Utah News Roundup Highlights State Events and Incidents
State reports include no smallpox in Kimberly and new post office work at Park City, plus Salt Lake plumbers striking for higher wages and shorter hours. Sanpete bounty on grasshoppers, electrification plans for Fountain Grove and Moroni, road safety measures for Salt Lake streetcars, a fatality in Butte, irrigation and crop notes, and university summer enrollment up by five. Also covered: murder trial in Salt Lake, rail and streetcar accidents, and philanthropy offers for the YM C A building.
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Kimberly
Park City
Salt Lake
Lebi
Logan
Springville
Hyrum
Sanpete County
Fountain Grove
Moroni
Colton
Ibwa Voknews
Ioscor
Bern
Benjamine Wriodle
Universlty
Peter Mortensen
James KR. Hay
Archie H. Sheppard
Lehihan
George Foster Peabody
New York
Taylor
James W. Clark
Lehi
Ruby Valley
Nev
Pleasant Grove
Whey Inteni
Barlow Ferguson
Mad Rush Opens Fort Hall Lands to Homesteaders
The Fort Hall reservation opened to settlement drawing 3000 homeseekers, with over 400000 acres available 96000 agricultural. Prices are 2.50 and 1.25 per acre and forty acre tracts with one fifth down. Thousands rushed locations on horses and by train relays, many women among the crowd, as Blackfoot opened for entry amid dust and competition. Reports note arrests by Indian police and thefts near Ross Park, with early filings by Terrill and others and warnings of potential further claims.
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Furt Wall Indien
Ldahy
Hinds
Pocatello
Wade
Enetion
Hendeavor
Saime
Norges
Blackfoot
Land Office
Pucarello
W. W. Evans
Uncle Sam
Ross Park
Incktook
Sooners
Jeff Hin
Ross Fork
Egon
Fifi Pocatello
Thomas
Terrill
Hua Muon
Dekay
Salt Lake Tribune
V Pocatello
W. H. King
T. B. Smith
Charles I. Spaulding
Annexation of Cuba Predicted by Springfield Officer
Colonel Marry Williams returned to Springfield Mississippi from Cuba where he worked as government post office inspector. He toured the island and said Cuba will likely be annexed within a few years, citing conditions and governance challenges observed among its people.
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Marry Williams
Springfield
Cuba
Government Post Office
Williams
Statue of Bland Erected in Lebanon Missouri
A bronze statute honoring Richard Park Blood, congressman from 1872 to 1899, was unveiled in Lebanon Missouri on Tuesday. A large crowd attended ceremonies with addresses by William J. Bryan, William J. Stove, and others.
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Richard Park Blood
Congress
Lebanon
William J. Bryan
William J. Stove
McDermott to Introduce Arbitration Plan to End Coal Strike
Representative Allan McDermott of Jersey City says he will introduce a House resolution for a national board of arbitration appointed by the president to settle all labor capital disputes arising from the coal strike. The board would have power to resolve conflicts between workers and owners.
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Allan McDermott
Jersey City
House of Representatives
National Board of Arbitration
Dewey to Command Fleet for Winter Maneuvers Near Culebra
London dispatches report Admiral Dewey will lead a large U S fleet assembled near Culebra Island in December for winter maneuvers. Secretary Moody plans supreme command over the North Atlantic European and South Atlantic squadrons with the fleet, including the four star officer, to test power and defense in strategy seen since the Civil War.
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Culebra
Dewey
Tose
United States
Moody
Admiral Dewey
Feet
Culebra Island
West Indies
Electric Storm Shatters Chicago Churches
A Sunday electric storm hit Chicago causing deaths and property damage. Three churches were struck including Memorial German church which was destroyed, Cavalry Presbyterian on West Congress struck during Sunday school, and the Ashy of Sorrow church steeple demolished. Children were rescued with no serious injuries. A fisherman on Lake Michigan was killed by lightning while fishing near Jackson Boulevard and Allen Avenue. Shocks frightened residents citywide as the storm progressed.
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Chicago
Jackson Boulevard
Alieny Avenue
Joseph Killian
Lake Aluindt
Stern
Supposed Dead Man Alive Surfaces in Cheyenne
Charles Stout, thought killed in California last year, reappears in Cheyenne Wyoming shocking friends. An earlier Los Angeles locomotive death report had stated his demise, but Stout was in Los Angeles at the time and cannot explain the contradiction.
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Charles Stout
California
Cheyenne
Wyro
Iis
Los Angeles
Stout
Fugitives Henry Tracy and David Merrill Cross Into Washington
Notorious convicts Henry Tracy and David Merrill, who escaped Oregon penitentiary after killing three guards, crossed the Columbia River into Washington. They are over sixty miles from the prison and near Jerrill’s Clark county home, with mountains ahead offering limited capture chances due to familiarity with the terrain.
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Harry Tracy
David Merrill
Oregon Penitentiary
Columbia River
Washington
Jerrill
Clark County
Wash
Cloudburst in Vermont Kills Five and Destroys Rail Line
A cloudburst in Vermont near Marre and Middlesex causes five railroad workers to die as a Central Vermont freight train derails after striking a washed out ditch. The locomotive and twelve cars crash into the ditch and are buried under wreckage. The Winsock River floods, destroying a bridge at Dalton, a hawkmill, adjoining house, and sending large logs downstream. Local damage includes property loss and widespread destruction along the line.
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Marre
Fhve
Central Vermont Railroad
Middlesex
Winsocks
Dalton
Race War in Eldorado Illinois Sends Colored Residents Flee
Racial violence grips Eldorado Illinois as attacks on the African American community escalate since May. Homes are burned or stopped, warnings force many to flee their neighborhoods, and a federal church is attacked with shots fired at night. White residents fear black laboring in nearby mills, while families abandon their homes amid threats and tense unrest.
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Eldorado
Amo
Warnjees
Minh
Tes
Piller Itech
M. EB. Chuich
Stone Lis
Laber
Neighborly feud ends in rancher killing near Stevensville
Reese Powell fatally shot Charles Linscott after a dispute over water rights between adjoining ranches near Stevensville Afonr Munday. Powell armed himself at home then returned and shot Linscott on the deck, authorities say.
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Reese Powell
Charles Lilpscort
Stevensville
Afonr
Powell
Linscott Bell
Whiteh
Linscott
Howell
Firing on Mormons in Kentucky Sparks Grand Jury Action
In Marshal county Kentucky the firing on a Mormon meeting by anti proselytes wounded Harry Lami and likely killed more. many converts aged fifteen to sixteen fired back. The Mormon community reports fires in the past year and two elders driven away, prompting a grand jury review.
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Davis Chapel
Marshal County
Kentucky
Harry Lami
Grand Jury
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