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Show .THE ! Wive WEPHI RECORD... A COOK, JTaMtefcOT ELEVEN OF THE CREW AND PASSENGERS DROWNED. rylta UTAH. Lake Michigan Vessels Founders and Twelve Per- sons Go Down to Watery Grave. During a Storm on UTAH STATE NEWS.Salt Lake man la the owner of a kitten, recently born, which has five legs. An effort Is being made to organize a camp of Confederate veterans la Utah. A marriage ceremony was per formed at Callentes last week, the first In that town In two years. The twelfth annual convention of the Utah Stato Teachers' association met in Salt Lake City on Monday. Seventh r- ;The Utah conference-o- f ' Day Adventlsts are holding their sec- -' ond annual session in Salt Lake City. h The receipts ofthe Salt Lake City I postofllce show an Increase of $21,000 f during the fiscal year ended June 30 last. t S. S. Twombley of the Utah Agricultural experiment station, has taken. a State Poly, position In the California ' technic school, The thirteenth annual convention of the Utah Woman's Christian Temperance Union was held In .Salt Lake ' City last week. From September 1 until October 30, 1130 cases of typhoid fever were in Salt Lake City. . The disease I Is now on the decline. I It Is expected that at the next meet ing of the St. Louis Exposition commission the plans for Utah's building at the fair will be approved." L. P. Madsen of Chester last week lost about eight tons of lucerne hay and three tons of straw by Are, caused by a little boy playing with matches. The real estate men of Salt Lake City have formed an organization "to A , - ,re-Xport- ed 7 further the real estate Interests of the city and to promote good will among Its members." The Salt Lake club finished last In the race for the pennant In the Pacific L r Northwest baseball league. They might have done worse. They might have quit before the end of the season. Rumors have been received of a fight with outlaws In the . Brown's 1'ark country. In which one outlaw was shot twice and probably fatally Injured. Particulars are unobtainable. Farmers living in Chester report the seed lucern as worthless owing to the Impossibility of threshing the seed from the shell after the severe soaking It has received during the past Burglars cracked the safe of the Western Knitting company In Salt Lake City, one night lasfweek, securing $247. Several men have been arrested on suspicion of being Implicated in the crime. John Powers, a miner, was seriously Injured while working at the in Park City. While stoplng he stepped on a rotten plank and was precipitated Into a pile of boulders, being badly crushed. There were sixty-fivdeaths of residents of Salt Lake City during the month of September, equivalent to an annual death rate of 10.40 per 1,000 of the estimated population, as com with that of 10.88 a year ago. Dr. J. II. Faust, who attended the state fair this season, is the oldest M. surviving member of the D. A. society, his active and continuous connection with that association dating back forty years and six months It is now claimed that a branch road will be built from Lund, on the San Pedro, to the iron mines of Iron county. The fluxing ores will be used at the smelters at Murray and a large Iron works will be established in this alley. Michael Duffy, employed in the Silver King mine at Park City met death on Sunday, falliDg from the cage to the bottom of the thaft, a distance of 400 feet. Duffy reached for the rope to give a signal to flop the cage and lost bin balance. son of Mr. and Ths three year-olMrs. Milan Crandall of Sprlngvllle Rot told of concentrated lye one day last week, and put pome of the lye in his mouth, but luckily melical assistance was rendered bffor the child was dangerously burned. The storm of the past week has caused rn'Kb unasineps among farmer in the tfcinify of Ejhraim. of grain is not completed and the t'ictaned by farmers who have npf-- stacks will amount to sev eral thousand dollars. Daly-Wen- t, e d lrfs ; known. The waves were rolling high and several of those who at first saved themselves from immediate death lost It was several strength and sank.hours after the Hackley sank before the Sheboygan hove within hailing disance. The shouts of the floating men attracted the attention of the sailors on the Sheboygan, and every assistance was lent. The 'darkness made rescue slow, but the officers of the Sheboygan feel sure that they took aboard every person afloat. Some of the persons who were rescued 6ay that it is possible that one or more of the eleven persons missing may have escaped death. This view is not given much' credence by the Bailors of the Sheboygan. TURKS AND BULGARIANS , ' MEET IN BLOODY BATTLE. , Reported Encounter in Which Many Were Killed and Wounded on Both Sides. Serious news has been received at the frontier of fighting between Turkish and Bulgarboth sides ian troops at Demlr-Kapia- ', sustaining losses. According to one report, the Turks attacked the Bulgarian frontier post. Another version says the Turks pursued a number of refugees across the frontier. It id asserted that the Turks have frequently attempted to provoke firing into Bulgarian territory and crossing the frontier ' to steal horses and sheep. The war office at Sofia is working at high pressure and 24.000 recruits will be called three months before the usual time. Prince Ferdinand has sanctioned numerous other measures of a warlike nature. AH the cavalry, with the exception of a single regiment which Is stationed at Sofia, has been sent into the frontier districts, where are strong forcei of artillery. Vigorous efforts are being made to prevent bands from crossing into Turkish territory. Dispatches from the frontier received at the revolutionary headquarters report that the refugees In the mountains are in a terrible condition Sofia, Bulgaria, from hos-tllitle- week. liar-votin- dispatch from Marinette, Wis., says: The passenger steamer Erie L, Hackley, of Fish Creek, foundered In Green bay during a squall, and twelve Nine were persons were drowned. rescued. As the Hackley went to the bottom, those who would and could seized on floating pieces of wreckage, while the women and three or four of the men, failing to find any object to which to cling, sank in the sea, so far as is A g sj through their pursuit by the Turks and cold and hunger. Many are dying. DEATH DEALING WINDSTORM. Tornado in Minnesota Causes' Sever Deaths and Destroys Much Property. A tornado struck SL Charles, Mint., at 2:10 p. m. Saturday and ruined the town. Seven persons were killed and twentyeight injured, many seriously. The entire main street of the town waa literally wiped out, bardly a business place being left standing. Forty-twresidences also wero de stroyed, and the total property dam- ace Is estimated at $100,000. . The town was crowded by people doing their Saturday's trading when the storm struck the place It seems most miraculous that there was not i ereater Ions of life. Four of those saloon killed were In John Evans when it collapsed, and they were Two burled beneath the wreckage. fn store a dry goods others were which was blown away and they were killed by the falling walla. Ed Pat ers of Dover was killed in the WTfck of the bot-lOne man was killed In tha Itfroot l.v t.rintr etrtirk hV A tilnw share hurled through the air by th lorce oi trie norm. o " 1 . DESTROYEDBYWIND. Eastern Section of Iowa a is Visited by Twister. A B'irlinsrton, Iowa, ppprfal payn: 1M a re much Ptorm darn Saturday's At thronchoiit this part of srnokos-tacksand WahelJe t rn to pW'i-'email bulldinrs A touribor of bniMinn at fair grcmndu were blown down. The of Jack v rer, near tb fair p round wa bom st'Kk was kill!, but no one is known to be in Jured fatally. , 't? s Vah--U- lrn ifrrj-'i!?ii"i- . NORTHWEST NOTES. FATAL TRAIN WRECK PLEADS FOR HIS LIFE. STEAMBOAT CAPSIZED Peter Mortensen Makes Passionate Appeal to Judge for New Trial. Before Judge Morse in the district court in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Peter Mortensen, convicted of the murder of James It. Hay. was sentenced to be executed on Friday, November 20th, when, unless a further to stay, is granted, he will be ; shot - man having condemned death, the chosen that mode of execution. When the Judge commanded the senprisoner to stand up and receive tence, and asked if he had anything to say as to why sentence 6hould not be passed Mortensen replied that he had, and for an hour and five minutes addressed the court, making an earnest appeal for another trial, declaring that he had been unjustly convicted, that he was the' victim of prejudice and manufactured sentiment, and that he was entirely Innocent of the crime. He made the declaration that the repress and Sharp's revelation were sentiment sponsible for the public against him' which resulted in his con-a viction, and declared that if given new trial he would surely prove his innocence. In his opening statement he said: "I have the best reason in the .'orld to offer why I should be reason granted a new trial. The bestoner can man a ior world the. in that a new trial is that he is innocent of the crime charged. I have that reason and I have other reasons. In the first place I have not had a fair trial. The presumption of innocence is with a man until he is proven guilty but not once during my trial was that pre sumption given me. In speaking of the revelation testiof mony of James Sharp, father-in-lathe murdered man, he scored the district attorney for allowing the witness to have been placed upon the stand. He said he saw the faces of the Jurors, Mormons and alike, light up. when the revelation testimony was given. Ridiculous it seemed to him that a man should have a revelation from God as to where the murdered body of his son was lying, and then not go at once to the spot. Sharp, he said, had taken street car and gone up town with his daughter, instead of going to the grave. In closing Mortensen said: "My life is at stake and I ask you as a Christian man to give it consid eration. I ask you in all candor to give me another chance to prove my He innocence, and I say I'll do it. asked the court and the people of the stato to remember Mrs. Hay and her parents, but at the same time not to loso sight of his wife and little chil dren. "The blow falls harder on them than on me? I can die but once, and I am ready to meet my maker. I have harmed no man. I say, do not lose sight of those five little children who twar my name the name of a muraercr. I ask you. in all fairness. to give me another trial. I am as innocent of that crime as you are. That is all I have to ay." On the day set for the execution. Mortensen will pay the penalty for the crime of which he has been, convicted, unless a certificate of probable cause is issued by Judge Morse or one of the supreme Justices, and this is not igarded as probable. ; non-Mormo- STOLE THE SAFE. Montana Robbers Attempt to Take Strong Box as Well as Money. Four masked men entered the Mint saloon at Billing, Mont., and stole the safe, containing $1,000. When the robbers entered the saloon the leader held a gun on the bartender, wno was the only occupant of th placo, while the others bonnd and gagged him. Thy bad a buggy out side, and into this they loaded the several hundred safe, weighing pounds, and drove to the southern boundary of the city, where they attempted to blow the safe open with powder. Before they succeeded in opening it a posno put in an appearance and frightened the hold tips away. The safe was found Intact It contained a trifle more than $1,000 in vash. EXPRESS TRAIN COLLIDES WITH FREIGHT IN NEVADA. One Man Killed and Twenty Persons More or Less Injured. Miraculous Escape of a Passenger. , , collision oc disastrous head-ocurred at Beowawe, Nevada, on Fri day, when the first section of train No. 6, the Atlantic express frrm San Francisco, collided with the seconl section of No. 219, a freight train. One, passenger was killed and twenty injured, the passen ger killed being Allen Harper, a telegraph-operator, of Pocatello, Idaho. on a The trains came together , , curve. The ireignt was standing on the main line, about a half mile west Atof Beowawe, when the lantic express, first section of No. 6, suddenly rounded the curve and crushed into it. , Neither, the engines nor the cars left the track, but the engines were both demolished and the Pullman car was telescoped,' the baggage car being driven through it The roof of the baggage car was driven so far over the Pullman that it came within two feet of covering Its entire , length. A young man named Vane had a peculiar experience. He was sitting In a seat in one corner of the car when the crash came, and the impact was to great that the side of the car iurst outward and Vane was dropped through the aperture through the side of the cut and rolled Into the ditch before he had realized what had happened. He escaped without a scratch. ' TRIPLE EXECUTION. A n west-boun- d east-boun- d . Van JWormer Boys Are Electrocuted for the Murder of an Uncle. Without one accident to mar the perfect and dignified execution of the death penalty imposed by the trial court, sustained by the court of appeals, and not interfered with by Governor Odell, Willis, Frederick aud Burton Van Wormer were put to death minutes at In fifteen and' one-haN. for Y., Thursday, Clinton, prison the murder of their uncle, Peter A. Hallenbcck, at Greendale, on Christmas eve, 1901. On Christmas eve, 1901, with their cousin, Harvey Bruce, the three brothers drove from their home in Klnderbook, some fourteen miles to the hamlet of Greendale, in Columbia county, where lived Peter A. H alien-becthe uncle of the 'Van Wormers. On the way they stopped at the Greendale church, where they stole three vehicles of the farmers, a number of robes and whips. Arriving at the Hallenbcck home, the four began a fusillade of pistol shots which riddled the body of Hallenbeck. The four .were later captured and 'Bruce turned state's evidence. The shooting was the result of "a long standing quarrel. HAS AVERTED WAR. lf -- k, Firm Language of Czar and Emperor Has Soothing Effect. With the exception of the revolu tionary report of the massacres at Me- bomla, which Is identical with the town of Razlog, there Is' little news from the Balkans. Journal de St The Petersburg, commenting on the visit of the czar to Emperor Francis Jo seph, declares that the firm language employed by the representative of the Russian and Austrian governments at Constantinople and 8ofla has averted war for the present A dispatch from Constantinople says Anatolian troops recently called out are merely intended to displace SEVEN INSTANTLY KILLED. the unruly troops who are responsi Awful Disaster Occurs at'a Distillery ble for the excesses, so the actual ef fectiveness of the army in Roumella " ' In Illinois. trill not thereby be increased. Seven meO were killed and Art HARD TO KILL. others Injured by an explosion at Cor nlng's distille-- y at Peoria, Ills., Sat Arizona Man Knocked on the Head y ' tirday. One large section of the and Struck by Train.1 th building wis thrown Into J. W. Dooley, a ranch owner, was air by the bursting of a copper cylinder twenty feet In length and eight knocked on the head and robbed by fwt in diameter. Kerry man who wa highwaymen near Waco, Arizona, and In the building at tie time of the ex- those who committed 'the deed carried plosion was inetan'Iy killed, the in- his body to the railroad tracks near jured being men vbo were on the by, where they left him In an uncon outride. scions condition, expecting him to be SHOULD PLEASE TEDDY. killed and his remains so mutilated ths Dlrth of as to conrcal their crime. Remarkable Story Three Pairs of Tins In the State Dooley was struck ty the first train of New York. which parsed and dragged a hundred Mrs. John Beam f of MitchellsvilJ, feet, but miraculously escaped Mnntant N. Y., C5 years oil, has given birth death. He was picked up by the train to twins. Her danger, who livs in crew and carried into Bisbee, wh"re in the hospital. One the ne igbboring' ti?rnchip. . prcnt'd fce was htr bus). and wit h "twins about ti.'t arm and a leg had to be amputated same hour. congratulations he is injured Internally. At last were finished Mrs. Beam's grand and he was reported to he dying. accounts daughter font word that she had towtne the mailer of two healthy but had recovered consciousness long children. enough to tell his story. five-stor- ff -- e jt . semi-offici- Four men were seriously injured by the premature explosion of a blast at the Bonanza mine, near Whitney, Ore. A three days convention of that portion of the Order of Railway Telegraphers west of the Mississippi waa held In Denver last week. The switchmen's strike on the B., A." & P. road at Butte has been called off and all the old men but five will return to their old positions. It is feared that a strike of carpenters and stone masons at Lewlston, Mont., is bound to occur, and that building operations will be brought to a standstill. At Cripple Creek the mine owners are gradually replacing the union men, and assert that within a month, all the properties will be operating ' with a full force. , J. Johnson of Rawlins, while hanging a revolver on the wall, dropped the weapon, which was, discharged, the bullet striking him In th leg, inflicting a painful wound. The Cornucopia mines' near Baker City, Ore., formerly owned by John E. Sarles of New York,' have been sold to a New Jersey corperatlon, capitalized at $5,000,000. Mrs. Blanche Russell of Spokane suicided by taking enough aconite to kill a dozen persons, dying in great agony. Ill health and domestic troubles was the cause. Major Scott J. Anthony, one of the earliest pioneers of Colorado Is dead at Denver. He first came to Colorado with an ox team in 18G0. locating at California Gulch, now Leadville. A forty-stammill is to be erected at once at the property of the Mon tana Gold Mining company at Jar dine, Mont. ; This will give the company eighty stamps in operation.. The saloon owned by John Eng- strom at Rawlins, Wyo., was robbed last week of $335. The guilty ones have not "been apprehended, but two loafers about the place are suspected. The thugs who have been attempt ing to extort money from the Northern Pacific company are believed to be the men who stole a ton of giant powder from a warehouse near Butte recently. Chief of Police Travis of Helena has received notice that unless the two men recently arrested in connection with the Northern Pacific dynamiting outrages are released, the city Jail will be blown up. Sheepmen in the vicinity of White Sulphur Springs, Mont, are being caused much annoyance by dynamit ers, a number of flocks having been destroyed, and recently a number of attempts having been made. Charles Crossln, aged 51 years, a stone mason by trade and a man well known in Montana for the past twenty years, committed Buiclde in Butte No by taking morphine sulphate. cause is known for the deed. Matt Lona, a rancher living near Red Lodge, Mont, was fatally Injured by being crushed under a wagon loaded with oats. Longa was driving and fell over the front end of the wagon, the wheels passing over his body. Victor Jancjan, the aged slayer of William Perrenton, was sentenced at Missoula, Mont, last week, to serve a term of a year and a half In the penitentiary t hard labor. Clemency was due to the prisoner's advanced age. Dr. L. M. Wlllard of Loom is, Wash., was found dead in bed. he'havlng suicided by taking chloroform, because of fears that he was going blind. Dr. Willard was the stepfather of Hooper Young, the noted New York. criminal. The Northern Paciflc railway officials are said to have received another anonymous letter making a threat sgalnst the company's property. This lime the dynamiters propose to blow tip the depot at Livingston, Mont An assault case, in which Mrs. Roy Coxe, a highly respected and prominent woman of Gilt Edge, Mont, was the victim, has been brought to light A miner named McNarcara, who has disappeared, has been identified as the assailant A lynching Is promised The Wyoming supreme court,, in a lengthy decision at Cheyenne on the 30th, denied the motion of Tom Horn, the stock detective, convicted of the murder of little Willie Nickell In the Iron mountain country, and resentenced him to be hanged on Nov. 20. Jim Connors, the wounded robber who attempted to hold up an O. U. & N. train a short time aso, haa been Identifled as one: Roberts, who was arrested with "Butch" Cassldy and Kid Curry near Billings. Mont., In 1R97, for robbery. Later the trio broke Jail. " p , |