The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-27
BRIEF KILOGRAMS.

| Pierre Alfred Ravel, a celebrated
actor, died at Paris on Tuesday.
Democratic senators, so far as car
be learned, are antagonistic Il
Chambers confirmation as solicitor
| general.
The national greenback labol
party committee is called to meet a
st. Louis, June 18th, t. elect a chair
man in the place of T. III. Murch.
1t is expected that the next Judi
ciary meeting will take a vote Oh
Stanley Matthews nomination, anC
appearances seem to indicate that il
will be reported adversely.
Street railway men on strike in
st. Louis are acting in a disorderly
manner. They have pelted Presi-
dent E. Wells and son with mud as
they brought the first car down
Olive street.
The Missouri River raised about
six inches at st. Louis on Tuesday
and was rapidly encroaching on the
levee. A large portion of the low
ands in the northern part of the
city were submerged.
The river had fallen eight inches
at Omaha in the twenty-four
hours ending about 9 o'clock on
Tuesday evening. 1t was not suffi-
Client to make any material change
in the condition of affairs.
1t is thought the street car COM
panles of st. Louis will not run till
Thursday, when the police force
VIII be strong enough to protect
them from the violence of striking
car drivers and conductors.
In New York. there are 127 small
pox patients, and 1O7 typhus fever
patients on Blackwell's Island.
During the week there Were thirty
three new cases of smallpox and
thlrty-seven of typhus feve.
Bradlaugh was not allowed to
take the oath ON Tuesday in the
House of Commons, and was elected
from the Chamber by the Sargent
alarms, having refused to withdraw
when directed to by the Speaker.
The commissioner of internal rev.
enue decides that money in the Gus
tody of government and belonging
to citizens, is not subject to levy at
tachment under the proceedings in
Stltuted in seal court by creditors.
Dillon, in speech, on Tuesday,
warned the British government
that unless wholesale evictions were
stopped, armed resistance would be
offered, and the blood would be on
the heads of Gladstone and Forster.
Roman Catholic Bishop Burgess
has forbidden any of his flock to go
on plcnlcs or excursions ON Sundays,
and also prohibits the holding of
fairs. and the like, for any
purpose, without first submitting
them Tor approval.
The PACKERS" of the STIR route
swindlers in securing contracts,
deny any knowledge of fraud when
recommending increased mail ser
vice, and claim to have been entirely
ignorant of the unWarrantable and
extraYagant allowances asked for.
Conkling and his following are
strongly opposed to holding an ex.
ecutlve session at present. but it is
thought that the needs of public SER
vice and personal influences will
bring about the transaction of some
portions of the accumulated bust
ness before long.
Shortly after noon ON Tuesday a
boom of logs in the Mississippi
River, above St. Paul, Mimi, CON
tanning 100000 feet, broke and
ioated down, filling a space in the
river half a mile long. Residents
Of the flats along the river are re-
moving rapidly. Dispatches from
Monte Vldeo say the flood reached |
its full height on Monday, and is
falling at the rate of a foot an hour.