Smallpox Cases Rise in Utah Amid Various Local Notes
Utah reports mild smallpox cases and a serious Provo runaway injury. Salt Lake market bullion settles at $400 400. Orson Speirs dies in Salt Lake City at 63. Payrolls at Utah Sugar Lehi total $13 000 with beet and wage figures. Provo capitalists push Lehi rail and phone route. Beet digging advances in Serler valley. Salt Lake City to place mail boxes on streetcars. Curfew enforcement to require 9 pm homebound for boys.
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Orson Speirs
Utah
Salt Lake City
Utah Sugar Company
Lehi
Provo
Serler Valley
White and Black clash hits Littleton mining town
A racial unrest incident at Littleton Alabama leaves a white man missing and presumed dead while another fatally hurt. Two Black residents are seriously wounded after a volley follows a confrontation sparked by a white woman and white miners. Sheriff Burgie orders guard over the town as fear of revenge or further violence spreads.
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Littleton
Nirmingham
Alabama
Ira Creel
Joe Thompson
John Haer
Necro
Willisut ‘Bolbert Negro
Sto
Thompson
Joe
William Jollert
Jia Creel
John Mouse
Jolbert
James Younger of James Boys Shoots Himself in Minnesota
James Younger, last surviving member of the James Boys outlaw band with Jesse James, died by suicide in St Paul Mina after a period of ill health and separation from friends. He left a press letter citing despondency as motive. He was 54, previously pardoned from prison, and had worked as a traveling agent for a tombstone firm. The Younger brothers, Robert Coleman and James, were linked to famed Civil War era bank and train robberies led by Jesse James.
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James Younger
James Boys
St Paul
Mina
Younger
State Penitentiary
Robert
Coleman
Jesse
Brack James
Jesse James
Quantrell
Missouri
Murder at Wyoming ranch shocks community
Charles Aammons is jailed in Cheyenne on a murder charge after the shotgun killing of his wife at the Hras ranch near Grant, Wyoming. Investigators say he lured Mrs Sammons there with a false telegram, then shot her on arrival, amid allegations of prior mistreatment and a missing second motive.
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Charles Aammons
Cheyenne
Grant
Wyoming
Sammons
Blister
Siad
Wi Heatand
Braa
Mra Sammons
Mra. Sammons
C A Sammons
Hras
Brae
Heiss
Oklahoma
Iis
Colorado
Golden
John Ebenhack
Charien Betts
Labor Day
Boulder
Colo
Tourtate
Meeker
Buford
Chase
Glenwood Springs
Cole
Atlantic & Pacific Oil Company
Spring Valley
Supreme Court
Juba W. Sammon
Third Judicial District
Third District
Tao Cheyenne
Seasion
Staged Robbery Near North Yamhill by Three Masked Men
A Tillamook stage was held up Saturday night by three masked men five miles from North Yamhill Oregon. The robbers compelled passengers to disembark and form a line by the roadside and surrender valuables. About $200 was taken and the culprits escaped into a heavily traveled area with low chances of capture.
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Tillamook
North Yamhill
Exhibition Nerve of Grifin Apple in Savre Montana
Rancher Jack C Grifin exhibits a one pound fifteen inch circled Ning of Thompson County apple grown on his Sear Paws ranch. The five year old tree yields fruit as farmers in Bear Paw districts plant orchards and Choteau county aims to match Montana fruit quality.
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Jack C Grifin
Sear Paws
Savre
Mont
Isifteen
Thompson County
Bear Paw
Choteau County
Montana
Castro Victorious at La Victoria in Venezuela Fight
News from La Victoria Venezuela reports 9000 rebels under General Mendoza abandoned the field after days of brutal fighting. Government troops under President Castro broke the resistance near La Victoria and pursued retreating rebels toward Villa de Cura. About 3000 killed and wounded, and Castro personally led charges with a Mauser rifle. A separate note details an Englishman killed trying to win a bet while crossing Salt Fork River near Vonca City Oklahoma.
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la Victoria
Venezuela
Mendoza
Villa de Cura
Castro
Salt Fork Bridge
Vonca City
Oklo
Earl of Lonsdale
India
Matos
Ceneral Afevadova
Fenerala
Guevera
Lorres
Crespo
Antonio Lernandez
Ginevera
Seadock
Gomez
Sa Victoria
St Consejo
Haitian Revolution Ends Quietly as U S Forces Arrive
A naval telegraph from Commander Mason reports Acs followers and German gunboat aid as forces land to protect the American consulate in Gonaives. National troops expected to seize the town with no port blockades noted, signaling an effective end to the revolt.
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Nicholas Mole
St Mare
National Forest
Cincianati
Gonaives
Lirmin
Slamburg-American Steam Packet Company
Mathewton
Bahama Island
Eaen
Cape Thaltien
St. Mare
Soufriere Erupts With Prolonged Activity On Island Scene
Soufriere volcano erupts with tremors preceding the blast and continued upheaval from 10 pm to 4 am as both craters show activity. Incandescent clouds and ejecta accompany the cannonading while distant observers report ongoing boiling noises after the main eruption subsides.
Bookkeeper Joseph Heroheim Ends Life With Carbolic Acid
Joseph Heroheim of Ilelena Montana, a longtime bookkeeper, drank a six ounce bottle of carbolic acid near the courthouse. He died within minutes, the result of throat strangulation rather than stomach corrosion, after months of illness and futile health efforts.
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Joseph Heroheim
Ilelena, Mont
United States Leads World Coal Output in 1901
The United States produced 666,165,140 short tons of coal in 1901, surpassing Great Britain by 47,965,933 tons or 19 percent. Britain, Germany, and Austro Hungary followed, with France fifth, Belgium sixth, and Russia seventh, Russia producing about six percent of U.S. output. The rise reflects strong activity in iron and steel and metal trades.
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United States Geological Survey
United States
Great Britsio
Germany
Austro- Linerary
France
Belgium
Russia
Ita
Great Britain
Coyote Hunter Shot Near Maxwell Accident
William Ortner was seriously wounded when his brother Jaxon, 14, dropped a gun during a coyote hunt near Maxwell California. The gun discharged and the bullet hit William two inches above the heart in the left breast. His condition was described as serious with the outcome uncertain.
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Maxwell
Cal
Wilhem Ortner
Jaxon
James
William
Death by Self Inflicted Gunshot at Pomeroy
A man identified as A C Miller wanted in Dayton for cattle theft shot himself in the head when officers closed in at a Pomeroy residence. Miller had stolen fifteen head from John Sebribley on the Snake River and sold nine in Dayton before being tracked to the Washington town.
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Pomeroy
Wash
A C. Miller
Dayton
Miller
John Sebribley
Snake River
Oldest U S Navy Admiral Thomas Selfridge Dies
Rear Admiral Thomas O Selfridge senior, retired, died at the Me Lean Asylum in Waverly Massachusetts. Born 1804, he joined the Navy in 1819 and spent years in commerce and warfare, including the Mexican War. He lived in Georgetown South Carolina and made frequent visits to San Francisco where two sons served in the Navy.
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Thomas O Selfridge
Waverly
Maes
Massachusetts
Wes
Thomas CO. Selfridge, Jr
Navy
James Russell Selfridge
Selfridge
Jie
Mare Island Navy Yard
Nelfridge
Georgetown
S.C
San Francisco
Vienna Zeitung Foresees US Coal Strike Intervention
The Vienna Zeit criticizes President Roosevelt and predicts government interference in the US coal strike. It argues labor wars may force neutral states to intervene to protect citizens not directly involved and questions extending conflicts into neutral territory.
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United States
Zeit
Vienna
Roosevelt
Gladstone ” Pratsley
Fatal shooting affray in Gypsum Colorado leaves saloonkeeper dead
A long standing quarrel between saloonkeeper William Vining and Quy Skiff near Gypsum twenty five miles east of Glenwood Springs ends with Vining dying from a gunshot to the head after a confrontation over cattle. Skiff, age twenty, fled unharmed after the exchange of shots.
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William Vining
Gypsum
Glenwood Springs
Colo
Vining
Skiffa
Quy
Frucas
Viniog
Brite City Halts Rocky Mountain Bell Franchise Indefinitely
Long list of regional incidents and discoveries including a halted telephone franchise in Brite, gold finds near a federal building site, a fatal accident at Poetto Steel works, a stay of execution for James Martin, ore reefs near Lutte, and various local crimes and industrial developments across Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana.
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Brite
Rocky Mountain Bell
Federal
Butte
Cheyenne
Thermopolis
Thomas Garrity
Poetto Steel Works
James Martin
Deer Lodge
Mont
Williams
Tobacco Root Range
Lutte
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Idaho
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Fred Gordon
David Guest
Mills Creek
Salt Lak
St. George
John Iughes
Parleys Canyon
James J. McLaren
Crimea
McLaren
Balaklava
Venice
Richfield
Dorothy Averett
Price
David Elizgerald
Company II
Twelfth Infantry
Philippines
Jim Younger
Rotortous Cang of Bandits
Fakes
Illa Own Fife
Koh Baasengera
Orth Tami
Wilhioh
Navy Department
Commander Mason
Firmin Traccetea Fiaguatyes
Twantretve
U. S
Cincia
Seth Alden
Borpoluticatsta
Venorusin
Caracas
Veencla
Riera
Valencia
Coyote Hunter
Nortilwest
Dan
Butte Miners’ Union
Pennsylvania
Anaconda
Winsor
Winsor Sugar Company
John Duon
Fred Brammaier
Boulder Creek
Goulder
Mosea Decker
Gallatin Valley
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Michael McCormick
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Knowles
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