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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1902
Page
2
The Ephraim city council offers a one dollar per bushel bounty on grasshoppers, while Utah County assessments rise by seventy seven thousand dollars. Headlines cover a Salt Lake train accident injuring Mrs Stevens, Lagoon derailment injuries, Manti building boom, and a Portland death of Colonel Pat Conan.
Meory C. Havemeyer president of American Sugar Refining parries a report that his firm holds a controlling stake in U.S. beet sugar factories. He says the claim is untrue and refuses to disclose company affairs.
A severe tornado swept through Clay and Becker counties Minnesota and parts of the White Earth Indian reservation Monday evening. Five deaths are confirmed including Mrs. O A Herg and two Horn children. The storm damaged homes and a large Norwegian Lutheran church. The tornado path was about a mile and a half wide and up to fifty miles long with property losses around $100000.
Report from Boer commandoes arriving at Pretoria noting fraternization between the Rovers and British troops. Balmornst surrender followed by a big sing song. British soldiers at block houses between Balrooral and Pretoria sometimes halted trains to offer coffee and tobacco. Boers rate Americans highly while deeming Germans untrustworthy and crafty fighters.
The British embassy in Denver reports a letter from Boers asking funds for transport back to South Africa. Officials will inform the Foreign Office in London, but no funds are available to act on the request at this time.
Burial of James Stage underway after body found in New Brunswick on Sunday. Undertaker discovered 1250 dollars in a stocking. Stage hailed from Connellville Pennsylvania.
Reports indicate a tornado near Rinoming ton Illinois with widespread disruption. Telegraph and railway lines are down, severing communications from Wierpodt to Clinton and leaving lines and roads paralyzed.
Two convicts Harry Tracy and David Merrill used rifles and revolvers to shoot guards during the Oregon penitentiary escape. Four men were killed including guard John Stapleton and Tiffany, as Tracy and Merrill fled into the woods with guards pursuing. Authorities believe weapons were supplied by visitors and a posse hunts the pair.
Mrs. J. Feeley of Hoboken screams for her son as a child falls from a window and dies moments later. The dying woman, ill for weeks, fainted from the shock and did not recover. The boy who fell was not seriously hurt.
A man, Joseph Rejch, 49, saturated his clothes with kerosene and set himself on fire in a Catholic church in Pisherville Michigan. His charred remains were found before the altar on Saturday. A9-year-old organist and teacher at a nearby school helped in the church. Authorities say he was temporarily insane.
A clash between three citizens and about thirty Italian workers at a camp on the Chicago Great Western road near the Concord street car line in St. Paul Minnesota left four men seriously injured and one likely to die. Mr and Mrs Roberge Mr and Mrs Marcotte and Mr Wayman were passing after a fishing trip when insults to the women sparked the fight. Pistols fired and a shotgun volley from the camp wounded Roberge Marcotte and Wayman in the street.
A threatened uprising of African Americans north of Meridian is halted by a determined white defense. A negro preacher named Ruffin allegedly urged fifty men to strike through the county killing whites and burning homes. Whites armed with Winchesters deterred the plan, leaving residents uneasy but the danger thought ended.
Despite state bounties and stockman rewards, gray wolves increase in eastern Wyoming. Natrona County’s Sweetwater country reports cow losses with ten head killed in one bunch. In Atholl Tramie county wolves threaten ranges, prompting possible abandonments. A wolf pelt sells for twenty dollars in the region.
Thanksgiving services for the return of peace were held in Pretoria’s principal square Sunday. The sun shone brightly as thousands gathered outside the roped troop enclosure. The archbishop of Cape Town officiated with Lord Kitchener General Baden Powell and Lady Methuen among the prominent attendees.
In a Saturday evening statement William J. Bryan says he is not a candidate under no circumstances for governor of Nebraska this fall. The denial follows an interview with former Senator Allen who had urged Bryan to become the fusion nominee.
Government troops from Colon totaling over 1200 men move to Panama to join several thousand troops there. The combined force will attack the insurgents by land and sea, with General Pompilio Gutierrez commanding the expedition.
A collision on the Clayton branch of the Suburban electric line with a Missouri Pacific engine at a surface crossing in East St Louis left forty five people injured and two dead. Passengers suffered cuts from shattered glass and impacts from doors windows and seats. most injuries were minor while helpers attended the seriously hurt.
Representative Ruppert from New York introduces a resolution to adjourn Congress at 3 p.m. on June 28. The measure goes to the ways and means committee as Republican leaders delay action amid major pending bills. In the Senate the Isthmian canal debate continues with Mr Hanna backing the Spooner amendment on presidential power to buy Panama Canal rights if title is found, or decide on Nicaragua route. The day ends with passage of a district redivision bill for Alaska and an extensive West Point Military Academy modernization appropriation.
June 6 records a general debate on the anti-anarchy bill. Alabama Democrat Hichardson condemned the president for Memorial Day remarks at Arlington citing Civil War epithets and lynching accusations. Senate then resumed routine business and the Tattanian canal debate continued with Hanna of Ohio.
The house spent the day voting on amendments to a controversial anti Mwerthy bill. A motion by Mr Mc Asher of Massachusetts to strike a provision failed after lengthy debate. The body adjourned without action on further measures as the senate opened routine business and discussed freight charges on the London dock. The senate then resumed debate on a bill for national forest reserve purchases across several states including Virginia Georgia and Tennessee.
The Senate debated a wide range of issues from transferring forest reserves between departments to authorizing canal project work. President Roosevelt urged measures in his annual message. Senator Harris of Kansas pushed for a Nicaragua canal route while naval appropriations included two more battleships cruisers and gunboats.
The house defeated a bill transferring forest heritage to agriculture and authorizing game and fish preserves. Debates touched cost impacts and receipts. The senate disposed of a defense budget item and discussed canal route proposals. President Roosevelt’s gifts to the Pope were noted. Colope Hutler’s bribery case saw a venue request.
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