Utah State News Highlights From Salt Lake and Beyond
Smallpox cases reported in Salt Lake as week closed. Frosted fruit crops light. Peace meeting planned for May 15 in Salt Lake. Rail construction may engage 1,000 men in Tintle valley within two months. Baltalr beach to ban beer this season. New Wellsville assembly hall to cost 25,000. Osteonathtets to test legal status in courts. Morris Young burned by bonfire in Salt Lake. Silver King mine paid 100,000 dividend raising total distributions to 5,150,000. Tramp with smallpox quarantined near Echo. Grasshopper threat in Sanpete. farmers seek control. Wasatch canning plant receives twenty carloads of tin. Reservation grazing leases yield 27,060 annually for Indians. Mayor Thompson injured in street car incident. Clyde West bound over for trial in salt Lake throat-cutting case. William Green seriously injured in runaway. wife lightly hurt. Uintah reserves limit 150,000 sheep. some land to cattle near Kannas. Actor Benjamin Stoward attempted suicide. saved. Salt Lake to Brigham City electric line filed. capital 200,000. Vernal reports several new smallpox cases linked to Vernal school departments. Utah wool output to rise 20 percent. 15,000,000 pounds expected. Wright located at Ridgewood under alias George Itoward. Sheriff Storrs to probe Provo pension case. Congressman Sutherland passes two pensions for Provo and Salt Lake City. J Wardle, missing Salt Lake man, traced to Ogden and then seen in St Anthony Idaho. journeying through Oregon suspected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Stoward
Salt Lake
Brigham City
Vernal
Utah
Aman
Wright
Pelican Point
Ridgewood
George I
Storrs
Provo
Sutherland
William C Roberts
Aaron Tost
Salt Lake City I
J Wardle
Ogden
St Anthony
Daho
Oregon
Boer Leaders Seek Peace Terms With British Overseers
Reports from The Hague indicate the latest South African dispatch outlines Boer acceptance of a British lord commissioner and a Boer executive, to reside in Pretoria. The plan proposes district natives under British officers, a Boer polling committee, veto power for Britain, cession of Johannesburg, a £10 million war indemnity, disarmament after prisoner repatriation, no war tax, bilingual recognition in schools courts and official papers, and British bearing garrison costs while keeping current Boer leaders in office where possible.
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Hague
South Africa
Pretoria
Johannesburg
Great Britain
England defines Boer War costs and budgetary impact
The chancellor of the exchequer presented a budget showing 1902 03 ordinary expenditure at £120 159 000 with £4 450 000 in war charges, a three year war cost of £165 034 000, a total deficit for the year around £26 8 million, and duties on flour wheat and a penny rate increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Erchequer
Michael Hicka Beach
Transvaal
Des Moines Youth and Sister Fatally Harmed After Church Outing
Victims Mary Peterson aged 11 and Thomas Peterson 11, children of dairyman Peter J. Peterson, were fatally harmed while returning home from church on Des Moines north outskirts. A Black suspect is believed responsible. The boy was alive when found at midnight but died fifteen minutes later. farmer who heard moans discovered the bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Mary Peterson
Thomas
Peter J. Peterson
Hawaiians Expect Government to Pay Fire Losses
Honolulu chamber of commerce and Merchants' association plan to seek federal aid for Chinatown fire claims totaling over 2 million dollars. They will send delegate J G Pratt from the Chinatown fire commissioners to Washington to present their views and secure support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Legacy For Dowie In Will Probate Case In Illinois
Frederick Sutton's will filing in Lake county Illinois names John Alexander Dowie Elijah II as heir to an estate largely held in New Zealand. Sutton had intended to leave most to Dowie but added a codicil for Sutton's sister and three brothers still in New Zealand.
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Frederick Sutton
Lake County
Ill
John Alexander Dowie
Elijah II
New Zealand
Sutton
Dowie
DeWitt Talmage Dies After Six Weeks Ill
Reverend Thomas DeWitt Talmage, famed Presbyterian preacher, died at his Washington residence after a six week illness from influenza and catarrhal troubles. Born January 7 1839 at Hound Rock New York he served as pastor in Belleville Syracuse Philadelphia Brooklyn and Washington and led the Brooklyn Tabernacle with sermons published widely for nearly three decades. He edited several religious periodicals and authored numerous works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. DeWitt Talmage
Washington
Talmage
Thomas DeWitt Talmage
Hound Rock
N. 3
University of New York
New Brunswick Theological Seminary
Reformed Church
Belleville
N. C
Syracuse
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Central Presbyterian Church
Brooklyn
United States
Europe
Hass
Kept Death Silent as Healers Attempt Rescue in Blue Springs
County prosecutor reports divine healers in Blue Springs Missouri kept the death of Mrs Nancy Ashley secret for three days while they prayed to restore her. Mrs Ashley died last Saturday without physician attendance and under the care of the healers.
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Blue Springs
Nancy Ashley
Ashley
Cholera Seen in Manila and Provinces Amid Busier Transport
The Manila cholera situation remains steady with 245 cases and 192 deaths. Provinces report 418 cases and 318 deaths as the US Army transport Grant during voyage to Samar Island docks at Legaspi with a cholera-stricken teamster aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Wutte
United States Army
Grant
Samar Island
Legaspi
Peace Efforts Reported in South Africa Talks
A dispatch claims Mr Steyn has reached terms with Generals Dewet and Botha ending the war. London reports Boer leaders accepted British terms and peace is arranged, with telegrams to Boer agents in London. Unconfirmed variations circulate and no reliable confirmation is available.
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London
Steyn
Dewet
Boths
Cruelty Allegations Surround Leadville Girl Case
Hannah Griffin of Leadville and her husband face charges of maltreating their 13 year old daughter. Neighbors report severe beating with heavy wooden implements and burns from carbolic acid. A mob attempted to tar and feather the father and mother, but shifts at the mine halted the plan. The girl twice escaped but was returned and punished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannah Griffin
Leadville
Colo
Tragedy at Anaconda Mont Wife Shot by Jealous Husband
Fred Bauer, a Washoe smelter employee at Anaconda, Montana, shot his wife in a jealous rage then killed himself. Bauer died instantly. his wife is hospitalized with a grave prognosis. Bauer said she left after years of support. she says he threatened and pursued her before the tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Bauer
Washoe
Anaconda Company
Anaconda
Mont
Bauer
Lauer
Denver Man Jaupa Dies After Trains Front Incident
An apparently insane Denver man named De Semple was killed when he jumped in front of a Burlington passenger train near Kankko Neb Sunday. He was reportedly from Denver and well dressed with a Knights of Pythias emblem. Local details say De Temple told a Red Cloud crowd Saturday he had been robbed. few other facts about his rental history emerged.
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Nicholas de ‘Semple
Denver
Kankko Neb
Red Cloud
de ‘Temple
Jie
Knights of Pythias
Spanish Cathedral Collapse Ends Holy Week Celebration
At Cieuta Spain the cathedral tower collapsed at the close of four masses destroying three houses and part of the cloisters. The cathedral may fall further as two bodies and several injured are recovered from the ruins with the entombed count still unknown.
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Cieuta
Spain
General Wade Hampton’s Death and Civil War Career
General Wade Hampton died at Columbus after an active Civil War service where he formed the Hampton Legion. He rose to major general and supported Reconstruction moderation, later becoming governor in 1876 and serving two terms in the U.S. Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wade Hampton
Columbus
G& C
Hampton
Hampton Legion
Bull Run
Paene
United States
Senate
Ironworker fatally shoots man in street quarrel in Cleveland
William Rogers an ironworker shot John Turner on a Cleveland street after a jealousy driven dispute over a broken home. Rogers stood over Turner until EMTs took him to a hospital where he died. Rogers is married with four children.
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William Rogers
John Turner
Cleveland
Ohio
Rogers
Turner
Leadville Foreman Sullivan Ends Life Over Believed Throat Obstruction
John Sullivan of Leadville Colorado a foreman on the South Park railroad killed himself Friday by drinking carbolic acid after swallowing a $20 gold piece weeks earlier. He believed the coin lodged in his throat despite doctors saying it had passed to the stomach. He was burned by the acid and left a family.
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John Sullivan
Leadville
Colo
South Park
Monster fight between lion and bull shocks crowds at Tuarez Merico
Thousands witnessed a battle Sunday at Tuarez Merrico between a Numidian lion and a wild Samalayuca bull. The fight lasted about one hour, the bull escaped fatal injury while the lion was gored twenty five times and likely died. Mexican authorities halted the bout when the top was incapacitated.
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Tuarez Merrico
Reported Pattie ' lihinting Proves to be Fake Battle
A claimed Sunday battle in Scott county Virginia between Jim Wright wanted in Stannock Tennessee and a sheriff posse is denied. Five officers were said killed and two wounded, but Churchill reports no such fight occurred and no injuries are verified.
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Scott County
Virginia
Jim Wright
Stannock County
Tennessee
Churchill
Congress week highlights Cuban reciprocity bill clash
The House debate on the Cuban reciprocity bill featured split sentiment with supporters led by William M Smith of Michigan and opposition from Republicans Spooner Quarles Dolliver and others. Democrats Sparkman Ball and Mondell urged caution. Senate focus centered on the Chinese exclusion bill with mixed votes and amendments to the Indian appropriation bill.
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House
Wiliam M Smith
Michigan
Morris
Minnesota
Ball
Dem
Texas
Me Sparkman
Dom
Fla
Mondell
Wyoming
Senate
Gaillager
New Hampshire
Duungheam
Vermont
Soir Turner
Washington
Jessia Stewart Pistt
Connesticut
Rawlina
Legislative debate on Cuban reciprocity and senate reform
Hovig leads discussion on the Cuban reciprocity bill and Scottish resolution. Hitt reports Cochran inquiry on Alaskan border landmarks and Sulzer on Louisiana governor correspondence about logistics for British Army supplies in South Africa. Depew proposes popular vote for senators with uniform qualifications. Move to vote on the Chinese bill fails.
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Hovig
Afr
Hitt
Illnois
Secretary of State
Sulzer
Louisiana
Biltieh
Louisl
South Africa
Senate
Depew
United States
Congress
Congress Hall
Debate on Cuban reciprocity bill continues in Senate
The Cuban reciprocity bill debates proceed with A R Long of Kansas supporting the measure and Me Shafroth of Colorado opposing. The post office appropriation bill goes to conference with Loud and Smith of Illinois and Swanson of Virginia named as conferees. Senate also reports river and harbor and other actions including payments to Judge Parker’s widow and a Jarutier bill move.
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A R Long
Kansan
Shafroth
Colorado
Messra Loud
Smith
Ilinois
Swanson
Virginia
Cone Forces
Senate
Frye
United States
1 CG Parker
Arkansas
Sha Jauter
Hoar
Pension for McKinley widow heads bill passage
The house passed a bill granting six thousand a year pension to the widow of President McKinley. It had previously cleared the kotale and now goes to the president for signature. In the senate a Chinese exclusion debate features sharp criticism of Minister Wu by Mitchell and Taftler, who defend his papers and national duty. Mr Mason presents and the conference report on the post office appropriation bill is agreed to.
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House
Mckinley
Kotale
Goss
Senate
Minister Wu
China
Mitchell
Oregon
Teil’er
Colorado
Foraker
Ohio
Jioar
Massachusetts
Mason
Senate and House actions span ports bill and Chinese exclusion
The conference report on the port office appropriation bill was adopted amid debate over pneumatic rules. In the Cuban reciprocity hearing Mesara McCall of Massachusetts and Drantley of Georgia spoke for the measure while Robertson of Louisiana and Stey on8 of Minnesota spoke against it. In the Senate the Chinese exclusion bill drew lengthy debate with Foraker and McLaurin opposing it.
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Hovuse
Mesara McCall
Magsachusetts
Drantley
Georgia
Messare
Messrs Robertson
Louisiana
Stey
Minnesota
Senate
Foraker
McLaurin
House leaders foresee Cuban reciprocity bill passed this week
They expect passage to occur within the present week but acknowledge a possible delay in debate. Without a rule, debate could be drawn out until a final vote is reached next week.
Pensions Committee Recommends Increases for Disabled Soldiers
The seneta committee on pensions orders favorable reports on bills to raise pensions for soldiers who lost limbs. Each would gain 15 dollars monthly, lifting the annual appropriation by 1.4 million dollars. The panel also supports raising deaf pensions from 30 to 10 dollars monthly, adding 28 thousand to annual expenditures.
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Seneta Committee On Pensions
Tragic murder suicide shocks Everett community
Mrs. Shepard R. Yucey wife of the American National bank assistant cashier killed her husband their 4 year old son and herself in a Wednesday evening act. A servant recounted the sequence with the revolver, noting she fired at her husband then took her own life as responders arrived.
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Everett
Wash
Shepard R. Yucey
American National Bank
Kacey
Bucey
Cugede
Elizabeth McNulty
Mra. Bucey
Mra
Shepard R Ducey
Henry Bucey
Tacoma
King Leopold Mobbed by Socialists in Urussela Arrival
King Leopold was mobbed on arrival from Biarritz in Urussela as Socialists surrounded his automobile shouting Long live the republic and universal suffrage. Red flags waved as a delegation of Spanish Socialists had been expelled by policy to attend Brussels gatherings.
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Leopold
Socialiste
Urussela
Biarritz
Republic
Bruasela
Navy Enlisted Force Grows By 3600 Men In Appropriation Bill
A sub committee of the house naval committee roughs out an increase of 3600 enlisted sailors in the naval appropriation bill. No ships provision yet. full committee earlier approved ship funding. The measure also funds naval establishments and major yard and dock improvements.
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House Naval Committee
Naval Establishment
Washington Lawyer in Trouble in Stevens County Probe
A special grand jury met at Colville on April 21 to investigate charges of gross immorality against J. I. Bailey, the county prosecuting attorney. Bailey was advised to leave the county but refused, and he denies the allegations, vowing to fight them to a finish.
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Stevens County
Richardson
Colville
Weash
J. I Bailey
Bailey
Ile
Inheritance Tax Collected in New York Last Fiscal Year
State Controller figures show total inheritance tax receipts were 405000 dollars. Greater Newark contributed 3394000 dollars, with large payments from the estates of William Marsh Rice and J A Rogers the locomotive builder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Newark
William Marsh Rice
Jamob Rogers
President Breyn Golug Tind In South Africa Peace Talks
Former Orange Tres State leader Mr Steyn participates in South Africa peace negotiations while suffering severe ophthalmia that may cause total blindness.
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Steyn
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