Utah State News Highlights City and State Events
Reports from Utah towns note the failed Draper initiative and a senate kill on the referendum bill. Lerton postmaster ill with smallpox disrupts mail. Salt Lake mail rates rise after a fire. Price voters reject a $7,700 waterworks bond. Rubber shoe shortages appear amid wet weather. Fire destroys the barn and near miss on Jensen house at American Fork. North Dakota Press Association delegates visit Salt Lake City. Provo brakeman Fred Shenk killed. Parowan pioneer Daniel Page dead. Layton cannery planned. Sevier County forecasts a strong season with abundant water. Midway boy William Munsey returned for trial after arrest in Salt Lake City. Fireman William Jeffs injured by steam. two Rio Grande trains collide in Salt Lake City injuring four. Mand toddler Miraculously saved after falling into water. Mrs Laura Geatechius goes insane visiting Main Street saloons. Badger resigns state senate post. Mr Crosby rumored as successor. February deaths in Salt Lake City reach high monthly total. Richfield’s Leo Bean fined $10 for obstructing store entry. Werner’s Richfield merchants complain door obstruction. Jordan’s Semury Yutterfeld faces criminal charges over cattle theft.
Oil Tank Explosion Near Olean Kills and Injures Dozens
A freight train tank car explosion near Olean New York on Monday night caused multiple blasts and a raging fire. At least twenty two people were killed and forty five injured with many bodies incinerated, while a large crowd gathered along the tracks.
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Drunken Officers Said To Cause Ship Stranding
Captain Jorgensen and nine crewmen aboard the American bark Alexander McNeil stranded on Praters reef near Hongkong on December 24. They claim the officers became intoxicated after leaving Hongkong on December 9, steering the vessel off course and into the reef. A drunken fight followed, a boat and four crew members were lost, and three weeks on the reef ended when the crew launched an improvised boat for Hongkong where they were aided by the American consul.
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Jorgensen
Alexander McNeil
Praters Reef
Hongkong
San Srancisco
Waterbury strike violence claims police officer life
In Waterbury Conn masked gunmen attacked a North Main street street car at Forest park. Officer Paul Mendelsohn was killed when a shot struck his heart as motorman John W Chambers and conductor George Webernedorfer were injured and beaten during the assault by eight assailants.
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Waterbury Conn
Connecticut Railroad & Lighting Company
Paul Mendelsohn
John W Chambers
George Webernedorfer
Forest Park
Mendelsohn
Fieot
Ile
Flood Forces Columbus Families to Seek Higher Ground
In Lincoln area reports describe 300 Columbus families displaced to higher ground as the Lewis River swells over 1.5 miles wide. Union Pacific tracks from Columbus to the bridge over the Pbewis river remain under water. Ice gorges form continually, and at Stanton Minnie Doetsch drowns in Union Creek beyond its banks.
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Lincoln
Columbus
Lewis River
Union Pacific
Pbewis River
Stanton
Minnie Doetsch
Union Creek
Benson Is Captured and Jailed in Olympia
Christ Benson, charged with murdering Jailer Morrell, was found hiding in a deserted mill and arrested without resistance. He may have planned a jail break and claims he did not intend to kill Jailer Morrell.
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Christ Benson
Morrell
Olympia
Wash S Benson
Benson
Boat Capsizing Tragedy Claims Nineteen Lives Near Glens Falls
A workboat capsized on the Hudson River near Spier Falls ten miles from Glens Falls New York killing nineteen men including a boy who was frightened off the boat and swept overboard during a river crossing. The floodwaters hindered rescue as several drowned before help arrived and others perished after failing to swim.
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Spier Falls
Glens Falls
Hudson River
Tragic double murder and deadly fire in remote districts
Dispatches report Lucy Johnson wandered from Ed Albee's Freshwater California home in night clothes with her six year old child. Both bodies found with throats cut. a razor nearby. Johnson alive, infant dead. Separately, five killed in Aurora road house fire near Hunter creek including Charles Bernise and family from Portland and Thomas Baird from Ontario.
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Mureha
Cal
Lucy Johnson
Ed Albee
Freshwater Cal
Dawson
Aurora Road
Hunter Creek
Charles Bernise
Thomas Baird
Government Road
Bernsie
Portland
Ore
Baird
Ontario
Jack the Slugger Dies in Cambridge Jail
George L. Perry, the black youth indicted for the murders of Agnes McPhee in Somerville and Clara Morton in Waverley, died at Cambridge jail from typhoid fever and nervous exhaustion. He did not speak in his last hours, and authorities say he protested his innocence to the end. Sheriff If Fairburn has not released details.
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George L . Perry
Agnes McPhee
Somerville
Mass
Clara Morton
Waverley
Jack
Cambridge Mass
Fairburn
End of the Hole in the Wall gang hunted in the West
Outlaw Carey known as Laughing Dick or Gaping Dick Casey, last of the Hole in the Wall gang, is at large with a $3,000 reward. He eluded officers after a raid near Lost Cabin and a later escape from a Walton capture, with sightings in Wyoming Colorado and Utah as bounty hunts continue.
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Laughing Dick
Gaping Dick
Casey
Saratoga
Wyoming
Carey
Butch Cassidy
George Curry
Hole In the Wall
Stoost
Colorado
Medicine Butte Company
South Dakota
Senator Madden
Carey Larry
Routt County
Utah
Thompsons
Polygamy Dying Out Says Senator Smoot
Senator Smoot states he is not a polygamist and his family is in Utah. He says polygamy is dying out in Utah and Mormon territory. A census last August counted 766 polygamous families, with a seven year census showing five times that number.
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Smoot
Washington
Utah
Mormon Territory
Couple Held in Hastings Center Burglary Case
Alonzo Clark and Mia Clark facing burglary and larceny charges in Oswego New York after Mia alleges her husband forced her at knifepoint to aid the theft near Hastings Center. She dressed as a man, waited outside, and directed the loot while he broke a rear window and entered the store.
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Alonzo Clark
Elizabeth Austin
Oswego
Mia Clark
Hastings Center
Remains Found of O P Norman in Sweetwater County Range
The dead body of O P Norman was found on the range near Wam Buster. He was last seen February 2 after being dismissed from the Daly sheep outfit and is described as demented at the time. The coroner of Sweetwater County is handling the case and there is no information about his people.
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O P Norman
Wam Buster
Norman
Daly
Sweetwater County
Smoot Takes Oatil In Senate Election Challenge
Apostle Reed Smoot of Provo has taken the oath as a full United States senator. The Privileges and Elections Committee will consider remonstrances about the contested senatorial elections. Senator Hoar announced the referrals, and Senator Burrows’ absence explains the delay in action.
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Apostle Reed Smoot
Provo
United States Senate
Smoot
Senate
Senator Kearns
Hoar
Burrows
Privileges and Elections Committee
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Committee In Elections
Michigan
Senate convenes extraordinary session for oath of new Senators
In obedience to the president’s proclamation the Fifty eighth congress held an extra ordinary session at noon Thursday. A large crowd witnessed the ceremony with twenty seven of the thirty senators taking the oath for six years, seventeen of whom were reelected.
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Senate
Tsane
Carnival of Murder Imminent in China Crisis
Advices from Pekin warn of an imminent outbreak as a power struggle unfolds in China. Reports allege the empress dowager and grand chancellor aid Tung Pu Hefang and plot against reforms, with plans to escort Fu Chun and potentially remove Kwong Hsu.
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Pekin
Pekin Pre
North China Daily News
East
Yune Lu
Tung Pu Hefang
Kansu
Shanghai
Comptes
Race Question Convention Sought in Wisconsin Senate
The Wisconsin senate advances a joint resolution urging the governor to convene a national race question convention in Atlanta starting July 4. The measure argues the talks could clarify the issue and help find a just solution. Authorities in Washington reiterate no plan to remove U S troops from Cuba, while Cuba understands the U S will keep a small force to guard naval stations.
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Wisconsin Senate
Atlanta
Washington
Cuba
United States
Sheepmen Clash Report Near Crook County Frontier
Word from Francis Barber of Lusk Wyoming describes another clash between sheepmen and cattlemen in northern Crook County near the Montana line. Barber states his camp was attacked by armed men who ordered him off, burned the corral and slaughtered many sheep after he crossed the line.
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Francis Barber
Lusk
Wyo
Crook County
Montana Hne
Barber
Utah Lawmakers Pass Multiple Session Bills in Brief
A fragmented 19th century legislative summary notes senate and house actions. Bills address corporate governance foreign corporations county annexation notice requirements public health sanitation and livestock inspection. References include Hennlun Whitmore Allison Fotnson Morria and Goadon with various committee actions and resolutions.
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Sewvatre
Bhennion
Atock
Senate
Hennlun
Whitmore
Alent & Building Senate
Allison
Fotnson
Hoube
Lawrence
Morrla
Lewie
Goadon
State Board of Health
Smith Tha
Ogden Water Bill Defeated and Various Utah Measures Passed
The Ogden water bill failed amid a day of legislative activity. Senate action approved several bills including repealing the Utah silk commission law and easing service of process by constables. A measure sought by senators would bar out of state teachers with hereditary diseases and discharge those found affected. The Kendergarter bill also passed.
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Ogden
Shermann
Wan Plac
Hawley
Senate
Roh Lewis
Hovak Hamlin
Ktubia
Temborgin
Utah
Ogden Water Bill Reconsidered and County Measures Passed
The session approved Senaie Ogden water bill by 12 to 4 and enacted multiple measures including No 66 for county superintendent election timing, No 161 on insurance under bank examiner supervision, and various items on property relinquishment, clerk notice duties, and attorney elections. Executive session confirmed Governor Wells appointees unanimously. The election of United States senators by popular vote was also approved.
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Ogden
Laurson
Schoola
Johnson
Gerdner
Morrla
Maing Tine
Wells
Steereart
United States
Othary Billy
McKinnon
Molyneaux
Hamilton
Condon
Hhe
Sherman
Lawren
Lawrence
Pew
City
Williams
Secretary of State
Kinneys
Utah Supreme Court
Watt
Traumia
Legislative roundup of bills and vetoes in two sessions
The report lists bills passed in the two sessions noting origins in the senate. It mentions measures on public building doors opening outward for escape, false statements for credit, railway livestock liability, deaf dumb and blind board voting cycles, commissioners appointments, creditor notices, decedent family support, preferred stock issuance, new trial motions, bond for damages, nuisance actions, water rights arbitration, and irrigation congress funding. Governor Wells vetoed Condon bills. barbed wire gates and an experimental bill were discussed. a boiler killed in the end.
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Harboer
Board of the Deaf Dumb
Mmomberg
Eiray
Hyantocin cHiamtties Hovsz
Senstary Bennion
Lawrence
Johnson
Allison Amitirg
Danagea
Amigiters
Tennson
UF Johnson
Johoren Elmi
Tregaurer Munt
Wells
Dr Condon
Irrigation Congress
Condon
Hipmans
Legislative Actions Highlight State Senate and House Measures
A series of bills and resolutions outline taxation, land funds, and public safety measures. Provisions authorize loans for irrigation projects, set gunpowder magazine setbacks, and adjust licensing for physicians. Senate and House actions include electing U S senators by popular vote, forest reserve petitions, and salary increases for district and supreme court judges.
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Haines
Bili
Morris
Larsen
Senate
United States
House
Department of the Interior
Andersen
sGto
Tha Diatrict
Supreme
Condon
Hamlin Alil
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Parowan
Layton
Sevier County
William Munsey
Midway
William Jeffs
Jeffs
McKay
Spencer Madsen
Mand
Laura Geatechius
State Senate
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Crosby
Badgers
Sast Lake City
TebrSuary
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Richfild
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Lean
Semury Yutterfeld
Jordan
Congress
Committee On Appropriations
Dillings Mont
Thomas Solomon
H P. Rennick
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