Utah State News Highlights From Salt Lake City July Fourth
Brief summary of Utah items: flat track work on Moffat line to begin July 10. plans for a free cooking school in Salt Lake City. multiple Fourth of July accidents including finger and head injuries from fireworks and a sunstroke. Supreme Court upholds 1901 inheritance tax. 10s strike by Western Union messenger boys. Mrs. Caroling Young Cannon dies. horse finger injury. crackdowns on orchard pests. carpenters' contract dispute. copper statue of actress Mae Adams proposed for St Louis exhibit. record temps and 30 year mean. Salt Lake County reports 1903 first half marriages 708 and divorces 118.
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Ytta
Echools
Salt Lake City
Harry Stevens
Lehi
Joe Percy
Salt Lake
Albert William
Western Union Telegraph Company
Caroling Young Cannon
George Cannon
Brigham Young
Caroling’ Hoatburg
East Lake City
Cele
James McDonald
W. J. Bryan
Balt Lake
McDonald
San Pedro Company to Complete Salt Lake Los Angeles Line
A New York dispatch says the San Pedro Company will pay Oregon Short Line 10 to 11 million dollars in cash and take conveyances for all tones south of Salt Lake City to yield a through Salt Lake City Los Angles route. San Pedro gains 30 miles to finish the line with funds arranged to complete and operate the system without bonds. The San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake Railroad has first mortgage on 50 million bonds.
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Salts City
Utah
San Pedro
Los Angeles
Utah State Board of Horticulture
Salt Lake City
Aniox
New York
San Pedro Company
Oregon Short Line Company
Nes
Thia
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company
Equitable Trust Company of
Tristeee
Failed to Obey Orders Head-On Train Crash Kills Many
Twenty-four people die and thirteen are hurt in a Rockfish Virginia wreck on the Southern Railway Virginia Midland division. A passenger train from Washington to Atlanta collides with a local freight on the main line, destroying engines and cars. Engineer Hue reportedly overstayed his time, causing the collision that mostly claimed second-class coaches filled with Black passengers.
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Virginia Midland Division
Southern Railway
Rockfish
Washington
Atlanto
Frelett
Are Brubeck
Hue Has Aften
Urata
Dean
Nine Die in Evansville Riot as Martial Law Considered
Nine dead and twenty injured after a riot in Evansville Indiana as militiamen quell unrest. Mayor orders calm and residents stay off streets while firehouse staffing shifts to white firefighters per city decision amid fear among Black volunteers. The situation steers toward heightened control without declaring martial law.
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Evansville
Inn
Negro Fire Company
Lost His Temper
David Shaud, who shot and killed Mrs. Becker and Policeman Cyrus Shantzer, was hanged at Lebanon Pennsylvania on Tuesday. He killed the woman after she testified against him in court and shot the officer when arrested at his home.
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David Shaud
da Becker
Cyrus Shantzer
Lebanon
Shaud
Io Becker
Shvud
Late Tammany Sachem and King Edward Link Rumor
Persistent talk suggests Hourke Cochran of New York may be drawn into British politics to join the Irish party in Parliament. A London report hints at potential political shifts affecting American figures.
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Tammany
Edward
Hourke Cochran
New York
Rioters Routed in Byanoville Massacre After Four Days Chaos
A violent civil unrest event in Byanoville Indiana ends with seven dead and four injured teens. National guard and militia defend a jail housing sixteen Negroes as stones fire and bayonets clash. A volley from jail and courthouse kills several and wounds many, with authorities under orders to protect lives.
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Persens
Byanoville
Indiana
Lawlengness
Sherif
Curloun
Blum
National Guard
Flood Disaster Appalling At Teannette Pa
Cloudburst flood devastates Teannette Pennsylvania causing extensive property damage and uncertain death toll. Rescue efforts continue as reports of missing residents and missing children mount while rumors complicate casualty estimates. Authorities urge calm as families search streets through the night for loved ones.
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Teannette
Stresm
Murder at Tonopah During Fourth of July Festivities
A blacksmith named Frank Smith attacked Walter Dunn with a knife on Main Street in Tonopah just before the fireworks. Dunn died next morning from a stab wound to the abdomen. Smith was arrested but secretly removed from town by officers to avoid Dunn’s friends. Considerable excitement followed the incident.
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Tonopah
Frank Smith
Walter Dunn
Main Street
Smith
Dunn
Premature Blast Kills Two at Utah Grading Camp
At Harvard Brothers grading camp near Croydon Utah a premature explosion in a rock blasting project on the Union Pacific line killed foreman Bean and another unnamed man. Ten workers were injured and several more hurt as blasts were tamped and misfired during rock removal.
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Harvard Brothers
Croyden
Utah
Bean
Union Pacific
Strangled Woman Found Dead In Denver Home
Mabel Brown aged 20 was found dead in her house at 1901 Market Street Denver on Monday morning with hands bound and evidence of strangulation. No clue to the assailant. the case bears resemblance to a series of murders from years past.
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Mabel Brown
Market Street
Denver
Dever
Lost in Cloudburst at Jeanette Dam Fills Park With Fatal Flood
A cloudburst near Jeanette Pennsylvania caused a dam break at Oxford Park sending twenty foot walls of water down Darrow Ravine. A trolley car and a crowded restaurant were swept away, many escape routes flooded, and deaths included those electrocuted by trolley wires. Estimates of lives lost varied from dozens to over a hundred as rescue efforts continued.
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Pittsburg
Oxford Park
Jeanette
Greensburg
Brush Creek
Wadden
Darrow
Ffty
Jeannette
Officer shoots desperado in Douglass carnival melee
Special from Douglass Arizona reports Officer Lon Graham fatally wounds a man named Smith during a confrontation at a carnival. Smith, blamed for killing Officer Vaughn and wounding Graham earlier, reached for a gun and was shot in the neck as spectators watched. Guards secure hospital scene amid high public anger.
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Douglass
Arizona
Lon Graham
Smith
Thomas Vaughn
Graham
Rynming
Rangers
Pacific cable finish connects Philippine Islands to US
The Pacific cable was completed at 10 50 PM eastern time on the 4th, welding eastern and western links at Honolulu aboard the Anglia. The line runs from San Francisco to the Philippines, over 8000 miles, marking a historic offshore telegraph feat. A worldwide message from President Roosevelt to Mackay and Mackay’s reply traveled in under twelve minutes and nine and a half minutes respectively.
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Pacific
Honolulu
Anglia
San Francisco
Philippine Islands
Roosevelt
Mackay
Commercial Pacific Cable Company
United States
Chauncey M. Depew
Grand Central Palace
Washington
Snake in piano charmed out by melody near Charleston Ind
A large black snake hid inside a square piano owned by Miss Mollie Carr near Charleston Indiana. Musician T von Morrison visiting his daughter played a tune from Indianapolis which drew the reptile out. Morrison then struck the lid and the snake, measuring nearly five feet, was killed.
Drowned in car on Lincoln Avenue bridge disaster
A Pittsburgh Railway traction car on Center and Larimer Hoe jumped the Lincoln avenue bridge and plunged about 100 feet. Four passengers plus the conductor and motorman were aboard. Three were killed outright and the other three likely fatally hurt. The car was a total wreck.
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Larimer
Pittsburg Railway Company
Lincoln Avenue
Tme
Flood Hits Cumberland and Hyndham Areas in Maryland and Pennsylvania
Rain caused six foot flood depths in Cumberland Maryland with damaged plants and homes. Debris blocked streetcars and rail lines from West Virginia Central line and Hyndham Pennsylvania. Estimated regional damage reaches 350000. Kansas harvest labor demand outpaces supply despite inbound workers.
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Cumberland
West Virginia Central
Hyndham
Colombia Dispatch Details Panama Treaty Committee
A Bogota dispatch dated July 4 reports the foreign relations minister sent a message to the senate and house. The house formed a committee with one member from each department to study the proposed treaty, after which it will move to a private committee. The dispatch states the government likely holds a strong House majority.
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Bogota
The Manchurian Plot In Washington Dispatches Era
Dispatches report no official Washington word on a Japanese British ultimatum to China. United States not approached by either government for support. Nations seek to protect Manchuria interests amid tensions and policy maneuvering.
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China
Japan
England
United States
Eshaan Arena Ee
Patch Minhee
Manchuria
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