Weather outlook: partly cloudy tonight and Friday
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies tonight and Friday with a chance of rain in the northern portion. Temperatures will be cooler.
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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1903
Page
6
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies tonight and Friday with a chance of rain in the northern portion. Temperatures will be cooler.
Random notices from Ogden include loan offers from Kelly and Herrick and chattel and salary loans at 203 Eccles building. A marriage license was issued to H. E. Ashton and Marie A. Oklund. An excursion to Salt Lake for Ben Hur performances was scheduled with schedule changes. The ore exhibit at the New Azureite mine shows $15.50 gold value. The season opening dance is set for Oct 30 with Ford’s orchestra.
Oysters fish and dessert offerings accompany a Starrest Home Festival at First M E Church Friday evening. Local news notes include a city visit by attorney I W Tyre and a cigar theft investigation tracing to Ray Stone. Police recovered 16 cigar boxes worth 56 dollars and a reported hold up in Liberty Park proved false after inquiry.
The Elev enth National Irrigation Congress headquarters was closed today with fixtures restored. Secretary Beardsley submitted his final report and the auditing committee of Angus T Wright Ralph Hoag and H Gilson completed auditing. The report goes to the printers for pamphlet publication and will be mailed to each Congress fund contributor.
An 11 am collision near Pequop 200 miles west of Ogden involved the eastbound Overland Limited No 2 and a work train. Three Italian laborers riding the work train pilot were killed. cause unknown. Traffic delayed six hours. first train to Ogden due at 7 pm.
The Southern Pacific shops building has reached the second story with rapid progress. A large crowd rode the special train to Salt Lake to see the Ben Wur performance. Delayed SP passenger trains arrived in Ogden last evening at nine.
Portland Oct 29 Mrs Frank McBride No 2 made a second desperate attempt upon her husband’s life in the presence of the District Attorney and city detectives She drew a loaded revolver from her dress but Detective Weiner seized the weapon and restrained her McBride a former Salt Laker had been pardoned after a six year sentence for fraud linked to the Salt Lake post office The wife claims influence helped win his release and says she knows more about the embezzlement than disclosed She is free but under continued restraint while McBride recovers with wife No 1 nursing him in the same city now also reporting delayed Rio Grande trains and new railroad development in California
A Colorado Midland engineer's wife, Mrs. John B. Shepherd, reported four Mexican sheepherders attacked her in a Utah town while driving cattle from Thomasville. She retrieved a revolver, wounded Jose Chacon and his son Antonio. authorities say the elder may be fatally hurt. The four attackers were arrested amid threats of lynching.
Sydney reports British cruisers Pylades and Mildura and four merchant steamers set out in search of the overdue British ship Ovalu of the United Steamship Co New Zealand. The ship was eight days overdue from Norfolk Island carrying 25 passengers including Lord Poringdon and Judge Oliver.
Telegraphic briefs report that International Harvester plans centralization with one general agent for all five lines, claiming substantial operating savings. In Paris the Russian foreign minister Lamadou and French foreign minister Delcasse conferred at Versailles then attended a state dinner at the Elysee Palace. In Ban Deminge martial law is imposed amid northern rebellion with a warship and troops deployed to Puerto Plata.
The third day of the damage suit against Union Pacific by Jane L. Warner administrator of Heber M. Warner’s estate proceeds with testimony on track conditions and wreck causes. Witness William Blake, a 20 year railroad employee, described rotten ties and poor track maintenance. Attorneys King and Maginnis lead for the plaintiff, Young and Hatteroth for the defense in a closely contested trial.
In Butte Montana on October 29 Trumberta Cattelina and Martin J Pishkur Italian miners plunged about a thousand feet while descending the Minnie Healy mine. Cattelina was killed instantly with his head severed by impact.
Armenians in New York discuss the murder of Sagouni in London and claim he headed the Armenian revolutionary party. They say a warning was sent a month ago and twelve leaders are marked for assassination. The group weighs presenting evidence to secret service officials.
A Philadelphia Ledger piece muses on the daily loss of pins in dressmaking. It notes women misplace and buy pins continually, dressmakers lose about twelve papers monthly, and wonders where all pins go as closets and walls seem to swallow them.
The Victoria medal is made from bronze sourced from Russian guns captured in the Crimean war. Designed by the prince consort of Queen Victoria, these medals are produced as needed to honor conspicuous bravery or devotion to country in danger. Bronze is cast and finished, then chased to bring out the design. Soldiers wear a red ribbon, sailors a blue silk ribbon.
The seventeenth biennial conference of the International Board of Women s and Young Women s Christian associations opened in St. Louis with delegates from sixteen states. Mrs. William S. Stewart of Philadelphia presided at the opening ceremony.
Paris notes how English terms flood French society after a season of sport and racing. French phrases are replaced by "on the turf" and "dead heat" while terms like "starter" "sWinning-post" and "pedigree" appear alongside native language. The trend reflects a growing fascination with exotic words entering daily life.
Chicago reports 2400 idle workers at the stock yards as a house camera walkout joins the sauvage makers. Sixteen other labor branches in the packing houses await Snake demands and over 32,000 are ready to back the strikers.
A bankruptcy petition is filed against Peeto B Clarke a South native who came to New York seven years ago and engaged in numerous ventures. The liabilities total about 190 006 with securities in collateral and some properties in LaPorte Texas held by creditors.
A quirky exploration notes how Parisian speech twists English and French terms from cocher to tramways and cab to buggsles, tracking changes in everyday words. It lampoons fashion, etiquette, and social signals as outsiders glimpse the evolving slang in coffeehouse and street chatter.
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