Utah News Roundup Mixed Frost and Trials in State
A broad Utah report covers frost warnings and campaign speakers, Socialist tickets in Salt Lake County, rumors of a Stockton smelting plant, a murder verdict in Salt Lake City, and several injuries from accidents. Also noted are droughts in grasshoppers, a $10,000 win in a bell telephone suit, farm threshing near Manti, and local incidents including a death from an eight-year-old horse accident and a self defense release in a Florida-like resort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Williams
Salt Lake
L. C. Larson
Mayfield
Utah County
Percy A. Black
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Provo
Santa Clara
Kenneth Graf
John Graf
Cholera Rages in Philippine Islands With Peak Deaths
Cholera sweeps Iloilo and surrounding provinces in the Philippines, forcing residents to flee to mountains as 5 124 cases and 2 740 deaths are reported in Iloilo on Monday. Mingo reports 1 173 cases, Cabatuan 599, and Domagas 405. Total Monday reaches 5 300 cases and 3 000 deaths. government dispatches doctors and medicines amid dire sanitary conditions.
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Iloilo
Papay
Manila
Mingo
Cabettuan
Domangas
Inter-Tribal Fights Reported Near Sydney Steamer Moana
Official dispatches from New Guinea describe inter tribal clashes as Tugeri head hunters attacked San Ana villages killing many and taking beads. The San Ann reportedly retaliated and administrator Winter notes ruthlessly massacres by natives within thirty miles of his residence, with a village on the Laroki river nearly exterminated.
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Sydney
New Guinea
San Ana
I. P. Winter
Australis
Laroki
Nnti
New Cure for Scarlet Fever From German Doctors
A London cable reports the Carlsbad conference announcing a new scarlet fever cure. Dr Moser of St Anns Vienna discovered the serum and has treated patients over two years with mortality dropping to nine percent. Government plans to fund large scale production for Vienna children hospitals.
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London
Carlsbad
Moser
St. Ann's Hospital For
Vienna
Diplomatic Views on Macedonian Situation
Diplomatic circles in Constantinople downplay the Macedonian crisis despite Turkish forces mobilizing 40,100 militia reserves. The Porte attributes alarm partly to Shipka Pass maneuvers, which are considered politically inflated, given winter approaching and movement pauses. The Macedonian committee threats are not seen as likely to trigger a general revolution or severe upheaval.
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Constantinople
Macedonia
Porte
Shipka Pass
Macedonian Committee
Double Tragedy at Victor Ends in Deaths
Mrs Mabel Lloyd killed her husband Richard Lloyd at their Victor home and then wounded herself fatally. Jealousy is cited as the motive. Lloyd ran a Victor grocery for years. they were married two years with no children.
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Mabel Lloyd
Richard Lloyd
Victor
Cole
Lloyd
Mayors Back Coal Conference Delegation Plan
Mayors from twelve cities telegraphed Detroit leader Mayor Maybury with favorable replies to Monday night requests that a citizen delegation attend the national coal strike conference in Detroit on October 9. Mayor Ashbridge of Philadelphia declined, saying he expected the strike to be settled before the meeting date.
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Maybury
Detroit
Mich
Ashbridge
Philadelphia
Senate Committee Visits Hawaii For Hearings
A Senate committee on Pacific islands and Porto Rico held hearings in Hawaii with sessions in Hilo and Mountain View. Topics included Ilwakan land laws harbor improvements and lighthouse projects, compensation for the ex queen, Kilauea volcano visit, fire claims, and the bubonic plague response. The panel plans to finish September 29 and sail to San Francisco on the Peru.
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Senate Committee On Pacific Islands
Porto Rico
Avery
Hawaii
Hilo
Mountain View
Ililo
Kilauea
Honolulu
San Francisco
Peru
Marriages of Pomeroy Reach Twelfth Wife at 89
Zerad Pomeroy of Middlefield Connecticut has wed his twelfth wife aged 22, while he is 89. He first married Nellie White in 1828, then Platt of Kingston, then a voyage to California where his wife died at sea. Several more marriages followed in New York City and Connecticut, with multiple wives dying or dissolving.
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Zerad Pomeroy
Middlefield
New Haven
Horn
Pacific Coast
Connecticut
Math Interest In Irrigation Congress
The tenth national irrigation congress meets in Colorado Springs on October 6 with strong attendance expected from Omaha and St Paul commercial clubs and delegations from New Mexico Texas Wyoming Kansas and Nebraska cities. The congress will address the use of eight million dollars of public funds and future land sale proceeds for reclamation and home building for urban populations. Endorsements are pouring in from leaders in industry and labor groups.
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National Irrigation Congress
Colorado Springs
Commercal Clubs
Omaha
St. Paul
Mexico
Texas
Wyoming
Kansas
Nebraska
Congress
Navy officer commits suicide aboard Kearsarge
Lieutenant Commander William V. Bronaugh of the United States Navy killed himself Tuesday on the battleship Kearsarge at the navy yard by shooting himself. Friends say his duties as executive officer weighed heavily, and Captain Harrington notes an epidemic of self destruction in the service, reflecting on personal crises and sudden actions.
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William V. Bronaugh
United States Navy
Kearsarge
Navy Yard
New York Dispatch
Bronaugh
Parnell F. Harrington
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Navy
Colored Workmen Remains at Lebanon Plant
At the American Iron and Steel company plant in Lebanon Maryland or Pennsylvania? The troops remain and southern iron workers help run the mills. President Sternberg reportedly will not force out the colored men. their departure depends on themselves, with many saying they will stay while troops remain. Strikers vote to reject wage increases for puddlers and the small raise for finishers.
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American Iron & Steel Company
Lebanon
South
Sternberg
Emile Zola Dies in Paris Home
Emile Zola the French novelist and defender of Dreyfus was found dead in his Paris residence on Monday from suffocation due to fumes from a stove. His wife Mme Zola woke to a headache, saw him collapse, and she briefly recovered to explain to a magistrate before falling unconscious herself.
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Emile Zola
Captain Dreyfus
Paris
M. Zola
Zola
Mme. Zolo
Medan
Mme. Zola
Grave Robbery Ring Busted In Indianapolis
A seven man gang of African American suspects was arrested in Indianapolis for the largest grave robbery operation in the state. A physician, a medical college anatomy demonstrator, and two college workers are implicated. more than a hundred graves were robbed and bodies sold to several colleges.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Rufus Cantrell
Ile
Devil's Tower map work under WIL Herron in Wyoming
The U S Geological Survey currently maps Devil's Tower region in northeastern Wyoming under Topographer WIL Herron. The columnar tower, called The Bad Frog's Tower by Indians, rises 625 feet as a symmetrical volcanic core, remaining a remnant of an ancient lava flow. The Emperor of Korea death rumor lacks official confirmation in Washington with a possible postponement of birthday and throne accession celebrations.
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United States Geological Surveys
Devil's Tower
Wyoming
Wil. Herron
Devil’s Tower
Badfrod’s Tower
Korea
Washington
Beaten patient dies in Topeka asylum case
Jacob Rhignerson an elderly inmate beaten by attendants at a Topeka private asylum succumbed Monday night to injuries. Authorities plan arrests as the investigation continues.
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Jacob Rhignerson
Topeka
Kan
Austrian baker Boedesch tracked by police in almshouse
Adolph Boedesch once a Vienna baker who had eluded Austrian police for years is now identified while an inmate on Stucktwell's island. He allegedly disappeared with 250 UM dollars.
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Stucktwell’s Island
Adolph Boedesch
Vienna
Cholera Devastates Samar Island and Noile
The Samar island crisis worsens as towns report heavy population losses and unburied dead. Government dispatches surgeons and medicine to curb the epidemic while Noile also reels from the scourge. Total figures cited reach 70,922 cases and 48,409 deaths across the islands.
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Samar
Noile
Islands
Burned at stake in Corinth after confessed murder
Tom Clark alias Will Gibson, a young Negro, was executed by burning in Corinth Mississippi on Sunday for the assault and murder of Mrs Carey Whitfield on August 19. He confessed to the crime and to other killings, urged his brother to avoid evil companions, and the crowd helped carry out the pyre.
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Ross Milne
Tom Clark
Will Gibson
Corinth
Miss
North
Mississippi
Carey Whitfeld
Clark
Whitfield
Meéo
Ile
Pension Roll Nearing 1 000 000 Mark
The annual report by Commissioner Eugene E Ware shows pension rolls under 1,000,000 despite a net gain of 5,722 since 1808. Total enrollment July 1 stood at 909,446 with 738,500 soldiers and 260,637 widows and dependents. Five thousand five beyond US. death notices of old soldiers reached 108, but 27,019 were pensioners. Projected death rate for next year about 40,000 with about 6,000 other losses.
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Commissioner of Pensions
Eugene E. Ware
United States
Train Wreck Kills Twenty Six Near Arleux
An express train from Lille to Paris derailed at Arleux while crossing a switch and did not stop. The locomotive and ten cars were overturned and wrecked, with about fifty injured. Many victims suffer broken limbs and skull fractures, and several may not survive.
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Lille
Paris
Arleux
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Utah
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Salt Lake County
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Roy Kaighn
Salt Lake City
Willard Haynes
Manti
Louis Johnson
Lehi
Pleassant Grove Mercantile Company
Millard County
Hinckley
Riverton
Barney Eckstein
Julius Jennings
Western Union Telegraph Company
Reinhand Fihler
Estray
Ephraim Formaster
Washington County
Bell Telephone Company
Idaho
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San Juan County
Hayzlett
J. E. Busby
Philippines
Senate
Vieille Hawaii
Irrigation Congress
Indianaplis
Indiana
Wyo
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