Utah State News Briefs Highlight Local Incidents and Inquiries
A roundup of Utah events includes Annie Hancock’s passing after a short illness, Otgan Washburn’s orchard earnings, political tickets in Salt Lake City and Monroe, and an automobile link between Beaver and Milford during a fair. Reports cover a linemen strike ending, hunting accidents, murder sentences, business hours changes, and various local mishaps. Also noted are fires at Logan area facilities, railroad track proposals, a Dixie Forest Reserve order, and exhibits by John W Long.
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Nias
Salt Lake City
Kern Thompson
Beaver
Milford
Wwtah Light and Railway Company
Salt Lake
Charles Crismon
Saenger
Bhunteman
Frank Carter
Joe
John Lee
Main Street
Barney Riley
Park City
City Hall
Mia
Lares Hansen's
Logan
Train Held Up as Express Car Dynamited Near Ballard
The Great Northern Overland train left Seattle at 8 20 p m Monday night when three men robbed the baggage and express car near Mile Point 10 about five miles from Ballard. Two boys on the blind baggage joined the robbery after the blast. The dynamite exploded, the safe was blown open, and the robbers fled eastward. The two youths claim no prior knowledge of the plan.
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Seattle
Ward
Great Northern Overland
Beatle
Mile Pont 10
Ballard
Drickyard
Judge Guthiel mobbed at Brighton Colorado
A mob dragged Judge Guthiel from a train and forced him to rescind an official order. He had hauled the mayor and town council members for neglecting to enforce gaming and Sunday sale ordinances and deputized deputies to seize local slot machines.
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Denver
Brighton
Colo
Hethitt
A. H. Gutblel
Mana
Inter
Guthiel
Young Clerk Confesses Bank Robbery Ruse
Henry A. Leonard, 24, clerk at Halle Stieglitz, admitted he staged the $159000 securities robbery at National City Bank to prove how easily a bank’s safeguards could be bypassed. He planned the forgery to demonstrate the flaw, claiming no criminal motive and gaining the trust of his employers. The confession aligns with the case facts and the bank’s belief in his reliability.
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New York
Henry A. Leonard
Halle & Stieglitz
Tire
Broad Street
National City Bank
Slaughter of Christians in Macedonia Alarms Europe
W A Moore reports continued killings of Christians in Macedonia as Turkish troops strike villages like Konopoltz. European observers note the routine slayings go unchecked in Monastir and Kommanova districts with Austrian and Italian officers present. Meanwhile canal laborers from Martinique refuse vaccination and some are forcibly removed from the Versailles.
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London
W. A. Moore
Balkan Committee
Macedonia
Buoday
Europe
Konopoltz
Egri Palanka
Kommanova
Monastir
Mutiny and Murder in South Seas Tragedies
Reports from the Solomon Islands recount mutiny and murder aboard South Sea trading vessels. Captain Pentecost, an Engil ehman, was tied to a tree and cast into shark-infested waters as natives danced. The trader Finlayson was killed and thrown overboard after being bound. Investigations by H M S Torah and others followed, with leaders alleged to be among the captured rumoured to be taken to Noumea.
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Victoria
B. C
Miowere
Australia
Bolomon
Save
Vella Lavell
William Finlayson
Nornman Wheatley
Giza
Solomon
Finlayson
H. M
Torah
Natios
Richard Pentecost
Petre
Noumea
Captain Pentecost
Murdered by Highwaymen in Portland Night Attack
A veteran of the Civil War, William H. Booth, was murdered Saturday night near Portland in a suspected robbery. He was found with a crushed base, two knife wounds to the neck, and an eye protruding, after a fierce struggle with a young suspect still at large being sought by police.
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Portland
Ore
Oregonian
Hilleboro
William H. Booth
Booth
Train Crash Destroys Two Pullman Sleepers
A Chicago Great Western stock train traveling 20 miles per hour collided with a Soo line passenger train in St Paul yards at 9 30 Sunday morning sending two Pullman sleepers tumbling 20 feet into a gully. One sleeper landed upright two were wrecked. several dozen passengers were injured and one woman died at St Josephs hospital.
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St. Paul
Chicago Great Western
Soo
Union Station
St. Joseph's Hospital
Berkeley Bank Looters Fight Ends In Fatal Shootout
Policeman John J. Lestrange killed one of four bank robbers in a dawn confrontation in Berkeley. The wounded suspect died in the morgue after a volley at close range. The three others escaped as a revolver and safe-cracking tools were found on the fallen man, suggesting an intended bank explosion in West Berkeley.
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Berkeley
Cal
John J. Lestrange
Lestrange
Kly
West Berkeley
Heavy Increase in Revenue Receipts Washington Report
The monthly and quarterly returns show a sharp rise in customs and internal revenue. For September 1934 customs receipts reached 22,230,460 with three month totals of 65,121,784. The latest month closes at 27,244,146 and three months at 75,015,577, up 34,014,786 for the month and 58.79 percent for the quarter. Compared to last year the deficit was 17,814,256 earlier and 9,629,065 for the quarter ending Saturday, while internal revenue gains over last year totaled 2,401,079 in the last three months.
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Washington, D. C
Struck a Floating Mine Off Shanghai Destroys Steamer Haleaho
The coating steamer Haleaho on the Shanghai to Tien Tein run hit a mine ninety miles south of Bhantung promontory and was totally destroyed. Fifteen drowned including engineers Mauchan and Muly. Two passengers and part of the crew were rescued by passing steamers. seventy one survivors have arrived here. All foreigners saved.
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Shanghai
Tien Tein
Bhantung
Mauchan and
Muly
Poisoning at Davenport orphan home shocks board
George Foulk age 6 and Mamie age 8 were poisoned at an orphan home in Davenport by candy sent by their father Jonathan Foulk of Martin Louisiana. Several other children also ate the candy but no deaths or serious injuries reported. The board of control is investigating the incident.
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Davenport, In
George Foulk
Mamie
Davenport
Candy
Jonathan Foulk
Martin
Board of Control
Philippine Typhoon Toll Sparks Wide Aid Effort
Reports from coastal and inland areas along Samar and nearby islands describe substantial loss of life and property. Coast guard cutter Leyte may be wrecked with eleven Americans and twenty four natives drowned. wrecks and hunger spread across Bohol and Sorsogon with plantation crops valued at about 1 million dollars. Military and civil authorities mobilize to deliver food and relief to survivors.
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Muoila
Iteporta
Lanton
Juan Rodrigue
Nahore
Legaspi
Bamiar
Typhoon and Tidal Wave Hit Marshall Islands
Victoria reports a disastrous typhoon and tidal wave in the Marshall group with about 120 lives lost. A six foot wave hit Imuit island where Europeans were housed in a narrow settlement. The hotel top floor collapsed and several Europeans escaped debris. The Germanta trading steamer was saved by its captain guiding it to the lagoon center.
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Victoria
Mall
South Seas
Marshall Group
Imuit
Ancient clay pyramid hints at Chinese settlement in Mexico
Explorations at a Toltec era site near Toltec pyramid on a hacienda in Puebla reveal a clay construction older than the Aztec reign. Carved figures show Chinese features suggesting distant Chinese presence in historic Mexico, puzzling scholars.
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Mexico City
Magueyuan
Puebla
Mexico
Woman acquitted in Port Bragg killing case
A coroner’s inquest found Mrs Neely not guilty after she shot and killed her husband William Thomas Neely at their Port Bragg home. Neely allegedly attacked her after finding a young man present, then fell asleep as she warned him. The jury acquitted the wife.
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Port Bragg
Cal
William Thomas Neely
Neely
Bayonet Fatality at Fort Totton Barracks
Private William Bayder killed Private Peter McIntyre in a barracks quarrel at Fort Totton Whitestone S. C. The confrontation began earlier in the day and Bayder asserted he would kill McIntyre before midnight. McIntyre died from bayonet wounds sustained during the altercation.
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Peter McIntyre
Coast Artillery
Fort Totton
Whitestone
S. 1
William Bayder
Darime
Goyder
Melntyre
Murder under North Approach Bridge Leaves Bricklayer Dead
William Spillane a bricklayer from Alameda county was beaten to death with a blacksmiths hammer under the Sacramento river bridge north approach. The weapon with the broken head lay beside the body found Wednesday afternoon.
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Sacramento
Cal
William Spillane
Alameda County
Sacramento Rive
Fire at two story saloon hotel in New York kills two in bed
A Saturday night blaze at a two story saloon restaurant and lodging home in New York left two men dead in their rear room and several others severely burned, with some likely fatally injured. Residents were warned and evacuated as firefighters battled the smoke and flames.
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New York
Pall ‘Ove
Remen
Railroad Project Aims to Reach Bullfrog in Six Months
C. C. Whittemore attorney for the San Pedro, Southern California, and Salt Lake railway departed for the coast after wrapping up an argument for a terminal site in Bullfrog. He assured Bullfrog citizens that the Las Vegas line would be pushed to completion as rapidly as possible and trains would run into Bullfrog within six months.
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Bullfrog
C. C. Whittemore
San Pedro
Sow
Angelon & Balt Lake Railway
Nm Company
Las Vegas
Pownible
Ranchmen Fined for Fencing Government Land in Nebraska
Judge Munger of the United States Court fines ranchman John Kraus forty dollars and half costs and confines him with the marshal for twenty four hours. His brother Herman Kraus is fined six hundred dollars and half costs. They were convicted at trial of illegally fencing four thousand acres of government land near Alligned Nebraska.
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Omaha
Munger
United Statos Court
John Kraus
Alligned
Nebraska
United States
Herman Kraner
Krause
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Fountain Green
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Puré Food
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Janie Court McDonald
Ulotah
John Heamer
Kelly
Roosevelt
Dixie Forest Reserve
Utah
Washington
Tron Counties
Atate Fair
John W. Long
Koosharem
Deputy County Fame
Andrew Thompson, Jr
Ephraim
Brender
Intermountain Electric Company
Coalville
Bie
Latte
WA Hendry
Hoy White
White
Hendry
Ware Cemetery
Salt Lake Ty
Panama Canal
Colon
Martinique
Versailles
Points Wong
Panam
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Rook
Marence Markham
Cambridge
Here
Armas
Clarence E. Markham
Pentecost
Watera
Luzon
Islands
Azteca
DR. Merrihew
Lehi City
Dr.c.l. Stookey
R. E. Steele, M. D
Jamece Kirkham
W. M. Stookey, M. D
John Bradshaw
A. J. Evans
Attorney AT Law Notary Public
Lehi
Chas. C. Fries
Kee
Chicago
Missouri River
Minneapolis
C. A. Walker
Chicago & & North-Western
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