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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1906
Page
2
A fragment from the Garland Globe hints at a Saturday publication or notice with partial text referencing Utah and numbers. The readable portion provides no clear event date or complete details to identify persons or organizations involved.
Reports from Ephraim to Ogden cover a farmers club completion in Ephraim. Salt Lake entertainments fund Japanese relief while a streetcar crash injures a motorman. Willard reopens after scarlet fever, and a crewman falls from a locomotive. Cedar City and Provo news span injuries, health notices, and bond votes. A man killed in Salt Lake and a Russian on attempted suicide appear among trials, while molasses from beets and an interurban line plan unfold.
In San Francisco reports say the Western Pacific Railroad plans to hire 10000 workers to lay the Salt Lake City to San Francisco roadbed and will help pay railroad fares. Vice President Bogue notes a demand for 1000 men soon and confirms aims to hire white labor, with Nevada surveys completed and contracts soon to be let.
In Champson, Grugnay and Valais hamlets residents flee as a massive mass of rock and earth advances from the mountain. Water springs and forests vanish under the shifting earth while the church of St. Pierre half sinks. Officials and engineers rush to evacuate and avert a repeat of a century old catastrophe.
A mob of Lithuanians attacked the residence of Rev. Edward Stafanowslce, a Catholic priest, after a Sunday service dispute over church funds. One man was fatally shot and several others were seriously wounded. The assailants were congregants of the same church, and women reportedly hurled a missile at the pastor.
Odessa General Kaulbars proclaims that anyone who attempts to kill or kills an official with explosives or deadly weapons will be executed without inquiry or trial. The decree covers Kherson Odessa Bessarabia Kherson Governorate and Crimea including Katsarislav.
The Washington house on Monday tabled the whipping post bill for wife beaters by a 153 to 6 vote. Mr Hepburn of Iowa delivered the most impassioned speech, arguing that whipping is not adequate punishment. Mr Adams opened the debate in favor as opponents joked.
The Senate adopts a joint resolution reported by Mrs Tillman from the Interstate commerce committee directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to probe charges of discrimination and restraint of trade against railroads. Tillman denounces the administration for not pursuing railroad legislation in good faith.
Senator Carter proposes a sweeping bill governing future handling of Indian reservation lands. It authorizes the president to survey reservations and allot lands in severalty while remaining lands open to settlement entry. Indians may lease lands allotted for sugar beet culture.
Reports from Venezuela describe tightened censorship and rumors of Vice President Vicente Gomez plotting against President Castro if a French blockade occurs. General Antonio Velutini allegedly seeks the presidency and has ties with France as turmoil over concession controversy grows. Citizens reportedly ready to resist Castro and fear French intervention, with scarce money for war and no commissariat prep. Castro processes expulsions, including a man named Van Kestern.
Tom O'Neill, Chalk Bluffs rancher twelve miles south of Cheyenne Wyoming, was shot in the left leg and grazed in the right leg by a hired killer from at least a mile away. Surgeons treated the wounds. O'Neill is expected to recover. The attack mimics methods attributed to the late Tom Horn and notes the assassin avoided close contact.
A stipulation signed by James H. Hawley for the prosecution and Fred Miller for the defense delays the trial of Harry Orchard for the assassination of ex governor Frank Steunenberg. The case will not be heard at the upcoming Canyon county term and is postponed to the April term.
Washington reports United States commerce with Spain and Portugal in fiscal year 1905 exceeded 54 million dollars. Imports from Portugal reached 15 million, exports to Portugal 2 million. Spain accounted for 19 million imports and 17 million exports, with 6.5 million from Portugal and 8.5 million from Spain in unspecified categories.
During a skating tournament at Humboldt Park in Chicago a grandstand collapsed as 3,000 spectators crowded near the bank. Police had kept spectators behind ropes but the crowd broke through overrunning the fence and causing injuries as panic spread after the structure sank.
In Gadsden Alabama an angry mob of twenty four masked men overpowered the sheriff and jailer at dawn and hanged Bunkie Richardson a negro charged with the July 15 murder of Mrs. Sarah Smith. The mob dragged the prisoner from the jail and strung him from a bridge of the Louisville and Nashville railroad over the Coosa river.
The widow of the late Dr. Simmons opened the death by suicide preacher's private safe in Peoria and found it empty except for a business letter. A $20,000 Macon Cereal stock certificate, asset of People's Bank in bankruptcy, was not in the box. No will found and life policies believed to be cashed are missing. The unverified sale of the Macon stock has hurt the bank's assets.
Seattle sailors aboard the French bark Admiral Courbet mutinied on Saturday, seized a boat, and landed, refusing to sail due to ballast problems and fears the vessel was unseaworthy. Port Townsend’s N. W. O’Rear noted ballast concerns and said 250 tons was insufficient, with the ship having broken from a tug en route from San Francisco.
New York reports a pending deal in Wall Street will create a corporation rivaling United States Steel in size. The plan calls for at least 600 million dollars in stock and underwritten par, to control output of lead and copper ores, smelting, and refined product sales.
The army transport Meade, delayed by a hold fire, sailed Saturday for Honolulu Guam and Manila with over 100 passengers and the Second Infantry plus the Eighth and Thirteenth field batteries. Captain Charles F Williams commands, replacing Captain Wilson who was injured in the blaze.
A wagon carrying three people was struck by a Colorado & Southern passenger train at Salt Creek crossing two miles south of Pueblo. Two occupants Mia Williams aged 40 and David Arone were killed outright while John Williams aged 30 was seriously injured. The wagon and horse were destroyed as the party returned home below the pine smelter.
Stockton California report says Tomo Sablich and Gero Bugich were imprisoned in the App mine by a cave in for five days. They were rescued Saturday with water at hand saving them from starvation, though extremely weak from lack of food.
A traveler from Venezuela reports President Castro is mobilizing the republic for war with generals in every state ordered to recruit. Public support wanes and many vow revolt once a French blockade starts. Puerto Cabello and Laguaira would mount weak defenses with limited artillery. The navy lists five small ships at Laguarta.
In St Petersburg a clash between revolutionists and Black Hundreds surrounding the Cabaret Schulesselberg Chaussee at the Novaky riverbank left two dead and eighteen wounded, with the building wrecked by a bomb blast and ensuing gunfire. The scene was described as a gruesome night of death and destruction.
A preliminary Colorado statistics summary shows a 22 percent rise in manufacturing establishments and a 1 percent gain in product value from 1900 to 1904. Excluding building trades and hand crafts, 1607 establishments with capital of 107.7 million employed 2,640 salaried officials and 12,824 wage earners earning 15.1 million. Product value totals 100.4 million.
The house processed 420 private pension bills in 72 minutes aimed at veterans barred from the general statute. About 75 percent of beneficiaries are blind or bedridden. The day also included minor bills and two amendments to the Philippine tariff act of 1996.
Frank Wisnewoski the stable boy and sole eyewitness to the shooting of Bartley T Horner by his son in law Dr James E K Simpson at Northport L I is reported dying in the State hospital for the insane at Kings Park Simpson says the shotgun discharge was an accident he was the only witness to the tragedy
Ebb Coley shot and killed Jogle La Bat in a Grand Pacific hotel room on Kearny street and then killed himself with two bullets. The woman in bed, ill and helpless, was the other victim. Coley, a former soldier, shared the apartment with her.
Berlin reports a cautiously hopeful tone about the Algeciras meeting while officials fear outcomes. Observers warn a failure could strain German-French relations and damage prestige, with press commentary urging caution against excessive optimism.
Marriner W. Merrill apostle of the Mormon church and president of the Logan temple died at his Richmond home at 11 on Tuesday night after a long kidney illness. Born September 25 1832 in Sackville New Brunswick he left Canada in 1853 and traveled to Salt Lake City where he became a prominent church and civil figure.
In Edinburgh a Crofter group on Parra island Hebrides seized Watersay Island. They landed without bloodshed and intend to resist attempts to remove them. They split the island into small parcels and distributed them among themselves. No troops nearby, hindering government action.
Autopsy on Alexander Devin, the boy killed at the Colma club pavilion, finds negligence tied to Chief Johnson. San Mateo sheriff and local police seek Johnson as a manslaughter suspect after the Monday night incident.
Reported progress on a one car tariff deal between Germany and the United States sparked optimism at the time. An embassy and foreign office inquiry later contradicted the claim, though officials remain hopeful for an agreement before month’s end.
Secretary of War Tat hae will order the moments on the Shiloh battlefield to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Iowa regiments, inscribed with their arrival time as desired by the organizations. War Department records do not agree with the claims of the regiment members.
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