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Show Tiimum I mi Now In Hands of Germans at Taing Tau. and They Will Not Leavt Harbor Again in This War. on foot nt Ephraim looking to the installation of an eleo trie light plant. Ogden la to have a new theatre. The building Is to be 50x126, of brlok, and will cost SI 5.000. aiilch baa broke out A fatal dlm-axIn Millard county la horned the among believed to be due to a poisonous e , I I weed. The new city Jail and court house at American Pork Is finished with the exception of reeling and some minor details. 0 the remit of a runaway in Ogden canyon, Mrs. Mary Slater of Kden Aa ( luaiained a broken leg and severe bruises. While umpiring a game of ball at American Fork, George Singleton waa overcome by the beat He Is now out nf danger, however. The Modena stage, as It was about to leave for Modena aeveral days ago, waa completely demolished as the re-- suit of a runaway. Extra precaution la being taken in the vicinity of Lehl to prevent prairie Irea which might devastate the country owing to so much dry graaa. It la not Improbable that the next annual convention oi the United States Brewers' association may b eld In Salt Lake City next June. A Are started by hoboes destroyed warehouse belonging to the Cleve land Commission company in Salt Lake City, entailing a loss of 64,000. ' James Brook, of Lehl, while chop ping wood a few days ago, waa struck In the eye. The eye waa so badly lb jured that he had to have It removed. Frank C. Gattung, who fell from ladder la front of the Conatltutlua block, la Salt Lake City oa Saturday, July 23, died August 8, from the mb tecta of the fall. The yield of grain throughout thi state la nearly every instance la re ported better and larger than usual; arid form wheat being much bettei than waa expected. J. H. Otteraen, who located el Ephraim in 1867, crossing the plains la 1866, died at Spring City last week aa the result of becoming overheated wftile loading grain. Peter Hansen, section foremaa ,ea the Lada cutoff was found lying be Bide the track la a dying condition. U to supposed that while walking the track he waa struck by an extra train Edward A. Steed of Farmington waa struck by a Rio Grande train sad to in a precarious condition. The Injured man's skull has been trepanned, ead be has about even chances for re eovery. William Farrell, a Greek, waa fa tab ty stabbed by Mlcuael Ziegwich, as Austrian, during a quarrel at Murray, The men quarreled over a card game Farrel died ten minutes after he wu tabbed. Heavy rains have fallen in southern Utah for several days. Vegetation and livestock will be helped thereby. The abnormal rains In July and August will make excellent pasturage for the sheep and other stock. Arnold Fordyce, the employe oi Rlnglinga circus who waa struck over the head with an ax by John Bates, another employe, while the circus wu exhibiting at Ogden, to out of danger. Bates hu been bound over for trial. Repairs to the amount of shout 50f 000 will he commenced during the week on the Rio Grande track betweea Ogden and Salt Lake City, and by the beginning of November the entire line will have been renovated. . - . RUSSIAN COLORS HAULED DOWN FROM FOUR WARSHIPS. Veaaela UTAH STATE NEWS. A movement l REIGN LOWER FLAG OF CZAIt THE WEEKLY SENTINEL The Russian battleship Czarevitch and three torpedo boat destroyers are now in the bands of the German government at Taing Tau for repairs, but it la impossible that these vessels will again fight In this war. Captain Truppel, chief of the mill-- j tary and civil administration of the protectorate of Klau Chou, after hav-- I ing completed provisions for the neutrality of the crews of the Russian warship during their stay at Tslng Tau, proceeded to go on board the Cxarevltch. The crew of the battleship were alarmed at the advent of Captain their Truppel'a party and seized weapons. They were quickly quieted, however, rod the commander of the Czarevitch wu Informed that it wu necessary that the Russian flag be hauled down rod remain down pending the completion of the repairs. The Czarevitch's lag waa then lowered amid Impresslre Sormallties, after which Captain Trapps! visited each of the three whose flags were also low-ired. 1 It to thought at Taing Tau that if the Russians persist In repairing their ihlpa, they will eventually have to dismantle them beqauae of the vutly superior Japanese force which la waiting lor them outside the harbor. According to the regulations which govern lituatlona such the one existing ere, the destroyers will not be permitted to leave in a body, but must go tut at Intervals of six hours, u PORT ARTHUR FIGHT CONTINUE8 Brown Men Have Secured New Positions Close to Inner FortificatloneL dispatch to the Berlin Lokal confirms the reports that heavy lighting hu occurred at Fort Arthur during the put few day a. The Japanese captured three Russian bat teriea and secured position! close to the Inner fortifications. Both aides lost heavily. The Japanese have commenced a bombardment from Lang mountain on the harbor and Inner defenses. Junke which arrived at Chefoo August 16, having left Port Arthur August 12, brought reports that the Japanese occupied new positions on that day. The firing at Port Arthur wu heavy but intermittent, and indicated that the uaaulta were being continued. The Russians at Port Arthur are reported to be downhearted. The men who came on the Junka declare that the commander of the Japanese fleet before Port Arthur Informed the Ruaalan commander of the place that if the warships which returned to the harbor after the sortie nf August 10 were sunk by the Russians, the Japanese 'would shell the t town with lyddite. A Chinese who has arrived at Chefoo from Liao Yang declares that the cuualtles In the recent fighting In that vicinity have been enormous on koth sides. An-eig- er 7S,000 j&f'ffafar fix i CAeng't undcr Z&r'OTDa.txSx OF CRIME. Outlaws Try to Run the New Toe Sparks, Nevada. Bert Richardson and E. F. were made victims of five high? men at Sparks, Nevada, Monday nlfht. The men were held up aeparskly-Eactime the robbers relieved ft1 victims of their valuables and 0n them. Richard aon wu ao bd1? Lenten that he was unconscious for three hours and when found t.carly dead. Later Lewis succeeded In Identifies two of his assailants as a man csl6 "Tex'' and another man named Osar 11:1(1 Rea. By this time the peopl of Sparks were thoroughly aroused d were organizing a party to lynch fte men, when the officers spirited tkm away to the county Jail at Reno. There has been a reign of crimi In the new town for the put few wsika and "Tex" and hia companions . ire blamed for the deeds. , Ito h SET TUNNEL ON FIRE. , Disastrous Railway Accident Ocora In Washington. The crown sheet of n freight in glne coming down a steep grade mar Leavenworth, Wash., on the Gnt Northern, blew out in a long anowstod above Madison, and wrecked the Six hundred feet of the sled much track wu burned. 0iF. and Strand, fireman, making hto first !tifp, wu fatally scalded. Engineer J, wu badly burned, but will recover. Conductor Charles Crayooft was burned about the face and huto. J. C. Stern, a machinist, beating Us way, wu badly scalded- on the foe, neck and hands. So rapidly did be fire spread In the snowshed freight train wu only saved by herdo endeavor. In the shed a bear an! two cubs had established a home, t Tie cubs were' burned to death, but lie mother lingered around the spot ill day so frightening several women passengers on the Overland that they fainted. u thata Lightning Paints Tree Upon a Man's Breast After lying senseless for hours fn the effects of a stroke of lightning Harry Sweet an employee of the Wesi era Union Telegraph company s Butte, recovered consciousness, and If the surprise of the physicians and all who were with him, there wu dbeow ered a perfect reproduction of a on his breast. The outline was vivid red and perfect In the di the branches and leaves being Mr. Sweet wu In tbelr formation. attending a picnic at Anaconda, when lightning struck a tree new vhere he wu standing, with the abort result. n s CREMATED BY MOB IN GEORGIA. Had Been Convicted of Murdering an Entire Family and Sentenced to Die on the Gallows. SACRIFICE MANY MEN Demands That the Chinka Immediately Enforce Neutrality. It la learned that Japan baa made a demand upon China, practically in the nature of an ultimatum, that she immediately enforce her neutrality in the case of the protected cruiser Askold and the torpedo boat destroyer Groxo-vonow at Shanghai. Japan pointed out that the time limit, twenty-fou- r (houra, permitted by international law, had expired, and that Japan therefore waa at liberty to take such action as may seem to her expedient. At the Japanese legation in London it was expressed that the Toklo government had no Intention of remaining quiescent if Russia attempted to compel China to give asylum to her and authorise repairs at her porta which would enable them to resume belligerent operations. Should China fail to comply immediately with Japans demand, fbe division of Jap anese warships now in the vicinity of Shanghai will, the legation declares, be Instructed to enter the port and capture the Askold and Grosovol, aa waa done in the ease of the Ryeahi-tein- i. TWENTY THOUSAND JAPANESE' KILLED AT PORT ARTHUR. and Brown Mon Gain Position, but at a Fearful Co! of Human Lift. Big Battia Fought l, With clothing saturated with kerosene, writhing and twisting In their agony, screaming to heaven for the mercy that the mob would not show, Paul Reid and Will Cato, negroes, two of the prineliiala in the murder and burning of Henry Hodgea and wife and three of their children, alx miles from Statesboro three weeks ago, were Burned at the stake at Statesboro, Ga., Tuesday. At about 1:80 a mob charged on the court house, overpowered the military guard, which had been secured to guard the prisoners, secured Cato and Reid, who had been found guilty after a legal trial and sentenced to be hanged, took them two miles from Statesboro and then burned them alive. The climax came quickly and unexpectedly. Trouble had been expected and a military guard had been stationed around the Jail, but It appears their guns were not loaded. It also develops that several deputies were in league with the mob and aided In overpowering the soldiers. The men were chained to a large tump, twelve feet high, pine wood piled around them and then the whole mass saturated with kerosene. Just as the match waa applied to the pyre one of thoae In front asked Reid if he wanted to tell the truth before he died. Mrs. "Yea, air; I killed Mr. and Hodgea, he replied. "Who killed the children?" he waa aaked. Handy Bed, came the response as the flames leaped upwards. After the men were dead the crowd kept piling on fuel until both bodies were burned except the trunk. men-of-w- STORMS SWEEP NEVADA. Tonopah District 8hut Out From World as Result of Rainstorm. Goldfield, Columbia, Tonopah, and. In fact, the entire bonanza district of southern Nevada, ia entirely shut in from the outside world aa the result of terrific rainstorms that have prevailed In that section for five days. The rain came in continuous torrents until Wednesday evening, when for the first time the skies hare bepun to clear and now, the Tonopah railroad company has every available man at work trying to replace tbe thousands of feet of track that have been washed away. are stalled at Passengers Mound House, Hawthorne and Soda-vlllwaiting to get through and all available accommodations ; are being held at a premium. e, Four Persona Die In Collision. Four persons were killed, another No Developments Except Reports of fatally hurt and twenty-threslightly Ralna and Exodua c4 Chinese. Injured In a collision between an exThere are no developments in the press train on the Chicago Great Westsituation In Manchuria, except the re- ern railroad and a train of three trolceipt of a report by the general staff1 ley cars bound for the Hawthorne race of the continuance of ralna and reports track in Chicago. The trolley train waa made up of a motor car and two trailers. It approached the crossing at a rapid speed Just as the train came around a sharp curve. The ear struck the train Juat between the engine and the tender. The motor car was torn to splinters, the 'tar Immediately behind turned over, smashed nearly to pieces and dragged along the track for 100 feet. The third car waa not dragged from the tracks, and but for the fact that the couplings between it and the second trailer broke the list of Injured probably would be larger all of the cars were filled with passengers. All 'of the persons killed occupied seats in tbe front iff the first SITUATION IN MANCHURIA. e 6 RU8SIAN CRUISER 8UNK. car. Race War In Georgia. A negro found shot to pieces on the bridge eight milea from Slateilne, Ga., Is not Handy Bell, one of tbe accomplices of the two negroes burned at the stake. The body has not yet been Identified. It ia rumored that the house of Bell, one of the negro suspects who waa released from Jail about seven miles from Statesboro, waa seized by unknown persona, a hundred shots were fired and that he waa killed. It to also declared that an organization has been formed among the of Henry Hodgea which willneighbors exterminate all those implicated by Reid in hia dying statement. About twenty-fiv- e negroes left Statesboro, Wednesday, and more, it la said, will follow. of huge proportion! raged 14 Port Arthur August and IS, and it wu resumed 17. The Japanese. It to August more 24,000 sacrificed reported, men. but gained important advantages In the matter of position. The above-newwu brought to Chefoo oa Junks, one of which, having on board three Russians, concealed in the baggage of Chinese to escape the Japanese, left Port Arthur cl nlglit, and wu blown rapidly to Cbrfoo l-- a gale. The main force of tho attack was directed against the left wing and resulted in the capture cf Pigeon bay positions and some Of tho forts at Lise Tleslian. At Palungchang the Japanese hastily mounted guns which did excellent service In aiding the storm-In- g of the right wing, where the Jap- anese are said to have captured two-fort-s of minor value, mounting eight four-inc- h guns, two aiege guna and alx quick-firin- g guns. On tbe night of the 15th the battle-lullesomewhat, when tho Japanese sent the term of surrender to Lieutenant General Sloessel. Tho terms provided that the garrison should march out with tho honors of war and. join General Kuropatkin; that alt civilians be brought to a place designated by the Japanese admiral; that the Russian warships in the harbor, numbering seven, namely, the battleships Retvlzan, Sevastopol, Pobleda, Pereaviet, Poltava and the armored cruiser Bayan, the protected cruiser Pallada and ten or more torpedo-boa- t destroyers and four gunboats be surrendered to the Japanese. Lieutenant General Stoesael Is alleged to have received the terma with a burst of wonderful profanity, hto habitual taciturnity deserting him. He strode the floor until he became calmer and then remarked that If the Japanese proposition was a Joke It wa In bad taste. A batt'e around JAPS 7dLpcLncse con- FOOT ARTHUR SITUATION OF OPP08ING ARMIES. Missouri Lays for Hia Sire With a Shotgun. Lafayette Jones, a wealthy former living teij miles west of Plattsburg, Mo., was shot and killed by hia son, Hugh. Because he wu not allowed to drive the family horae, the boy with a loaded shotgun lay in wait for hia father and shot him In the head as he passed. Young Junes then reloaded the gun and fired again nt the prostrate form of hia father. The boy was brought to Plattsburg and placed in Jail. Fifteen-Year-Ol- d Lad Determined to 8elze Russian Cruisers Lying In Harbor. M. Odaglri, the Japanese consul general, has notified tho taotil of Bftanc-h- al that a Japanese fleet is coming la to seize the Russian cruiser Askold and the Russian torpedo boat de stroyer Grozovoi. The chief engineer of the customs department reports that the Russian vessels are not seaworthy. The repairs being made by the Russians on the Grozovoi will be completed in about ten days. It is uncertain when the repairs to the Askold will be finished. Thcro Is r.o uneasiness at Shanghai, although the situation ia thought to be acute. The foreign consuls are determined to preserve the neutrality of the put. Upon the recommendation of the chief of customs the taotai of Shanghai will allow the Russian cruiser Askold and the Russian torpedo boot destroyer Grozovoi to remain In port until August 23, when one day's notice to leave or disarm will be given them. The arrival at Shanghai of Chines is expected. men-of-w- SHELL8 RAIN UPON ASUNCION. at Tokia Lost Life to Save Dog. To save the life of his pet dog, seph Shapiro, 6 years old, lost hto own. Joseph's parents occupy the third floor of the house 928 North Seo-on- d street. In Philadelphia. In the rear of the building la a flat used to dry clothes. The boy and his pet were playing when the dog leaped over the railing. Joseph made a lunge to grab him, slipped and fell to the pavement below, striking on his head. The little fellow died In the hospital a few hours later. J. . Didn't Disappoint the Crowd. Clarence De Ryder fell while loop lng the loop at Utahnn park, in Salt city, Tuesday night, and broke his neck. His wheel left the loop on tho wrong side, after nearly making the circle, and he fell to the ground with great force. His neck la said to have struck across the front wheel of the blcyrlc. He was carried Into an ante-rooon the back of the stage of the theater and there died without regaining consciousness, about forty-fiv- e minutes after the accident. AWAIT DECISIVE BATTLE. Kuropatkin Will Meet Attack of Combined Japanese Armies. A dispatch from General Kuropatkin, dated from Anshanahan, and conveying the congratulations of the army to tho emperor on the birth of nn heir to tbe throne, says: "We await a derisive battle with the Japanese army advancing upon us, gladly anticipating meeting the foe and proving ntir IMelity to our emperor and country. j . Are Three Insurgent Veaaela Bombard Davia la Notified of Nomination. Torpedo Boats Destroy a Capital of Paraguay. Russian Warship. Henry Gasaaway Davis waa formally1 Three Insurgent vessels bombarded Official advices received In Wash- notified at White Sulphur Springs, W. Aauncion, the capital of Paraguay, on Vs., on Wednesday that he la the nomington, Tuesday, state that the Jap17, for forty minutes. The exAugust inee of the Democratic party for anese commander-in-chie- f reports that tent of the Is unknown. The damage of the United States. Mr. the Russian cruiser Pallada was sunk Into government the replied artillery Davia accepted the nomination with a brief speech, reviewing the political surgents and one gun burst, wounding situation, echoing the sentiments of several government soldiers. Judge Parker on the money question The ministers of Argentine, Brasil, and expressing the determination to and Franee boarded one of the Italy be successful In the campaign. Representative John Sharp Wll llama of Mis- Insurgent vessels and held a long and sissippi. chairman of the nollflcatlon secret conference, at the end of which hours waa decommittee, delivered the notification a truce of twenty-fou- r address. clared in order to give the women and children an opportunity to leave the Train Went Into Ditch. capital before further bombardment. A social train from Cincinnati Hungry Strikers Try to Kill Cattle. bound for Colorado Beach, Cal., was The fiercest riot of the stock yards ditched one mile east of Scranton, strike occurred in Chicago Thursday Kana., Wednesday afternoon. Ons person was fatally injured, five wen night, when hungry dwellers of th hurt seriously, and six others sus- packing bouse district sought to captained slight injuries. While the train ture and kill eight steers that had esMother of Newly Born Heir to Rue waa running at a high rate of speed caped from the yards. The mob numthe front trucks of the tender Jumped bered 4,000 persons, and the streets ian Throne. were cleared only after 120 policemen the tracks and becoming from the engine the whole uncoupled In live squads had rharged the rioters train wu on boats the night by Japanese torpedo ditched. The baggage ear wu over- on four sides. Shots were fired and of August 10. A cablegram on the turned and landed thirty-fiv- e feet off scores of rioters were clubbed. Few same subject waa received by the Jap- the roadbed, the day coach wu turned arrests were made as the police conanese legation from the foreign office over and badly smashed and the for- tented themselves with dispersing the mer Pullman waa half upset mob. ivlh, ooo j) . SAIL FOR SHANGHAI. Japanese cut-off- f . s'gu.. sideration to run the Knights over ths . Work to being pushed on the Saa Pedro at the Callentos end these days The word that cornea from the front indicates that the gap will be dosed before December 1, so that trains can run through from Sait Lake to Los Angeles. According to the report of the perintendent of schools of Webei county there hu been a large falling off In the school population in that portion of the state. The report shows a decrease of 208 children of school age for the year. Some of the farmers of American Fork are greatly elated over the pro pect of converting beet tops Into money, if the proposed plan to erect a factory which will use the beet leavee in tobacco manufactured goods materializes. ( James W. Ashman of Salt I ike City wu drowned in the reservoir Just east ef the ML Olivet cemetery in Sail Lake City, He had been bathing alonsi and It wu only whan hia son discovered his cloth- - upon the hank that hia fate was learned. NEGROES JAPAN CALL8 CHINA TO TIME. h cut-of- A proposition la now under fic. TWO Aged War Veteran Meets In Baltimore. The surviving veterans who fought In the Union army assembled In Boston, on Monday, it being the thirty-eightCommaannual encampment nder-In-Chief C. of Black ths John Grand Army, uaumed the active command of the great encampment A conservative estimate of the peo Grener&l pie In thla city on account of the enJthcOzu Yjscouji-campment placed the numoer at 100,-00with the likelihood of anotbei of general exodua of the Chinese inhundred thousand later. habitants, who are fleeing northward from Liao Yang in anticipation of the coming military operations. The Bourse Gazette prints a special dispatch reporting that the Japanese have retired from Hal Cheng, Tashl-cha- o and New Chwang. but the statement to hardly considered credible. It to barely possible that the Knights Templar's excursions to San Francises win mark the formal opening of ths f to passenger trafOgden-Lucl- BURNED AT STAKE Reign of Terror In Georgia. Tbe developments In the situation at Statesboro, Ga., following the burning of the negroes Cato and Reed on Tuesday, show no killings have been reported from the country districts. Two negroes, a man and a woman, were whipped near Register on Thursday. It la reported also that several others received lashings at other localities. Many negroes have left, and It Is said that a scarcity of labor In the fields Is sure to follow as the cotton picking season Is at hand sI |