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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1881
Page
3
The Weber Stake of Zion holds its quarterly conference at Ogden Tabernacle on Saturday the 22nd and Sunday the 23rd. Two meetings are scheduled each day with general attendance expected from Saints.
Fire at the Elizabeth farms nur series in Lancaster County, Pa., destroyed a large stockyard of 50 cattle and 28 registered animals valued highly. The blaze also consumed dogs and farm equipment, with extensive damage to stalls and surrounding structures. Local authorities investigate arson and assess total loss.
Dr J J Moxrax ooprx dated Jan 12, 1881 notifies all persons who owe to settle accounts within ten days after which legal steps will be taken. The notice states the business on Fifth Street was transferred to his son D J Mur hy L and urges prompt payment.
Iowa Senator Allison traveled to Garfield today to press for J. F. Wilson's cabinet post. Nine people drowned when the Leonore, commanded by Captain Bailey, collided with the John Dizon off Hartlepool. A House committee discussed the Nicaragua Canal Co incorporation bill on Saturday. Teague and O'Connor face intimidation charges. O'Neil and Teague were summoned.
Reports from London to New York indicate Greece and Turkey facing inevitable war with broader European involvement feared. Town notes mention Land League terrorism probes, parliamentary obstruction plans, Salford barracks explosion leads, and Irish protests. The Hanlan Laycock race delays due to Thames ice and a beer house bomber incident near Salford Barracks follows a mortar package.
The Tribune reports Dan Wiman & Co's commercial data show merchant failures and liabilities declining since 1875, with 1880 at 4,735 failures and $66,000,000 liabilities. Regional ratios vary from Eastern to Pacific states, Canada, and ongoing counts of failures and debts reflect a shifting economic landscape.
A sprawling miscellany reports on population figures for Michigan and West Virginia, and notes changes in the Austrian cabinet. It mentions a coal famine in Iowa towns, Cuba pacification, and Greece Turkey tensions. Burned mills and presses, shipwrecks, rail routes, and fires in England and Canada are listed alongside political defections and stock movements.
The school trustees and teachers of Weber County are notified of the regular meeting of the Trustee and Teacher Educational Association to be held at the Central School House on Saturday, Jan 0, at 11 a.m. Full representation requested. LF Monca Preat and Batrantyss Bev.
Reports note California desires congressional action to admit machinery for jute manufacture free of duty. A distant telegraphic item places the second pare near Gott Tepe. Other items cover census printing, Austrian envoy appointment, Sarah Bernhardt receipts, a Fenian bomb plot, play interruptions in Baltimore, and British naval command to Dublin.
Frk Simmonds and Wade alias Robt attempted suicide in Cleveland jail but were unsuccessful. The article notes 2,250,000 steamboat passengers on the lower Mississippi last year with no deaths.
Notice is hereby given that the named settler will appear to make final proof of his claim before the Registrar or Receiver in Salt Lake City Utah Territory on February 12 1881 Adam Patterson of Weber County Utah Territory homestead entry No 2497 for the N E section 12 township 4 north range 2 west. He will present witnesses Patsey Bailey Mark Child Joseph Fife and John Fife all of Ogden Weber County Utah Territory to prove his continuity residence and cultivation of the tract. Birds & Lowry acting as attorneys for the applicant
Estray found in Ogden City Weber County offered for sale if unclaimed within ten days. Description: red and white cow about six years old, branded on left rib and left hip with crop and underbit off left ear. Claim by Jan 24, 1881 at 2 PM. District Poundkeeper Wat N. Fife notes. Ogden Jan 14 1331 ajlist o2
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