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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1903
Page
1
Utah notes report Kanosh is now incorporated. Fort Douglas construction begins. Springville and Salt Lake City schools face funding issues. Several local residents suffer injuries from accidents and health incidents.
Reported massacres in Salonica remain unconfirmed due to censorship. Albanian bands plunder Turkish villages near Prizren as Turkish forces fail to intervene. Italy’s warships arrive at Salonica while Austria asked to withdraw its squadron amid fears of foreign landings.
The body found in a New York City cab has been identified as Ernest A Patseauer, a Brooklyn training school master linked to Hooper Young, the Mrs Pulitzer murderer. Patseauer told an assistant district attorney he believed Young was innocent and claimed he could prove it, also alleging a fiancée’s murder and promising new evidence that would lead to an arrest. The woman later said she was not engaged to him and that he was drinking and unstable.
The Long Island Episcopal bishop, Frederick Burgess, says the clergyman who presided at Vanderbilt's marriage will likely be reprimanded. He warns suspension could follow, barring entry to any diocese if the priest is found in violation.
Robbery motive unfolds as Hob Bryant and Wl Morris, accused killers of W H Legg, are seized by 200 armed farmers and hanged to a Yazoo bridge near Haynes Mississippi before daylight. Bryant confessed implicating Morris who denied firing the fatal shot.
A slide of limestone from Turtle Mountain causes a mine disaster at Frank Northwest Territories. Walton Dowlan of American Canadian Coal and Coke Mining reports seventy deaths, mostly women and children, with two men rescued alive. Several cottages and outbuildings burn or collapse while the mine remains intact and resumption awaits railroad track restoration.
The mob in Wardell near Caruthersville Missouri killed D M Malone a Sanctified People preacher and Constable W J Moneytoon. Malone and Mrs Frill faced charges after Malone claimed Mrs Allen Malone was insane and detained her. The late night raid led to Malone and Moneytoon being dragged and shot. Mrs Frill and Mrs Moneytoon were unharmed.
Dispatch from Montreal reports Delphise Camille Brosseau and a city millionaire were threatened with death for $50 000 in blackmail. After twenty five hours the man signed a $13,000 check and notes and admitted compromising relations with the estate of the man’s wife. The alleged husband and the woman were jailed. Brosseau visited the woman to set up sale of property.
Judge Knowles in Helena Montana granted a temporary restraining order against several Butte labor organizations. The order bars interference with Western Union Telegraph Company as a show cause hearing is set for May 7 to determine permanence amid a dispute that halted service after messengers were assaulted.
Constantinople dispatch reports a siege state in Salonica and broad military precautions across the empire. The Macedonian committee aims to provoke intervention by targeting foreign property. Fears of massacres of Macedonians and Bulgarians by Muslims rise as tensions flare.
Rev. Ferdinand Walser a Toledo priest was arrested in Lorain on Saturday accused of murdering Miss Agatha Reichlin. The crime occurred at the Reichlin home after Walser, a guest there, was entertained by Rev. Charles Reichtin. Bloodhounds traced the scent to Walser's room. authorities report no visible motive or emotion from the accused.
John Tirman a 25 year old Paterson New Jersey resident is described as having two hearts beating in his chest. The condition was first found during a 1898 enlistment physical for the Second Regiment and has since attracted ongoing medical interest from physicians.
In Leadville Calo John Morrell nephew of Winters Morrell risked his life during a midnight sawmill fire. He sheltered on the roof for two hours with a dog to beat back flames and protect the office contents worth about 10 900 while being scorched on face and hands from the blaze.
The dedication ceremony at the Liberal Arts building saw President Roosevelt and ex President Cleveland speak amid a grand parade. A 1100 man military display included 3100 regulars and 7904 national guardsmen with troops from New York Illinois Iowa Missouri Oklahoma Ohio Colorado Utah and Oklahoma. Weather forced participants to weather rain during the reviews.
Sixty three people die when Turtle Mountain top slides onto the sleeping village of Frank in western Canada. The Canadian American Coal and Coke plant is ruined and about ten square miles of Crow's Nest Pass are wrecked. Only nineteen bodies recovered. many may never be found. Direct monetary damage exceeds a million and a half with mine losses around two hundred thousand. CPR rail lines blocked add to the catastrophe.
The jury in Frankfort Kentucky found James Howard guilty of the murder of Governor William Goebel committed January 30, 1899. They fixed punishment at imprisonment after initial disagreement and court rerouting. Howard had prior convictions on the same charge, including a death verdict and a life sentence, each reversed by the court of appeals.
Wrenry Reber a 20 year old from Jersey City NJ died in a hospital from hydrophobia five months after being bitten by a pet bulldog. He showed periods of rationality and warned his family I am mad I must bite someone before the illness rapidly progressed to death.
The bulletin lists a torpedo factory explosion in Cleveland killing four and injuring twenty, heavy frost across southern Indiana damaging fruit and crops, May Day activities in Germany with no disorder, a fatal neck fracture from a wrestling accident in Pomfret Connecticut, and unsubstantiated claims of a Roosevelt visit. Additional notes cover vaccination policy shifts in Iowa, cotton and corn losses in the Chickasaw Nation, Russian foreign minister’s Manchuria statement, removal of pork import ban into Turkey, a large Melbourne fire, Manila fires with widespread destruction, and marches by Doukhobors in Saskatoon. Navy news includes the Mayflower arrival at Cape Henry with Admiral Dewey aboard, Alfonso’s cabinet confidence, a St Louis billiard hall shooting, the Logan transport reaching Manila with troops and casualties, the death of Joseph Lynn in Washington at 73, Elsie Barrett's criminal case outcome, Emma Wallace found in Newark, and drowning deaths of three Shreveport society figures in Twelve Mile Bayou.
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