Utah News Roundup From Manti To Salt Lake City
Utah state items with verdicts and injuries from Manti to Stateline. Not guilty verdict in Pred Mickle murder case. mayor in Salt Lake falls from sleigh roles with shoulder injury. Royal Army horse purchases. Salt Lake closing act and a Leigh horse race planned. Incidents include car accident at Stateline, poison by canned mackerel, mine dividends, infant death from scalding soup, and a copper-beet pulp cattle die-off. Public notices on Uintah reservation opening loom.
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Mickle
Manti
Thompson
Salt Lake
Lea
Volon
Dan Healy
William Trown
John Huntington
Stateline
Ed Roberts
Silver King
Park City
Unusual prizefight ends with woman winner in Joliet hall
A five round prizefight in Joliet Mont drew a large crowd. Contestants were two men and a priest as referee as a boy was the stake. After three even rounds the mother was favored to win and the final blow left the man unconscious. The referee awarded the boy to the woman and declared the bout over.
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Joliet
Mont
Mother Wankle
Gilbert Hall
Lin Grogey
Wonderful Growth of Beet Sugar Industry Indicates Shift
Ti I W Wiley chief of the bureau of chemistry before the ways and means committee on the Cuban reciprocity question. He presented charts on sugar production from beets and cane, noting beet sugar now dominates world output though cane remains essential for certain uses.
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I. W. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Ways and Means
America
Wiley
Commission studies France depopulation crisis
The premier announced a parliamentary commission will investigate depopulation in France. He described the issue as vast and complex, noting fifty years of insufficient births and excess deaths. The aim is policy guidance to raise birth rates and address the social impact.
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Mrance
M. Waildeck- Thoussenn
Banker Shoots Self After Financial Reverses
Schoefield, Whicher & Co bankers and brokers of Newtonville faced severe losses from ventures. Senior member Schoefield killed himself at home Wednesday, his partner stating the firm’s affairs are presently sound though exact condition undetermined for days.
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Lane TE. Schoefield
Schoefield, Whicher & Bankers and Brokers
Koston Moss
Newtonville
Whicher
Schoefield
Whicher & Co
Spooner Proposal on Isthmian Canal Compromise
Senate adjournment sees Senator Spooner push a substitute for the Nicaraguan canal bill authorizing the president to choose between Panama and Nicaragua routes. It would acquire Panama Canal company property for 40 million dollars if title is satisfactory, secure Colombian concessions, and authorize construction of a canal under war department supervision. An alternative provision funds either the Panama or Nicaragua path with immediate 10 million or 160 million appropriations and cost limits up to 135 million or 160 million respectively.
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Senate
Spooner
Nicaraguy
United States
Panama
Nicaragua
Panama Canal Company
France
Republic of Columbia
Caribbean Sea
Pacific Ocean
Niccaragua Canal
Colombia
Old Sea Captain Backs Nicaragua Route for Isthmian Canal
Captain J S Bryan testifies before a senate sub committee on Inter Oceanic Canals praising Nicaragua as superior for climate and feasibility. He cites harbors on the Panama side as a flaw and argues ships would have to sail at sea during storms, while Pacific harbor conditions vary with calms. He has long experience in Central American waters.
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J. S. Bryan
Senate Committee On Inter
Pacific
Public Land Leasing Bill Introduced In Senate
Senator Millard of Nebraska introduced a bill to lease public lands across Arizona California Colorado Idaho Kansas Montana Nebraska Nevada New Mexico North Dakota Oklahoma Oregon South Dakota Utah Washington and Wyoming. Leases would run ten years at a uniform rent of two rents per acre per annum and terminate early if lands are moved into private ownership under U S land laws.
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Millard
Nebraska
Arizona
California
Colorado
Idaho
Kansas
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
Best Known Resident of Manitou Succumbs to Scratch
Mrs. Parker a longtime Manitou resident died after a minor finger scratch from wire led to blood poisoning. What began as a small cut worsened over ten days, swelling her hand and arm, causing severe pain before the fatal outcome.
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Manitou
Colo
Parker
New York Tunnel Blast Wrecks Murray Hill Hotel
A Park Avenue shaft blast at the Rapid Transit tunnel site in New York City caused a massive explosion. Six people were killed and about a hundred injured as debris and shock damaged blocks around the Murray Hill and Grand Union hotels, with the Murray Hill hotel abandoned as unsafe. The incident center near East Fourth Street, the street railway entrance, and the Grand Central area suffered extensive destruction. the total damages may exceed $1,000,000 while the cause remains unknown.
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Park Avenue
New York City
Murray Hill Hotel
Manhattan Eye and Car Hospital
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Station
Cyrus Adams
Murray Ill
James Carr
Murray Hill
Lawrence Hine
Ansonia
Conn
J. Roderick Robertson
Nelson
B. C
Gest
Murray Mill
John H. Ralph
Roderick Robertson
Canada
British Columbia Gold Fields Company, Limited
Madison Lines
Murray Till
Murrey Hill
Wyoming Sheriff’s Killer Captured Near Billings
Charles Woodard, claimed murderer of Sheriff Ricker of Casper, Wyoming, was captured Monday afternoon at the Wilson Owens ranch fifteen miles east of Billings Montana. Owens and hired man John Berchemer subdued him after a tense struggle and handcuffed him, bringing him to Billings for safekeeping amid a cross-state manhunt. Woodard allegedly admitted his crime and had given alias Grad during a week of disguise. The capture comes as northern Wyoming and southern Montana sheriffs pursue a $1,000 reward.
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Charles Woodard
Eicer
Casper
Wyo
Wilson Owens
Billings
Mont
Woodiels
Owens
John Berchejer
Baithe
Woodard
Taneh
Wyoming
Sherrif Ricker
Gad
Ricker
Montana
Eastern Congress Members Brace for Irrigation Measure
Representative Mondell of Wyoming warns the irrigation bill faces stiff eastern opposition. He says the bill is referred to irrigation committee and may be delayed by the chair. Mondell argues western arid land irrigation will not unduly compete with eastern farmers and aims to pass the bill this Congress despite opposition.
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Congress
Mondell
Wyoming
Committee On
House
Porto Rico Counterfeiters Captured Near Ponce
United States Marshal of Porto Rico seized 4000 in counterfeit silver near Ponce on Saturday. The coins included quarters half dollars and dollars. Arrested were Ramon Kentas and Moreno Lotiz and they were jailed after a hearing before the US commissioner. Judge William Walt in Ponce sentenced Gaston Sauvelerron a Frenchman to ten years and a 5000 fine for possession and passing spurious coins. Sauvelerto had 60 counterfeit dollars in his possession at arrest. Authorities believe he belonged to another counterfeit gang.
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United States
Porto Rico
Ponce
Ramon Kentas
Moreno Lotiz
William Walt
United States District Court
Gaston Sauvelerron
Sauvelerto
Placer Gold Find Reported in Denver Basement Dig
Workers in the basement of the new Denver city hall struck what may be a gold bearing sediment while placing pit machinery eighteen feet below Fourteenth street. Thomas Brisbane and Ph Bauer of the Chamber of Commerce identified the black sand as gold producing sediment, naming the find a possible pincer gold discovery.
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Denver
Fourteenth Street
Thomas Brisbane
Ph. Bauer
Chumber of Commerce
Placer Nein
Ing
Architect August Schoenborna’s DC dome plans noted
In 1840 the German immigrant August Schoenborna arrived in the United States and soon joined the Washington Capitol as an architect. His Civil War maps aided Gen. McDowell and the fortifications. A separate note reports a drowning accident near Alki, Washington, involving the Smith children and a hired man. A Johannesburg report cites General Viljoen’s capture near Lindenberg and broader Boer successes in Transvaal.
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August Schoenborna
Den
United States
Germany
Wisconsin
Washington
Fillmore
Thme
McDowell
Que Vermis Bey Fenerals
Lord Kitchener
Johannesburg
B. Viljoen
Lindenberg
Transvaal
Viljoen
Botha
London
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Second Infantry
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