Diphtheria Outbreak and Various Utah Developments
Diphtheria appears in Fairview while Garland sugar factory work starts. Governor Wells proclaims Arbor Day for April 15. Salt Lake City schools close May 1 due to funds. Smallpox in St George raises townwide unease. Provo Canyon rail damage after a rock slide. Jailed escapees Smith and Davis captured in Oregon. Richfield wins county baseball title over Elsinore. Salt Lake City prisoners to labor on streets until cold weather. Wool contract chatter and Idaho Utah tensions over quarantine persist. Olpin beaten, amnesty believed in asylum. Runaway accident in Mt Pleasant injures Ole Jessen. March births exceed deaths in Salt Lake City. Fairview to install waterworks about 10,000 with bonding. Contagious disease counts list smallpox 92 and diphtheria 37. Gas accident injures Larry Iverson.
Pennell a Defaulter in Buffalo Auto Fatality
The Buffalo Commercial reports Arthur S. Pennell who died in an automobile crash on March 10 allegedly owed between 150 000 and 200 000. He is said to have acted as financial agent for eastern relatives investing funds, using new money to pay interest, with Wallac e Thayer noting suspected irregularities. Pennell allegedly directed 25 000 to Mrs Edwin Burdick from life insurance and carried over 200 000 in life coverage to shield eastern estates from losses. His will appoints his brother Frederick Pennell as administrator with sealed instructions to repay all losses in full.
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Buffalo,n. Y
Arthur S. Pensell
Pennell
East
Wallace Thayer
Frederick Pennell
Stratton Will Compromise Ends Litigation
A compromise has been agreed in the Stratton will contest case. Harry Stratton receives 172000 after paying attorneys and court costs totaling 3060. The deal includes a 50000 bequest from the will, with the rest covering legal fees. Young Stratton expresses satisfaction with the outcome.
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Stratton Bytsterman
Harry Stratton
Stratton
Senator Patterson
Relic of John Brown Headquarter Cottage Destroyed by Fire
A small Tabor Iowa cottage once used by abolitionist John Brown as his underground railroad headquarters and military school was destroyed by fire. The dilapidated building housed sympathy for his cause and his instruction on arms, though no uprising ever occurred.
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John Brown
Tabor
Iowa
Brown
Tom Johnson Reelected Mayor of Cleveland
Tom L Johnson won reelection as mayor of Cleveland by about 7000 votes over H B D Goulder. Returns show 27 of 31 councilmen favor the mayor’s policy, with some independents among Republicans.
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Tom L Johnson
Cleveland
H BD Goulder
Flags for Sultans Near Jolo and Lanao Roads
Major General Davis visited Manila and prepared to confer with the sultan of Nortao Lanao to inspect Lanao military roads. He arranged to supply two sultans with American flags, dispatched by military authorities to their settlements as tensions of colonial governance rise.
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Manila
Jolo
Lanao
Ilican
Levan
Datto
Nortao Lanao
Mid Ocean Tragedy Report on Bambara Explosion
News notes the Bambara steamship on a Marseilles to Dakar run may have exploded at sea with 96,000 pounds of gunpowder and two cases of dynamite aboard. Reports from the Assumption and Nina claim sightings of a brilliant flash and explosion near Île de Palimir. The vessel carried 35 crew and 10 passengers.
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Bambara
Marseilles
Dakar
French West Africa
Lloyd
Gibraltar
Echaoner Assumption
Alsty Goflen
Île de Palimir
Mount Shasta town fire destroys most buildings
A third story blaze at Dunsmuir Cal leveled the frame town of Mount Shasta in under an hour, burning fifteen key homes and all but two shops, with losses near 260000 and only one quarter insured. The town lacks food while shelters are provided by stores and railroad freight cars.
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Mount Shasta
Renegade Shot to Death as Yaqui Leader Executed
The Mexican Herald details the capture and execution of John Dyer an Arizona cowboy who urged himself as Yaqui leader in Sonora The Fourth Battalion Mexican regulars seized him near Da cum Sonora He was court martialed and shot at daylight Dyer reportedly offered to reveal Yaqui plans and locations to avoid death The execution required two soldiers to drag him away Jeck Cleeson an American prospector died at Dyers camp reportedly shot by Dyer in retaliation
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The
Mexican Herald
John Dyer
Sonora
Dacum
Hierald
Dyer
Blatent
Jeck Cleeson
Threatens to Kill President and Roosevelt
Brown of Redlands California faced new trouble after being arrested on a vagary charge for threatening President Roosevelt. He had previously been detained around President McKinley's coast visit, with Deputy Marshal Revere noting he talked too much. In Chicago a motorman Zoran, trying to push a car through a parade, sparked a riot that left nearly 1,000 Italians and several police officers injured.
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J . Brown
Redlands
Cal
McKinley
Gage
Roosevelt
Brown
United States
Revere
Halsted
Chicago
Zoran
Battle With Robbers in Huntington Ends in Fatal Wound
John Stephens was fatally shot and Ben Peders seriously wounded during a desperate clash with highwaymen on Huntington West Virginia’s western outskirts. Four holdup men fled empty handed as Stephens suffered a skull fracture and Peders escaped in the melee. News also reports the murder of Charles Blakeley and Roy Winchester near Kingman Arizona, believed tied to James McKenney who is sought for the killing at Porterville California last July.
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Huntington
W. Va
John Stephens
Ben Peders
W Va
Stephens
Ldens
Kingman Arizona
Charles Blakeley
Roy Winchester
James McKenney
McKenney
William JL. Wynn
Porterville
Cal
Balkans Battle and Uprising Reported from Ottoman Front
A Berlin Anzeiger dispatch from Constantinople says Bulgarian bands and Turkish troops fought near Okhreida with about 1,000 killed or wounded. Bulgarian villagers totaling 2,000, aided by the bishop and rebels, rose against the Turks. Turkish detachments in the mountains were forced to retreat after heavy losses. A dynamite attack at Mustapha Pacha tied to a revolutionary committee damaged the Orient Express bridge between Adrianople and Mustapha Pacha. Amid calmer Mitrovitza and Pristina, Albanian risings continue to cause palace and embassy concern.
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Berlin
Anzieger
Constantinople
Okhreida
Monaatir
Okhrelda
Okhreids
Mustapha Pacha
Revolutionary Committee
Oriental Express
Adrianopis
Mitrovitza
Prisptina
Tolling His Own Funeral Bell Ends in Death
Joseph Kroch, sexton at St Johns Catholic Church in New Haven Indiana, hanged himself by the bell rope in the belfry. The single toll was heard as a possible accidental tug, discovered by an altar boy after a morning service. Kroch had been nervous and troubled by insomnia.
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Joseph Kroch
St Johns Catholic
New Haven
Ind
Krochs
Snowslide at Trust Ruby mine in Ouray Colorado
Dispatch from Ouray reports a snowslide at the Trust Ruby mine carrying away buildings. Watchman J Swenson and Oscar Lanpen escaped with minor injuries after being in the bunk house. Three feet of snow fell in 24 hours and lines are down. In Arizona, Fred Barfoot with Rangers and county officers attacked Davis cabins in Black Rock country and captured eight men tied to cattle theft. they were taken to Solomonville and jailed.
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Trust Ruby
Ouray
Colo
J Swenson
Oscar Lanpen
Tucson
Arizona
Fred Barfoot
Felton and
Petereun
Davis
Black Rock Country
Yielé
Solomonville
Saints Confer at Salt Lake City Seventy Third Semiannual Meeting
The 16 000 strong audience at the Salt Lake Tabernacle heard President Joseph F Smith urge saints to pay tithing and get out of debt. He warned of a coming mood and pressed labor education, while leaders praised unions and warned against secret orders. Senator Reed Smoot addressed the crowd on cleanliness and church progress.
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Church of Jesus Christ of Matter Day Saints
Tabernacle
Salt Lake City
Joseph F. Smith
2Lon
Seymour Young
Aite
Jesse M Smith
Arizona
E D Woolley
Kanab
Byron Sessiona
Big Iorn
Wyoming
B H. Roberts
Joseph A. Merrill
Cider Sylvester Q Cannon
Netherlands
Charles Kelly
Box Elder
Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints
United States
Twelve Apostles
Reed Smoot
Lund
Joseph F. ‘Smith
Salt Lake Egg
Lilter J. M Farner
Latter-day
Sanita
Mars
Wford Woodruff
John R. Winder
Lewis Anderson
South Sarpete
Waddams
Skull Valley
Joseph McMurrin
Utah
William A Hyde
Pucatella
David Cameron
Panguitch
Disie
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