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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1903
Page
1
William W. Hoffman, killer of his father in law William Brandt, rejects pleas from his grandmother, mother, wife and friends to surrender or flee. Sheriff Ruch enlarges the posse from 25 to 50 as Hoffman's reputation as a desperate marksman raises the stakes for capture.
Rural letter carriers of the United States meet in Chicago for two days to establish a national body. Delegates from 17 000 earners, delivering to 14 000 000 residents daily, travel 900 000 miles on routes covering two thirds of America's best farming districts. They seek better roads higher pay fewer privations holidays and other improvements. The group will be called the National Rural Free Delivery Letter Carriers Association.
Philadelphia reports say irregu larities were uncovered in the cigar department of the State penitentiary. United States Internal Revenue officials, urged by Inspectors Robinson and Hart, are investigating methods. Warden Bussinger granted indefinite vacation and Overseer Armstrong suspended. About 50,000 cigars unaccounted for, implying at least 5000 dollars loss to the state.
The Washington correspondents en route to the National Irrigation Congress in Ogden, Utah, were hosted by Pueblo businessmen and the press. They toured Cripple Creek mines, then enjoyed lunch and an automobile tour of Colorado Springs before returning to Pueblo for an Imperial hotel banquet with toastmaster L N Stevens of the Pueblo Chieftain.
Rev Dr Coyle says unity among the twelve United States Presbyterian churches is near. Creed reform, education goals, and a joint education fund aim to erase past divisions between Calvinist and Armenian lines and advance fraternal union with Northern and Southern factions.
Chicago report states Stewart Johnson aged 8 shot and killed his sister Mabel 16 at their home while playing with a rifle given as a birthday present. Police said no arrests were made and Stewart was overcome by grief.
In Long Island City a six story tenement fire started in a saloon and spread to the adjoining building. More than twenty women and children were saved by four nearby policemen who brought twenty people to safety. One woman tossed her baby from a second floor window during the panic. the fire chief was unharmed.
Reports from Constantinople warn of Mussulman agitation and potential attacks on Christians amid Turkish press accounts of Bulgarian train explosions and the Vaikapu steamboat incident. The Porte pledges precautions while awaiting further developments from Beirut and other fronts.
A Frisco carload of powder derailed on a branch line near Beaumont Eldorado Kansas and ran several miles toward Winfield before colliding with a train and exploding. Two are dead Milton Pennerock and J S N Holt both Enid Oklahoma. two injured Pri H Merrill and Fred Orr of Atlanta Georgia. The blast wrecked track and a locomotive. the tremor frightened nearby residents and rattled surrounding towns.
Washington September 11 United States District Attorney Beach announced six persons named in seven grand jury indictments. The targets include George W Beavers August W Machen James W Erwin George H Huntington Isaac McGiehem Eugene D Scheble and others in multiple conspiracies bribery and bribery-related charges.
Acting Governor Higgins says Missouri authorities will withhold requisition papers for Carey Snyder, jailed in Billings, while investigators probe claims that his arrest and return to Kansas City for a $7,000 diamond theft are part of a political plot.
New York September 11. Cline Wilson a young artist committed death by own action early today in his studio by inhaling gas. Wilson was a native of Russellville Kentucky where wealthy relatives are said to reside. Despondency over failure in his chosen work prompted the death.
The senior national championships of the Amateur Athletic Union gather top contenders from the New York Athletic Club Greater New York Irish Athletic Club Chicago University First Regiment Athletic Association Central Y M C A Chicago and the Milwaukee Athletic Club. A tough competition for five titles is anticipated as a improved track is expected to be in excellent condition by noon.
Paul Murphy and Ernest Smith, boys from Raton New Mexico, were arrested in Trinidad Colorado on September 11 for wrecking a Santa Fe No 2 passenger train near Hillside. They confessed to laying a rail across the track derailing both engines.
A Fernand Oregon dispatch to the Chicago Tribune reports Marcus Hechtman, now 22, recognized by his father in a store after wandering the globe for fifteen years. He was kidnapped at age seven by a traveling troupe of variety actors.
Michael O Connor reports Leigh Hunt once a teacher in Des Moines and president of the State Agricultural College now a multi millionaire. Hunts wealth is estimated between 75 million and 100 million dollars with extensive concessions in Korea and eastern China. He is said to be involved in a large irrigation project in Korea.
Andrew Marks aged 60 and his son Sylvian 35 travel from Williamsport Pennsylvania to seek treatment after Clinton Marks three months earlier was bitten by a dog. The wounds healed but hydrophobia developed and died in agony. The father who cared for him kissed him and appears inoculated. Sylvian was inoculated after treating a wounded leg with a tool used during his brother’s illness.
Theodore Hamal a Jersey City bookkeeper long absent from Germany learns from a St Louis law firm that his sister in Germany has left him nearly two million dollars. He fled Germany at eight and later served as a lieutenant in Maximilian's army in Mexico before disappearing from his homeland.
New York, Sept 11 George W Beavers former head of the Department of Salaries and Allowances in the Post Office department was arraigned on a bench warrant charging conspiracy to defraud the government Beavers posted bond and awaits September 15 appearance He is tied to the Postal Device and Improvement company and other defendants in a broad Washington Brooklyn indictment detailing illegal profits from letter and package boxes transactions involving San Francisco Montague Indicator and related entities. The grand jury also has other postal cases pending.
Telegraph summaries from the International Mercantile Agency report broadly show active general merchandise distribution in major hubs like New York Chicago and Boston with specific gains in dry goods and millinery in St Louis and Kansas Nebraska. Foreseen mining and steel cutbacks and weather impacts threaten cotton and grain sectors while European demand for Chicago wheat and flour rises amid droughts and harvest delays.
Chicago Public Schools may replace impure water with pasteurized milk sold at one cent per bottle. The milk commission led by Mrs George M Moutton proposed distributing pasteurized milk in all schools after success at the Hoyne school. Water is currently shut off for repairs and previous water reforms were dropped due to cost.
Secretary Hitchcock announced the removal of Joan A Sterrett of Ohio as executive commissioner for the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory and the appointment of Dwight Tuttle of Connecticut as successor, amid charges against Sterretts administration.
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