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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1902
Page
2
A cavalry troop will join Fort Duchesne garrison soon while Willard builds two modern school houses costing 12000 dollars. Reports note drownings, injuries, thefts, epidemics, and drought across Cache Valley to Davis County with railroad break-ins, a mass bicycle theft ring, and a library ban on a controversial book.
A blast at the Daly-West and Ontario mines near Park City Utah on a Wednesday morning claims thirty one lives. The cause remains unknown with powder magazines at the 1200 level implicated. Six men died in Ontario with fifteen overcome by toxic gases. Eight miners escaped via the Anchor tunnel. Many details and names of the deceased are listed, and relief efforts are underway.
Captain Sebree of the US gunboat Wheeling has detained leading Manuva chiefs, including the district judge who dissented in the original ruling, for conspiracy to resist the high court decision. Pulmanua the governor and self-styled king allegedly encouraged the plan. Pulmanua apologized afterward, claiming actions aligned with Manua wishes.
In Salt Lake City a discharged soldier RK E Brown was shot dead by companion J Ford Hamilton in a rear room of an employment agency on Tuesday afternoon. No witnesses were present. Hamilton tried to flee but was arrested and jailed claiming self defense. Both men had secured positions through the agency and were changing clothes when the fatal shot occurred. Hamilton, a miner about 22, says his home is in Indiana.
Helena Waterworks warned the city Tuesday that it would shut off water for tire and sewerage purposes at noon July 24 if the June bill remained unpaid. The city served notice that any shutoff would lead to contempt proceedings under Judge Vorave Buck's 1895 order, and measures would be taken to forfeit the franchise.
A masked gang held up a Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge train seven miles west of Marshall Pass at 0:50 am. The safes in the express car were blown open and valuables stolen while passengers watched in alarm. Officers from Salida and neighboring counties pursued about a dozen robbers as the train was halted by debris on the track.
Hazleton Pennsylvania dispatch reports unknown assailants raided the home of William Hussman a non union man at Upper Lehigh early Monday. Hussman and his wife were roused and the house later burned before neighbors extinguished the fire. Hussman was led away by the attackers and remains missing.
Miss Lena Rohner, 22, leaped before a moving Union Pacific train at Denver Union Depot after alighting a Burlington car. Her legs were severed. she likely died. Rohner, from Aretna Nebraska, headed to Glenwood Springs, Colo, in poor health.
Reports detail the resignation of Marquis of Salisbury from the premiership and the appointment of A J Balfour as successor. King Edward VII received Salisbury last Friday, with Balfour visiting the king Saturday to accept the office. Cabinet speculation centers on Joseph Chamberlain.
Willis Bartlett, a colored man, fought a gunman under his kitchen table in Wichita Kansas Saturday night. He wrestled the intruder as shotgun blasts wounded him before his wife handed him a revolver. Bartlett fatally shot Luther Cro sswaite, his brother-in-law, who had entered to harm Mrs Cragswaite after she left him to live with her brother-in-law.
Halifax dispatch reports a 200 foot sea serpent near Cranberry head and near harbor entrance as the Wacouts yacht with Raiway magnate J J Hill swerved to avoid it. Seattle report says C F Wardner drowned at Lake Washington after bathing. 24, civil engineer, engaged to be married in Chicago, father in Alaska, sisters in Chicago.
Mont Pelee volcano on Saturday renewed a vigorous eruption comparable to prior eruptions. Ajupa Bouil ion and Maconia areas were buried under stones and ash and left uninhabitable for hours. A dense flame column rose with electrical activity and rolling thunder-like rumbling, but no fatalities were reported.
A. A. Belding, a bartender, shot and killed his wife Mrs. A L Belding and mother in law Mrs L McCroskey and inmate Frank Woodward then fatally wounded father in law L McCroskey in a confrontation at the McCroskey home at Fifth and Flanders. Belding, jealous of Woodward, demanded his wife surrender their son before opening fire in the hallway.
The Cambria Steel mine disaster at Johnstown leaves 143 dead and 23 rescued among about 500 entrants. Officials say 400 escaped. 35 unaccounted. As bodies rise to daylight, at least 52 more may be found, bringing total fatalities to around 144. Some rescued men are said to be deranged. recovery continues amid dangerous headings and slate entombments. In Missouri, Rhodes Clay is dead from a pistol wound in a post office side-street clash with C A Barnes. King Edward coronation plans shift. no public procession, crown expected August 6 to 9, at Westminster Abbey. E L Bonner, Montana leader, dies in Storeman car accident, suspected heart failure triggered by excitement.
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