Utah State News Totals From Distillery to Rail Plans
A Utah slate of items covers a Murray distillery start, Ogden saloon brawl injuries, Logan peddler crackdowns, Ephraim academy suspending rats, and a severe stabbing by a county man. Also noted are Springville sidewalk paving, wool price outlook, Gunnison Valley Power Co. formation, a Salt Lake City meningitis death from eye injury, beets price clash, a Crawford death after self defense acquittal, a murder suspect in Idaho, Provo mill auctions, and rail line upgrades. Conservation map soil tests are planned if federal help arrives.
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Murray
Ogden
James Moran
Logan
Jim Taulas
Springville
Utah State
Salt Lake
Bradley
Box Eilder County
Box Elder County
Amalgamated Sugar Company
James H. Crawford
C. C. Lockhart
Crawford
Charles Phelps
Buhl
Idaho
John May
Provo
Western Pacific Railroad
Denver & Rio Grande Western Union
Salt Lake Real Estate Association
First National Bank
Cornelius Mannix
Oregon
Farmington
Weber Canyon
Los Angeles
Harriman
Charles M. Freed
Freed Furniture & Carpet Company
Salt Lake City
Lora Lauterbaugh
Chicago
K. Kamada
Utah Conservation Commission
Mount Etna Erupts Adjoining Villages Terror Stricken
Mount Etna in Sicily erupts with a sudden crater movement. Lava flows reach vineyards above San Leo and Rinalzo, burying peasant houses as twelve new craters open. Villagers flee in panic while carrying images and praying for mercy amid earth shocks and continuous tremors.
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Castania
Sicily
Aetna
San Leo
Rinazzo
Senator Owen Calls For National Health Department
In a senate speech Senator Owen of Oklahoma urged creating a cabinet department of health to consolidate federal health agencies. He argued 600000 lives sacrificed yearly due to sanitation neglect and contamination, with 3000000 Americans ill from preventable diseases.
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Washington
Owen
Oklahoma
Senate
Department of Health
Bomb Throwers Active In Chicago Gym Explosion
Bomb-throwers fired a dynamite shell into a gymnasium under construction behind a saloon owned by Robert D. Lincoln on Chicago's west side. The blast wrecked the gym, shattered nearby windows, and sent elevated train passengers into a panic as guards steadied the panic-stricken cars.
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Chicago
Robert D. Lincoln
Fugitive Banker Eludes Posse in Ohio Hills
Cleveland reports say four posses hunted Robert Green, former Indiana banker who escaped Elyria jail. On Thursday he was spotted riding a horse, his third stolen mount, heading toward Warsaw as pursuers in automobiles trailed by miles. No capture yet as night fell.
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Cleveland, O
Warsaw
Coshocton County
Robert Green
Indiana
Elyria
Green
Philadelphia Labor Convention Forms New Political Party
About 500 delegates from union locals attended the convention in Philadelphia to discuss forming a new political party. Journalists were barred. A committee of eleven led by John J. Murphy was chosen to plan organizing efforts and a one day’s pay contribution from every member will be requested to finance the new group.
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Philadelphia
John J. Murphy
Central Labor Union
East Lake City Murderer Defeats Nightwatchman Case
Lucian BE Driskell found guilty of first degree murder by a Third district court jury in Judge Thomas J. Lewis division. The verdict included a clemency recommendation, meaning a life sentence at hard labor unless the Supreme Court intervenes.
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East Lake City
Lucian BE. Driskell
C. GC. Riley
Thomas
Lewis
Third District Court
Supreme Court
Open Defiance of the Law at Colorado Mines
State Labor Commissioner RE V Brake brands Colorado Fuel and Iron open defiance of the law in its southern Colorado mines after the Primero disaster that killed seventy six miners on January 31 He urges Governor Shafroth to appoint a commission to thoroughly investigate Las Animas and Huerfano counties locating the company property He cites insufficient sprinkling local gas explosions frequent lack of timbering substandard mine camps and no check weighmen He also notes child labor in mines and washers violating state law.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Colorado
RE. V. Brake
Primera
Shafroth
Las Animas
Huerfano
Colorado Fuel & Iron
Blake
Primero
Maine to Be Raised to Recover Sailors and Inspect Cause
Washington debate centers on raising the wreck of the Maine sunk in Havana harbor to recover sailors remains for interment at Arlington cemetery and to inspect the destruction cause. The bill authorizes Army Engineer Corps direction with Cuban consent, awaiting Senate approval.
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Washington
Maine
Havana
Senate
House
Arlington Cemetery
Havana Harbor
Engineer Corps
Army
Republic of Cuba
Major General Bell Injured In Auto Collision Washington
Major General Cd. Franklin Bell chief of staff to the U S Army was injured in an auto accident on Wednesday S wife Mrs Herbert J Slocum was killed during the collision with a street car while Bell escorted Slocum to the naval observatory The motorman and chauffeur have been arrested Bell sustained a broken rib scalp wounds with no internal injuries or complications evident
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Washington
Cd. Franklin Bell
United States Army
Herbert J. Slocum
Slocum
Bell
Naval Observatory
Bank Shortage Reported at Cambridge National Bank
Treasury records show a growing deficit at City National Bank of Cambridge Massachusetts. Auditor Samuel M Hann states the shortage could reach about 250000 dollars, rising from an earlier estimated 144000 dollars due to a bookkeeper defalcation by George W Coleman.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Samuel M. Hann
City National Bank
Cambridge
Mass
George W. Coleman
Passengers Feared Snowslide Inquest Evidence
In the Wellington avalanche inquest on Wednesday letters and a diary by Mrs. M. A. Covington of Olympia Washington were introduced to show that passengers had feared a slide for days before it occurred.
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Seattle
Wellington
M. A. Covington
Olympia
Wash
Rail Spread Crash Kills Dozens Near Green Mountain Iowa
A Chicago Rock Island and Pacific train bound for Minneapolis derailed after striking a spread rail north of Green Mountain Iowa at 8 16 am Monday. Forty five people were killed and forty injured, many fatally, as cars were smashed and bodies crushed in a horrific scene.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
Rock Island and Pacific
Green Mountain
Chicago
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Peace on Capitol Hill After Turbulent Week
Washington lawmakers opened the session with unusual calm after last week’s upheaval. On Monday night adjournment brought a peaceful mood. Norris nominated Majority Leader Payne for the new rules committee, aligning with insurgent Clark and signaling a move toward accord.
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Washington
House
Payne
Representative Norris
Norris
Clark
Naval appropriation bill boosts battleships and subs
The naval appropriations bill, totaling 129 million 37 thousand 602 dollars, was reported to the house. It funds two first class battleships, one repair ship, two fleet colliers, and five submarines with a minority report advocating four battleships. Dry docks receive 6.22 million dollars across navy yards.
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Washington
House
Naval Committee
Department
Hobson
Alabama
Canton girl pleads not guilty in murder case
Catherine Manz, 16, pleads not guilty and waives preliminary examination in the poisoning death of her sister Elizabeth. She is jailed in Canton. A possible special grand jury may be summoned but a lunacy inquiry is expected to forestall it. Relatives claim a childhood fall affected her brain and describe unprovoked fits of rage.
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Canton
Catherine Manz
Elizabeth
Liberia Seeks U S Aid To Survive Pressures From France And Britain
Washington reports the American commission to Liberia urges prompt U S action. Recommendations include settling boundary disputes, backing Liberia’s debt with guarantees, managing customs, reforming internal finances, creating a frontier police, establishing a research station, and reopening the naval coaling station question.
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Washington
France
Great Britain
Liberia
American Commission
Congress
Taft
United States
Committee on Rules Chosen in House Vote
The House adopted a Norris resolution creating a rules committee with six Republicans and four Democrats. Members named include Smarzell, Walter Smith, Boutell, Lawrence, Fassett, Smith, Clark, Underwood, Dixon, Fitzgerald, and others. The vote was unanimous after caucus confirmation.
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Washington
House
Mr. Currier
New Mexico
Smarzell
Pennsylvania
Walter
New York
Roosevelt Visits Sak-Kara Necropolis in Egypt
Cairo reports Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and party trekked to the Sak-Kara necropolis at dawn to view tombs of Thy kings and Apis bulls. He noted enjoying moonlit Sphinx views and said the sight was the trip’s highlight. The Roosevelts dined with American consul-general Iddings and attended a banquet with Sir Eldon Gorst.
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Cairo
Egypt
Theodore Roosevelt
Sak-Kara
Thy
Apis
Roosevelt
Africa
Mr. Iddings
Eldon Gorst
Locomotive Runaway Crashes In Newburg West Virginia
A Baltimore and Ohio locomotive ran away on a long grade near Newburg West Virginia Friday night crashing into two engines at the foot of the mountain and exploding. Fragments scattered over a half mile. Five people injured two critically. Storekeeper G M Frasier was cut by debris at the station half a mile away as the locomotive bell flew a half mile and crashed through a house roof.
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Newburg
W. Va
Baltimore & Ohio
G. M. Frasier
Rockefeller Fighting Fire at Rockefeller Estate
John D. Rockefeller Jr and his wife joined Friday afternoon to direct forest fire crews on the Rockefeller estate in the Pocantico Hills. Guards diverted flames from outbuildings but could not extinguish them, and a night shift remained on duty as brushwood and timberland burned.
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Tarrytown
N. Y
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Rockefeller Estate
Pocantico Hills
Rockefeller Forest
Unusual Robbery Exhumes Body in Forest Hill
In Forest Hill Louisiana the body of B D Garner was exhumed Friday night after more than thirty years in a tomb. Thieves stole gold teeth a diamond ring a gold watch and cuff buttons from the remains in what is described as the most unusual robbery in the area.
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Forest Hill
Louisiana
B. D. Garner
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