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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1910
Page
2
Ogden store workers organize a retail clerks union while Utah headlines report diverse local incidents from a leprosy case in East Lake City to a Welsh reunion at Saltair and a high court case over a Japanese labor contractor.
Carl Etherington a 22 year old blind beer raider for the State Anti Saloon league was dragged from the Licking County Jail and hanged by an unmasked mob after riots. He had killed William Howard proprietor of the Last Chance restaurant in a raid on alleged speak-easies. Etherington died at hospital Friday night amid a mob scene that battered jail doors and sparked deadly unrest.
The forty-eighth annual convention closed with radical calls for change. Mrs Billa Flagg Young was elected Chicago president while David Starr Jordan denounced football as a college sport. Other speakers urged practical courses and criticized overly theoretical curricula in high schools and agricultural colleges.
Fines totaling 680 dollars were levied against Emerald- Republican Publishing and four staffers by Judge Thomas D Lewis in district court on Friday for contempt of court charges. General manager George E Hale received a 200 dollar fine and thirty days in jail for publishing the confession of Harry Thorne in the Fascell murder case as trials of James Riley and Thorne proceeded.
Baroness De La Roche piloting a Volin biplane crashed at about fifty meters after losing nerve during an aviation meet in Bethany Plains Rheimsa. She suffered broken limbs and severe contusions but is expected to recover. Earlier, Charles Wachter died July 2 when his monoplane collapsed at 500 feet.
The Department of Agriculture held a Friday auction of food tested by the Bureau of Chemistry and found pure. Cheese and oleo margarine meeting standards were sold to the highest bidders, with clerks bidding in bulk. Prices were about half of those in stores, delivering practical relief in living costs.
In Nicaragua the government orders about 5000 residents near Granada to concentrate under Sebastian Salinas. The move aims to justify a Granada regime push into Mombacho via a forced compliance edict with potential executions for noncompliance. In Chicago Mrs. Henry Mullan fatally wounds her husband and daughter then commits suicide, citing brutality and infidelity.Lewiston sheriff arrest in Burke murder case follows longstanding enmity as Stephen Sutter of Malden is charged after Burke’s death with a gunshot breast wound.
The U S land office in Lander ruled on 64 civil contest cases involving 10 000 acres in Big Horn county tied to the Owl Creek and Coho coal mines. Government won 57, entrymen 4, with 2 awaiting rehearing. Mines closed by injunction in February, leaving about a thousand out of work. Eight New York promoters face criminal charges. four seek extradition and may pursue habeas corpus to the U S Supreme Court.
Reno report shows Jack Johnson earned 60 percent of an $11,000 purse plus a $10,000 bonus and $50,000 from picture rights totaling $120,600 after Jim Jeffries was defeated. Jeffries took 40 percent of the purse plus a $10,000 bonus and $6,000 from picture deals for a $117,000 total. Film owners expect a million-dollar profit from the event.
Roy Duncan, 24, and his father R. E. Duncan were killed by gas while cleaning a well on their farm nine and a half miles southwest of Girard Kansas. Roy was overcome first and his father rushed to help him, succumbing to the fumes before aid arrived.
Dinah Greenset, a cousin of Andrew Carnegie, died in poverty at Alameda County Infirmary. She had received 25 monthly from Carnegie, drawn from interest on a deposit he held in an eastern bank. She was Scottish born and aged 14 at death.
Government decree orders lightning protection equipment for the executive mansion. Installation proceeds while President Taft is away from Washington.
Representatives of the Indiana Ohio and Michigan state railroad commissions met in Indianapolis to petition the interstate commerce commission to suspend the operation of new freight rates submitted by railroads in the Central Freight Association territory until the case is revised.
Government inspectors seized more than twelve tons of frozen or dessicated eggs deemed unfit for consumption at the Kings County Refrigerating Company plant in Brooklyn. The seizure followed orders from the department of sericulture.
American consul general John J. Griffiths unveiled a memorial tablet in Ecton church Northamptonshire to Benjamin Franklin recalling Ecton as his ancestral home and birthplace of his father. The old Franklin homestead was replaced by a house built in 1767 and the church dates from the thirteenth century.
Charles Des Forges a laborer struck and fatally harmed his wife wounded his fifteen year old son and then killed himself in New Orleans authorities report a domestic violence and suicide case detailing a fatal family tragedy
An automobile fell about 50 feet from a bridge into San Pedro creek in San Antonio Texas early Wednesday. One person is dead and four others are injured two probably fatally in the crash investigation and rescue attempts.
Jurors sustained prosecution claims that 625 sacks of flour seized from Lexington Elevator Company were adulterated and misbranded. The verdict found the flour bleached by the Alsop process and mislabeled fancy patent. The case was prosecuted under the Pure Food and Drug Act in federal court in Kansas City Missouri. The seven hour deliberation ended in a government victory.
Harry Thorne, accused slayer of Groceryman George W Fassell, is convicted of murder and faces execution. One partner in the Fasell hold up has already received a life sentence. Thorne, described as a boy, shows indifference to his fate.
Charles Shufelt, a young Montana rancher, drowned in the Missouri River before his wife Thursday. He tried to swim the river atop a horse while leading another animal, but was pulled under by the undertow and his wife could not assist.
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