Lehi Faces Special Election On Water Project
Lehi voters will decide September 14 on a $26 600 water system plan. The outcome will determine whether Lehi adopts a municipal water supply. The article notes broader building activity and local tax rate changes amid regional issues.
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Lehi
Spanish Cork
Salt Lake
Eagles
Seattle
Willard Canners
Willard
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Harriman
Mantua
Hox Lider County
Ife
Salt Lake County
Salt Lake Y McA
Riot Burns Negro Homes in Springfield Mob Lynches Man
The Springfield riot ends with arson and killings as a mob assaults the Negro quarter after a reported crime against Mrs Mabel Hallam. Two white men die, a Black man named Charley Hunter is lynched, and hundreds are injured as state militia restore order.
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Springfield
Bloomington
Decatur
Perkin
Pontiac
William Donidgan
Donigitn
State House
Mabel Hallam
George Richardson
Richardson
Hoomington
Lewis ‘Johnson
Moe
Charley Hunter
Twelfth
Madison Streets
First Cavalry
Chicago
National Guard of
Illinois
Sixth Infantry
Eighth Infantry
Abduction of Teen Daughter Near Tillings Claims Two Ranch Hands
Tutte Mont Miss Pieda Dtuer, sixteen, daughter of rancher Conrad Tauer of Tillings County, was seized at night by two men who rode in, lured Bauer out, and spirited the girl away while his wife fled to neighbors. Hauer accuses the lovers, who vanished with her.
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Tutte Mont
Pieda Dtuer
Conrad Tauer
Tillings
Hauer
Bauer
Angry Husband Shoots to Kill at Bayside Yacht Club
Captain Peter Conover Haines of Bayside Long Island shot seven bullets at William E Annis owner and publisher of McIntosh's Monthly and others on the landing stage of the Bayside Yacht Club in Flushing. Annis died in Flushing Hospital hours later. motive linked to alleged improper attention to the captain's wife.
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Bayside LI
Peter Conover Haines
U SA
Brlgadier
Peter Conover Itaines
William E Annis
New York
Urr
McIntoshs Monthly
Bayside Yacht Club
Flushing
Annis
Haines
Abdul Aziz defeats Hafid forces in Moroccan clash
Wireless dispatch from Tangier reports Sultan Abdul Aziz’s troops defeated Mulai Hafid’s forces near Morocco City. Hafid’s side suffered about 500 killed and 500 wounded, with substantial booty captured. Abdul Aziz led a column against the Pehama tribe, killing fifty and taking 200 prisoners.
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Tangier
Abdel Aziz
Mutal Hafid
Morocco
Mulal Hafid
Mulal Wafid
Bandits Foiled On Transcontinental Train Near Spokane
Two masked highwaymen halted Northern Pacific No 3 near Otis and boarded the engine. The train was split at Trent and moved toward Yardley where the robbers were warned and the clerks dumped local registered packages into a sack, yielding little loot and no passenger harm.
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Spokane
Northern Pacific No 3
Otis
Trent
Yardley
Soldiers Join Savages In Mutiny And Robbery Near Wuchow
In Konghau near Wuchow a unit mutinied and killed its commander after a comrade was arrested for gambling. The 1,000 mutineers joined the Yuans, an armed aboriginal tribe in Kwangtung’s inaccessible mountains, took $100,000 in stone money, and fled as Admiral Li Gung arrived with ships and troops to quell the turmoil.
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Hong Kong
Konghau
Wuchow
Kwangtung
Stoney
Aiking Mountains
Owes Thirteen Millions Scranton Coal Company Receivered
Scranton Pennsylvania Coat and Coke company, a major bituminous miner, placed in receivership by Judge Edwards. Thomas H Watkins named receiver on petition by Scranton Trust for bondholders. Company lessee Pennsylvania Beach Creek and Western Company unable to meet rentals. Intrinsic value cited near $26 million against roughly $13 million debt.
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Scranton
Pennsylvania Coat & Coke Company
Pennsylvania
Saturca
Edwards
Thomas H Watkins
Scranton Trust Company
Pennsyvania, Beach Creek & Western Co Company
Lathrop
Death in Quarantine Prison of Aziz General Wardwell
Aziz General D K Wardwell died Saturday afternoon while in quarantine with his leper wife Her sufferings from leprosy and the nervous strain after their case notoriety have dethroned her reason and she is unaware he is dead Federal authorities refused aid as efforts to deport Mrs Wardwell to the leper colony have led to complications through the Mexican and Civil War veteran’s case
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Tombstone, Aziz
D K Wardwell
General Wardwell
Mrs Wardwell
Croker Denies Slan dering Roosevelt in Interview
Richard Croker rejects reports misrepresenting his views on President Roosevelt. He denies comparing Roosevelt to King Edward and claims he never said the president preferred books at home. The piece notes David Bennett Till's one week holiday with Croker in Dublin.
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Dublin
Richard Croker
Roosevelt
King Edward
Taft Montana Fire Destroys Town Except Post Office
A major blaze wiped out Taft Montana except the post office one grocery store and a saloon. Fifteen buildings burned with losses estimated 60 000 to 75 000 and insurance scarce. Officials seek the cause with a theory an overturned lamp near the Anheuser building ignited the fire. Rebuilding has begun.
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Russoula
Mont
Taft
Dennison
Anheuser
China protests over killing of Japanese spy in Pekin
China to lodge a formal protest after Pekin legation guards shot and wounded Captain Kawahkita a former Hiroshima artillery instructor suspected of selling secrets. He died two days later in hospital after resisting arrest near the war office.
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Pekin Legation
China
Legation
Kawahkita
Kiroshima
Pao
Ling Fu Te
Japan
War Office
Pekin
Legation Guards
Legation Guard
Unsafe Streets of Rome Endanger Holy Father
Milwaukee Archbishop Seastian G Messmer warned that certain Rome districts are unsafe for a priest at night. He said hostility to the pope exists among the lower classes and that local newspapers are obscene and degrading, attempting to lower all to their level.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Rome
Holy Father
Vatican
Seastian G Messmer
La Follette Clears Roosevelt Grogan of Fault in Fight
In Vinelco Nebraska La Follette told 6000 at Epworth assembly that he admires W Bryan but remains Republican and that rail rate cuts and discrimination were begun in the 1870s by Wisconsin Illinois Iowa and Minnesota. He said neither Bryant nor Roosevelt started the fight.
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Vincoln
Epworth
Robert M la Follette
W . Bryan
Wisconsin
Illinois
Iowa
Minnesota
Bryant
Roosevelt
No Occasion to Fear Invasion From Abroad
Knute Nelson told 3,000 at the Luther League of America convention that the United States faces no external threat from abroad. He warned the real danger comes from within when laws falter and corruption spreads, urging schools and churches to stand as the nation’s only true army and navy for protection and guidance.
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Army
Navy
Saga
Knute Nelson
Chicago
United States
Minnesota
Tie
Luther League of America
Explosion at Franco British Exhibition Grounds Kills Two
A balloon ascent attempt at the Franco British exhibition grounds ends in tragedy. Captain Lovelace of the New York Aero Club loses two staff, including 18 year old Miss Hill, with six others injured as the inflated envelope bursts, cause likely due to a heated motel being dropped.
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London
Lovelace
New York Aero Club
Miss Hill
Lyoelace
Murdered Woman Over Refusal to Lend Two Dollars
St Louis man Thomas Dewitt, 24, allegedly confesses to killing his former landlady Mrs Adeline Muller, 49, at her home. He says he stuffed a stocking in her mouth to muffle screams after she refused to loan him $2, claiming fear of arrest if she made a noise. The death stemmed from the dispute over the two dollars.
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St. Louis
Thomas Dewitt
Adeline Muller
DeWitt
Muller
Massacre Relic Find Recounts 1736 Sioux Attack
In Manitoba a relic discovery recalls the 1736 Sioux massacre. Priests from St Wenitace College Winnipeg and Judge Prudhomme unearthed the skeleton of Jean Baptiste De La Verandyre and Jesuit Father Auleau, plus nineteen Trench voyagers’ skulls, on an island in the northwest lake woods. The party also located Fort St Charles site once built by Sieur De La Verandyte in 1746.
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Winnipeg
Jean Baptiste de la Verandyre
Father Auleau
Engle
Lake Woods
St Wenitace College
L'Rudhomme
St Boniface
Fort St Charles
Sieur de la Verandyte
Prohibition plank pushed by Texas Democrats in 1909
In San Antonio Texas IL the Democratic prohibition plank calls for submission to the people by the thirty first legislature of a constitutional amendment prohibiting manufacture sale gift or exchange of any interstate shipment of spirituous vinous or malt liquors or medical bitters capable of intoxication except for medical and sacramental purposes. The amendment would be voted on in 1909 and a vote for or against it would not test democracy.
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San Antonio
Texas
Woman braves death to rescue child in well near Fulton
In Fulton Missouri region Mrs J B Stephenson a frail mother ten miles southwest of Fulton lowered herself into a 100 foot well to save her four year old child from drowning. She pulled the infant from danger and reached the top holding the child by its dress in her teeth as the baba fell into four feet of water at the bottom.
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Fulton
J. B Stephenson
Baba
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