Utah State News Highlights Rail, Fire, and Civic Changes
Salt Lake back drivers form a union and a $12,000 meeting house rises at Pleasant Grove. Huntsville seeks an electric light franchise, Crystal Creamery at Marion closes, and illness spreads among American Fork students. A monument is found on Emmons Peak at 14,449 feet. Pleasant Grove sees a suicide. Lehi to subdivide wards. county contemplates consolidating school districts. A fatal burn involving Zola Shoedler in Salt Lake City and several suicides in Salt Lake and Livingston are reported. A boiler explosion near Milner, Idaho, kills Carl W Pederson. Trout fry distribution reaches 1,978,000 in 1903. A Murray widow dies of heart disease. a restraining order blocks a school dance in Ogden. A Salt Lake carpenter dies under a collapsing porch arch. Pleasant Grove ships fire clay to Murray furnaces. the Christiana branch marks 50th anniversary in Salt Lake City.
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Lena Larson
Pleasant Grove
Lehi
Salt Lake County
Zola Shoedler
Salt Lake City
Little Ones
Charles Smith
George Woodling
Salt Lake
Wadley & Sons
Murray Smelters
Christiana Branch
Mormon Church
C.O
A Christensen
ANOTHER REBELLION HATCHING IN SAN DOMINGO CITY
State department reports from United States Minister Power in San Domingo City warn of dissension within the provisional government and risk of another revolution. General Jimmiz leads opposition after deposing General Wosy Gil, with Jimmiz and followers abroad and likely military actions planned against him.
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State Department
United States
San Domingo
Jimmiz
Wosy Gil
Jiminiz
Marines Land in Panama Amid Isthmus Tension
A U S marines from the steamer Prairie were landed at Colon and marched toward a coast south of Panama after reports Colombian troops had landed nearby. The move signals possible guerrilla warfare on the Isthmus. Washington officials note army readiness, with Brigadier General J Franklin Bell arriving as the staff preps to act if ordered.
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Colon
Prairie
Butler
Panama
Yaviza
San Miguel Gulf
Tuira River
Washington
Navy
J. Franklin Bell
General Staff College
Leavenworth
Five Die in Wreck Near Albia Iowa
Five people were killed and ten injured when a westbound Chicago Burlington and Quincey passenger train derailed before Cedar Creek bridge, five cars wrecked and caught fire west of Albia Iowa. Three year old Mildred Mitchen died trapped on a bridge girder as horrified passengers watched.
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Chicago, Burlington & Quincey Road
Albia
Cedar Creek
Mildred Mitchen
W. E. Mitchen
War Department Prepares Against Colombian Invasion
General J Franklin Bell of Fort Leavenworth travels to Washington to consult with officials on a possible campaign against Colombia if it continues troop movements toward the isthmus. The move involves the general staff and matters related to the staff college.
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J. Franklin Bell
Fort Leavenworth
Washington
General Staff College
General Staff
Colombia
Contempt ruling against Franklin union 4 Pressfeeders
Judge Jesse Holdom of Chicago fined the Franklin union No 4 Pressfeeders one thousand dollars for contempt as a corporate body. The court held the union guilty of interfering with ten printing companies members of the Chicago Typothetae, setting a precedent. Consul Malmros in Colon reports by cable that 800 Colombian soldiers embarked on gunboats Cartagena and General Pinzon sailing for the Atrato river mouth.
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Franklin Union No. 4
Pressfeeders
Jesse Holdom
Chicago
Chicago Typothetae
Holdom
Malmros
Colon
State Department
Cartagena
General Pinzon
Atrato River
Congress to Take Christmas Recess After Pensions Bill
Congress plans a recess with several key committees resuming pending bills. Little general legislation is expected before the Christmas holiday, aside from the passage of the pensions appropriation bill, with recess likely by week’s end.
Montana Postmaster Hero Rescues Aide In Blaze
In Chestnut Montana Miss Storrs assistant postmaster is saved from flames by Bert Stanley after she works to rescue mail. She sustains severe burns but mail loss remains about 500 dollars. Nearby in Lovelocks Nevada J W Walters is fatally shot by P H Cook during pistol demonstration. coroner rules accidental discharge.
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Records
Chestnut, Mont
Miss Storrs
Bert Stanley
Lovelocks
Nev
J. W. Walters
Southern Pacific
P. H. Q Cook
Winlon Pacific
Cook
Walters
Torpedo Boats Ordered to Isthmus
Report claiming the entire torpedo fleet sent to Panama is unconfirmed. Perry and Paul Jones have orders to proceed to the isthmus and are ready to depart for the lower bay of San Francisco awaiting eastern officers. The cruiser New York travels from Bremerton toward San Francisco and may be ordered to the isthmus.
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Panama
Perry
Paul Jones
Isthmus
San Francisco
New York
Bremerton
Buried with a Pig Sparked Jolo Moro Siege
The Manila Cable News claims a Moro burial with a pig provoked an outbreak on Jolo after a juramentado killed a trooper. About 2,000 Moros gathered, leading General Wood to dispatch an expedition. In a separate case Judge Amidon jailed Sheriff Scofield for contempt after attempting to approach a juror.
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Manila
Jolo
Rodgers
Fifteen Cavalry
B Troop
Fifth Cavalry
Wood
Amidon
Grand Fork
N. D
Scofield
Minot
Fargo
War With Germany Predicts Pacific Fight in Hawaiian Front
Honolulu interest grows over Colonel Jones of the Hawaiian militia report to Governor Carter. Jones cites Major General Arthur MacArthur predicting a near conflict with Germany, with the principal battle area likely in the Pacific and the Hawaiian islands as a key objective.
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Pacific Ocean
Hawaiian Islands
Honolulu
Jones
Hawaiian Militia
Carter
Territory of Hawaii
Arthur MacArthur
U.S. A
United States
Germany
Woman Tempted Him in Burlington Murder Plot
Levi Perham testifies that he assisted Mrs. Mary Rogers in murdering her husband for a $500 life insurance payout to fund their home. He says Rogers lured her husband to a river bank where he was chloroformed and drowned after a note alleging self-destruction was signed with the husband’s name.
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Levi Perham
Burlington
Mary Rogers
Perham
Rogers
Rioters Damage Street Car in Halsted Riot incident
In Chicago a mob attacked a non union conductor and a non union motorman on Halsted Street during a street car strike. Passengers refused to pay fares as the conductor did not wear a union button. The car was partially wrecked and the pair escaped as the crowd jeered and a revolver was brandished. Meanwhile Montana Senate action covered judicial disqualification and civil venue change bills awaiting House concurrence.
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Halsted Street
Chicago
Ane
Montana Senate
House
Senate
Supreme Court
Judiciary Committee
Women Appeal to President Over Martial Law in Colorado
A 700 member Women's Auxiliary committee from Cripple Creek labor unions telegrams President Roosevelt seeking protection from what they call unjust orders by Governor Peabody placing Teller county under martial law.
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Peabody
Teller County
Colorado
Women’s Auxiliary
Cripple Creek
Roosevelt
Money Burned in Russia Bank Notes Release
Twelve and a half million dollars in paper money were burned at St. Petersburg by the state bank. The notes, issued in August to meet anticipated trade demand, became surplus after the grain season. The circulating value remains unchanged at three hundred fifteen million dollars.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Katherine Soffel Freed After Twenty Months In Prison
Mrs Katherine Soffel wife of the Allegheny county Jail warden was released after twenty months for her role in the Biddle brothers escape. During her imprisonment her husband secured a divorce. She declined film offers and plans to retire at her father's home.
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Katherine Soffel
Allegheny County
Biddle Brothers
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