Verbal Fragment Headlines from Vernal Utah
Fragments show a location in Vernal Utah with partial names Che Gxrpress and ROAOSWAY and Batten. The readable text provides no clear event or outcome to summarize.
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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1899
Page
2
Fragments show a location in Vernal Utah with partial names Che Gxrpress and ROAOSWAY and Batten. The readable text provides no clear event or outcome to summarize.
A sprawling Utah roundup notes a proposed 85000 creamery project, jail work in Moati, and a San Francisco property bid. It reports Oregon Short Line profits, Springville sugar factory prep, Mapletow a school bond sale, and Teluride Power Transmission expansion. Also covered are a hospital injury from a premature blast, a poisoning death in Poyon, a West Jordan train fatality, palace site plans, storm damage in East Lake and surrounding counties, and pardons absolving Marty Tayes.
Manila Bay May 14 Captain Grant of the Utah battery who earned the nickname The Dewey at the Army for his handling of gunboats Laguns do Bay and Cavadongs is placed in command of the recently bought Spanish gunboats captured by insurgents. Vessels are being armed and prepared for river and coastal operations as fresh troops move to the front. Two battalions of the Seventeenth Infantry join General MacArthur near San Fernando while the Twenty first Infantry arrives from the United States aboard the Hancock to reinforce near Hacolor.
Government figures show April exports of breadstuffs provisions cotton cattle and hogs and mineral oils totaling 42 052 154 a drop of about 10 million from March exports for the ten months of the year total exports reach 917 070 067, while Langley trots Aero machine at Quantico reaches 500 feet before descent in a test flight funded by the board of ordnance.
A telegram transmits a plan attributed to Central Otle aiming to penetrate the archipelago interior and destroy armed forces. The message, cited by a Hot Springs newspaper, references dispatches from General Otis relayed to President McKinley via Secretary Alger and underscores encouragement to pursue the campaign.
A Manila dispatch reports 56 Filipino congress members split over peace and independence. Twenty favor peace, twenty favor reconciliation, and the remaining members hold the balance, ready to concede independence is unattainable but seek better terms from the United States.
Paris correspondent reports sensational announcements about Dreyfus return to Tinco toward month end. Ten republican guards and four gendarmes reportedly departed Saint Zazohoon Luca Las for French Guiana to escort him back.
San Francisco reports an appeal to Washington over the recent denial of entry for twelve Pilipinos now sent to Commissioner General of Immigration Powderly to decide if they are workers or contract laborers. Separately the Nebraska Volunteer Infantry requests relief from front duty as exhaustion limits their ranks, with about 800 fit for duty and 160 answering a recent call.
May 12 dispatch from Manila reports Aguinaldo's government weary of war and a Filipino congress meeting with no quorum but some business transacted. Most attendees support peace as Major-General MacArthur plans to stay at San Fernando until fresh troops arrive, while 8,000 Tipiao riflemen fortify Bacolor.
May 12 at Haneas City Missouri. Firefighters fight a blaze at Newby Transfer and Storage building when a rear wall collapsed. Foreman James McNellis touched a live power line on debris and was fatally injured. Two colleagues were severely shocked. McNellis’ face burned from the contact.
Nanita May 12 report says Lagunada Bay and Covadonga gunboats under Captain Grant steamed up the Rio Grande to Calumpit clearing rebels to Macabebe where about a thousand locals cheered the expedition. Grant received an ovation ashore as Macabobeans express eagerness to join the U S navy campaign against the Tagals.
An advertisement touts Allen Olmsted of LeRoy New York offering Do Your Feet Aches and Barat Shake into your shoes powder for fast relief of burning, tender feet and sore spots. It claims ease for corns bunions swelling and sweating feet and invites readers to try 250 samplement free at druggists and shoe stores.
Minneapolis dealer explains a pricing error in their knife sale where the Cattle knife should be 77 cents and the Congress knife 78 cents. The misprint swapped prices for 387 seed packages plus knife offers, described as a very liberal deal.
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