Utah State News Highlights From Early Salt Lake City
A broad Utah roundup notes Draper incorporation efforts, a killed initiative and referendum bill in the senate, Ferron postmaster ill with smallpox disrupting mail, higher East Lake City fire damage insurance rates, Price voters rejecting a $7700 waterworks bond, and widespread smallpox concerns. Also reported are fire dept measures in Ephraim, a new Pleasant Grove meeting hall planned at about $12000, rubber shoe shortages in Salt Lake due to wet weather, a Jensen farm fire near American Fork, a North Dakota press group visit, a Provo brakeman killed, Porowan postmaster Daniel Page dead at 75, Layton cannery plans, Segley County crop prospects, Midway robbery case, and other local incidents including deaths and traffic accidents in Salt Lake City.
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Ferron
East Lake City
Price
Smailipox
Ephraim
Pleasant Grove
Salt Lake
Barleg
North Dakota Press Association
Salt Lake City
Fred Shenk
Provo
Daniel Page
Porowan
Utah
Layton
Segley County
Militia Withdrawn From Colorado City Strike Zone
By order of Colonel James H Brown the cordon around the strike headquarters in Colorado City has been withdrawn and the town is quiet. Earlier clashes reported at Standard mill involved a shot from an attempted passer and a striker hid. Tolliride mill windows were shot at and four shots from a sentry fired back, leaving five empty shells found nearby.
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James H. Brown
Colorado City
Three Mill
Morolig
Tolliride
Runaway Double Engine Destroys Portland Mine Shaft at Victor
A runaway No 2 shaft engine at the Portland mine in Victor Colorado tore the shaft house and gallows frame, wrecking the contraption and sending a loaded cage down the shaft. The incident, blamed on a probable engine key failure, will cost about $16,000 and require sixty days to repair. Five men fled to safety as the cage and 2,800 feet of cable plunged downward.
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Portland
Victor
Colo
Williams
Vast Railroad Project Leaders Invite Central American Envoys
Acting Secretary Loomishie summoned Washington diplomatic representatives from all Central and South American nations to discuss the Inter continental railroad at the state department. Ex Senator Henry G Davis, delegate to the pan American congress, will outline the plan to ministers noting that up to 500 miles of the long railroad have been built.
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Loomishie
Washington
State Department
Tadiacnas
pan-American Congress
Henry G. Davis
Congress
Senator Burrows Says Smoot Case Will Not Be Taken Up
Senator Burrows returned from Michigan and told committee members that no action on the Smoot case will be taken during the special pension or recess. If the case is pursued, it will be upon Congress assembling in December.
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Burrows
Michigan
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Smoot
Congress
Boxers Active in Eastern Chi Li Province
Governor Yuan Shai Kai ordered actions after learning the Boxers had resumed activity in the eastern part of Chi Li. Warned that well armed members were drilling at night a town about a hundred miles east of Pekin. Boxers were dispersed after a dozen were killed and several soldiers died, with their bodies publicly displayed.
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Yuan Shai Kai
Chi Li
Boxer Organization
Socirty
Pekin
Relief Efforts Grow for Dalmatia During Famine and War
Reports from Dalmatia describe severe distress with people gnawing bark and wild herbs. Vienna committees raise funds for relief while the Croatian Archaeological Society begins excavations at the Dalmatian village of Knin to create work for famine stricken inhabitants.
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Dalmatia
Severn
Vienna
Crotian Archaeological Society
Plavna
Belire
Knin
Oil Train Explosion Kills Dozens Near Olean New York
A Bran oil train derailed near Olean New York belching fire after two sections collided. Explosions followed as tanks ruptured with flames lighting the sky. At least twenty two people were killed and forty five injured amid the inferno as crowds fled the tracks seeking safety.
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Ofi
Olean
Brio
Bre
Drunken officers blamed as bark Alexander McNeil runs aground
Captain Jorgensen and nine crew aboard the American bark Alexander McNeil stranded on Prater's reef near Hongkong after leaving that port. Sailors report officers drank, drifting off course, a drunken fight, a damaged carpenter fired a revolver in the melee, and a boat with four crew members looted. They drifted three days before making a desperate passage to Hongkong under foreign aid. The crew reached San Francisco aboard the Coptic via the Orient, with the American consul assisting.
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Jorgensen
Alexander McNeil
Prater's Reef
Hongkong
San Francisco
Wea
Congress Adopts Large Appropriations Totals
A Senate report by Allison details large appropriation totals for the session, noting a $753,484,019 current session and $800,624,406 for the last session, with congress-wide totals surpassing the Fifty-sixth by about one hundred million dollars. Also included is an itemized past-session expenditure summary alongside a Montana shooting report involving Thomas Solomon and H P Rennick, with Rennick under arrest.
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Senate
Allison
Committees On
Appropriations
Billy
Flood Forces Nebraska Families to Evacuate in Columbus
A Lincoln special reports three hundred families in Columbus forced to flee homes as the Dowlas river swells over a half mile wide. Union Pacific tracks from Columbus to the Lewis river bridge lie submerged, disrupting travel and rail service.
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Lincoln
Columbus
Dowls
Union Pacific
Lewis River
Union Creek
Waterbury violence reports officer killed in streetcar strike
In Waterbury Connecticut a deadly clash during a railroad strike left Police Officer Mendelsohn dead and Motorman Chambera injured as Conductor Webernedorfer was beaten unconscious. The attack occurred at Forest Park end of the North Main street line when attackers emerged from the bushes and opened fire and assaulted crew aboard the street car.
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Waterbury
Conn
Connecticut Railroad & Lighting Company
Paul Mendelgoha
John W. Chambera
Nentron
George Webernedorfer
Forest Park
Mintorman
Mendelsohn
Wee
Som
Benson Captured After Months Hidden in Mill
Christ Benson, convicted murderer of Jail er Morrell, was found hiding in a deserted mill near Olympia Washington. Sheriff arrested him without resistance after Benson opened the door and surrendered. He claimed a general break had been planned and said he did not intend to kill Jailer Morrell.
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Christ Benson
Morrell
Olympia
Wash
Benson
Boat capsizing tragedy near Spier Falls leaves nineteen dead
Nineteen men were killed when a work boat capsized on the Hudson River near Spier Falls about ten miles west of Glens Falls New York. A frightened Italian crew member fell overboard but was rescued, while the swollen river and lack of swimming ability doomed many aboard.
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Spier Falls
Glens Falls
Hudson River
Five Die in Dawson Road House Fire Read Like This
A Dawson dispatch reports five people burned to death at the Aurora road house on Antler Creek early Thursday. Owner Charles Bernles, his wife and two children perished along with Thomas Baird who was in charge of a government road house. Neighbors saw the blaze but could not enter due to smoke. the Bernles family hailed from Portland Oregon and Baird from Ontario.
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Dawson
Aurora Road
Aiinter Creek
Charles Bernles
Thomas Haird
NefebBers
Bernsie
Portland
Ore
Baird Wes
Ontario
Jack the Singger Dies Protesting Innocence
George L. O. Perry, a negro youth indicted for the murders of Agnes McPhego in Somerville and Clara Morton in Waverley, died Sunday in Cambridge from typhoid fever and nerve exhaustion. He did not speak in his last hours as officials refused to reveal details of his state.
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George L. O. Perry
Agnes McPhego
Somerville
Mass
Clara Morton
Waverley
Jack
Cambridge
Fatriaen
Utah Legislators Debate and Pass Several Bills
The Utah Senate and House discussed water rights and county matters. Bills authorizing county costs in criminal cases, reforming law on explosives, school trustees, and public licensing were advanced or passed. Governor Wells vetoes and various amendments were noted alongside appointments and procedural changes.
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Ogden
Ofliiala
Ulna de Fomteet
Ty Huwley
Pennte
Hawmlin
Constabli
Metlon
Ouse
Sexte—Oiion
Larson
House
Morris
Senate Iy
United States
Shermus
Lawrence
Eihy
Williams
Kinney
Utah Supreme
Wolls
March 11 Hille measures advance in sesate action
The session moves through varied bills including taxation of non residents, powder magazine erection, oil purity standards, and land fund loan for a temporary project. Resolutions approve popular election of U S senators and a department of education withdrawal petition. The house passes free text book and school tax bills, with other measures advancing. King Hilward plans to read Queen Victoria’s Jubilee collection for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
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Erate Road
Quirrica
Morris
Jempancy
O. Laren
Sanat
United States
Department of the Totorion
Criadin
Giher
Hamlin
Srafare
City Board of Education
Spry
Bothwin County
Atute
Juror
Tose
Hilward
Queen Victoria
Louitiana Purchase Exposition
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