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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1906
Page
2
Reports show a strong harvest with beets and peaches. Provo opens Farmers and Merchants Bank with 50000 capital. Governor Cutler aide Nelson resigns to start business. elder incidents include a lineman killed at Mogham and a Park City building boom.
The United States shortl y proclaims William H Taft as provisional governor of Cuba with Hacon and Mo Cook at the palace. President Palma expresses relief at shifting leadership to a stronger power while Cuban masses show indifference and merchants push to resume trade across the island after six weeks of revolution.
The old wooden steamer City of Concord with three barges in tow foundered during a Saturday storm on Lake Erie off Cleveland. Three of her twelve crew were drowned, others survived after a harrowing voyage ending in Cedar Point and Huron. Captain Charles McEacheran of Buffalo commanded the 38 year old vessel.
A coastal storm devastates Mobile and surrounding areas with 75 to 100 deaths feared and over two score vessels wrecked or driven ashore in the Gulf of Mexico. Damage totals reach about 4.5 million dollars in Mobile and at least 2 million outside. Gulfport Biloxi fears high casualty, while New Orleans reports extensive wreckage along the gulf coast and inland tidewater flooding.
Washington reports a telegraph from Eagle Pass Texas says about thirty bandits and smugglers seized Jiminez Mexico. Mexican soldiers fought them with several killed. A later dispatch says revolutionists clashed near Victoria with one ranger killed and retreating. Jiminez now held by Mexican troops. locals see little revolutionary intent.
Washington reports Roosevelt approved sending the first U S army expedition to occupy Cuba. Secretary Taft urges action while the general staff lines up organizations and begins hiring transports at Newport News. Supplies for 5 500 men for thirty days are rushed to the port as mobilization proceeds.
Washington reports American forces massing for Cuba with mobilization centered at Newport News Virginia and some units from New York and Tampa. Officials say Cuba is quiet and insurgents may lay down arms as Roosevelt orders rapid expeditionary preparations. Marines and sailors will safeguard interests and back Taft as provisional governor from Cuban waters.
A Caribbean hurricane devastated the Mississippi Sound area inflicting six drownings and extensive vessel losses. Reports from ships indicate the Cat and Horn stands were submerged as crews sent from the mainland reached the islands.
Italian foreign office officials welcomed the Cuban provisional government and expressed hope for peace and order on the island. They voiced confidence that the United States would find a definite solution to the troubled conditions. Telegrams announced Taft's governorship to King Victor Emmanuel. Pope Pius ordered Merc Aversa to delay his Cuba departure pending further instructions.
Timothy P. O Connor member of the British house of commons and Irish affairs leader arrived from Liverpool on the Celtic to attend the United Irish League third biennial convention in Philadelphia. He indicated the Irish party has a favorable outlook and a self government measure may be introduced in Parliament.
The death of Miss Annie Oatkin reveals a hidden cache of $16,000, split between her late father Bias Oatkin and the daughter. She told her brother before passing that she placed the money in an old trunk in the garret, where she added $6,000 over ten years. The trove, found in an old trunk, consisted of gold coins totaling $16,000.
Three sailors die and twenty-four railroad cars with 800 tons of iron ore are lost when car ferry No. 2 capsizes a mile from the harbor while being towed from South Chicago to Chicago harbor. High winds loosened cargo as the barge overturned near the breakwater.
A rear end collision on the New York division of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Eddington Pa killed two and injured twenty five or more. The Long Branch express en route to Philadelphia had halted to inspect a hot journal when another express train from New York hitting the curve crashed into it.
Two armed terrorists, a man and a woman, were arrested in the servants’ quarters of the Alexandria palace at Peterhof near Cronstadt Bay. The well laid plot to assassinate the emperor was uncovered Friday as authorities secured them at the closely guarded royal residence.
Adolph Weber was executed at Folsom Prison for the 1904 murder of his mother Juliug Weber and three other family members in Auburn California. Prosecutors described the crime as revolting and Weber faced the scaffold with notable nerve. He died at 12 40 p m after the trap released. He was the sole heir to the Weber wealth and had been convicted of the brutal killings.
In San Francisco a street car accident on Oak Street injured eight people, four seriously, when brake failure sent the car speeding down the hill. The crowded car struck a sand wagon and both vehicles were smashed. some riders were on the roof.
District Attorney Jerome said he cannot accept the Buffalo Democratic convention as legitimate. He pledges to work to elect Charles B. Hughes governor, arguing real Democrats should not be bound by the fake convention.
Justice Bischoff denied Harry K. Thaw's counsel request to move the indictment from the court of special sessions to the criminal branch of the New York Supreme Court. He ruled publicity and jury concerns do not justify transfer.
United States Steel officials and Hil Iron ore interests held a conference in New York regarding transfer of iron ore properties in the northwest. Sources say an agreement has been reached and a formal announcement of terms will be issued soon, with only minor details remaining.
Jacob C. Cross, arrested in Berkeley on an Oregon indictment for land frauds, will not fight extradition. He will go to Portland to stand trial in the U S district court. He waived examination before U S Commissioner Heacock and a new $5,000 bond guaranteeing appearance in Portland was filed.
Grace Sterling Countess Mankowski wife of Count Casimir Ignace Mankowski and daughter of John M. Bixby has been adjudged insane and incompetent to manage her property valued at several hundred thousand dollars by a sheriff's jury and a commission appointed by the supreme court. The countess was married in 1870 in New York and later went to England with her husband and three children. She was declared insane ten years ago in England.
The M. Hubbell company owned by F. H. Hubbell was fined $600 in a criminal court in Des Moines Iowa after six indictments for leasing property for immoral purposes. Judge Howe overruled the demurrer and the defendant refused to plead.
At the Salatoga convention, Mr. Hughes is nominated by acclamation. Hearst leads a Democratic slate with Lewis Chandler for lieutenant governor and John Whalen for secretary of state. Sulzer polled 124 votes, while Dix received 17. total 450.
Reports from St. Petersburg describe grave agrarian die orders sparking unrest in Vintka with Malmaisk district at center. Villagers have reportedly joined the uprising, disarmed authorities, expelled police, and looted landowners' residences as they devastate the countryside.
Stensland, who admitted embezzling about 400000 leading to the Milwaukee Avenue State bank failure, received an indeterminate penitentiary sentence in Chicago within hours of arrival from the east and began serving at Joliet. He pled guilty on two indictments for embezzlement and violation of banking laws.
A wall section at the corner of Kearney and Ping Streets collapsed, burying fifteen workers, mostly Italians. Camille Salo was crushed to death. three others were injured but not seriously. Several narrow escapes were reported.
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