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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1903
Page
1
Reports from Mapleton, Manti, Provo and Salt Lake City cover smallpox cases, a new lodge, a juvenile orchestra, and legislative items. Other notes include a 97 year old death, a roof accident in Uphraim, infrastructure talks, dairy and sugar factory work, deer sightings, the Mammoth Reservoir development, crime and missing persons, plus community efforts in Provo and Richfield.
The Mariposa reports a January typhoon near Pearl Island group with 500 to 600 islanders dead. Hao Morakau and Ihwera are almost washed away. Bavoria wrecked with cocoanut trees destroyed and key buildings toppled. Amant sees three dead. survivors include Dideia Chefield Alen and Mr Mrs Gilbert of the Latter Day Saints mission.
Police believe George Hossey the herbal doctor is connected to numerous deaths. He is jailed as an accessory to the murder of William G Danze whose widow faced slow poison charges. Opened graves aim to confirm extended poisonings as detectives seek a white woman implicated in Hossey’s initial dealings.
A Washington dispatch reports the Geological Survey and the Interior Secretary plan to create forest reserves in Utah. After petitions from residents, about 460 600 acres were withdrawn from entry as boundaries are studied to protect water supplies and determine suitable areas for conservation versus agriculture or grazing.
C E Bishop, a draughtsman at the steel works and husband of a St Louis woman, died after being shot in Louisteaus cafe Pueblo Cole. Dr Wi Turner was also killed at his table and taken east Monday. Police now believe three robbers acted, one lurking outside the restaurant as authorities pursue several crews.
Masked robbers enter Loestaus cafe opposite the opera house in Puebla Colo. They confront Dr. J S Turner at his table, shoot him in the face, killing him instantly, then wound guest C G Bishop in the left side. The pair flee. Bishop remains critical after hospital treatment.
The Fifth Utah Legislature adjourned sine die with the house at 7:18 pm and the senate at 7:14 pm after singing the Doxology. Both chambers witnessed the closing of engrossed bills and passed a concurrent resolution authorizing the governor to appoint a three member tax commission to draft a uniform taxation bill with the attorney general and state board of equalization to aid in framing and data provision.
Paria dispatch reports Dr. Michaude a surgeon aboard the Laos of Messageries Maritimes died after injecting atrophine by mistake. He remained calm and told military doctors aboard about his error before dying within an hour.
Mrs Lucinda Withey aged 88 and Joshua Cline 92 were wed at the bride's home in Imi City. The ceremony marked Cline's fourth marriage and the bride's fifth. Afterward they had photos taken at their home and Cline bought two quarts of oysters downtown. The bride reportedly weighs under 100 pounds.
George BE Collings an attorney in Niles City Midh was reported dangerously ill and his relatives summoned an undertaker who found signs of life as they prepared a casket Medical aid was called and the patient began to show improvement indicating a possible recovery.
Fourteen armed men entered the home of Mrs Jacob Reischelder near Cridersville Ohio and bound the occupants. They forced a 12 year old girl to reveal the location of cash and escaped with 1200 dollars in hand. The victims included George James his wife Blanche the granddaughter and their son Joseph James.
In a Chicago courtroom on a Saturday session Bud Higgins, a biracial man, admitted to murdering Annie Butler on the witness stand. He described the crime in detail after being pressed by Assistant States Attorney Falke who asked if he killed Butler.
Report from Tucson says Yaqui Indians stopped a stage between Petam and Torin on the Yaqui River in Sonora last Tuesday night, murdering six passengers including Tillbem to Alverado a wealthy Mexican. Bodies show signs of a fight. valuables removed and horses released. Two murdered women Senorita Julia Berdo and Senorita C Gonzales from prominent families. A woman’s mutilated body found near Vermesilla tied with rope suggesting a fatal torture. Soldiers and Alverado’s brother pursue the killers with intent of swift justice.
A Census Bureau bulletin shows the regional population shares by drainage basin. It states about 60 percent live in Atlantic drainage, 53 percent Gulf drainage, 44 percent Mississippi basin, 2 percent Great Lakes, 4 percent Pacific, and 0.5 percent Great Basin, with shifting trends toward Gulf and Pacific regions. It notes foreign born and racial distributions across regions accordingly.
Curtis Baker awoke to his two year old daughter crying from a crib. A large rat leaped from the crib and bit the child’s hand severing an artery. Blood flowed freely until a surgeon bound the wound and the child fainted. The hand is swollen but no serious outcome is feared.
Four men died and four others are missing after a hard rock mine accident at Mille mine Iron Mountain Michigan. Water rushed through a crosscut notch flooding a level and sweeping miners into another flooded level. only one body was recovered.
Rizal province Philippines treasurer Bartlett Sinclair attempted suicide by ingesting poison in the attorney general's office after learning of a government move to prosecute him for office neglect and alleged funds peculation. His ledgers were found muddled as investigators pursued a shortage of several thousand dollars. Authorities do not believe Sinclair personally embezzled the money.
A lengthy compilation from Utah’s legislative record outlines numerous bills and proposed laws. Highlights include taxation changes, city and county governance reforms, education and public health measures, and commerce and infrastructure provisions affecting state administration.
Alexander McDowell releases a 57th Congress compilation by Wakefield. It notes the longest day reached 114 hours with 80 roll calls. Introductions numbered 18 420. reports on 2 814 bills. Senate sent 1 630 bills and resolutions. 3 430 measures acted on. Fifteen deputies died, seven resigned, and Rhea of Kentucky and Butter of Missouri were unseated, the latter twice.
Ohio woman Lenonora Schultz sues William Schultz of Neepolis for divorce claiming years of abuse over her pet cat. The husband, 66, father of ten children by a prior wife, resented her fondness for the cat and allegedly threatened to leave if she petted the animal. She had dropped a widow’s pension to marry him.
A meeting Thursday between the strike committee and Superintendent Cummins led to a settlement. W C Price of Palisade, an executive committee member of Subdistrict No 6 G and G of the United Mine Workers, attended. Cummins agreed to union recognition for the Rocky Mountain Tunnel and Pocahontas Coal companies. Miners agreed to withdraw other demands and will return to work once mines are ready, in a few days.
Arthur T. Pennell a leading figure in the Burdick murder investigation was killed Tuesday afternoon riding with Mrs Pennell in an electric automobile on Kensington Avenue Buffalo. The car skimmed the Gehren stone quarry edge, Pennell’s hat blew away as the vehicle swerved and plunged over a curb into the abyss killing him instantly.
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