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Show LOST IN CLOUDBURST UTAH STATE NEWS. It la stated that the work of laying the first track on the Moffat line will commence on July 10. Flans are on foot looklrg to the establishment of a free cooking school In the r.'hools of Salt Lake City. Harry Stevens of Lchl, while visiting In Salt Lake City on the Fourth had a finger blown off by a giant firecracker that exploded In his hand. Joe Percy of Salt Lake Is In the hospital as the result of the explosion of a can of powder on the morning of the 4th, the can striking him in the head. Earl Finney was seriously Injured in a runaway in Salt Lake City on the 4th, the boy being thrown from a cart and the runaway horse stepping on his head. Harry Crow of Salt Lake City had his left hand blown off on the morning of the 4th by the premature explosion of some powder which he had In a cun. The state supreme court, In an opinion written by Chief Justice Baskin, holds that the inheritance tax law passed by the legislature of 1901 Is constitutional. Frank Browning was shot In the back with a shotgun by some Salt Lake lads who were celebrating tho Fourth, his Injuries being quite painful, but not serious. The first sunstroke of the season was reported in Salt Lake City on July 1, when Albert William, a bill poster, was overcome by the heat and taken to the hospital. The messenger boys In the employ of the Western Union Telegraph company In Salt Lake City went on a strike July 1, the company having reduced tho scale of wages. Mrs. Caroline Young Cannon, wife of the late President George Q. Cannon and a daughter of the lats President Brigham Young, died In Salt Lake City last week. Mrs. Caroline Headburg of Salt Lake had the end of her finger bitten off by a horse last week. The animal became enraged, seized her hand in his mouth and bit the finger off. Thore was a large list of accidents In Salt Lake City occasioned by celebrating the Fourth wltii gunpowder and fireworks, no less than sixteen persons being injured with explosives. James McDonald, 67 years old, and a veteran of two wars, was shot In 'the breast by W. J. Bryan In Salt Lake last week, as the result of a quarrel over a dog. McDonald will recover. Leonard Hess, a farmer, was arrested In Salt Lake City for stealing a garter from a drug store, and now some people are wondering if all Utah farmers wear all silver-mounte- d garters. d At a meeting of the stockholders of the San Pedro, Los Angelos & Salt Lake railroad, hold In Salt Lake City on the 2nd, an Issue of (50,000,000 of 4 per cent fifty-yea- r gold Interest bearing bonds was authorized. A fight Is to be made against the pepts which Infest the orchards of Utah, the Utah state board of hortl culture having just Issued a pamphlet containing formulas and recommend tlons for the disinfection of orchards. There Is war between the contractors and carpenters of Salt Lake City, and It Is feared building operations will come to a standstill. The trouble arose over the refusal of the contractors to recognize the carpenters union. Both sides declare It will be a fight to the finish. d A copper statue of Maud Adams, the noted Utah actress, may be one of the features of the stato's exhibit at the SL IkhiIs exposition. If the Idea Is carried Into execution the copper will be the product of a Utah mine. life-size- During the month of June tho highest temperature recorded In Salt i4ke was 91 degrees, on the 28th, and the lowest 64 on the 4th. The mean temperature for the month was 70 degrees, and for thirty yean past G7 degrees. The report of County Clerk James of Salt Lake county shows that for the first half of the year 1903, ending June 30, there were 708 marriage licenses Issued, and 118 divorce complaints wore filial for every six marriages one divorce. William Wilson, aged 20, was shot and dangerously wounded by Policeman Leaker In Salt Lake last week. Wilson and three others resisted arrest, took tho policemuna club from him and were beating him, when he abut In self-defens- The management Militiamen Defend Jail at the Coet of 8even Livee. Seven persons are dead and fourteen Injured as the result of a riot at Evansville, Indiana. The crisis came at the end of four days rioting and general lawlessness as a result of the war between whites and negroes. In Mlntlamen have been engaged guarding the Jail where sixteen negroes are confined. From 7 oclock In the morning until the hour of the catastrophe at night the crowd surged around the Jail, calling the militiamen vile names, assaulting them with stones and berating the deputy sheriffs who guarded the Jail. At 10:30 o'clock the rioters pressed forward with determination and Innocent onlookers ana the curious followed. Captain Blum of the national guard ordered a charge on the rioters. Gradually the crowd was forced back, the soldiers using their bayonets and butts of their guns. Suddenly a rioter fell. A soldier tried to drag him to his feet, but before he could do so was assaulted by a rioter. Stones and boulders began to fiy through the air. A soldier was struck with a rock and fell. A rioter was knocked down with a gun butt and tnen a shot was fired. The one shot started a fusilade of musketry and shotgun fire from the defenders of the Jail and a scattered return fire from the rioters. Fully 300 shots were fired from the Jail windows, the court house steps ImmeIn diately oposlte and the soldiers the streets. No one Knows who fired the first shot. The soldiers say It was tho rioters. Governor Durbin Is said to have instructed the authorities not to Jeopardize the safety of tho Jail with half-wameasures. Tho soldiers and deputies fired Into the retreating mob of men who ran Into Division street. For flftoen minutes the firing continued. AVhen It ceased the soldiers had the place. In front of the stagt soldiers lay gering band of the dead and wounded. Moans and shrleas of agony and fear came from tho Injured. eight-year-o- ld Wall of Water Sweeps Down Upon Unsuspecting Merrymakers and Many Lives Are Lost. A telephono message received from Jeanette, a short distance east of Pittsburg, Pa., Is to the effect that a cloudburst struck that place Sunday night, and conflicting reports say that from 25 to 60 persons have been drowned. It Is said that Oxford park dam, near Jeanette, burst, engulfing an excursion party on trolley cars. Oxford park is a summer resort about a mile east of Jeanette and several hundred men, women and children are known to have been there during the afternoon. Just how many lost their lives Is not known. Tho reports are conflicting, and run from 25 to 100. The damago done by the cloudburst In the vicinity of Greenshurg will not be less than (250,000. Brush creek rose higher than ever before and washed away everything along its banks. Scores of people barely had time to escape from their houses, so sudden was the rise in the stream. At least 800 persons were at the park seeking relief from the heat. When the storm burst the greater number sought the hillside, preferring the sholter of the forest trees to the park buildings, because they did not care to be below the level of the dam and but little above the dry season level of Brush creek. When the dam broke a solid wall of water twenty feet high rushed down and completely filled the narrow ravine with Us car tracks, car barn In front of the car and restaurant barn stood a car containing from fifty to seventy passengers, many of them seeking to return to Jeannette, others using It as a temporary shelter. With the Immense body of water FLOOD DISASTER APPALLING. behind It, the crest of the flood boro down with irreslstable force. As it Victims of Cloudburst at Jeannette, swept down the narrow ravine It carPa., Number From 60 to 150. ried with It the loaded street car and As a result of the cloudburst at the crowded restaurant. The flood Jeannette, Pa., the damage to the was filled with men, women and chilproperty will not he less than (700.-00- dren struggling for their lives. while the number of lives sudThe victims of the flood grasped denly blotted out Is still uncertain, anything that might save them from the estimates running all the way the fury of the water, seized the trolfrom fifty to 150. ley wires and met death by being elecThe people are still too excited to trocuted Instead of drowned. talk of the flood and It Is with diffi- Several bodies have being been already culty a complete list of doad and inthat show death was the rejured can bo secured. It is believed sult of this cause. that more bodies went down In the flood, but the rumors are so numerous OFFICER 8HOOTS DESPERADO. that they can not all be run down. Several porsons are reported as miss- Supposed Arizona Murderer Captured After Being Wounded. ing from their homes along the stream and many anxious parents, alA special from Douglass, Arizona, most frantic with fear, traversed the states that Officer Lon Graham shot stroets all night searching for their lost children. Up until an early hour and fatally wounded a man named Wednesday morning children have Smith, supposed to be the man who been found, but a few are still miss- killed Officer Thomas Vaughn and ing who may have been drowned. wounded Graham at Douglass on May 16. The shooting occurred In a sa. Murder at Tonopah. loon. Graham recognized Smith and Tonopahe Fourth of July celebration ended In a murder. Just before drew a gun on him, demanding that Smith the fire works occurred, a blacksmith be throw up his bands. reach for hts and Graham shot gun known as Frank 8raith assaulted Walter Dunn on Main street with a knife blm In the neck. Thousands of people nd beforo outsiders could Interfere, wore attending tho carnival, and with cut him five or six times and one difficulty Smith was removed to the thrust penetrated the abdomen, caus hospital, where Captain Rynnlng of the Rangers placed a guard of two Lng..Patl1 following morning. men. Smith was arrested and during High feeling exists against the Dlgbt was surreptitiously taken out Smith, and should he recover It will of town by officers to escape the be difficult for the officers to protect wrath of Dunns friends. Considerhim. able excitement prevails. Would-bAssassin Burned In KeroPremature Explosion. sene. By the premature explosion of a It Is rumored from the Moroccan blast at tho grading camp of Harward frontier that an attempt was recently Brothers near Croydon. Utah. Mon- madd to assassinate Muley Mohamday afternoon two men are doad, four med, the sultans brother, who Is in others fatally hurt and ten others with tho pretender, Buhamara, league more or less Injured. One of the dead while In camp at Sldehalssa. A a men Is tho foreman, named Bean; the tribesman fired a revolver at other is unknown. The men were la blasting out ruck to straight short range. The bullet missed Muen a curve of the Union Pacific track ley Mohammed and woundod a near the camp. They had drilled The would-bassassin was imseveral holes and the blasts had been mediately seized, drenched wlih kerotamped down when a premature ex- sene and burned alive. plosion occurred. Threaten to Destroy Town. Negroes e STRANGLED TO DEATH. Owng to threats made by negroes Denver Girl Cruelly Murdered at UnNorway, P. C., to revonge tha by known Fiend. lynching of Charles Evans there, Mabel Brown, aged 20. was found IstallLn of stats inUUla, ordered to dead In her house at 1931 Market Norway on a s.uc-l-itrain, has left street, Denver, Monday morning. Her for thrft rlace. It Is reported that hands were bound and there was evi- large forces of negroes have the town of 200 Inhabitants, dence that she had been strangled to and are threatening to destroy the death. There is no clue to the mur- place, which Is helpless. The cause derer. The case tu many of its de- of the alleged threats of the nogroca tails strongly suggested the series of U the lynching of Charles Evans In murders by, strangulation which took that place Inst week for tho murder of placo la this neighborhood omt year an old soldier. fifty-eigh- e Me-bas- sol-dlo- r. of the 8a!ta!r Beach company baa arranged for tha construction of an aquatlo railroad, run on the principle of a moving sidewalk, which will be used for the purpose of carrying bathers from the pavilion out to the deip water. The Fourth claimed an Innocent victim at Bingham when the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. He bar Smith was fatally burned by tho explosion of fire crackers carelessly handled by her playmates, her clothes catching fire. EXCURSION PARTY ON TROLLEY CAR ARE ENGULFED. uldde of a YoungBH7egroom. Ferdinand V. Voorhees, a stenographer employed at the Denver National bank, committed suicide Monday afternoon near Sloans lake In tho suburbs of Denver. Voorhees waa 29 years old and was married a week go to Miss Bessie Ayer, who recently came to Denve from Pemuylvaalu. lie was a son of W. 1). Voorlioe. at Falrvlew. Ills., and has a brother, tomllt Voorhees. living in Ihlengo, The eauso of the suicide Is not known. post-maste- r Hanna Has No Time for Buslneit. According to a telegram printed la tho Cleveland (O.) leader. Senator Hanna has disposed of all his business Interests which necessitated his personal oversight and Is now merely a tockholder In but one or two of the everal large concerns In which he waa heavily Interested. The reason for this, the Tn'.nler says, I to give the senator more time to devote to politics, the senator having .come to the conclusion that he cannot do Justice to both hoelners and politics at the sumo time Philippine lelande Now Connected With United States by Wire. The Pacific cable was successfully completed at 10:50 on the night of the to4th, eastern time, by the welding western and gether of the eastern links at Honolulu, on board the cable-shiAnglia, thus completing the entire line of telegraph from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands, a distance of over 8,000 miles, and bringing to a conclusion the greatest and most difficult of sub marine cable enterprises undertaken In tht history of ocean telegraphy. A message from President Roosevelt to President Mackay of the Commercial Pacific Cable company was sent over the new cable around the s world In twelve minutes, and reply was sent around the world In nine and & half minutes. The best previous time for a message around tha world was made on one sent by united States Senator Chauneey M. Depew from the National Electrical exposition. Grand Central palace in Washington, In 189C. It took fifty minutes to transmit the message. p Mac-kay- SNAKE IN PIANO. Reptile Five Feet Long Ensconces Itself Inside a Music Box. A musical snake ensconced Itself on the Inside of an square piano In the house of Miss Mollle Carr, near Charleston, Ind., and did not make Its presence known there until several days ago, when It was charmed from Its hiding place by a melodious strain drawn from the Instrument by Mr. Lyon Morrison of Inwho was visiting his dianapolis, daughter, who Is spending the summer with Miss Carr. Mr. Morrison ran his fingers over the keys, and, drifting Into a soft melody, did not look up for a moment. When he did he saw the head of a huge black snake swinging to and fro before him like the pendulum of a clock. The snake was charmed and made no effort to avoid h!s glance. When he ceased to play It gradually colled Itself hack Into Its old abode. The lid was removed and the reptile killed. It measured nearly five feet. DROWNED IN CAR. Trolley Goes Over Bridge and Three .Passengers Are Drowned. A traction car on the Center and Larimer line of the Pittsburg Railway company Jumped the tracks on the Lincoln avenue bridge and went ovor the bridge, falling nearly 100 feet. There were four passengers and the conductor and motorman on the car at the time. Three of these were killed outright and the three others were probably fatally hurt. The car was completely wrecked. FLOOD IN MARYLAND. Portions of Cumberland Covered With Six Feet of Water. Rain Sunday night flooded the northern section of Cumberland, Md., to a depth of six feet. Many plants and residences were damaged. The street car line was entirely tied np by the debris on the tracks. The West Virginia Central railroad is closed by landslides. Hyndham, Pa., was flooded by a cloudburst, and much damage Is reported. The total at damage hereabouts Is estimated (50,000. The demand for harvest hands In Kansas cannot bo supplied, despite the fact that men are being shipped la from all over the country. Colombia Is All Right. A dispatch from Bogota, dated 2. says the minister of forolgn July relawith ref- tions has sent a message erence to the Panama canal to the senate and house of representatives, and that the latter body has appointed a committee of one momber from each department to consider the proposed treaty. From this committee the treaty will pass to another private committee. It Is safo to assert, ays the dispatch, that the government has a big majority in the house of representatives. The Manchurian Plot. Nothing has yet been heard In official quarter at Washington of the ultimatum delivered to China by Japan and England, according to the Odessa dispatches printed. It Is certain that the United States has not recently been approached In this direction by cither of the governments named as parties to tho agreement. o at It has had no opportunity to Indicate whether or not It would lend Its moral support to an effort on the part of England and Japan to protect their interests In Manchuria. Russlsn Fears Industrial Invasion. Gros of an American locomotive company, baa arrived In St. conand Petersburg, siderable newspaper comment has been aroused hit by presence at the Russian capital. It la earn that his mission co acorns not only locomotive, hut an Investigation of. tb financial and economic conditions of Russia. In the Interest of various groups of American financier, and also an Inquiry Into the feasibility of exporting South Russian Iron ores to America. Vice-Preside- SIGNATURES AFFIXED AT HAV-AN- It Is said that Japan lDte, tha Chilean warships no A ON THURSDAY. it of construction. and The existence of bubonic,. the Right Treaty Safeguards the Resident seaport of Iqueque, Chi' American Privilege of daily confirmed. of Isle of Pines. improvem Salvator Parona, an one in and amuck naval the Chicago and fa The treaty covering the ,aBt sd a young woman and a placwbh 11 coaling stations and the treaty lamp, Cuban under Pines of fiscal the Isle During the flam year 604 p ing the 10 Thursday at Ellis were arrived signed island sovereignty agai tor the preceding twelve Oo, liable to at noon. the are which causing W The two treaties, Edward Stringer wag One objectJc last of the six between the United killed by a policeman at Pt,;;. the EaB m'p ' in subscribed were Cuba, while and to States steal attempting tho ebambe states fruit. would duplicate at the secretary of miner office. The signers were Minister enee, contir The unseasonable frostg secre,urance tha Squiers, Senor Garcia Montes, Chalce, Valey of Mexico, i secand an exp'os, acting the treasury tary of stroyed crops to the value g abZaldos thing !'ron Senor in state of retary lion dollars. m lmprV( Senwere sence. The others present The town of Paint Lick, pennslvan of state; j or Pevia, assistant secretary almost totally destroyed by of the chief department Senor Diego, week, only one business hoi of justice; the legation secretaries left standing. and Mr. Squiers oldest son. The postal deficiency for tt was signed The Isle of Pines treaty closed will be g; Just year Island over the last. While turning for the previous ds deficit The of Cuba, absolute to the sovereignty was (2,961,170. the treaty safeguards the rights and residents started by flrecrackc American Fire of the privileges on the island as though they were on stroyed three shops of the company In New Tor American territory. Property, judicial and educational rights are espe- causing a loss of (150,000. cially guaranteed, as well as the conAccording to advices from veniences for reference to and regis- the whole Austrian cabinet I tration of property and other build- signed, thus adding greatly t ing business. in confusion the situa political American the It Is pointed out that landnolders are better off in respect The Cuban committee on to taxation than they would be un- relations has prepared a repo- der United States sovereignty. the postponement ommending naval and of the The possession Gas Dete coaling stations will be perpetual, naval stations treaty signed F the rental price being purely nomiGrain fires have been raging nal and based on the question of acabove tt and Stockton, Ci Sacramento Custations and the sites by which bf quiring ban government, the United States tricts during the past week. 0s In propo advancing any money for the pur- Island (150,000 worth of barlf the blaz chase of private lanas at Guantanamo destroyed. quantity and Bahia. mospher The summary of the business vise Is LOST BOY FOUND. acted by tljp patent office for t ire adju cal year ended June 30th, show determl) Lived for Twenty-on- e Days on Green 83,239 patents were granted they re Berries. 54,256 applications filed. present In J. D. Daly arrived the hea The Colorado rlvei broke tt Boise the lam Thursday with his stepson, the levee two miles south of of the Charles McCarty, who was lost In the a Is now Arizona, and flooding itrands mountains. The boy was found withfertile valley. Considerable dan; danger in two miles of Roosevelt camp, comranches In the vicinity Is expec workln: pletely exhausted. He had been withla stab L. A. Moore, secretary of tt in two miles of the camp for three be eas S killed was of and shot Dallas, or four days. He heard them firing to use It son. his Moore, evening by guns and heard his stepfathers voice prattle had been drinking and L calling, but was too weak to make leged, art co u tacked his younger son when any response. When found he was unable to give der boy shot him. Sev I. R. BurgqulsL a professional any aecount of his wanderings and could not remember his own name. diver, was dashed to death near tlon ai After he had rested and partaken each enport, la., on the 4th by tho t sparingly of food, he brightened up propoi lng of a ladder as he was abw: and remembered some of the privadistar li tions he had suffered. He said he had make a dive, almost every bone Half no gun or matches with 'him when ho body being broken. creasi wandered av-- y, and for twenty-onfol- dhall of the Elliott Wesieyan ue on lived huckleberries. days green times He saw a great many deer and other verslty at Delaware, O., and bodle wild animals, and could have secured contained the laboratory, library curai something to eat If he had carried a gymnasium of the institution, ritle. this by fire on the night of the E. V DROWNED IN A PIT. caused by fireworks. autl mot he two One man was and killed Colorado Miner Meets Death Like a tlon drowned on the estate of Ho Rat in a Trap. sen L Gould at Port Washington, L One man was killed and five men wltl the 4th, the horses becoming fr. ceni narrowly escaped death In an accihas dent at the Oro Grande Placer com- ened by the whistle of a yacht over the dock. the panys properties near Dillon, Colo. running The czar the authorized has The end of the cribbing slipped out of a new police force te t from behind the two immense elevaIt tors into a pit where six miners were tain order in the rural districts pra at work. provinces of European Russia get The great load of debris took with sum of (3,250, onn has been appr is It three of the big flumes and a new ated to cover the cost anl elevator under construction, precipiwh A mob hanged a negro at Sa tating it into the pit ninety feet befro hut beforo boro, Ala., they low. Five of the six men escaped, him ma she but one of them, Cyrus Ruth, was they had to shoot the Ne caught by falling rock and before help who, with a revolver, attempted the could reach him the pit was half filled to the or with water, and he was drowned. His prevent their entrance The sheriff will recover. a body has not yet been recovered. A bill Introduced In the Ge tal Cattle Starve to Death as Result of st I legislature by Representative Gr Grasshopper Raid. ade of Wilkes county provides t on Professor Cooley of tho state agri- hereafter a tax of (100 shall be se cultural college at Bozeman, Montana, posed on every divorce granted Is has returned from an Investigation of the state upon grounds other thai th the grasshopper ridden district about fidelity. to Forsythe. Ho says the Insects have tu One dead and throe Injured dovoured everything in & w strip soven-t- result of a duel with revolver! miles long and fifty miles wide rl and Steelvllle, Mo., between Sheriff W. that as a consequence of their I pasTaff, his deputy, Perry Ives, Dcf II sage range conditions are the worst Marshal John Woods and Rd ti he ever saw The plains are dotted Starks, a farmer, and his son Mtd tl lth rattle that have starved to death aged 23 years. s as a result of the grasshopper raids. Charles Evans, colored, suspected Cloudburst in Texas. the murder of John L. Phillips, A cloudburst has visited tho south- taken from the Jail In Norway, 8. western sect Urn of Texas, causing the and lynched by a mob. Four nef death of several persons and e.tall-In- who were confined In the Jail g a heavy property loss. No were taken by the mob and best accnr-al- e reports of the loss of lifo can bo Into Insensibility. obtained, but enough is known to Patrick Connors was burned warrant the belief that at least twen- - death and Frank Haynes was Tl in ilr,I1, mHlly Mexican laborers seriously scorched In a firs arm bands, perished In tho Hood destroyed the floating coal dlfP '' wn swept away. ten Mexican Pittsburg," anchored In the Mis fc' l ,m' drowned elppi river at St. Louis. and more are said to hava x very serious condition. Ilayne been drowned ut IVltus. Secretary Cortolyou has annouo San Pedro Deal Corslet. we appointment of II. O. Weaver Hie negotiations between Senator Ohio to be hit private secretary Clark, who controls tho San Weaver Is 30 years of sgo, tnd lVdro S,Ut Uk rallroa,, for tored the government service lo I'1 Iro If''1'8 of the (rack M A stenographer, after pnesiof ' M,d civil service examination. ,ww In Rome on the 4th many Amert ThV rouTh!S flags were displayed from varlou vat houses and at the United St'-embassy, and banquet was give E issued flir eonstrueJb,; balance' the American college, at which TZ'oSH ,h- - ra" tie toasts were drunk, Including (l.imo.iMju heahh of President Roosevelt. s 5 c e 1 y 'w'T tir ,;'rT 11 Kr |