07 Dec 1903
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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1903
Page
1
In Dessau Germany on December 7 Frau Fischer a lion tamer was ripped apart by four lions during a cage act. She aimed a hoop jump with a whip. the lion pounced and killed her in view of a crowd. Assistants with iron rods hauled the beasts away as panicked spectators suffered injuries. Her children watched from a box.
Judge Edward E. Dunne told the Henry George association that Roosevelt and Hay knew of the Panama revolution from the start, calling the US Panama treaty unprincipled. The report also notes the later murder of Mrs Matilda Wood by Lester Fitzgerald and mentions his motive tied to spurned advances.
Pottaville Pa December 7 In Echuslkis county nearly one third of the 1100 saloonkeepers will go out of business next year due to rising temperance sentiment among anthracite miners as shown by more license applications.
Ogden resident Charles E. Shepherd and aline Watson were charged in federal court with defrauding via mail recruitment for farming jobs promising $60 a month. Judge Marshall sentenced Shepherd to fifteen months in prison and a $100 fine or until paid.
Officials report the Panama junta ratified the canal treaty and sent the final instrument to Colon for transport to the United States. The move precedes formal Senate action and aligns with dispatches from Washington and Panama City on December 7.
The President asks the Senate to approve General Leonard Wood and 167 other civilian appointments. The confirmations face delays as several nominees undergo scrutiny and contestation.
New York dispatch reports Michael Martell, a Philippine War veteran, unknowingly missed his wife after enlistment. She had married another man years earlier, believing him dead, and Martell later had her arrested for bigamy after locating the remarried spouse.
The American board of commissioners for foreign missions released a statement on the sleeping sickness outbreak in Africa. Gathered by missionaries, the disease began in Uganda three years ago near Lake Victoria, killing at least 68 000 people, with 10 000 deaths in the last five months. The fly kivu is blamed for spread. no antidote exists. Early signs include headache and swollen neck glands followed by lengthy sleep.
Eugene V. Debs addressed a Coliseum crowd of about 10,000, calling the major parties capitalistic and worker oppression. He declared the Democratic party dead and predicted a Democratic president as a scapegoat for an upcoming panic as he urged Socialism.
Lester C Fitzgerald, a Brooklyn glass manufacturer, and his wife were found dead in a Delavan Hotel room in Williamsburg after a recorded quarrel. A theatre worker in the adjoining room said she saw Fitzgerald shoot his wife and then himself, an action she reported after hearing their dispute. Authorities noted a large sum of money on Fitzgerald and described a long, jealous breakup preceding the reconciliation meeting.
Washington reports the opening of the Fifty-eighth Congress and the President's message praising progress in corporate supervision under the new Department of Commerce and Labor. It covers agencies, capital and labor, public finances, immigration, naturalization frauds, and plans for a stronger merchant marine.
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