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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1903
Page
1
Senator Allison hints funding may run dry for next campaign. Paterson New Jersey fears flood destruction as forecasts warn. Mauna Loa erupts inland Hawaii while Dutch coast endures violent storm wrecks multiple ships. Pacific express labor strike threats rise over wages and recognition. Historic figures linked to deaths and legal cases across North America and Europe surface in reports.
Seven prisoners attempted a prison break at the Utah State Penitentiary. Nick Haworth and James Lynch, both under death sentence, escaped briefly before guards recaptured them. Frank Dayton was killed during the breakout and others were wounded or seized. Guards and wardens tightened pursuit with bloodhounds. rewards offered for Lynch and Haworth.
Nick Unworth, the condemned murderer who escaped Utah state penitentiary, was found Sunday sunrise in a board shanty near Brigham Ashton orchard. Hawworth offered no resistance as Kennedy, Morfen, and others pursued him. fellow escapee Lynch remained at large with authorities expecting recapture within days.
The Cologne Gazette cites a St Petersburg dispatch stating Russia favors war over yielding Manchuria claims if Japan enters the Korean controversy. It notes Russian officers’ families delaying Port Arthur travel until 1904 for unfinished accommodations and mentions Japan massing troops for purposes beyond maneuvers.
Federal wife arsenic murder case details Blydenburg arrested at Lidora Iown charged with poisoning his wife. He had been released on 10600 dollars bond. The victim died May 29 after a brief marriage. The sister had the body exhumed revealing arsenic in the stomach. Blydenburg, owner of a town farm, is said to have a third wife. the second wife died in Brooklyn with a seven thousand dollar life policy. His religious zeal sparked local excitement.
London Post correspondent from Chefoo reports on October 10 that Japan plans to declare hostilities upon Russia. Russian fleet has departed Fort Arthur. Reports mention Japanese landings at Masanohorta and field guns embarked at Port Arthur for an unknown destination as fortifications continue.
William Reals an aeronaut perished after a parachute ascent and descent in Golden Gate Park when he released his grip and fell to the pavement. Madge Heeney a seventeen year old riding an electric car at the scene leaned out to view the descent and died after striking an electric mast.
Joseph Roberts, last of the Graham County bandits, surrendered to Deputy Sheriff Fob Raffey after a clash on Blue River. Wounded and exhausted, he gave himself up to authorities and was jailed in Solomons Villa following the three‑way pursuit.
Paris reports a Russian flotilla of about ninety ships has left Port Arthur and arrived at MaSan Pho south of Korea. The fleet lies with Japanese vessels in the harbor while Russian troops advance to the Korean coast and encamp along the border. Tokyo diplomacy continues and Chinese minister works in Essen on arms.
Rival bakers John Birk and James Henry faced a deadly rivalry in Whatcom Washington. Birk allegedly ordered William Burnwent to add concentrated lye to Henry flour. Burnwent fled town but later returned and both men were arrested as the plot unravelled.
A compilation from Cripple Creek to Montana reports Max Moore wounded by a comrade with probable death. Other items note non union guards at Telluride mill, Morgan and Connor arrests, Pacific Express reward changes, and a Denver court martial plan. Also covered are a failed Philadelphia boxing match, Montan a governor Leggett death, dynamiters reward increase to 6000, a damaged Seattle dam, a Glasgow skeleton murder clue, a Whatcom poisoning case, Yakima robberies, a hunter shot on Chipman Creek, and a tribal reservation massacre. Additional notes include a jail suicide attempt, a Bilossburg dynamiter hunt, a Sheridan meeting with Crow attendance, Missouri miners heading to Cripple Creek, and Rockefeller interests in Coeur d’Alenes.
Gay Walshman alias Jim Connors seized with a Portland sheriff confession naming gang members in the Corbett Oregon Hall road and Navigation train robbery two weeks earlier. Harshman says leader was Jim James related to Jesse James with others Morgan Underwood and himself. Plan allegedly split up with routes toward Mexican boundary Sammish Flats and East Oregon.
France and Great Britain conclude terms of a general arbitration treaty through Foreign Minister Delcayse and London authorities. The pact mirrors the Hay Pauncefote model and signals a postwar rapprochement easing historic tensions.
Andreas Dippold a private tutor fled from Keing Koch 14 year old son of a Deutsche Bank director to a bed and whipped him to death. Steinz and a younger brother also punished. a medical board said Dippold whipped the boys on parental authority.
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