Salt Lake City Faces Smallpox Quarantine and Local News
Salt Lake City reports two swallpox patients under quarantine and notes sharp rises in public school attendance, with 11,300 enrolled on opening day, plus 320 more than last year. The city faces burglaries, rail station changes at Murray and Palis, and a notable trial for Merrill M Kaighn.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake
Merrill M. Kaighn
Willard Ss. Haynes
Latter-day Saints University
JF. Sharp
Lehi
Jordan River
Democratic Ticket Named at Provo Convention
At the Utah Democratic state convention in Provo on the 1st, Major Richard W. Young of Salt Lake was nominated by acclamation for supreme judge, and Judge William H. King of Salt Lake for representative in Congress. The platform denounces Republicans, opposes militarism, favors arbitration, direct senate elections, and strict immigration laws, and lauds Senator Rawlins. Officers include Chairman Frank J. Cannon and a slate of county and state officials. speeches by J. W. Powers, Judge King, and others followed.
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Provo
Richard W. Young
Salt Lake
William H. King
Congress
Philippines
Utah
Flon
J. L. Rawlins
The
Conention
Jlon
Frank J
TH. H. Condon
Hox Bier
Dohort Milner
Tah
Jide O
W. Powers
Lins
Judie Wot King
Rank J. Cannon
Foreign Devile Leaves Celestial Kingdom Massacre Details
Empress of India receives word of cholera and massacre reports along the Yuan river. In Changte and westward towns the disease kills daily. foreigners accused of poisoning a central spring. Mr Lewis, his teacher, and Mr Bruce slain in a brutal mob attack at Chenchow. bodies mutilated. Speaker Henderson resigns from Congress over tariff trust views, issuing a rebuttal to Republican voters in Iowa. Washington reacts with surprise and regret.
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India
Messrs. Croce
Lewis
Hunar
Yuan River
Changte
Chenchow
Mr. Lewis
Mr. Bruce
Henderson
Secord
Jowy
Congress
Rive
Lenderson
Wspatch
Washington
Large Force to Fight Forest Fires Near Crow Creek Reserve
The Interior Secretary orders Supervisor Atherly at Crow Creek to deploy a large force of mechanics to combat a fire burning near Peart south of the Medicine Hawk forest reserve. Responding to governors telegrams from Wyoming and Colorado, no further help will be sought from the war department.
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Wyoming
Colorao
Secretary of the Interior
Atherly
Crow Creek Reservation
Peart
Medicine Haw Forest Reserve
Wae
Indian Murderer Lynched Near Hesperia
Report states George Bruce an Indian outlaw hunted for months in southern California and Arizona was captured by Indians in southern Nevada. He was hanged by rope tied to a saddle horn and dragged across the desert, then his body burned on a wood pile after Victoria Maria’s murder by choking.
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George Bruce
California
Arizona
Victoria Maria
Hesperia
Nevada
Disaster at Algoma Coal mine leaves seventeen dead
A gas and powder explosion at the Algoma Coal and Coke company Big Four mine in Norfolk West Virginia traps James Lester an engineer John Reikie a Hungarian miner and fifteen colored miners. Rescue efforts are hampered by thick gas and smoke as 41 rescue parties retreat. Frankenfield and Gaspie survive after crawling to lighted air and are badly burned. The blast, blamed on gas ignition from a coal miner and blasting powder storage, collapses brattices and cuts off air to trapped workers.
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Norfolk
W. Va
Algoma Coal & Coke Company
James Lester
John Reiekie
Frankenfield
Oivie
George Gaspie
Oea
Cincinnati Police Hold Man on Threat Against Roosevelt
Joseph Semils, 40, is held on a loitering charge in Cincinnati while officers investigate a claim that he threatened to kill President Roosevelt. Schmitz was arrested Saturday after two sisters on Oliver Street accused him of entering their home and refusing to leave, with investigators seeking witnesses on Everett Street and the suspect’s history.
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Cincinnati
Joseph Semils
Roosevelt
Schmitz
Oliver Street
Everett Street
Chinese protest over Baker City outrage investigated
Acting Secretary Adee received a telegraph from the governor of Oregon directing an immediate thorough inquiry into alleged failure by local Baker City officials to punish perpetrators of a Chinese district outrage. The telegram was sent to the Chinese minister in Washington.
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Adee
Orepeo
Washington
Baker City
The
Mysterious gas tragedy claims two men in Ann Arbor
Two young men, J. Wl Brosile and Joseph Kiersek of Josen, Michigan, were found dead in the Newman House in Ann Arbor. Kiersek had traveled to the city for eye treatment. The pair, who warned they were not used to gaslight, were believed to have risen at night to use the gas, were overcome while attempting to reach the door, and perished.
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J. Wl Brosile
Joseph Kiersek
Josen
Mich
Newman House
Ann Arbor
Mich Kiersek
Syna gogue dedication crowd crush at St Paul falls
About 1,100 people gathered for the dedication of a new synagogue at St Paul when temporary steps collapsed causing a large crowd pileup of around 500. Police rushed in to restore order and remove those trapped. In the end no fatalities and few injuries were reported.
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Sons of Zion
St. Paul
Forest Fire Devastation Across Oregon Killing Dozens
Devastating fires swept twenty five miles from Ariel in Cowlitz county Washington to Mount St. Helens with eleven dead and over two hundred homeless. Four men working on a Hawthorne claim are missing presumed dead. About 300 people displaced in Multnomah and Clackamas counties. Fires destroyed Palmer near Bridal Veil and casualties include two boys burned while fleeing. Several families reported burned or missing along Lewis River and Kalamah News."
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Ariel
Cowlitz County
Washington
Mount St. Helens
Flames
Hawthorne
Portland
Milo M. Dimmick
Multnomah
Clackamac
Palmer
Bridal Veil
Hamilton
Kalamah
Wash
Lewis River
Hwavoc
L. Wallace
William Stratton Dies Wealthy Colorado Springs Prospector
William S. Stratton a Colorado Springs mining magnate and owner of the Independence mine in Cripple Creek died after months of illness. He prospected Cripple Creek in 1891 and staked the Independence and Washington claims on July 4 1801. The Independence yielded rich ore and he later leased the Washington for 50000. Stratton owned the Colorado Springs railway system and his fortune estimates range from 15000000 to 50000000.
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William S. Stratton
Colorado Springs
Colo
Independence
Cripple Creek
Stratton
Washington
Terrific Storm Sweeps Over Germany
Terrific storm swept over Germany with hurricane like winds. Destructive winds unroofed houses and injuring many people as temperatures fell to zero in Saxony. Damage runs into millions of marks with heavy northwest winds at North Sea coastal cities and Elbe bathing establishments damaged.
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Germany
Saxony
North Sea
Elba
Tramps' brutal crime near Steinhauer shocks Nebraskan town
Mrs. Kate Fournell living with her parents near Steinlater was attacked by tramps on Saturday night, murdered, and her clothing burned after they looted the house. Bloodhounds traced the trail but the suspects remain at large.
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Kate Fournell
Steinlater
Forest fires rage across Oregon and Washington region
Western Oregon and western Washington suffer extensive forest fires with homes barns and livestock destroyed within seventy five miles of Portland. Dozens of houses scorched at Lents Bridal Veil and Springwater while eight farmhouses burned near Vancouver Washington with three deaths reported. Ash chokes Portland as smoke darkens the sky and lights are needed early.
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Lents
Oregon
Oregon Water Power & Railway Company
Portland
John Myers
Clark County
Washington
Wife of Nevada Senator Stewart killed in San Francisco crash
Mrs. William M. Stewart, wife of the U S senator from Nevada, died after an automobile accident in San Francisco. The party included Henry Foote and H M Taylor. Taylor swerved to avoid a collision and the car struck a telegraph pole. Foote and Taylor had minor injuries. Mrs. Stewart died at a sanitarium nearby. Senator Stewart was in The Hague on Pius fund arbitration.
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William M. Stewart
United States
Nevada
San Francisco
Stewart
Henry Foote
W. W. Foote
HM. B. Taylor
Santa Clara Avenue
Alameda County
Taylor
Foote
Frederick Benedict
New York
Washington, D.C
Louis Aldrich
Mississippi
California
New York City
the Hague
Mont Pelee Horror Reportsthat Devastation Surpasses May Eruption
Professor Angelo Heilprin of the Philadelphia Geographical Society reports from Martinique that the Mont Pelee eruption devastates a wide area from Macouba to Carbet. It lists fatalities above 1,100 in Morne Rouge and Ajoupa Bouillon with many towns largely destroyed and widespread ash and fires.
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Angelo Heilprin
Philadelphia Geographical Society
Martinique
National Geographies Society
Mont Pelee
St. Pierre
Macouba
Carbet
Hinute Tours de
Morne Rouge
Ajoupa Bouillion
Negro Hanged at New London Declares Salvation Before Death
A New London Missouri report to the St. Louis Post Dispatch says Jesse Johnson, a Black man, was hanged today. His neck broke on the scaffold after he confessed the crime and said he had joined the eluted mod, had Christ in his heart, and was the happiest man on earth with no fear of the future as he made peace with God.
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New London
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jesse Johnson
Johnson
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