Vernal News Roundup From Utah Life and Local Events
A Utah state health bulletin reports 277 deaths in January and recounts local incidents across Weber, Ogden, Park City, Provo, and Salt Lake City. Notable items include a Park City disappearance, a fatal mining accident near Park City, jail conditions in Weber County, a Japanese laborer suicide attempt, a hay derrick accident near Heber, and community concerns over saloon licenses and sheepmen unity.
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Aarhveraaer
Olsauguin
Iron Canyon
Gre Nelgon
Sweda
Park City
M. Graham
Nebraska
West
Logan
Ight Aing
Salt Lake
Maeser
Brigham Young University Alumni Association
Provo
Himsell
Sahachi Uyeno
Hobbes
Weber County
Ogden
Alvin Album Mickonem
Silver King Coalition
Lloyd Ball
J Wo Ball
Coolville
Skull City
Utah National Guard
Heber City
Commercial Clu
Americans Shelter On Yacht Amid Haitian Revolt In Port
In Cape Haitien rebels seized the town after President Si mon and troops left Fort Liberte. An American yacht arrived to protect Americans and foreigners as gunboats withdrew. Women and refugees were ferried aboard while local authorities and generals aligned with the revolutionaries. The French consul was wounded protecting colleagues.
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Cape Haytien
Revolutionista
United States
Petrel
Simon
Fort Liberte
Port Au Prince Earry
Lords Pass Veto Bill After Short Debate
The house of lords completed the third reading of the veto bill with minimal opposition. Insurgent peers failed to rally and Baron Stanmore urged a vote but received no support. Prime Minister Asquith in the Commons plans to reject the Lords amendments and, if needed, advise the king to ensure passage of the bill.
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London
House of Lords
Baron Stanmore
Speed Maniac Strang Dies In Wisconsin Racing Crash
Chcato Lewis Strang famous for daring speed died Thursday when his car overturned on an embankment twenty miles from Richland Center Wisconsin. His wife had recently divorced him after a series of deadly flirtations with death on tracks. Others in the car were uninjured.
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Chcato
Lewis Strang
Strang
Richland Center
Wisconsin
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph forms Rocky Mountain monopoly
The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company, formed by the consolidation of AT&T western subsidiaries, takes over the Rocky Mountain Bell, Tri State, and Colorado Telephone plants and toll lines with a capitalization of 50 million dollars. The Herald Republican reports a monolithic expansion across the region.
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Salt Lake City
Herald Republican
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Rocky Mountain States
Rocky Mountain Dell Telephone Company
Tri State Telephone and Telegraph Company
Colorado Telephone Company
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Relatives Abandon McManigal in LA dynamite case
In Los Angeles Ordle McManigal, alleged dynamiter, says his relatives have abandoned him after he reports their conversations to prosecutors. The claim came Thursday from his uncle George Rehm describing strain within the family and cooperation with authorities.
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Los Angeles
Ordle McManigal
WeNamara Brothers
George Rehm
Glaciers Melt Trigger Floods in Valdez Alaska
A hot spell accelerates glacier melt sending torrents through Valdez. A creak through the town eroded forty feet of banks and flooded four blocks in the south end.
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Valdez
Aliska
The President at Manassas
President Taft arrived in Manassas Virginia after a muddy ride through flooded roads to address veterans in blue and gray. He urged international peace and said a general arbitration treaty with Great Britain and France should be signed within ten days, with hopes others joining soon.
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Manasaas
Vaor
Washington
Automebdila
Taft
Great Britain
France
United States
Bow to Will of People Governs Britain Under Commons Rule
London reports constitutional reform as an accomplished fact with power resting in the house of commons and a veto limited two years for the hereditary upper house. Radicals foresee no return to older conditions while conservatives expect a future reversal of Asquith's changes.
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London
Great Britain
House of Commons
Poers
Asquith
Tumult in Italian Court Over Camorrist Trial
In Viterbo Italy a clash between Captain Tabron and attorney Livy sparked the most violent scene yet in the Camorrist trial. Lawyers fled as carbineers eject Dn tico Alfano and Gennaro Abbitemag gio. Giovanni Bartolozzi faints and President Bianchi adjourns the session.
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Viterbo
Italy
Tabron
Livy
Tico Alfano
Gennaro Abbitemaggio
Giovanni Bartolozzi
Bianchi
Simon Is Doomed in Haiti as Revolutionary Forces Advance
Washington reports President Simon of Haiti appears doomed to yield to a revolutionary government, with advices saying he must abandon his northern campaign. He has withdrawn his army to the capital and is confined to bed by illness.
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Washington
Simon
Haiti
Diaz
Mexico
No Women Allowed at Funeral in Louisville Burial
John Steller, 67, left a dying bequest ordering that only men attend his funeral after his wife deserted him at Louisville. The request was honored at the Evansville funeral Saturday as he proclaimed a mountain of a grievance and a male-only rite.
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Evansville
Louisville
John Steller
Deserter Confesses to Murder in Grants Pass Oregon
Mike Morgan a deserter from the U S army confessed Friday to killing John S York an elderly man whose body was found in the river Morgan said he killed York in self defense and threw the body into the river In Raton New Mexico J C Creasy and J D Fudge pioneers were likely fatally wounded in a three cornered shooting Friday involving the two men and Fudge s son after a quarrel over a pasture right of way
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Grants Pass, Ore
Mike Morgan
United States Army
John S. York
Morgan
York
Smoot Substitutes Tariff Revision on Raw Wool Rates
Washington Senator Smoot unveils a substitute for the La Follette bill revising wool tariffs. It sets raw wool duties at 9 cents per pound for first and second classes and 3 cents for third class, with compensatory rates on manufactured goods tied to these figures.
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Payne Aldrich
Washington
Smoot
Utah
Notable tariff proposal limits duties under the house bill
The text notes that the House wool bill or the La Follette plan, supported by Senator Smoot, would cap any ad valorem duty in the schedule at 8 percent. The measure aims to restrain tariff levels and prevent higher charges across products.
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Smoot
Federal commission to supervise interstate corporations urged
Duluth Minn. Attorney General Wickersham spoke before the Minnesota State Bar association advocating a federal industrial commission with power to supervise national corporations. He argued on what further regulation of interstate commerce is necessary or desirable.
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Duluth
Minn
Wickersham
Minnesota State Bar Association
Change in Mexican Cabinet
Mexico City President De La Bar ra accepted the resignations of Secretary of War General Eugenio Rascon and Assistant Secretary General Juan M Duran on a Wednesday. Rascon’s retirement is plausibly tied to his close identification with the old regime.
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Mexico City
de la Barra
Eugenio Rascon
Juan M Duran
Rascon
Bribe Taker to the Punished Seattle
Former Seattle police chief Charles W. Wappenstein convicted of taking bribes to permit prostitution houses. sentenced Wednesday to three to ten years in the state penitentiary.
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Seattle
Charles W. Wappenstein
Gideon Tupper
Clarence Gerald
Gil
State
Bey Drowns In Jordan River
East Lake City eleven year old John Williamson son of Mrs Jennie Mills Williamson drowned while fishing in the Jordan river near 653 South West Temple street.
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Bey
Jordan
East Lake City
John Willamson
Jennie Mills Williamson
South West Temple Street
Jordan River
Reciprocity Bill Passes Senate Amid Suffrage Party Split
The Senate approved the Canada United States reciprocity pact by 53 to 27 with most Democratic votes for and Republican opposition. The pact awaits House action and Canadian ratification, with pulp and paper provisions effective upon passage and presidential signing. President Taft praised the outcome while downplaying credit to himself and crediting Secretary Knox.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Canada
Contess
Congress Ia
Clark
Congress
White House
Taft
Neverly
Knox
Beattie Charged With Slaying Wife in Richmond
In Richmond a coroner's jury directly accuses Trenry Clay Beattie of murdering his wife. Beattie, son of a Richmond banker, sits jailed as a second prisoner shares a cell. Beattie claims an unknown assailant shot his wife as she sat beside him in an automobile.
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Richmond
Trenry Clay Beattie
Virginia
Beulah Twinford
Paul D Beattie
Beattie
Cloudburst in Death Valley Strikes Mining District
A severe cloudburst in Death Valley, San Bernardino County, flooded canyons and turned mine buildings into ruinous waterworks. The heat reached extreme levels with record high temperatures as miners fled the desert to escape the onslaught of heavy rain and floods. Weather surrounding the surrounding mountains endured the heaviest precipitation in thirty years.
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San Bernardino
Cal
Nougenoata
Death Valley
Insane Man Attacks Passengers in Adams Mass Car Shooting
A young woman and a man were shot dead while five women were wounded and many others terrified as Fabio Palloag, described as an insane worker, fired ten shots into passengers aboard a moving electric car on Saturday afternoon.
Albanians Reject Amnesty Extended by Four Months
Albanian insurgents refuse to accept an amnesty offer though some have returned home. Arch bishop of Scutari reports only five families have laid down arms, while leaders express willingness to prolong negotiations for four more months.
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Zetinji
Morocco
Cheftrat Amur
Pasha
Scutari
Eight Firemen Injured in Toledo Blaze at Stevens Works
Eight firemen were injured during a Sunday blaze that destroyed four buildings belonging to the B. A. Stevens company, manufacturers of billiard and pool fixtures and bar room supplies, plus eight dwellings and frame storerooms nearby.
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Toledo
Ohio
B.A. Stevens Company
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