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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1903
Page
1
Reports show streetcar strikes in Waco and Texas boll weevil damage to cotton crops. A landslide scare in Franks Canada proves erroneous while Panama canal treaty fades as Roosevelt faces next move. Fires, wrecks, murders, suicides, prison sentences and labor strife cross the U.S. and beyond with notable incidents in California Missouri Kansas Maryland and Illinois observations.
The Bureau of Immigration reports a surge in arrivals for August 1903 totaling 64977, up from 45649 a year earlier. Gains come from Austria Hungary Denmark Finland Germany England Italy Russia Scotland and Wales. Sweden declines while Norway rises. China sees a slight uptick in emigration. Eight hundred ten were barred, including 554 paupers and 156 diseased. 66 returned after one year. Most arrivals, 48000, landed at New York. First two months of the fiscal year show an 88 percent increase.
Reports from Sofia indicate improved conditions with the Porte not moving the 32 battalions ordered from Monastir to Adrianople. Af Natohovitch heads to Constantinople as a Dulitian diplomatic agent after June talks with the Porte. A domestic incident in San Francisco ends with an attempted asphyxiation of Ars Mohdragon by her husband, who fled as neighbors intervene. Tin mill notices in Nay Castle Pa announce production of tin for export with wage cuts agreed to by the Amalga materials union. The London Times cites a palace committee at Yildiz that Bulgarians captured will be shot. the committee includes Tahsin Adhem Izzet Pasha and a new member, reportedly tied to Armenian mass killings in Constantinople.
The Northern Pacific faces a blackmail scheme demanding 60000 dollars to avoid further railroad damage. After letters in August and repeated threats, dynamite damaged Livingston to Missoula bridges and a later plan involved a white flagged engine run. Attempts continued over the past two weeks with four dynamite incidents.
Dominado Gomez, once a Spanish officer, sentenced in Manila to four years and two months in prison and fined 360 dollars. Maximum bail was refused pending appeal as the Filipino assessure dissented. He was charged with founding the Union Obrera which urged natives to rebel.
A Cincinnati Southern passenger train departing Chattanooga at 10 am Monday struck a cow at Glen Mary Tennessee 120 miles north of Chattanooga. The engine two mail cars baggage car and express car left the track and rolled down a steep embankment. One person died instantly and seven were injured.
An unknown man tried to kidnap the 8 year old daughter of Governor Mickey of Nebraska as four siblings played in front of the governor's mansion. The child resisted as neighbors approached and the man fled after dropping her. The governor cited a penitentiary warden reporting a prior planned kidnapping by convicts as revenge for last summer's execution.
A Norfolk Providence report describes a bold thwarted robbery near Whitin station Rhode Island. Conductor Georga W Ross used a lantern signal and sped the New York New Haven Hartford line to safety with four passenger cars landing without injury.
An Atlantic express on the Oregon Railroad left Portland at 3 p.m. was held up by four masked men near Corbett station. Express Messenger Fred Korner shot and killed one bandit. engineer Ollie Barrett was wounded. The robbers fled without stealing any loot.
A report identifies Russell Bolles as the suspected killer of Harold Fridbein, 14, in Denver. Florence Fridbein, 13, accuses Bolles of the crime, with Bolles denying the accusation and claiming an alibi.
James Keffer was hanged in the courthouse yard at Lander Wyoming on Friday morning. The trap dropped at 10:16 and his neck broke. he was cut down eight minutes later as an autopsy showed a normal brain. He spoke calmly to Sheriff Stough, saying the fury that convicted him had made a mistake he predicted would be seen someday. The crime involved killing Warren for money with a shotgun in his cabin.
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