Utah State News Highlights From Salt Lake City July Fourth
Reports range from the commencement of the first Moffat line track on July 10 to plans for a free cooking school in Salt Lake. The Fourth caused numerous injuries from gunpowder and fireworks. notable incidents include finger loss, head injuries, and a sunstroke. The Utah Supreme Court upholds inheritance tax law. other items cover accidents, a shotgun injury, a death, wage changes, a railroad bond issue, and horticultural pest disinfection efforts. The state modestly records weather data for July and a surge in marriage licenses and divorces in early 1903.
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Salt Lake City
Harry Stevens
Lehi
Joe Percy
Salt Lake
Albert William
Western Union Telegraph Company
Caroline Young Cannon
George @. Cannon
Bricham Young
Caroline’ Headburg
Sai
San Pedro Gains to Build Salt Lake to Los Angeles Rail
A New York dispatch reports the San Pedro company closed a deal with Oregon Short Line paying between 11 and 16 million dollars and taking conveyances for lines south of Salt Lake City. San Pedro must complete 300 miles to finish a through line from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. Funds arranged to finish and equip the system without selling bonds, with material contracted for delivery as required. The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad has mortgaged to Equitable Trust Company of New York for up to 51 million in 4 percent fifty-year gold bonds.
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New York
San Pedro Company
Oregon Short Line Company
Salt Lake City
Los Angeles
San Pedro
FAILED TO OBEY ORDERS TWENTY-FOUR DIE IN RAIL CRASH
Twenty four people die and thirteen injured in a head on collision on the Virginian Midland division of the Southern Railway at Rockfish Virginia. A passenger train from Washington to Atlanta collided with a freight standing on the main line. Engineer Hulse overstayed his time and failed to take a siding. Nineteen of the dead are reported to be colored passengers.
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Virginian Midland Division
Southern Railway
Rockfish
Washington
Atlantic
Frelett
Brubeck
Lala
Hulse
Uta
Nine Dead and Twenty Injured in Evansville Riot Aftermath
After the riot in Evansville Indiana authorities report nine dead and twenty one injured. The mayor has ordered calm as the city avoids street activity. The black fire company left the city and white replacements have been installed amid fears of the black firefighters. Law actions are delayed pending further trouble.
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Evansville
Ind
Martin Law
Negro Fire Company
Shand Hanged for Murder of Mrs Becker and Officer Shaeffer
David Shand was executed by hanging in Lebanon Pennsylvania after shooting Mrs Ida Becker who testified against him and fatally wounding Officer Cyrus Shaeffer when police attempted arrest.
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David Shand
Ida Becker
Cyrus Shaeffer
Lebanon
Shand
I da Becker
Shaud
Late Tammany sachem to become subject of King Edward
A London report says Bourke Cochran of New York may seek a seat in British parliament and join the Irish party. He is reportedly weighing making London his home and renouncing American citizenship, with serious consideration of the move.
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Tammany
Edward
Bourke Cochran
New York
London
Cothran
Ion
Evansville riot claims seven lives in four days of chaos
In Evansville Indiana a four day riot ended with seven dead and four teens injured. Militamen guarded a jail holding sixteen confined negroes as crowds hurled stones and insults at deputies. Captain Blum ordered a charge, shots fired from jail and courthouse windows killed and wounded many as fear spread through Division street.
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Evansville
Indiana
Oni
Blum
National Guard
Durbin
Division Street
Flood Disaster in Teamnette Pa Leaves Dozens Dead
A cloudburst in Teamnette Pennsylvania caused severe flood damage to homes and businesses. Officials estimate losses between fifty thousand and 150 thousand dollars with hundreds of people displaced. Many residents search streets for missing children as authorities work to confirm fatalities and injuries amid scattered rumors.
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Teamnette
Murder in Tonopah during Fourth of July celebration
A blacksmith named Frank Smith stabbed Walter Dunn on Malin street just before Tonopah's fireworks. Five or six wounds were inflicted with one deadly thrust to the abdomen. Dunn died next morning. Smith was arrested but secretly removed from town that night to escape angry locals. Widespread excitement follows.
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Tonopah
Frank Smith
Walter Dunn
Malin Street
Ontalders
Smith
Dunn
Premature Blast Numbers Casualties at Utah Camp
A blast at the Harvard Brothers grading camp near Croydon Utah on Monday killed the foreman named Bean and another man. Four others were fatally hurt and ten injured as workers prepared to straighten a Union Pacific track curve. The blasts had been tamped when the premature explosion occurred.
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Harvard Brothers
Croyden
Utah
Bean
Union Pacific
Strangled to Death In Denver Neighborhood Case
Mabel Brown age 20 found dead in her house at 1951 Market Street Denver Monday morning with hands bound and evidence of strangulation. Police report no clue to the offender. Case linked to a series of past strangulation murders in the neighborhood.
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Mabel Brown
Market Streat
Denver
Dever
Tts
Lost in cloudburst at Jeanette and Greensburg tolls many lives
A Pintstown report says a cloudburst struck near Jeanette Pennsylvania on Sunday night. Oxford Park dam near Jeanette burst flooding an excursion party on trolley cars. Drowning and electrocution reported as floodwaters crest twenty feet high, with hundreds fleeing to hills. Damages estimated at least 250000 dollars. Authorities confirm several deaths and many missing.
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Tennette
Pittsburg
Oxford Park
Jeanette
Greensburg
Brush Creek
Jeannette
Ehel
Officer shoots desperado in Douglass carnival vicinity
Special from Douglass Arizona reports Officer Lon Graham fatally shoots a man named Smith believed to be the assailant who killed Officer Vaughn and wounded Graham on May 16. Graham, recognizing Smith, demanded surrender. Smith reached for a weapon and was shot in the neck as thousands watched the carnival. Captain Rynning of the Rangers placed a two man guard at the hospital where Smith was taken amid high emotion and security concerns.
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Douglass
Arizona
Lon Graham
Smith
Thomas Vaughn
Graham
Rynning
Rangers
Negroes Threaten to Destroy Norway Town
Reports say a mob of African Americans has surrounded the 20 inhabitant town of Norway to take revenge for the lynching of Charles Evans the previous week for murdering an elderly soldier. A state train was dispatched to Norway to observe the situation.
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Norway
Charlen Evans
Ptate Willa
T Fe
Charlies Evans
Pacific Cable Finish Links San Francisco to Philippines
The Pacific telegraph line was completed at 10 50 PM eastern time on the 4th with the joining of eastern and western links at Honolulu aboard the Anglia. The 8000 mile undersea system connects San Francisco to the Philippine islands. A world spanning message from President Roosevelt to Mackay took twelve minutes. Mackay’s reply nine and a half. The prior world circumnavigation time record was Chauncey Depew’s 1896 message at fifty minutes.
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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 Surprises Indiana House Guest
A five foot black snake hid inside a square piano at Miss Mollie Carr's home near Charleston Indiana. Musician Lyon Morrison visiting his daughter at the house played a tune and the snake appeared swinging its head like a clock pendulum. He killed the reptile after it coiled back to its den. The incident was discovered several days after arrival.
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Mollie Carr
Charleston
Ind
Lyon Morrison
In- Himnopolis
Miss Carr
Morrison
Car on Center and Larimer Line Plunges from Lincoln Bridge
A Pittsburg Railway traction car jumped the Lincoln avenue bridge on the Center and Larimer line and fell about 100 feet. Four passengers plus the conductor and motorman were aboard. three were killed and the remaining three were fatally injured. The wrecked car lay smashed.
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Larimer
Pittsburg Railway Company
Lincoln Avenue
Floods Hit Cumberland and Hyndham Areas
Rain Sunday night flooded Cumberland Maryland to six feet with damaged plants and homes. Debris blocked streetcar lines and rail service on the West Virginia Central. Hyndham Pennsylvania also flooded with extensive damage. Total local damage estimated at fifty thousand dollars while Kansas harvest labor shortages persist as workers are shipped nationwide.
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Cumberland
West Virginia Central Railroad
Hyndham
Colombia to All Right Dispatch on Panama Treaty
A Hogota dispatch dated July 2 reports the foreign relations minister sent a message to the senate and house. The house appointed a committee with one member from each department to study the treaty. The proposal will move to private committees, with a large majority expected in the house.
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Hogota
Minister of Foreign Relations
Panama Canal
Senate
House of Representatives
The Manchurian Plot Unfolds in Diplomatic Dispatches
Washington has not been approached by Japan or England regarding any ultimatum to China. No official statement confirms whether the United States would morally support efforts to protect interests in Manchuria.
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Washington
China
Japan
England
Odesm
United States
Manchuria
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