Utah News Briefs Highlight Local Post Offices and Incidents
In Provo the post office adds one clerk and one letter carrier. Ogden completes a new post office building and moves in. Salt Lake City suffers a wind toss incident as a frame building is blown onto a nearby lot. Roy Russell, eight, is cut by barb wire after a horseback mishap in Uintah. Two masked highwaymen rob a Salt Lake suburb streetcar of 24.50. Salt Lake City gains status among the nation’s top fifty post offices. A Tennessee distillery is bought with plans to move near Salt Lake. Murray’s office gains train dispatch telephone service replacing telegraphing. The funeral of Fisher Harris is held at Mt. Olivet. Utah seeks display at the Uintah Farm Land Congress and supports the Greater Salt Lake Food and Industrial Exposition. The father of Emma Rogers requests investigation into a Los Angeles suicide claim. A state tuberculosis test for dairy cows is mandated at no cost to farmers. Ogden’s railway debate prompts cheaper double-tracking in Colorado. Two youths are arrested in Ogden for larceny. James Kimball faces contempt but is released after a reversal. Oak Greek Orchard aims to boost Millard County production ahead of Brigham City and Cache County orchards.
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Provo
Lark City
Postoffice
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Uintah
Roy Russell
Midvale Ality Ecouncil
Utah Oil Refining Company
Cannan Lewis
Wales
Utah
Ephraim
Oxden
Salt Lake
Sarengi
Allegheny
Tennessee
Salt Lake Route
Oregon
Murray
Fisher Sanford Harris
Mt. Olivet
Untago Farm Land Congress
Boosters’ Committee
Retail Merchants’ Association
Wo. Oimhall
Agricultural Department
Washington
Ogden C
Denver & Rio Grande
Denver
Fred Bremer
Stewart
James N. Kimball
J. A. Howell
Kimball
Oak Greek Orchard Company
Millard
Millard County
Brigham City
Cache County
Taft Returns Home After 13,000 Miles Trip
President Taft ends a three month journey through the West and South by sleeping at the White House on Wednesday night. He left August 6 amid cheering crowds and arrived to similar acclaims, then hurried inside with Mrs. Taft. The auto sped through district limits as police kept watchers back, and Taft waved a brief farewell to aides Fred Carpenter, Colonel Spencer Crosby, and Captain Archibald Butt.
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Washington
Taft
White House
Capital
Mr. Taft
Fred Carpenter
Spencer Crosby
Archibald Butt
Hypnotist alleged to trigger death in New Jersey audience
Arthur Everton, a traveling hypnotist, reportedly placed Robert Simpson in a trance before a Somerville audience. Medical staff later declared Simpson dead from aortic rupture after an autopsy. Everton plans to fight the case claiming possible suspended animation. Davenport witnessed attempts to revive Simpson and will contest the autopsy findings.
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Somerville
N. J
Arthur Everton
Somerville Hospital
William E. Davenport
Newark
Robert Simpson
Everton
Davenport
Simpson
Tong War in Progress in San Francisco Chinatown
Police hundreds patrol San Francisco's Chinese quarter to curb a tong war that has cost five lives this month. Investigations show two Wednesday killings were mistaken identity, involve Bing Kongs and On Yick affiliations, while warrants target Gee Kong Ong and Tong King Chong of major Chinese organizations.
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San Francisco
On Yick
Bing. Kongs
Gee ° Kong Ong
Vek! Tong
Tong
King Chong
Chinese Free Masons
America
Russia sentences St Petersburg lawyer after Bialystok massacre trial
Gillerson a leading St Petersburg attorney was condemned to one year in prison for remarks made during the trial of Jewish massacre participants at Bialystok. His son appeared as counsel for victims' friends and relatives. seventy three were killed and eighty two wounded. The indictment claimed the speech incited workers against the government.
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St. . Petersburg
M. Gillerson
Bialystok
Gillerson
Suffragette Demonstration Disrupts London Banquet
At Guildhall during a royal birthday banquet, a suffragette protest caused a window to be smashed and interrupted the lord mayor's speech. Amelia Brown and Alice Paul Apd were among those involved and later sentenced to one month. Two offenders were arrested.
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London
Alice Paul
Amelia Brown
Guildhall
Reasons for Staple Banking System by Aldrich
Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, chair of the national monetary commission, spoke in Des Moines to bankers on the western role in finance. He urged Iowa to demand a staple banking system and stressed the significance of commercial paper in European banking.
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Des Moles
Ta —Senafor
Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
National Monetary Commission
Bankers’ Club
Des Moines
Senator Cumming
Aldrich
Iowa
Europe
Glavis level charges in Alaska coal land dispute
Washington the Alaska coal lands dispute flares again as IL R Glavis claims in Collier's Weekly that Secretary Ballinger Commissioner Dennett Assistant Secretary Pierce and others aided frauds. Ballinger Denounces the article as false claims backed by Dennett and others familiar with the case.
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Washington
Alaska
H. C. Henry
Thompson Named U S Senator by Governor Burke
Governor Burke appointed John Thompson a Democrat to fill the unexpired term of Senator Johnson who died three weeks ago after a lengthy conference with leading state Democrats. The selection surprised many as Thompson had been a dark horse in the race.
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Pator John Bismarck
TMD
Poudtmiain Thompson
Aan. N
United States
Burke
Johnson
Thompson
Vienna bishop faces treason trial over prophetic dream
Bishop Nik adore of Nish Bervin is charged with high treason after describing a vision of a Belgrade revolution, King Peter deposed, and Crown Prince George proclaimed king. Ministers view the dream as propaganda supporting Prince George.
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Vienna
Nikadore
Nish
Bervin
Belgrade
Peter
George
Prince George
Portland Attorney Hanged on Scaffold in 1908
Salem, Ore. James A. Finch, a Portland lawyer, was hanged here Friday for the murder of Ralph B. Fisher, prosecutor for the Oregon association. Finch was pronounced dead four minutes after the drop of the trap, the crime stemming from the slaying in Salem.
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Portland
Salem
Ore
James A. Finch
Ralph Riaher
Finch
James A. Wnodh
Ralph B. Fisher
Oregon 7 Association
Family tragedy in War Road as fire kills five youngsters
In War Road Minnesota Nels Jensen died from burns after a fire in his home. His wife and five children perished while two children were rescued. An earlier attempt to start a blaze with what he believed was kerosene ended when a five gallon can exploded. A grocery clerk later admitted dumping a barrel of kerosene into the gasoline tank.
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War Road
Minn
Nels Jensen
Here
Jensen
Mrs U Grant Dies in San Diego After Illness
Mrs U Grant wife of a son of the late President Grant died Wednesday in San Diego after years of invalidism. She was the daughter of the late Senator and Mrs Chaffee of Colorado.
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San Diego
Cal
Mra
U. S. Grant
Grant
Chaffee
Colorado
Fought to Death for Her Honor
Cairo Illinois police face a murder case after Annie Pelley a Cairo shop girl was found dead in an alley following a brutal struggle Saturday night torn clothing strewn the path and evidence showed she fought the assailants for two blocks before dying demanding justice.
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Cairo
Til
Annie Pelley
Steamer Collision Sinks La Seyne Near Singapore
The mail steamer La Seyne of Messageries maritimes, en route from Java to Singapore, collided with the British India steamer Onda and sank within minutes. European passengers including Baron and Baroness Beniezki and the La Seyne’s captain among the dead. sixty-one rescued as sharks stalked the wreck. The crash occurred at 4 am in thick seas. La Seyne was cut in two and no boats could be launched.
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Singapore
la Seyne
Messageries Maritimes
Java
Onda
British India Line
Baron
Baroness Beniezki
Pantie
Floods Ravage Jamaica Causing Massive Damage
Kingston reports indicate storms and floods across the island have caused extensive ruin. Rail lines and a stretch of coast on the north have suffered severe damage with slides blocking main lines. bridges destroyed and communications cut. Kingston area losses reach about 500000 dollars as water system intakes and culverts are ruined.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Admits Mother's Crime in Murder of Madison Jeweler
Clara Brodenheyer, daughter of slain Madison jeweler Henry Brodenheyer, confesses to assisting her mother Margaret in luring the man to an abandoned slaughter house and burying the body. Margaret, patient at Dunning asylum, had admitted killing her husband in 1906 after discovering infidelity.
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Chicago
Henry Brodenheyer
Madison
Wis
Margaret
Dunning, Ilinois
Clara Brodenheyer
Schnettler
Brodenheyer
Sugar weighing frauds arrest in New York
After months of government probe into sugar frauds, former American Sugar Refining official Jas. S. Bedernegie was indicted and arrested for conspiring to defraud the government by false sugar weighing. Bedernegie had served over thirty years as superintendent at the Hevemeyer and Elder refinery in Williamsburg, the company’s largest plant. his resignation had just been announced a day earlier.
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New York
American Sugar Refining Company
Jas 5
Bondernagie
Hevemeyer & Elder
Williamsburg
Ameciean Sugar Refining Company
Bedernag‘e
Sixth Victim of Feud in San Francisco
The Yee family On Yiek tong feud claims its sixth victim as Yee Yip Wo is shot dead. The killer, Sun day, was arrested near the scene and charged with the murder. the suspect is a member of a powerful Chinese family not previously tied to On Yick.
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San Francisco
Yee
On Yiek Tong
Yee Yip Wo
Theie Chineso
On Yick
prevention of infant mortality organized in New Haven
A conference on infant mortality concluded Friday and led to the formal organization Saturday morning of a society for study and prevention of infant mortality. Resolutions urging continued work on the issue were approved.
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New Haven
Conn
Society For the
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