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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1903
Page
6
The Ogden sugar factory resumes operations after a brief shutdown caused by storms that halted beet digging and delivery. The campaign runs from early January, with 400 to 500 tons of beets delivered daily and substantial beet stock stored, signaling a strong season ahead.
Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with higher south region risk of storms. Cooler conditions expected nationwide with a notable cold snap in the forecast.
Money to loan from Kelly & Herrick. Grand Ball tonight at Kiesel Hall with Sirs. Morsehead back from a Southern trip. Royal Italian band to perform, while William Critchlow is ill. Notices on groceries, sales, and local events listed along with police and civic updates.
Orson Pratt offers a simple harmony and composition course and piano pupils at 877 24th St. In Norwalk, Conn., C P Dexter, a wealthy man, was shot near Santa Clara with no suspect named. A conference of independent boxboard and paper companies led to a tentative plan to form a marketing cooperative. The British steamer Topaz and schooner Viking were wrecked at Cape Race. crews survived.
The United States Recruiting Station in this city secured twenty one men for the Navy during a six day period under Lt Henry Williams. The men and ratings include Murley Everton landsman Fred Chinney coal passer Irvin Kolb coal passer George Brown blacksmith Burt Thomas fireman second class and others. The group will depart for Mare Island this evening as the station closes this afternoon and will reopen in Salt Lake City next week.
H S Smith Woolley of Boise Idaho is appointed assayer of the Boise mint replacing Jo W Cunningham who has been removed. The announcement was made in Washington on September 19.
Providence allegedly directed Miss Tow Cunningham to commit murder. The victim was the wife of detective Joly F. Wilson, killed at home in Nashville Tennessee. Cunningham, sister of Wilson’s former sister-in-law, is jailed with a motive unexplained amid statements of providence guiding the deed.
W Frank Tuthill of Seattle is in the emergency hospital insane ward in San Francisco in a state of mental collapse. He is about 40 years old and regarded as a property owner in Seattle.
Telegraph Notes reports Jacob Miller a Chicago grocer indicted for conspiracy to defraud wholesale procern sent his throat in front of the Sheriff’s office today. He is expected not to survive as rumors say.
Berlin reports the 1904 budget assigns 37500 dollars to fight type 13 fever. The disease remains virulent in Bavaria Prussia and Alsace Lorraine with river contamination linked to fever outbreaks.
Liverpool dispatch reports General Sir Yan Hamilton sailing today aboard the Laucanith en route to New York. Hamilton previously played a prominent role in defending Tadyamith during the South African conflict.
At the second court martial of Sergeant Preidenbach of the Eaeventh Infantry he said he flogged recruits like cattle to make them learn and that Captain von Grolman ordered him to act thus. The Captain was sharply questioned but refused to answer.
The Hemmer Cup for sugar beets was awarded to A Rhodes of Garland in Box Elder County Utah for beets averaging 93. Second place went to Utah Sugar Company at Garland and third to Austin Brothers of Rexburg Idaho. The prize committee, including Geo E Herz J A Widtsae and W K Winterhalter, judged by shape size saccharity and purity.
The Weber County Fair Poultry section lists awards for White Windote C F Densmore White Plymouth Rocks C F Densmore Black Langshan Chase Aston Rhode Island Reds E Larsen White Leghorns G A Poulter Brown Leghorns G A Poulter Toulouse Geese H W Manning Pigeons Wm Woodfield. Pigs O I C boar A 31 Vander Viliia Sow A ML Vander Files Sow with pigs N T Peterson Poland China Sow W Read. Corrections last evening include northern Durham Bull three years A M Vander Viies bull two years Powell Sons cow John H White heifer one year White heifer two years White bull calf Powell Sons heifer calf A Vander Vlies Grade Durham heifer two years Thos Ethington heifer one year old I Skeen Sweepstake beef bully A MM Vander View still Join If White Sweepstakes dairy bull cow Jos Barket.
Berlin dispatch reports Prof Franz von Protter head of the German dareheological institute died by shooting in Athens. The self inflicted death comes after he failed to finish a long cherished mythological work.
The University of Chicago English classes expose summer students to faulty rhetoric with mixed metaphors, split infinitives, and awkward phrasing. Instructors, including Professor J. W. Linn, condemn crass sentences and urge correction as the class notes show a parade of ill phrased examples.
Alfred Mosley British investigator of social and economic questions lands in New York on the steamer Philadelphia. He travels with a committee of Englishmen to study the American school question. Congressman George McClellan also aboard, as rumors swirl about a possible mayoral bid. He declines to commit until offered. President William Th. Harper of the University of Chicago also arrives.
The Department of Justice has preliminary findings from investigators sent to Alaska regarding charges against Melvin Grigsby U S Attorney and Frank H Richards U S Marshal Cape Nome. Richards is exonerated. Grigsby faces irregularities, with the DOJ opting not to publish report contents yet. Final reports expected within weeks.
Captain T. Bentley Mott of the US embassy in Paris observes English maneuvers. He notes long lines of skirmishers replacing packed masses, praises young English soldiers and NCOs, and says French artillery is more up to date than English.
United States deputy marshal Wy Gamble, who confessed complicity in a plot to substitute old Chinese for young Chinese ordered deported, killed himself at Buena Vista Park by shooting. He faced disgrace and possible trial, leaving his wife behind after the confession aimed at securing leniency.
The United States Government has completed the purchase of the Hotel de Oriente on Plaza de Calderon de la Tarca. The hotel will be converted to federal offices with rooms fitted as offices, close to the customs house. Price reported at $313,000.
Peoria Illinois September 10 a gasoline explosion at H V Finkleinstein’s machinery warehouse caused a massive blaze. J P Henter suffered fatal injuries while F A Jetter was badly burned. The warehouse, previously Schwabacher distillery, and its second hand stock were consumed by flames. Clark Steamery and Teoria Malting plant sustained minor damage. Insurance coverage not yet determined.
A Reuters report from St. Petersburg says Chamberlain's resignation is welcomed by the Russian press and public, seen as ending a dangerous political factor for European peace.
Chicago markets show cattle receipts around 500 with varied quotes from prime steers at 5.40 to 5.00 and cows 1.50 to 4.50. Hog receipts 10,000 with mixed lots at 5.63 to 6.25. sheep and lambs steady with western lambs at 5.25 and native lambs at 2.75.
Denver reports cattle receipts 500 with a steady market. Steers bring 3.75 to 4.75, cows 2.00 to 3.25, feeders 3.00 to 3.75, bulls and stags 1.60 to 3.00. Hogs receipts 400 with light packers 5.93 to 6.00 and mixed to heavy 5.90 to 3.95. Sheep none.
Chicago wheat and corn futures edged on Sept 19 with mixed bids across contracts. Oats and rye showed modest gains while pork and lard futures drifted, and cash grain prices listed include No. red and No. 2 hard grades amid fluctuating demand and delivery months.
The document lists bank metrics as of Sept 19 with figures for the average of the steering house banks. It shows totals in the hundreds of millions and decreases across categories such as circulation reserves and legal tenders. The record includes interice, specie, reserve, reserve requireds, surplus, and deposits with changes from prior totals.
Denver police move to detain Russell Bolles for the 1901 New Year’s Eve murder of 14 year old Narold Friedbrun at a North Denver pond. Bolles, a former Sullivan, Indiana resident, was captured in Vancouver, D. C. and faces trial upon federal papers.
In Edwardsville, NL, Cyrus E. Gillespie a successful inventor drowned himself today in a nearby well. Illness is given as the sole reason.
Floyd Knox aged 23 vanished from his Hillsdale home two weeks after a stroke left him temporarily insane. He was found dead in the woods by hunters, having climbed a tall tree and shot himself.
In Orange New Jersey at the burial of James J. Moffrath a military salute went awry when a grave digger was struck by a felt wad from a volley. The digger cried out in pain and was carried away. he survived with a painful wound on the arm.
General Sir Marry MacLean arriving at Plymouth reports fanatical sentiment in Morocco against foreigners fueled by educated Moors. He fears growing European trade will be diverted as the insurrection nears end. revels lack ammunition and momentum.
The Russian minister of justice Muravieff and president of the Venezuelan tribunal will arrive in The Hague on September 30 after a stay in The Hague from September 19-23. His visit highlights diplomatic ties and judicial affiliations between Russia and Venezuela.
A blaze at Union Railway power house in New Rochelle disrupts trolley service along the Long Island Sound shore to Mount Vernon Larchmont Tuckahoe and Glen Island. Estimated loss around 40000. Commuters walk home as lines shut and engineers flee the flames.
Evansville police chief Fred Houcke and Capt Brennecke were fatally shot in a tent at the Fri-State fair grounds. Detective Hutchens killed himself after wounding Councilman Frank Lutz of Booneville amid a long quarrel with Brennecke. Patrolman Crow attempted to help as Hutchens fired.
The Gazette reports a dispatch from Fez, Morocco stating it is rumored foreigners may be expelled from the city, a claim that has unsettled residents and drawn cautious reactions from officials.
Card of thanks from J J Duckworth and Mrs J F Wicchera and family to the Nebekahs of Ogden and friends for kindness during a sad hour after the death of Little Percy Wicehers on September 14th, 2113, at Reaves Aves.
Senator William A. Cark, Irrigation Congress president, is a music lover who patronizes the Ellery band. The group plays tonight and tomorrow at the Grand. He built a large theater in Butte two years ago but visited only after its completion, last September at an Ellery concert. He told Mr. Ellery that his band is strong enough to attract him to his own playhouse.
Chiaffarelli, new Ellery band director, is portrayed as highly emotional, guiding a concert with Wagner Albumblatt and the sextette from Lucia di Lammermoor. His temperament reportedly moves players and audience to tears, with the Salt Lake audience noted for shared sentiment.
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