Thanksgiving Feeds Salt Lake City Poor and Local News
Salvation Army served over 300 poor in Salt Lake City on Thanksgiving. Richfield reports two earthquake shocks early morning. Utah reform school adopts merit system allowing inmates to work toward freedom. Salt Lake rail service ends Sunday south of Mand. Utah Sugar honors workers at Thanksgiving banquet. Jensen brothers from Richfield harvest 140 tons of sugar beets on nine acres earning $560. University of Utah loses to Colorado Agricultural College 16 to 6 in Salt Lake City. Telegraph line construction begins over the lake along the cutoff. Miss Va Cook dominates San Francisco women bowlers during visit and gains Utah fame. 13-year-old Nellie Pitt of Salt Lake City injured in runaway with broken collar bone and jaw. Butte golfers defeat Salt Lake, Cup retained. next match in Butte in July. Salt Lake Los Angeles San Pedro railroad officers elected with W. A. Clark as president. Uncompahgre reservation split on opening. some in favor, others oppose. Burt Manheart of Salt Lake City stabbed for $10. Utah Fuel union matter deemed settled by VP Kramer. Surveyor General reports $15,290 deposited for mining claims. 605 claims surveyed. John Egan injured after five-story fall at Atlas block. Sunyside sentry overcome by coke-oven fumes, hospitalizing him. C L Maxwell rumored to back mines in San Rafael district. Mrs. Charles Turpin dies from lamp explosion after fainting. James D Shaw reports 249 sugar beet cars shipped to Lehi totaling nearly 7000 tons and $23,000 distributed to farmers. Arthur Yarding of Provo badly cut at Like View sugar factory slicer. machine started before job finished.
Horrible death of girl near New York church
Augusta Siraux a German servant girl employed by a retired merchant Hying in New York City was burned to death in sight of a Methodist church congregation attending service. Her clothing ignited while preparing dinner. rescue attempts were hindered by wire netting and panic. The woman sexton leaped from a window to throw a shawl over her before flames were extinguished. she died shortly after.
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Augusta Siraux
Hying
New York City
Sexton
Miners Ordered to Vacate Company Lands by Dec 31
Striking miners with homes on operator land were served notices to vacate by December 31 at Clear Creek Winter Quarters Scofield and related towns. Some workers received shorter shifts while there were murmurs and tears but no violence against officers was reported during the day.
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Clear Creek
Time to Pray Lynching near Belcher La Ended in Execution
In Belcher Louisiana a crowd of about 1200 whites and blacks gathered as Phil Davis Walter Carter and Clint Thomas were lynched for the fatal shooting of Robert Adger. The trio confessed their crime saying they tested new guns and fired when Adger appeared. No shots were fired at the lynching as all three were hanged from one tree limb after a prayer.
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Phil Davis
Walter Carter
Clint Thomas
Belcher
Robert Adger
Adger
Cattleman Arrested After Wyoming Range Clash Near Upton
C bD Minter, a cattleman, was arrested at Newcastle Wye on charges of attempting to kill Tom OGézea and three others during a Saturday range dispute near Upton. Gore was wounded slightly while three herders were hit by bullet through clothing but escaped harm. Minter claims a conspiracy to ruin his range and says he fought Gove's group after they fired first.
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Minter
Newcastle Wye
Tom Ogézea
Upton
Gore
Gove
Man Killed Over Five Cents at Canal Street Eatery
Marcus Sheehan, a guard on Chicago's elevated railway, confronted by James Berganus, owner of a Canal street restaurant, over a five cent debt. Berganus shot Sheehan in the head and fled after placing his body on the sidewalk. Authorities pursue Berganus for the fatal breakfast dispute.
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Marcus Sheehan
Chicago
James Berganus
Canal Street
Sheehan
Berganus
kLoull
Kruger Confesses to Multiple Murders in Chicago and East
Kruger jailed in Greensburg Pennsylvania admits murdering Policemen Pennell and Devine in Chicago and fifteen others in Kentucky and the East. He was jailed on burglary charges and sentenced to hang in January, saying he came to Chicago to avoid eastern crimes.
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Kruger
Greensburg
Pennell and Devine
Chicago
Kentucky
East
Denver Man Claims Head Injury Led to Worded Blindness
David Charters sues the city of Denver seeking 15000 damages for a head injury from a defective sidewalk on December 30 1991. He later proclaimed himself Daniel the Prophet and wrote Daniel's Vision and Mission. He published the work publicly but later stated the interval since the accident was blank and called the book idiotic after reading it.
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David Charters
Denver
Charters
Daniel the
Daniel
Hell
Strategic Ports in Corea
Stragetic ports in Corea describe treaty ports along Corea’s coast with Witju excluded for its inland Yalu position. Key ports include Chemulpo near Seoul, Masanpo Bay noted as a Russian coaling station, Fusan as Korea’s main entry from Japan, and Wen San on the east coast, set amid a mountainous peninsula.
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Corea
Witju
Yalu
Wiju
Chemulpo
Seoul
Masanpo Bay
Stieler
Fusan
Japan
Wen San
Mixup in mine deaths causes family shock and confusion
A label mixup in a miners hospital led to the wrong corpses being prepared for shipment. John Konofsky of Mahony City and Thomas Mitchell of Col dale died after mine injuries and were briefly misdirected to wrong towns before hospital officials clarified the error.
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John Konofsky
Mahony City
Thomas Mitchell
Coldale
Konofsky
Coaldale
Chef
Colombians Still Talk War Warns of Cauca Revolt Rumors
Cable from Minister Beaupre at Bogota dated November 25 reports strong talk of war in Colombia. Excitement in the capital, plans to raise an army, and rumors of a revolutionary movement in Cauca against the Marroquin government, but no troops enlisted yet.
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State Department
Beaupre
Bogota
Cauca
Marroquin
Poison story about czar ina ear disease denied
A U S news agency report claiming Berlin Die Morgen post confirmed that the czarina suffered from strychnine poisoning is denounced as false. The denial calls the report preposterous and states it is not credible.
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United States
Berlin
Die Morgen Post
San Domingan Warships Withdrawn as President Election Set
United States Minister Powell reports from Washington that San Domingo remains quiet after the revolution. The Newport has withdrawn marines as President Wes y Gil and the cabinet plan to leave for Cuba. An election to choose a successor to the deposed Gil will take place in three months.
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San Domingan
State Department
Washington
United States
Powell
Wes Y Gil
Cuba
Newport
San Domingo
Patty
Wost Gil
Barclay Advocates Anglo American Arbitration Treaty
Thomas Barclay of Paris and London leads a movement in the United States in support of an Anglo American arbitration treaty. An international lawyer formerly with the Paris bureau of the Times and ex-president of the British Chamber of Commerce in Paris, he will attend a New York conference this month where the proposed treaty will be discussed by eminent public men.
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Thomas Barclay
Paris
London
Thomas Barclayglish
Ila
M de Blowitz
London Times
British Chamber of Commerce
Parla
Barclay
New York
Whites blamed for Wyoming clash at Lightning Creek
Indian agent McNichols reports to Commissioner Jones that whites provoked the fight at Lightning Creek Wyoming. He cites bitter sentiment toward Indian Agent Brennan and notes Sheriff Miller Louis Falkenburg and four Indians were killed after arrests sparked a confrontation over alleged unlawful game slaughter.
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Theo
Charlies
McNichols
Indiana
Miller
New Castle
Wic
Lightning Creek
Louis Falkenburg
Wolf in Hen House Seizes Sunnyside Farm
Long Island farmer Hiermann Handler fights a gray wolf that bursts into his hen house near Sunnyside. He wounds his arms and legs in the struggle after a wild gun shot fails. The wolf is pinned by a pitchfork and later chained in the yard cage. Handler suffers serious but nonfatal injuries with medical aid.
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Hiermann
Long Island
Sunnyside
I. I
Trendterghen
Housa
lJater
Creed Denominations Form Union at Detroit Midh Opera House
Nine religious groups joined in a union at the Detroit Midh opera house on Thursday drawing a crowded congregation. Rev Rey S Marquis of the Episcopal Church stirred enthusiasm with a speech arguing that God can work beyond denominational claims and that believers are awakening to this fact.
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Detroit Midh Opera House
Rey S . Marquis
Russians warn of British Thibet expedition aims
St Petersburg papers view the Thibet expedition as a bid to stir China under cover of expanded Russian influence They claim China should resist imperial intervention and note that diversions elsewhere could force Britain to halt the crossing of the Simalayas without Thibetans stopping it themselves
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St Petersburg
Thibet
China
Simalayas
Fitzsimmons Outboxes Gardner Over Twenty Rounds
In a San Francisco matchup Bob Fitzsimmons boxes and outgenerates George Gardner for twenty rounds. The veteran prevents Gardner from scoring a knockout while landing several strong blows but fails to finish him. Fitzsimmons stays elusive, blocking, dodging, and clinching as Gardner tires.
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Fitzsimmons
Bob Fitzsimmons
George Gardner
San Francisco
Gardner
Titz
Fitz
Pitz
Gardners
Breakawaya
Planned to Blow Up Mines in Cripple Creek District
Adjutant General Bell reports startling discoveries from the Vindicator mine blast in Cripple Creek on Saturday. He says those responsible for the explosion that killed Superintendent McCormack and Melvin Beck also plotted to blow up Gold Coin and other properties. A revolver at the scene came from a San Juan hardware firm sale on October 2, with a description tying the suspect to sixteen men guarded at Camp Gold Field.
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Cripple Creek
Bell
McCormack
Melvin Beck
Golden Cycle
Stratton
Independence
Findlay
General Bell
San Juan Hardware Company
Telluride
Princess in Dresden Elopement Rumor Involves Berlin
The Berlin Post cites a Dresden rumor that Princess Alice wife of Frinca Frederic disappeared two weeks ago along with her coachman amid speculation of an elopement. Inquiries at the princess residence confirm she is traveling with unknown whereabouts while described as Don Carlos of Bourbon’s youngest daughter, the Spanish throne pretender.
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Berlin Post
Dresden
Alice
Frinca Frederic
Don Carlos of Bourbon
Forest Fires Sweep South Across Texas and Louisiana
southeast Texas pine lands burn with no quick hope of control. Prayers were offered for rain in Nacogdoches Lufkin Angelina Newton and other towns. Flames cross the Sabine River in several places and burn large areas in Vernon and Calcasieu parishes Louisiana. Smoke tightens across Nacogdoches and surrounding areas.
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Texas
Nacogdoches
Lufkin
Angelina
Newton
Sabina River
Vernon
Calcasieu
Louisiana
Tragedy in Tonanza: Two Indian youths die in jailhouse fire
In Tonanza Oregon a jail fire killed two 13 year old Indian boys after they were jailed for drunkenness. The youths reportedly set the fire to gain freedom and the blaze trapped them. Word spread among nearby tribes and the town closed businesses amid fears of unrest. The boys were said to be from the Yakwax Indian school.
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Tonanza
Klamath Falls
Ore
Secon
Yakwax Indian School
Murder in a Box Car at Green River
A well dressed man about 24 lay dead in an east bound box car at Green River, W500, Sunday morning. A deep gash on the forehead from a blunt blow, no signs of struggle, shoes missing, blood on shirt and vest, suggesting robbery. The victim was likely murdered and thrown into the car.
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Wan Hias
Green River
Typhoon Sinks Hundreds Of Fishing Junks In Swa Tow
News from Vice toria British Columbia via the Athenian reports a devastating typhoon off Swa Tow on November 8. thousands of lives are feared lost as hundreds of Hong Kong bound fishing junks sink or are disabled leaving crews adrift without food or water. The Hongkong government rescued eight junks with 122 men aboard as 400 vessels faced the disaster.
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Vicetoria
China
Swa
Saila
Hongkong
Stanley Rescue
Assaulted Aged Chief in Ore Prisoner Attack
Chief Kilbourn of Baker City searches James Welch when Welch turns and breaks three ribs and bites Kilbourn’s teeth, leaving him severely injured. If Kilbourn dies, public tension could erupt into lynching calls as the suspect remains in custody.
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Polilee Kilbourn
James Welch
Baker City
Ore
Welch
Kilbourns
Kilbourn
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