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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1911
Page
3
Postmaster general approves Ogden sub stations amid busy crime, civic, and transport notes. Utah farms and irrigation grow, settlers travel west, and local incidents include deaths from street collision, ax assault, and deer hunting season progress.
Reported fighting at Benghazi the day-long engagement on October 19 ended with Italian forces holding the city after a night offensive by Turkish and Arab attackers. Turkish losses were heavy, Italian casualties reportedly high, and ships and hospital relief were observed departing. reports of massacres at Derna and Benghazi lack confirmation.
A mob killed Suddeth a black man after a white city attorney Beavers was killed and others wounded in a daytime clash. Suddeth was bayed at a water tank then cut down during transport to Wagoner as gunfire erupted. The incident began when a telegraph operator Swater and a woman were accosted by a black man T'd Ruse. the confrontation escalated into racial violence. Further trouble was anticipated.
Salt Lake City reports detail a murder case tied to the Times dynamiting. J B McNamara faces trial in Los Angeles with allegations of hiring Namaran associates and a coerced confession to Munsey. Mrs Munsey allegedly signed a statement identifying a visitor named J P Williams or Vic Nanara.
The protest targets President Madero over retaining ministers in his cabinet. Complainants name Minister of Finance Irisesto Madero, Minister of Fomento Manuel Hernandez, and Minister of Justice Manuel Calero, signaling friction within the government.
Yortland Oregon notified where Tralph Dimick a young lawyer and noted athlete died early Sunday after delirium caused him to leap from a hospital second story fire escape in the Pacific Northwest and Midwest circles.
Booth Tarkington and his wife, a wealthy novelist and playwright, filed for divorce in the county’s superior court on cruelty grounds. She seeks custody of their four year old child.
Rev Clarencesa Virgil Thompson Iitcheson age 85 pastor of Immanuel Baptist Cambridge was arrested in Hyannis on a first degree murder charge tied to the October 15 cyanide death of Avis Linnell 19 a conservatory student found dead at a Young Women's Christian Association home Initial police theory blamed suicide but new evidence points to others sending the poison to Linnell to ease her condition
Reverend IE OB Shaw of Memorial Baptist Church quietly offered his resignation after being found in Prospect Park at 3 am with a young girl. Shaw claimed he was advising the girl and chose the park because his wife was away and he could not risk bringing her home due to fear of scandal.
New York Miss Emma Paulding a trained nurse declines the bronze Carnegie medal offered for a heroic Rhinebeck rescue in which her brother Irving Paulding lost his life. She states a medal cannot replace his loss and recounts she and her brother went to aid a drowning girl.
J C Todd Northern Pacific freight agent at Yates Montana is charged with imposing excessive freight rates and appropriating part of the money. He was brought to Helena to await the federal grand jury action. Todd succeeded a prior agent named Smith who paid a fine after pleading guilty to the same charge.
Kansas City labor leaders announced that the five allied crafts of shopmen now striking along Harriman railroads plan to strike the Rock Island system. The federation members vote on a strike veto as 5,000 to 10,000 additional workers could join the existing walkout.
Twelve foreign mine workers perished when a blast breached a partition between shafts at Wharton Steel in Wilhernia New Jersey. Water from an old shaft flooded the gallery where they worked. Foreman Davis Slaight died aiding his men.
Five armed bandits led by the Whitney brothers rode into Cookeville Wyoming at 10 oclock Thursday night firing on a saloon, the city attorney, and a saloon. A deputy sheriff and posse pursued, shots were exchanged but no bandits were reportedly wounded.
Colorado Springs selected as 1912 meeting place with Lethbridge Alberta backing. Salt Lake withdraws. Resolutions urge county and district farmer bureaus via state agricultural colleges, extend arid land reclamation, create a 1 million dollar endowment, survey unsurveyed public lands, and fund work. Condemn land locators and protect homesteaders. Congress forms a permanent federation of farm women. suffrage topic avoided.
Morgan protests a large tax increase for next year with a net jump of 150000 after his appeal reduced a prior over assessment. Pierpont Morgan faces a tax rise even after representatives secured a 250000 cut from 800000 to 400000 on personal property this year.
Reported defeats of imperial Chinese forces leave Hankow seven miles north of Haakow with rebels entrenched. Ships retreat downstream. one reportedly sides with rebels. Peiping dispatches note disaffection in Yunnan and mutiny risk in Changsha Hunan. Legations fear demoralization and possible southern or northern secession amid financial strain in Shanghai banks.
Pekin General Yin Michang war minister near Cin Yang Chau in Hunan completes mobilization of 20 000 men. Officials doubt an imminent offensive against rebels in Wu Chang Hun Yang and Hanko. Rebels supposedly control a mountain pass and gun positions, and have cut off 3000 imperial troops retreating north from Jankow.
Dugene Ely world famous as the first flyer to operate from U S war ships plunged 160 feet during a state fair aerial display in Macon Georgia. Misjudging distance he could not recover and died ten minutes after the crash. ten thousand spectators witnessed the tragedy.
Hong Kong reports foreign banks sending large silver shipments, including S British dollars, to North China as Chinese paper currency loses trust. The market for specie is nearly empty amid discredited notes and rising silver demand.
The German battleship Hessen was rammed Friday night by the Norwegian steamer Argo near Kiel Germany. The bow was crushed but Hessen returned to Kiel unaided with only slight damage.
Belle London known as stockade mistress was sentenced Friday to eighteen years' imprisonment after conviction for pandering. Her attorneys filed a formal appeal notice to the state supreme court.
Salt Lake City reports theft at Structural Iron Workers local. Letters received by the local secretary from J. J. McNamara over the past two years have been taken, prompting security concerns.
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