Utah News Briefs Reflect Varied Local Events
National Guard encampment at Mant. Salt Lake man falls from fifth floor with a broken arm. Capital observes Labor Day with suspensions and gatherings. Ogden rider crushed but recovering. Grand Army convention in Denver draws Utah attendance. New Weber Academy building planned at Ogden costing about 30 000 dollars. Miner Hana Roth killed in Frisco Lulu mine. Nils Benson, 64, dies after injury in Salt Lake. Western Pacific construction near Salt Lake anticipated in two weeks. Weber club contesting freight-rate discrimination. Tomato growers wary amid market challenges. Herman Harms confirms purity of breakfast foods. Modena reports first religious services. Wright attempts suicide in Salt Lake jail. Joseph Murphy narrowly saved from drowning at Great Salt Lake. Prospects of Holliborne extension discussed. Hogs disease appears in Payson area. James Cheiddensen reports August receipts 2082 25 dollars with 96206 80 disbursements. New tabernacle at end opened. Salt Lake health board notes health improvements in 1906.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Salt Lake
Ogden
Denver
Weber Blake Academy
Hana Roth
Frisco
Horn
Lulu
Horn Silver
Utah
Herman Harms
Firat
Modena
Foster
Car Poa
Wright
Bingham Ton
Salt Lake County
Great Salt Lake
Joseph Murphy
St. Kdute
Murphy
Walty
Conppaint
Cna
Ita
Payson
Hitea
James Cheiddensen
Mute Trementer
Lightning Strikes Utah Race Track Injuring Dozens
A bolt from a clear sky at Richfield Utah during Utah Commercial Travelers' Day struck near 2,500 spectators, killing one and injuring about twenty six others. Horses panicked, carriages overturned, and several victims were burned or shocked as a crowd fled the scene.
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Richfield
Utah
Parsons
Fair Grounds
A. D. Rasm
Hle
Lawn
Alice Bean
Mit
Dwight
Klehtelt
U Williams
Kierry BK
Milla
Miehfeld
Mia
Rasmttteen
Trehheld
Howe
Cnt
Inox Clark
Wiehtela
Mre
Haaren
Bnitornally
Aghimus Hichtield
Archie Anilenon
Russo Japanese Treaty Signed at Portsmouth
The Russo Japanese peace treaty was signed in Portsmouth New Hampshire with representatives from both empires present at the Navy Yard. Officials including Admiral Mead and Major Moses observed military honors as the ceremony proceeded and the plenipotentiaries signed the document. The event drew praise from Baron De Rosen and Baron Komare, and a joint thanksgiving service followed at Christ Church.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Russia
Japan
United States Navy Yard
Kittery Point
Navy Yard
Admiral Mead
Moses
Peirce
McLane
Porthmouth
M. Witte
Ryan Plenipotentiariea
Baron de Rowen
Baron Komare
Baron de Rosen
Christ Pal Church
Mikado thanks our president for peace in the Far East
The Japanese emperor expresses warm thanks to President Roosevelt for his disinterested efforts toward a permanent peace in the Far East. The telegram from Taklo notes gratitude for Roosevelt's role and credits him with essential principles for lasting welfare and tranquillity, signaling hope for a durable Portsmouth peace.
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Far East
Roosevelt
Japan
Bin
Taklo
Mutsuhito
Russia
Portsmouth
Tragedy at Greenville as baloon dynamite stunt ends
In Greenville Ohio 1500 feet up Professor John Baldwin vanished in a dynamite explosion during an aerial warfare display. Thousands watched as the airship blew apart and his body was found torn to fragments. Baldwin had been performing balloon and airship exhibitions for nearly twenty years.
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Greenville
John Baldwin
Baldwin
Spread of cholera reaches from Baltic to Warthe in Germany
Berlin reports cholera spreading from two river Weichsel localities to thirty four cases across twelve areas from the Baltic to the Warthe 150 miles south and now appearing in Hamburg. A cabinet committee directs preventive measures with bacteriologists deployed to affected districts.
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Berlin
Weitchsel
Baltic
Warthe
Hamburg
Germany
Russia
Dr. Studt
Herr von Sudde
Herr Moller
Commerce and Industry
von Bethmann-Holbeig
Murder Involving Infant In West Side Tenement
Agnes Hyland of New York aged 26 was jailed after her baby Gertrude was beaten to death by Gustave Denser a plumber living with them police say the infant was washed clothed and left at a west side doorway Hyland claims Denser killed the child and she helped dispose of the body as authorities investigate the case.
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New York
West Side
Agnes Hyland
Gustave Denser
Denser
Gertrude
Beeniuen Denser
Diabolical Spanish outrage wounds Barcelona crowd
A conical cement covered bomb exploded on a Sunday Marine parade in Barcelona injuring several and killing at least one. Witnesses report a child placing the device near a tree and a man seen near the root before the blast.
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Barcelona
Alr
Shaw Nown
Corpses Lying in the Streets of St Petersburg Amid Disorder
Dispatches report violence in Baku and St Petersburg with fifty workers hired during fighting, many wounded believed Tartars. Private messages claim corpses lie in streets and fires devastate 151 buildings as unrest continues. Factories previously supplied rebels with arms, leaving them nearly as ready for street clashes as troops.
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St. Petersburg
Baku
Bunday
Southeast Caucasus Terror as Tartars Attack Armenians
Dispatch from Title says the southeast Caucasus is terrorized by Tartars with refugees pouring into the area from Baie Elizabethpol and Shusha. Details report engagements behind regular positions and much of the town was set ablaze with over 200 houses destroyed.
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St. Petersburg
Caucasuia
Baie, Elizabethpol
Shusha
Snehh
Maes
Uprising in China Reported From Victoria BC
Advices from Peking via the steamer Athenian describe a large Kalphus revolt in southern Shanai with fires destroying government offices and yamen. Imperial forces of several thousand, including cavalry infantry and artillery, were dispatched August 16 to quell the insurrection but were repulsed by rioters.
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Victoria
B. C
Peking
Shanai
Inquest Planned After Man Fatally Wounded in Butte
A man claiming to be Benatar Cock’s brother-in-law was shot at a Butte hospital Thursday afternoon. He arrived recently from Yellowstone with a $100 bank draft drawn on Clark Bros. bank in Hutte Montana as partial payment for park board. He was 15 years old and had no funds in the bank. Coroner to hold an inquest.
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Hutte
Mont
K. A
Benatar Cock
Eell
Miner
Himeell
Butte Hospital
Tuomlay
Yellowstone National Mk
Clark Bros. Bank
Park
Enlig Wee
Corone
Street demonstration turns violent as gunfire erupts
An evening protest in Cusnabacom sees Governor Gomes and other leaders clash with moderates. Stone throwing and gunfire injure the crowd, with the carriage occupant fatally wounded and six others hurt.
Brooklyn Tragedy Ends in Murder and Suicide
Rudolph Williamson killed his sweetheart Rene Sanne in a Brooklyn apartment after she promised to marry him if he paid her passage from Norway. He shot himself, and as letters indicate the couple’s agreement, he faces likely death.
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New York
Rene Sanne
Norway
Rudolph Williamenon
Williamson
Brooklyn
Crime of love ends in double shooting in Spokane lodging house
In Spokane Harry Stanley an 18 year old fired twice at Alice Durkee 10 then shot himself. Durkee was hit in the groin but will recover. Stanley who worked in a stable fired after arguing about her planned marriage to another. He remains alive but likely to die.
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Spokane
Wash
Harry Stanley
Alice Durkhee
Eldorado
Miss Durkee
Northport
Branley
Stanley
Aolvery Stable
Honest Elections Drive Targets Bogus Voter Names
The Philadelphia director of public safety orders police to detain officers to appear before election assessors on September 5. They will present 60 000 affidavits by policemen demanding removal of fictitious and deceased or moved voters from the rolls.
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Philadelphian
Publc Safety
Department At Public Safety
Death After Drinking Carbolic Acid at Nazarene Mission
In San Diego on a Sunday evening an unknown man argued over doctrinal points at the Nazarene mission. He produced a bottle and declared belief alone sufficed to drink its contents. He swallowed carbolic acid and died within moments.
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San Diego
Cal
Nazarene
Forty Injured in Santa Fe Train Wreck at Boone
The Santa Fe passenger train wreck near Boone Colorado, twenty miles east of Pueblo, injured about forty people. Most victims were Kansans and eastern residents en route to the G A R convention in Denver. Several suffered cuts and bruises, with reports varying on total injuries.
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Pueblo
Colo
Kansan
Boone
Iet
Denver
Tragic Hudson River Steamboat Sinking Claims Several Lives
In Hudson New York the small pleasure steamer Young America was run down by the ferry George H Power. Four young women from New York City Mary Boddell Jennie Bel Sarah Brown and Margaret Kay Coxsackle drowned. Three other people including the captain and engineer were rescued.
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Hudson, N. Y
Hudson River
Bonday
Young América
War Run Town
Munk
George H. Power
Mary
Boddell
Jennie L. Bel
Sarah Brown
New York City
Margaret Me
Kay
Coxsackle
Crime of a Mother in Pueblo Claims Two Lives
The bodies of Mrs. L. B. Haver and her five year old son were found in the Reanemer ditch early Thursday. They were tied together with a stout cord. The woman appeared in poor health for some time and left no explanation for taking her life or that of her child.
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Pueblo, Cole
L. B. Haver
Sen
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