Utah News Briefs Highlight Rail Merger and Local Crime
Reports from Salt Lake City note Western Pacific to be absorbed by Denver and Rio Grande on May 1. A 30-year-old man John Beeley died by suicide in Los Angeles, while Garrett Conover celebrated his 200th birthday in Salt Lake City. The University of Utah debating team lost to Colorado College. Damage to fruit crops and cherry trees due to unusual weather is reported. Grace Brown shot her lover in Ogden over a diamond garter theft. Durand faces possible divorce after firing shots at his residence. A Draper plant plans to produce 20,000 bricks daily using silica and clay. Mail volume on Harriman railroads through Ogden rises. Murray residents threaten legal action over smoke nuisance. Accidents occur on Stockton handcars injuring Richard Gundry and Fred Beaman. Lloyd Jacobs dies in Nevada construction accident. Salt Lake Club plans two excursions, one in southern Utah and one into Idaho. Carbon County opens a new $75,000 courthouse at Price. Fred Williams dies after losing both legs in a Coalville incident. Tabernacle Choir aims to tour Wales in 1911 costing about $50,000 for potential advertising.
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Western Pacific Railroad
Denver & Rio Grande
Salt Lake City
John Beeley
Los Angeles
Garrett E. Conover
Mr. Conover
Utah
Salt Lake County
Salt Lake
Grace Brown
Ogden
George Williams
Co. F. Durand
Murray
Durand
Draper
Draper Silica, Brick & Clay Company
Harriman
American Smelting & Refining Company
Stockton
Richard Gundry
Fred Beaman
Lloyd Jacobs
Nevara
Lloyd's
Time
Omaha
Carbon County
Priceway
Fred W. Williams
Union Pacific
Coalville
Ogden General Hospital
Tabernacle Choir
Wales
Atlantic
Miners Quit Work Over New Wage Scale Saving Fuel Supply
Three hundred thousand miners across Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Illinois Iowa Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas suspend work after the old wage scale expired. Union leaders call it a suspension, not a strike, awaiting signed pay increases and working-condition changes. Operators expect no general coal famine as fuel stocks remain high. Brazil Indiana grants a 5 cent per ton increase as the first settlement.
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Indianapolis
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkanas
United Mine Workera of North America
Brazil
Ind
Minimum Tariff Granted Under Payne Aldrich Act Worldwide
The president signed a proclamation extending minimum tariff rates to about 130 nations and dependencies including Canada and Australia. Tariff officials spent months reviewing whether nations discriminated against U S products, and officials predict many American goods will enter freely or at minimum rates, reducing duties previously paid.
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Washington
Payne-Aldrich
Canada
Australia
United States
Crisis in Balkans pushes Bulgaria toward war over Macedonia
Paris reports a dangerous Balkans crisis narrowly averted as Bulgarian resolve grows to clash with Turkey. Diplomats note Bulgaria seeks autonomy or outright control of Macedonia, backing a massive army that the nation believes invincible. The king and people view a decisive war as securing dynastic stability and national independence.
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Macedonia
Paris
Balkans
Bulgaria
Turkey
Aid for Liberia Faces Threats and Foreign Interest
Washington reports growing danger in Liberia as attacks by tribes from the French side threaten the English factory and Liberian troops. Monrovia is demoralized and finances are dire, prompting fears of European intervention. British and French ships head to the area while the Birmingham sails from St. Vincent to Monrovia.
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Washington
Liberia
Little Republic
Monrovia
State Department
Navy Department
St. Vincent
Cape Verde
Awift
Birmingham
Severe Storm Ravages Southern Austria With Tornadoes
A severe storm in Austria with a rare tornado and heavy snow hits southern regions near Trieste. A passenger train derailed near Mugegla, killing four and injuring eighteen. Steamship navigation halted and harbor damage reported as several Austrian Lloyd steamers dragged anchors to avoid disaster.
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Trieste
Austria
Mugegla
King of Abyssinia Dead in Addis Ababa
Manelik II, king of Abyssinia, died Wednesday at 66 in the twenty first year of his reign. Prince Lifi Jessau, his 14 year old grandson, is named heir. Abyssinia or Ethiopia spans Tigre Amhara Shoa and other territories, covering about 200000 square miles with 9 to 11 million people.
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Addis Adbeba
Abyssinia
Manelik ‘Tl
Lifi Jessau
Ethiopia
Tigre
Amhara
Shoa
Four Robbers Shoot Grocer in Salt Lake City
George W Fassell a grocer was shot and killed by a robber Saturday night. Four men entered his store and ordered him and a clerk to hold up their hands. Fassell hesitated and was fired upon. The robbers fled with about $50 found on Harry Thorne 23 who the clerk identified as the shooter. Thorne and John Hayes confessed.
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Salt Lake City
George W. Fassell
Fassell
Harry Thorne
Thorne
John Hayes
Thorn
Tobacco Strike Hits Louisville Employees Demand Higher Wages
In Louisville, Kentucky, more than 3,000 workers at the American Tobacco stemmeries struck for higher pay. Police twice intervened as strikers moved between factories. Ten arrests were reported. About 5,000 additional workers in plug tobacco and cigar departments threatened to strike.
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Louisville
American Tobacco Company
Atruck
Plug Tobacco
German soldiers killed in rear-end express collision
An express train from Hamburg and Bremen bound for Genoa collided with a rear train carrying soldiers returning from Easter leave to Strasbourg. About fifty soldiers were killed or injured as four cars telescoped. The steamer passengers were unharmed and continued to Italy.
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Mulheim-Am-Rhein
Hamburg
Bremen
Genoa
Strasburg
Italy
Pinchot Visits Copenhagen to Study Danish Agriculture
Gifford Pinchot former U S chief forester arrived in Copenhagen Thursday night as a guest of the British legation. He will study Danish agriculture and forestry administration and co operation. He plans to meet Colonel Roosevelt in Copenhagen or London but gave no details on a possible conference.
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Copenhagen
Gifford Pinchot
United States
Legation
Lady Johnstone
Alan Johnstone
Denmark
Pinchot
Roosevelt
London
Veteran Bootlegger Freed After Davis Capture Proof
Seattle report states 70 year old John Wolf, jailed for bootlegging, is released on suspended sentence after his discharge proves he helped capture Jefferson Davis near Savannah, Georgia forty five years prior while serving in Company E Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry during the Civil War.
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Seattle
Jefferson Davis
Savannah
John Wolf
Wolf
Seventh
Pennsylvania Cavalry
Fortification group formed for Chesapeake Bay defense
Washington reports a new association for the fortification of the Chesapeake Bay entrance was organized to press the Taft era 1906 recommendations for protecting the national capital and Maryland Virginia towns. In Mansfield Ohio a businessman, Hugh McFall, lay dying on his doorstep in a night shirt from a deep head wound, dying without regaining consciousness, with unclear robbery implications.
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Washington
Association For
Chesapeake Bay
Taft
Chesapeake
National Capital
Maryland
Virginia
Mansfield
Hugh McFall
McFall
Tax Assessments Hit New York Millionaires
John D Rockefeller Jr tops the list with a 2500000 assessment and several other magnates face heavy levies. Andrew Carnegie pays 6000000 while J P Morgan is listed at 400000,000 Sage and Cornelius Vanderbilt about 250000. The tax deadline drew few reductions from the city’s wealthiest citizens.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
7. P. Morgan
Mia
Russell Sage
Cornelius Vanderbilt
New Hydrophobia Treatment Proposed in Ann Arbor
Dr James Rk Cummings director Pasteur Institute University of Michigan announces a new method to treat hydrophobia. The treatment uses a virus prepared from spinal tissues of a rabid animal injected into the patient and says it shortens treatment by a week with marked success in several recent cases.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
James Rk. Cummings
Pasteur Institute
University of Michigan
Cumming
Cummings
Railroad Bill Debate Splits House and Senate
Washington reports show wide disagreement over federal control of common carriers as the Taft administration railroad bill advances. The majority backs the measure as a vital reform with broad public benefits, while a minority opposes it as untested and possibly unconstitutional, calling for restrained federal supervision.
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Washington
House
Interstate Commerce Committee
Wickersham
Taft
Townsend
Michigan
House Committee
Senate
Mann
Commerce Court
Congress
Corporation tax law to curb publicity feature
Washington lawmakers move toward amending the corporation tax law to restrict access to tax returns. The house slightly modified a senate provision, allowing inspection only by presidential order under treasury rules. Conferees will meet to harmonize the two branches views.
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Washington
House
Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
Outlook Not Encouraging at Mount Etna Activity
Mount Etna eruptions may continue as expert Frank A. Perrett of Vesuvius Observatory warns a large lava reserve remains. Professor Riccco, Etna director, fled after hours of terror saying the roar could drive anyone mad.
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Catania
Mount Etna
Frank A. Perrett
Royal Observatory
Mount Vesuvius
Riccco
Mount Etna Observatory
Peculiar Verdict in Moore Bank Trial in Oregon
In Portland Oregon the jury found Walter H Moore president of the defunct Oregon Trust and Savings bank not guilty of accepting a deposit after knowledge of insolvency. They recommended severe censure by the court for his guilty knowledge and participation in unlawful acts related to the bank. jurors deem the report remarkably unusual for Creyvon.
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Portland
Ore
Walter H. Moore
Oregon Trust and Savings Bank
Moore
Creyvon
Pinchot Campaign Letter Circulates in Denver
Copies of a letter signed by J. J. Tobias, described as Chancellor of the Chicago Law School, advocate Gifford Pinchot as a 1912 presidential candidate. The missive asks readers to form a “Watch Pinchot Grow” league and to send their address.
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Denver
Colo
J. J. Tobias
Chicago Law School
Gifford Pinchot
United States
Peary Declares End to Polar Exploration Career
Chicago reports Commander Robert B. Peary, who arrived Friday, stating he is positively through with polar explorations for all time. He denied plans for any Antarctic expedition and said he does not contemplate another trip to the North Pole.
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Peary
Chicago
Robert B. Peary
North Pole
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