mob. Foreign consuls threatened. he will provide protection aboard to avert bombardment without due notice. The State Department backs his energetic measures to safeguard life and property and to ensure proper warning under international law.
The report cites a distant dispatch describing unrest on the island as Governor Wright refuses to yield to pressure. Amid calls for change, Lierente was inaugurated per the official plan, while the civil administration maintains restraint and the public voice remains vigorous.
A band of about thirty Vacjals, nearly half women, attacked the Carmen ranch near Hermosillo on Saturday. Mexican troops arrived to rescue them, leaving two women and five men dead. The Yaqui attackers, weakened by hunger, were overwhelmed, and captured leaders are to be tried in Hermosillo.
Revision of a U S appeals ruling concerns holders of tavern licenses liable for patron deaths caused by drunkenness. A suit by Charles Walker’s heirs against Moser and others in Astland Neb was not filed, with conflicting accounts of a February incident and a verdict later appealed amidst wartime Boer figures at a church wedding spectacle.
The Stratford area reports a strange ground upheaval where a vein of gas or ore caused sod to rise and debris to settle over a 100 foot square area. Stones and debris were thrown high, with a crack twelve feet above normal ground level, and a six foot deep disturbance is noted. A lightning ignition of a natural vein is suspected to have triggered an underground explosion.
Lieutenant De Clairmont recounts an isolated Mindoro group described as perfectly white, semi civilized and hostile to outsiders. An interior capital of 20,000 residents and scattered communities allegedly exist, with a returned kidnapped child-turned-lawyer said to lead the sultanate and push Christian influence.
Tal James McKinney Kammouck begun with shooting lights at a saloon and attempted to shoot a man’s cards in a street game. He then forced a rig from a livery stable with a six shooter. He fired on pursuing officers and citizens, wounding four. He boasted of past prison time and claimed to have killed several foes.
The First congressional district Republican delegates election in Camden Gloucester and Salem counties saw clashes and injuries. A man was killed in Camden and boxer Jotroddard, a Philadelphia figure, was likely shot while attempting to intervene. A fourth man was stabbed near Merchantsville and another wounded at Dog Corner.
Twelve masked men attacked the Mes branch ranch near Grand Juncrion in Cole county killing Angorn sheep and injuring the keeper who was bound and left for dead. Perpetrators fled after the assault using jute clubs and weapons amid alleged objections to the Goats ercing on the mens.
Anthracite operators seem ready to reopen a mine during the current week as the eleventh week of the strike begins. Companies have coal and iron police to control trouble and could mobilize miners to blast coal and charge cars if enough workers agreed to return. Strike headquarters remains convinced operators will resume, while President Mitchell says the stance remains unchanged and the strikers stay firm.
The Interstate Commerce Commission bulletin details 813 deaths and 6 005 injuries from rail incidents in the quarter ending March 31 1909 including 212 killed and 221 injured per train accidents and 521 collisions with 84 derailments affecting passenger trains causing 41 passenger deaths. Damages to rolling stock reached 1 014 255 dollars. Aupi Mari Mari a long time San Francisco resident of Indian origin died at 112. The paper notes a romantic but troubled life tracing his claims of royal lineage kidnapping and exile from Hawaii to California and losing track of his European family under British rule in their homeland.
Fragmentary news item reports Venezuelan forces under Mendioza defeating an incoming 1,000-strong reinforcement led by Leopoldo Baptista near Alto de la Palme a. The piece also threads a petition by Tom Cockrill about a venue change in a Breathitt Kentucky murder case and mentions business deals involving the Union Pacific, a new lumber venture in Southern Wyoming, and a mining-related explosion. Names include Luciang Mendoza, Castro, Baptista, Cockrill, Hargis, Knott, Lee, J.C. Teller, and Brown family members.
In an eight round welter of a bout Jeffries knocked Fitzsimmons to the mat with two decisive punches as the Cornishman, worn by a barrage of rights and lefts, fought valiantly. Fitzsimmons acknowledged the victory saying the best man won while admitting retirement to the ring. Ticket sales for the fight totaled $45,110.
Friday night’s storm caused two dams to break flooding western Irwin Wa. The shock damaged the Nota manufacturing plant and washed away bridges and outbuildings. Westmoreland car shops suffered heavy losses while countryside coal shafts and bridges were wrecked. Hail ruined crops and vegetation. Near Washington the creel overflowed and a passenger train to Waynesburg with 00 passengers was held up most of the night.
An official inquest into Mrs Ceetlin AL Sullivan's death in Baltimore found that she died eighteen hours after being wounded by bullets. The report states one bullet pierced the heart, another wounded the stomach liver and spleen, and a third grazed the heart.
Nodtren renouncement reports that the Canadian Wavltip railway, at Vietnam ministers' request in London, offered a summer weekly fast service between Quebec and Liverpool and a winter service between Manila and Liverpool with wood freight. Mingland hails the plan as an offset to the Pier pont Morgat shipping combine, while English papers splash with headlines about a fight with the American trust.
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