Utah State News Highlights Mishaps and Politics
Reports from Salt Lake City cover Fourth of July accidents with multiple injuries from fireworks and a fatal run of incidents. The Utah Supreme Court upholds the 1901 inheritance tax law as constitutional. Also noted are labor disputes between contractors and carpenters, railway bond authorization, orchard pest control plans, and a copper statue prospect for the St Louis Exposition.
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Salt Lake City
Harry Stevens
Lehi
Jos Percy
Salt Lake Ts
State Supreme Court
Bashin
Maud Adams
Utah
Pacific cable finished connects Philippine Islands to U S by wire
The Pacific cable was completed at 10 60 on the night of the ith eastern time as the eastern and western links were welded at Honolulu aboard the Anglia. It forms a telegraph line from San Francisco to the Philippines over 8100 miles. A world spanning message from President Roosevelt to Mackay went around the world in twelve minutes, with Mackay’s reply in nine and a half. The prior record was fifty minutes by Chauncey Depew in 1896.
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Pacific
Honolulu
Anglia
San Francisco
Philippine Islands
Roosevelt
Mackay
Commercial Pacific Cable Company
United States
Chauncey M Depew
Grand Central Palace
Washington
Snake in Piano Charms Musician and Ends in Tragedy
A snake hid inside a square piano at Miss Mollie Carr's house near Charleston Indiana Until Mr Lyons Morrison of Indianapolis playing a melody drew it out The snake swung its head like a clock pendulum Then it calmed and crawled back The head was removed and the reptile killed It measured nearly five feet
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Miss Mollie Carr
Charleston Ind
Lyons Morrison
Indianapolis
Miss Carr
Morrison
Cloudburst Disaster Strikes Jeanette Area Killing Many
A massive wall of water from Oxford park dam flooded Jeanette and Greensburg areas on Sunday night. Reports vary but 25 to 100 feared drowned. hundreds evacuated as water surged through Brush Creek valley damaging car tracks and structures. Rescue efforts continue amid widespread devastation.
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Jeanette
Pittsburgha
Oxford Park
Greensburg
Brush Creek
Jeannette
Car on Center and Larimer line plunges from Lincoln bridge
A Pittsburg Rail Way traction car derailed on the Lincoln avenue bridge and fell about 100 feet. Four passengers along with the conductor and motorman were aboard. three were killed instantly and the remaining three were fatally hurt as the car was wrecked.
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Larimer
Pittsburg Railway Company
Lincoln Avenue
Floods Hit Cumberland and Tilyndham With Wide Damage
Rain Sunday night flooded Cumberland Maryland to six feet on the north side injuring homes and plants. The street car line was blocked by debris and the West Virginia Central railroad closed by landslides. Tilyndham Pennsylvania также flooded by a cloudburst causing extensive damage. Total damage in the area around fifty thousand dollars. Kansas harvest labor demand cannot be met as workers are shipped from across the country.
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Cumberland
West Virginia Central Railroad
Tilyndham
Kansas
Panama Canal Treaty Backed by Government House Majority
Bogota dispatch dated July 2 reports the minister of foreign relations sending a message to the senate and house on the proposed treaty. The house appoints a committee with one member from each department to study the measure before referral to a private committee. It asserts the government enjoys a large majority in the house.
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Bogota
Minister of Foreign Relations
Panama Canal
Senate
House of Representatives
Manchurian Plot: U S Not Yet Approached by England or Japan
Washington has not received any ultimatum from Japan or England regarding Manchuria. The United States has had no opportunity to indicate support or opposition to an English Japanese effort to protect their interests.
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Washington
China
Japan
England
United States
Manchuria
Officer Slims Desperado in Douglass Shooting
Officer Lon Graham fatally shot a man named Smith in a Douglass Arizona saloon during a May 16 chase. Smith appeared to threaten Graham and was shot in the neck as crowds attended a local carnival. Smith was hospitalized where Rangers guard him. A rumor from the Moroccan frontier claims a plot against Muley Mohammed with a tribesman wounded a soldier and the would be assassin seized and burned.
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Douglass
Arizona
Lon Graham
Smith
Thomas Vaughn
Graham
Rynning
Rangers
Muley Mohammed
Buhamara
Sidehaissa
Mehasa
Fire alarms and calamity at Woodcliff New Jersey
A tale of a curious tree ring fire alarm near Woodcliff on the New Jersey Palisades opposite Central Park. A mining disaster follows an explosion at a coal mine with many workers trapped and presumed dead. relief efforts seek funds and survivors.
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Woodcliff
New Jersey Palisades
Central Park
New York
Lynch threats erupt near Norway FC after Gyans lynching
Reports say numerous Black residents near Norway FC threaten to destroy the town of 200 after the lynching of Charles Evans for killing an elderly soldier last week. Latal"n, ordered to Norway by train, has left for the town amid surrounding forces.
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Norway
Charles Gyans
Latal
Iilta
Charles Evans
Washing the Statue of Freedom on the Capitol
The bronze Statue of Freedom atop the Capitol in Washington is undergoing a thorough cleaning. A scaffold rises 257 feet as two workers, wary of narrow ledges, carefully scrub and treat the surface with pumice and then a weak acid solution before lacquering. The statue’s surface showed lightning damage and deep furrows from strikes, yet seams remain firm since construction.
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Capitol
Washington
Treaties Signed Safeguarding American Rights on Isle of Pines
Two late 19th century treaties between the United States and Cuba were signed in duplicate at the state secretary office. They place the Isle of Pines under Cuban sovereignty while preserving American residents rights to property, judiciary, education, and registry, with naval and coaling stations retained by the United States under nominal rentals.
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United States
Cuba
Squirers
Senor
Garcla Montes
the Treasury
Senor Zaldoa
Senor Pevio
Senor Diezo
Department of Justice
Legation
Squiers
Isle of Pines
United
Lost Boy Found Near Roosevelt Camp After 21 Days
Sheriff J D Daly and Charles McCarty located the exhausted boy within two miles of Roosevelt Camp in the Boise mountains. He had wandered for about three to four days beyond memory and survived twenty one days on green huckleberries. He recalled no gun or matches and heard voices and gunfire as he rested.
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J. D Daly
Boise
Charles McCarty
Roosevelt Camp
Ife
Miner Drowns In Pit At Oro Grande Placer near Telluride
An accident at the Oro Grande Placer near Telluride, Colorado killed Cyrus Ruth as cribbing collapsed. Six miners were at work when debris toppled two elevators, one under construction, into a 90 foot pit. five escaped while Ruth drowned as water filled the shaft.
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Oro Grande Placer Company
Thllon
Cyrus Ruth
Cattle Starve Amid Grasshopper Invasion in Montana
Professor Cooley of the state agricultural college at Bozeman reports after surveying the Forsyth district that grasshoppers have consumed a seven mile by fifty mile strip. He notes the range conditions are the worst he has seen and plains areas are dotted with cattle that have starved due to the raids.
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Professor Cooley
State Agricultural College
Bozeman
Montana
Forsyth
Cloudburst Floods Texas Killing Several Workers
A southwestern Texas cloudburst caused multiple deaths and heavy property loss. Reports indicate at least twenty Mexican laborers and farm hands died, with drownings near Beeville Norman and Peltus. The exact death toll remains unconfirmed.
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Texas
Beeville
Normana
Peltus
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Caroline Headbury
James McDonald
W J Bryan
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Leonard Hess
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad
Utah State Board of Horticulture
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