Utah News Amid Snow, Fires, and Flooded Roads
Heavy snow disrupts mountain ranges while Valley towns report construction booms. Utah events include a logger’s return from the Philippines, a miner and sheepman death, and state salary warrants totaling over 17,000. Storm damage, railway earnings, sugar factory expansion, trout plantings, and legal incidents round out a broad state summary.
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Uehl
Leon Mayhue
Salt Lake
Seventh Cavalry
Philippines
Hil
John & Bema
Payson
Richards T Mat
Filipinog Envoy Lopes Arrives in New York
Bexto Lopes longtime confidant of General Aguinaldo arrives in New York at Fisk Warren’s invitation. He aims to explain to Americans what Filipinos want for their country’s future government and asserts Filipinos know no parties in the United States. Lopes and an aide meet at the dock and proceed to the Imperial Hotel.
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Bexto Lopes
Agalinaldo
New York
Lopes
Cald
Fisk Warren
Alde Eithey
Queenstown
United States
Aerica
United Staten
Miners Offered Increased Wages Stokes Hope of Resolution
An offer of a 10 percent wage increase to miners has been made by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, with expectations of similar notices at other collieries in the anthracite region. Operators anticipate the move will reassure strikers, resume operations, and gradually restore full employment. The Philadelphia and Reading controls thirty nine collieries, with twenty five shut down due to insufficient working force.
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Congress
King and Sutherland
Balt Lake
Park City
M. E. Jones
Logan Hava
Hercules Power Company
Logan
Philadelphia & Mending Coal & Iran Company
Anthrualte
Philadelphia & Reading Comany
Soren
China Edict Targets Pekin Leaders After Boxer Outrage
The United States reports that Union accepts suspect Yona for the nation in a reply to German terms. Sheng, director of railways and telegraphy, returns an imperial decree dated Talgoan September 25 blaming Chinese ministers for Boxer encouragement. The edict degrades four princes and strips Peivee Tuan of salary and official rank, ordering trial before the imperial court.
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United States
Peivee Tuan
Nome Storm Devastates Coast With Massive Losses
The Roanoke reports a severe Nome storm lasting two days until September 9. Dozens of barges and lighters wrecked along miles of beach, with mining gear and boats ruined. Vessels missing, crews unaccounted for, and about 00 people left homeless as property losses exceed $500,000.
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Roanoke
Nome
Sorthwestern Alnalem
Fears breach of neutrality cited in Dutch Kruger voyage note
Amsterdam dispatch warns the Netherlands against allowing Mr. Kruger to carry bullion or state archives aboard the Dutch warship bound for Europe. The note states such actions would constitute a breach of neutrality by the Netherlands the warning aims to deter any assistance to Kruger during transit.
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Great Britain
Amsterdam
Kruger
Europe
Netherlands
Protests Over Wu Pressure on Chinese Government
Reports indicate the state department pressed the Dutch Utrecht minister Wu to influence Beijing against Prince Than being named grand secretary. Critics fear the move could undermine the dual treaty or any negotiations and may breach guarantees, prompting calls for Conger’s withdrawal from China affairs.
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Tis
State Department
Eles
Prince
Conger
John M Palmer Dead in Illinois 1806 Gold Democratic Leader Dies
John McAuley Palmer former U S senator and presidential candidate on the Gold Democratic ticket died of heart failure in Springfield Illinois Wednesday morning. He had been ill since Tuesday when a physician said he was not in immediate danger. He was buried in Carlinville in rain with honorary pallbearers including Senator Cullom Governor Tapper former Governor Fifer former Congressman Connelly General John Binet and Supreme Judge Jeane J Philips.
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John McAuley Palmer
Springfield
General McCleround
Carlinville
G. A. BR
Armong
Senator Cullom
Tapper
Fifer
Dreyfus Letter Reported by Paris Press Text
The Press of Paris publishes a text claimed as a letter from Alfred Dreyfus to M. Treloux in Gearva Switzerland dated September 13. The writer complains of enduring moral effects and torture from the line of justice, says legal revision of the trial must be pursued, and warns that Dreyfusards continue to agitate and inflame hatred and discord.
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Paris
Alfred Dreyfus
M. Treloux
Gearva
Switzerland
Thin Fetter
Immigrant Arrival Figures Reported for New York Port
Commissioner Fitchtle of the New York immigration office presents the annual report for the fiscal year ending June 11. Total arrivals at the port of New York reached 40482 with literacy patterns noting Portuguese and Italians similar, while English French and German groups brought near 400 per year.
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Fitchtle
New York
Americans Not To Blame In Cuban Intervention
Gen. Maximo Gomes writes that many are mortified by prolonged American intervention yet blame should not fall on the United States. He argues Cubans have blocked progress and insists promises of the United States war effort will be kept, urging restraint amid delays.
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Maximo Gomes
United States
Will Blockade China Proposed by Huse
The Russian government proposes a naval blockade of all Chinese ports in response to Shanghai hostilities. Allied squadrons would send cruisers to protect transports. Reports also claim Russian forces massing around Kirin in Manchuria with about 5,000 Chinese troops nearby.
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London Times
New Cheng
Wall
KalChan
Christian Missions Destroyed Amid Anti Christian Disturbances
The Catholic mission at Sheh Lung near the East River has been razed. The priest escaped with protection from a mandarin. Anti Christian outbreaks ripple through Kwang Si and Kwang Tung provinces as authorities deploy measures to quell violence. Several Native Christians are executed or flee to Canton.
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Sheh Lung
East River
Kwang Si
Kwang Tung
Canton
Roosevelts Party Attacked By Violent Mob In Victor Calo
Governor Roosevelt and his entourage faced a hostile mob in Victor Calo as rocks, sticks, and rotten fruit were hurled. Postmaster Daniel Sullivan helped push the mounted group to safety, with an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 bystanders watching. The trouble, linked to a paid roughs group, did not derail the campaign stop or speeches in Cripple Creek.
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Postumster Sullivan
Cripple Creek
Roosevelt
Troops to be Withdrawn From China Assignment
United States orders a partial drawdown of forces in China while keeping a legation guard. General Chaffee to move most troops to Manila under MacArthur command. Wilson remains in Pekin. Instructions stress coordination with other powers and reliance on the minister for aligned actions.
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United States
Bey
General Chaffee
China
Legation
Chaffee
Secretary of War
Manila
MacArthur
Gould
Wilson
Aiden
Pekin
Conger
Mineh Worker Tells Of Struggle In Scranton Coal Strike
Stephen McDonald of Throop testifies at a public meeting on the Anthracite strike in Scranton. He recalls nineteen years in breakers, strict economy, and never earning cash despite eleven years at Pan fonat Coal, highlighting a company store town and unpaid worker wages.
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Scranton
Stephen McDonald
Puncoaut Coal Company
Throop
Pan Fonat Coal Company
Howard Convicted in Goebel Murder Case at Frankfort
The jury found James Howard guilty of complicity in the Goebel assassination and fixed the sentence at death. The verdict surprised many who believed the jury divided on guilt. Howard led the Baker Howard feud in Clay county and had killed George Harker, with Tom Baker also killed in the Goebel case.
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James Howard
Frankfort
Giebel
Helleve
Jim” Howard
Tris
Clay County
George Harker
Tom Baker
Goebel
Hooward
Kentucky Election Bill Compromise Sets Bipartisan State Board
A Democratic plan in Kentucky proposes a state board with one Democrat, one Republican, and a state officer. They would appoint county boards with two from each party and an umpire. The arrangement gives Democrats a majority on each county board but grants only ministerial powers except for final questioning. Senate Democrats are expected to accept the compromise.
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Kentucky
Democratic House
Fromste
Jota Tt
Senate
Cyclone Devastates Ferroson Village and Surroundings
A cyclone struck Ferroson near Marshalltown causing two deaths and injuries to thirteen others. The storm demolished several houses and wrecked the depot with four freight cars burned to kindling. Debris and structural damage spread over Blue miles toward the area.
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Ferroson
Marshalltown
Cpt
Blue Miles Towa
Robbers Battle with Addy Deputies Ends in Fatal Wound
In Addy, near Spokane, a Tuesday night confrontation between two highwaymen and Deputy Sheriffs Darcy and Salvade ended with one robber killed and the other badly wounded and captured. The men had robbed two Addy citizens and possibly a Northern Pacific train assailant, then fled toward the Colville river where they were cornered.
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Addy
Spakane
Aherlits Darcy
Salvade
Northern Pacific
Kathdram
Sprague Well
Colville
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