Utah News Highlights From the State Wide Briefs
Tomato blight endangers Utah crop with losses in Davis County. Dozens of Utah doctors visit Portland exposition. Richfield forms racing club and school district plans consolidation. Judge Dee dies in Ogden. Apple orchard yields good, peaches fail in Grand County. Park City miner Patrick Mullen killed. Salt Lake City health dept reports June deaths at a 20-year low. Several accidents and deaths feature in Weber, Ogden, American Fork, Richfield, and Provo communities.
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Thomas J. Dee
Weber County
Ogden
Southern California Editorial Association
Salt Lake Présa Club
Huntington
Viciniy
Grand County
Patrick Mullen
Park City
Salt Lake City
Woman Killed by Insane Husband in Salt Lake City
Edward Mitchell killed his wife by cutting her throat then hanged himself in the barn. He had been considered insane for two years amid growing homicidal mania. Relatives warned her, but she refused to leave him. Neighbors found both dead hours later. Mitchell was a Utah Pioneers’ association member with a life history from Nephi to mining camps including Eureka.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Edward Mitchell
Mitchell
Antil
Utah Pioneers' Association
Nephi
California
Great American Desert
Sill
Eureka
Mutiny at Libau Ends in Shootings and Executions
The Morning Post reports a Libau mutiny where 23 sailors were condemned to death and executed as orders spread. A shooting party later fired on officers, causing multiple deaths and prompting a broader clash with Cossacks and troops.
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London
Morning Post
Libau
Mu Upy
St. Petersburg
Rotterys Lords Speech Attacks British Military Power
In a lengthy House of Lords speech Lord Rottery argues Britain's military force is inadequate and poorly trained to uphold a great power status. He criticizes the public for lacking national resolve until danger appears, while not blaming the government for its stance.
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London
Lord Roterty
House of Lords
Great Britain
Lord Roberta
England
Lord Roberts
Thirty Miners Doomed in Dortmund Coal Mine Fire
A coal mine fire in Dortmund Germany results from a lamp mishandled by boys. Thirty nine miners are cut off with rescue work hampered by poisonous gas. Two hundred fifty escaped via an air shaft as the ground sinks above the shaft in a thunderlike roar. Women and children wait in heavy rain for news of husbands and fathers.
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Dortmund
Prussia
Borussia
Wild West Show Cowboy Killings On Train Near Wheeling
Telegrams from Clarksburg and Burnsville report a clash on a Baltimore and Ohio excursion train with cowboys from a wild west show defending a fellow rider. A fusillade injured several, and two men, Joe Johnson the show owner and Meshcan George, were killed.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Clarksburg
Burnsville
Joe Johnson
Meshcan George
Heat Death Toll Rises as New York City Endures Heat Wave
Dozens suffer heat illness in New York City as an intense heat wave grips the area. A sea breeze provides brief relief, but temperatures stay high and ambulances shuttle sunstruck residents to hospitals all day.
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New York
Quarto
Isthmus health policy aims to protect workers on Panama Canal
Chairman Shonts of the Panama Canal Commission announces a healthful policy for Isthmus labor. He cites housing, nutritious food at reasonable cost, transport, and recreation as priorities, with rapid expansion of the workforce as facilities permit. He notes 6,000 to 10,000 employees affected by yellow fever illnesses and four deaths in June. Wages have risen across services under the current commission.
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Washington
Panama
Chaiirman Shonts
Panama Canal Commission
Shonts
Americana
United States
Root Accepts Roosevelt Offer as Secretary of State
President Roosevelt offered Elihu Root the post of secretary of state and Root accepted. Roosevelt traveled from Jersey City to Cleveland on the presidential special train with Paul Morton and Root. A formal tender was made in New York and Root's acceptance is believed to be unconditional.
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New York
Roosevelt
Elihu Root
Root
Jersey City
Pennsylvania Railroad
Cleveland
Long Ialand City
Oyster Bay
Paul Morton
Mr. Root
Lone bandit robs stage near Resort Station in Welser
A lone highwayman stopped a Warren to Meadows stage about three miles from Resort Station and robbed the driver and two passengers at gunpoint. He forced the driver to open mail sacks and took all registered letters while money and valuables were seized from the travelers. The bandit, unmasked, walked away toward Warren. amount unknown though substantial mail was on board. Postal authorities alerted. vigorous search planned.
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Welser
Wda
Warren
Meadows
Resort Station
Thunder Mountain Mall
Honoring Naval Hero Paul Jones in Paris Ceremony
The body of Admiral Paul Jones was delivered to U S representatives at 2 30 pm in the American church on Avenue De L Alma Paris in a ceremony attended by French and U S dignitaries. General Porter received the body and Admiral Slebee was commissioned to transport it to America.
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Paris
Paul Jones
United States
Avenue de L'Alma
France
General Porter
Loomis
Admiral Slebee
America
Admiral Charnin
Cherbourg
Kansas Supreme Court Rejects Penn Oil Refinery Plan
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled the 410000 refinery project at Penn unconstitutional. Justices Green and colleagues held the act violated the state constitution by restraining the state from engaging in internal improvements and related branch penitentiary plans.
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Topeka
Kans
Penn
State Supreme Court
Green
Standard Oil Company
Kansas
Mutineers Desire to Surrender at Theodosia
The Black Sea fleet moved to Theodosia amid martial law. about half of the Ernir Potemkine's crew reportedly want to surrender but are blocked by revolutionists. Reinforcements have been sent from Be gas to po and a torpedo boat tied to Kniaz Potem kine survived. Odessa riot counts show nine killed and seventy four wounded among civilians, one police trooper killed and twenty wounded.
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Begastopo
Kniaz Potemkine
Kustenji
Theodosia
Kabanoff
Odessa
Loulaville Lynch Kills Man on Train Near Normandy
A mob of about twenty five men riddled Lon Beard a negro accused of assault, as the train halted at Normandy. Beard had been en route from Taverrane to Shelbyville for safe keeping when the lynching occurred this afternoon.
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Loulaville
Times
Shelbyville
Lon Beard
Chester Crawford
Normandy
Taverrane
Beard
Murderer Landed In Jail In Seattle
Robert Ball, convicted at Ketchikan Alaska for the murder of William Deppe, arrived in Seattle on the City of Seattle and was sent to the federal prison on McNeil's Island for a twelve year sentence. The killing occurred during a quarrel between workers in a Fox Island marble quarry, with Deppe shot in the doorway of his cabin while discussing the fight.
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Seattle
Wash
Robert Ball
Ketchikan
Alaska
William Deppe
McNell's Island
Depp
S Ders
Fox Ieland
Deppe
Bank to remain closed after cashier's suicide
President Mason of the Commercial Bank of Hagerstown announces the bank will not reopen and a receiver is expected to be named. He cites a deficiency of assets and a confused condition following cashier John Bowman’s suicide on July 3. The bank, a private partnership owned by Mr. and Mr. Mason, faces collapse.
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Hagerstown
Ind
Mason
The
Commercial Bank
Theohn Bowman
Mr. Mason
Odessans Calm Despite Potemkine Mutineers
Odessa citizens follow Knolax Potemkine operations around Black Sea ports with interest but see no immediate threat. Officials track movements. public sentiment remains unalarmed and skeptical of any imminent menace to Odessa.
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Odessa
Knolax Potemkine
Black Sea
Odessians
Russians Demand Parole for Mare Island Cruiser Crew
More than 100 crew members of the Russian cruiser interned at Mare Island Navy Yard demand parole as the crews on Russian ships in Manila have received. They seek return to Russia while leaving enough sailors to man the vessel.
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Vallejo, Cal
Mare Island Navy Yard
Genther
Manila
Russia
Owensboro Man Hanged After Desperate Self Harm Attempt
Robert Mathley died by hanging after attempting suicide by cutting his arms during the night in Owensboro Kentucky. He had murdered William A Watkins and James Gregson a year earlier in a jealousy fueled case and, before his execution, claimed a woman caused his downfall.
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Owensboro
Robert Mathley
Mathiey
William A. Watkins
James Gregson
Fire in Criminal Court of Corrections room causes alarm
A match dropped on the floor of a court room caused a small fire in the criminal court of corrections building. The room had been disinfected and a general panic followed as inmates and others fled. No injuries were reported and the flames were quickly extinguished.
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Louie
Criminal Court Bf
Four Courts
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