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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1903
Page
1
A Salt Lake City resident reports ownership of a newborn kitten with five legs. The jumble of Utah news items then notes marches, conventions, fires, and local incidents across the state including a typhoid decline in Salt Lake City and a fatal mine accident in Park City.
A passenger steamer the Tane L Hackley foundered in Green Bay during a squall. Twelve persons drown nine rescued as survivors clung to wreckage. darkness and heavy seas hindered early rescue by the Sheboygan crew. Some rescued imply more may have survived, though sailors doubt the claim.
Reports from Sofia describe heavy fighting at the Bulgarian frontier post Demiriapia with Turkish and Bulgarian forces suffering losses. Revolt and military measures unfold as 24000 recruits are accelerated and cavalry redeployed to border districts amid refugee distress and reports of horse and sheep theft.
A tornado struck St Charles Minnesota at 210 pm Saturday destroying the main street. Seven people were killed and twenty eight injured as businesses and homes were wrecked. property damage is estimated at 100000 dollars. Names include Ed Peters of Dover. two others died in a dry goods store and a saloon collapse.
A Burlington special reports a Saturday storm in eastern Iowa caused extensive destruction. Sheds and small buildings were blown apart at Wahelle while several structures at Wahelle fair grounds collapsed. The barn of Jack Welzer near the fast proun s was demolished and reports indicate 48 fatalities with injuries uncertain.
The president has nearly finished a message to the extra session focusing on reciprocity and the Cuban treaty. Senator Burrows says opposition is limited and the treaty may pass, while Louisiana planters and eastern beet sugar interests are expected to waver. Representative William Allen Smith notes beet sugar foes do not plan to oppose, signaling reciprocity will be prominent at the session.
A head on collision near Beowawe Nevada between Atlantic express from San Francisco and a westbound freight killed one passenger Allen Harper telegraph operator of Pocatello Idaho and injured twenty. The eastbound express struck a standing freight on the main line near a curve, demolishing engines and telescoping a Pullman car while a baggage car roof neared the Pullman. A passenger named Vallce endured a dramatic dumping through the car side into a ditch but escaped unharmed.
Peter Mortensen, condemned for the murder of James Ti Hay in Salt Lake City, appeals to Judge Morse for a new trial claiming innocence and prejudice. He argues a fair trial was not provided, cites revelation testimony, and asks for reconsideration before the scheduled November 20 execution by firing squad.
A preliminary U S Geological Survey report by Edward W Parker shows total U S coal production in 1902 at 300,930,659 tons valued at 33,731,388,45 dollars. Anthracite output fell to 36,876,710 tons due to strikes, with mine value at 82,016,927 dollars versus 112,504,020 the prior year. Average mine price was 25 dollars per ton, up from 20.5 the year before.
Marble setters and their assistants working on the senate bathroom went on a strike in sympathy with locked out marble cutters. Unless the dispute is settled the 100ms cannot be completed before Congress convenes.
In Denvon West Virginia Jacob Lawson and Andy Jarrell exchanged words on the street then drew revolvers and fired. Lawson died instantly from a heart shot while Jarrell died within thirty minutes from his wounds. Each man left several sons and the feud showed no sign of ending.
Willis Frederick and Burton Van Wormer were executed at Clinton prison in fifteen and a half minutes for the Christmas Eve 1901 murder of their uncle Peter A Hallenbeck in Greendale. Harvey Bruce testified for the prosecution after aiding investigators. the four men drove from Kindelhock, looted farm vehicles, and shot Hallenbeck after a long quarrel.
Report from St Petersburg says czar’s visit to Francis Joseph helped avert war for now. Constantinople dispatch notes Anatolian troops deployed to curb unruly forces in Roumela, with limited effect on military strength.
J W Dooley ranch owner was knocked unconscious near Waco Arizona and robbed by highwaymen. They left his body on railroad tracks where he was dragged by a passing train, then he was rescued by train crew and taken to Bisbee Hospital. He sustained amputations and internal injuries but regained consciousness and began recounting the assault.
Four masked men entered the Alint saloon in Billings Montana and seized the safe containing about 1060 dollars. They bound the bartender, loaded the safe into a buggy, and attempted to blow it open with powder near the city’s southern edge before police arrived. The safe was found intact with approximately 1060 dollars inside.
Seven men were killed and five injured in a Saturday explosion at the Corning distillery in Peoria Illinois. A copper cylinder twenty feet long and eight feet in diameter burst, lifting a large section of the five story building into the air. all inside workers were killed while outside men were injured.
Mrs John Beam of Mitchellsville NY aged 66 has given birth to twins. Her daughter in a neighboring township also delivered twins around the same hour. Beams granddaughter later reported she also welcomed two healthy children.
A revolutionary committee in Monastir details massacres and abuses by Turkish troops in September. Children killed, 200 peasants killed, 130 villagers captured near Nevesko with 75 massacred. Women raped and burned in a barn. Villages near Mila see men flee, women and children abused. Hassog district population massacred or fled to Rila. Villages around Razlog said to burn as troops encircle towns and threaten destruction for noncompliance.
Advices from Hamilton Bermuda report a Monday hurricane reaching 100 miles per hour. One known death is George Harris under a falling wall at St George s. Hundreds of houses damaged with many roofs blown off. Banana industry badly hurt and streets littered with debris, losses in thousands of pounds.
Sir Michael Herbert, British ambassador to the United States, died at Davos Platz, Switzerland after a long illness. His death was announced at a Wednesday session of the Alaska boundary commission, where he had helped negotiate and sign the treaty establishing the commission.
The body of Tom Madison, linked to the Smith county Kansas family killings, was found in fields near Cowles Nebraska. He appeared to have shot himself after being dead several days, identification confirmed, coroner to hold inquest.
Five people were killed and many injured when a Wisconsin Central passenger train collided with a Forty third avenue street car at Fifty second avenue. The street car, crowded with racegoers returning from Harlem, was struck as the motorman crossed the track.
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