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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1903
Page
1
A scatter of brief notices covers bank closures, fires in San Miguel and Red Wood Falls, a fatal football game in Baltimore, thefts at Queen City and Pleasant Dale, a suicide in New York, wage demands in Chicago, and a Denver shooting. The items include rail receivership moves, ship losses near Australia, and a Macedonian distress grant.
Mrs Louisa Iverson of Monterey California, wife of a machinist, killed three of her four children and seriously injured a seven month old baby after a night of fear and delusion. She claimed divine guidance as she assaulted her offspring and later threatened her husband before surrendering to Sheriff Nesbitt. The incident follows months of mental illness and religious mania.
A London dispatched report from Tokyo cites Russia's minister Lessar sending a note to China demanding settlement of the Mapchurart question and threatening punitive measures. Moscow reports indicate the Pacific squadron sails with battleships cruisers torpedo transports and destroyers. 16 100 men to be mobilized with infantry reserves poised for rapid call up.
Six desperadoes steal a Chicago Northwestern locomotive from a Milwaukee gravel pit and race southward. The runaway halts traffic for twenty miles north of Janesville as train crews and police pursue, with engines and crews dispatched from Janesville and Milwaukee.
The Amalgamated Copper company closure at Butte Mont swings 20000 jobs in Montana and Wyoming as miners, railway and smelting workers face layoffs. Great Northern Railroad and Butte Anaconda & Pacific Railway announce cuts while city streets fill with unemployed miners and relief actions struggle to keep pace. Police deploy extra officers as crowds grow and the period of idleness could last months.
A prison note reports that a second terrier named JI Manuel was shot and killed by guards during an escape attempt. Manuel, aged 93, allegedly carried opium, was moved to point out hidden goods, fled toward a hill, and was shot after reaching seventy five yards from the quarry. He had been sent from Madera county for nine years for perjury with two years of credits for opium possession.
Charles II Conine, national secretary and treasurer of the National Breathgroocd Leather Workers and Y Warhesd aid Horse Goods Malers in Kansas City, was found guilty of embezzling 5676 dollars. He received two and a half years in a penitentiary after diversion of funds at various times. Detected, he fled to Minneapolis where a surety company arrested him for 98 ponies valued at 15 dollars each.
The trial of Mayor William B Hays of Pittabure Pa on charges tied to the discharge of Samuel Moore a Civil War veteran from a city bureau last spring has been before Judge Shafer. The case tests whether the mayor can remove city employees for political reasons amid crowded courtroom attention.
Pies manufacturers mark up prices raising from 8 to 9 cents per pie. New York lunch counters plan to resist the advance amid talk of a cooperative factory and a general boycott of trust made pies. Four firms control supply and may face a retail revolt.
Bolivian demand cites five million dollars and trade rights as talks with Brazil over Acre continue. Delegates including Dr Assis de Brasii discussed whether the tenth parallel would define territory and allow Acrean exports to Brazilian ports on the Amazonas. No settlement reached, modus vivendi extended.
A chaotic gathering in Cincinnati near a post office building saw driver Anthony Scholer lead a crowd that refused to move and nearly collide with Brooklyn politician Robert Baker. Scholer rode forward with a whip as Baker protested. police arrested both men as tension erupted into an incipient riot.
Report details a thwarted high profile attempt near Albany involving Arthur Carpenter and Frederick Avery of New York Central. Miller resisted, Avery was hurt during the escape, and both suspects were captured or pursued by authorities.
Silas Jlain, long presumed dead in the Clarenra Peak case, appeared alive as the chief witness in habeas corpus proceedings seeking release. The court heard attempts to overturn a twenty year sentence for Hulint Itperated Two years after Peak’s killing spree, Tinlin and others were identified. The supreme court previously disregarded his presence and affirmed the lower court’s judgment on its merits.
Police estimate 31 000 gathered to see John Alexander Dowie at Madison Square Garden New York. After doors closed amid a crowd crush 490 officers struggled as hundreds were knocked down and trampled. Dowie ceased sermon and shouted at reporters as students outside yelled Dowie Dowie amid chaotic interruptions.
The Livian cabinet resigns after Premier Zanardelli's health decline triggers a political shift. Signor Bacel supports agriculture measures while ministers debate the coalition’s fate as the general council meets. Meanwhile a new battleship Missouri completes a speed trial, aiming to set records for its class.
Burglars rifled the postoffice vault when the Superior post office opened for business. The stamp supply, estimated at 15000 dollars, and about 100 dollars in fractional silver were stolen. The safe was forced without explosives and linked to a postmaster’s private funds, with an electric pocket amp as the sole clue.
A boy named Stanley Cynn from Ausacula Montana slipped into an irrigation ditch last week and drowned. Authorities are searching for the responsible party.
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