The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-29
LOCAL BRIEFS.

WELLs, FARGO & Co.'S shipments
yesterday were: Ore, $20.1l7.72.
.sMoccAs1N MAC" and "Jack the
the street yesterday.
fl rs suggested that the Jack the
Ripper mvs e-v II a trade scheme on
the part of gun merchants.
FREDERloH G. HEATH, of this city,
was yesterday commissioned notary
public for Salt Lake County.
THERE ARE two or three cases of
scarlet fever at the residence of Mr..
Woolf in the Eighteenth Ward.
THOSE sPRING-HEELED felt shoes for
mjsse and children at Spencer Il Kim
baIi's are just the thing for school
wear.
MoCoRNroK & Co.'s shipments yester-
dRy were: aanauer bullion, So 900;
silver and lead ores, $25 500. Total,
$29.s0S.
Ruby. THE little daughter of Mrs.
Ellen Clawson, is i'll with diphtheria.
At last accounts the disease had not
assumed dangerous aspect.
THE FUNERAL services over the late
John Platts will be held at his residence
(29, corner of Quinc4 and Apricot, Nine
teenth Ward) at pm. to-day.s
An OLD man named Price, who re-
sides in the Fifteenth Ward, slipped
and fell on an icy sidewalk yesterday
after aeon. and was severely injured
about the head. Ma
A DOUBLE team attached to buggy
Mo,~
and everything looked favorable for q
became enUangled in the wheels and
brought the chargers to standstill.
A GAME of billiards was played at the
Cullen Hotel last night between
Charley Caswell and John Wise, and re
suited in a victory for the former by a
score of $50 TO lib. Tonight the game
Alexander.
TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY, as reported
from the Signal Services office: At6a.m ::
Custer, II; Fort Washable, 6; Boise
Lake City, 20; Ogden, q; Stockton, 4;
Bingham. 81; Park City, %; Provo, II;
A4tas FL.
a PIONEER ball commemorative of
I847.is to be given in Oalder's Hall,
Thursday, Jau9a' 3lst, 1889, the com
mittee being Misses Edith Shurtlitf,
Auaie Keenie, Maud Keenie, Nellie
Sharkie, Thomas Patten, D. W. McAl-
lister and c. S. McAlIister.
ANeTHER TIMBER suit has been
planted in the Third District Court, in
which the Salt Lake City Street Rail-
OOTnnonu il
eminent seeks to recover $40 GAO, the
value of 1900 railway ties, alleged to
have been illegally CUT by the defendant
IN Tooele County.
DPHTHERIA Is said to be much more
common in this city than is generally
supposed, yet it seems that II 0thing is
being done by way of quarantine. At
several houses where ma ignant cases
have occurred, no warning flag has ap-
speared, and people are wondering if
the system has been dropped. Where
are the yellow fagsP
MAYOR ARMSTRONG brought from the
Thomp son- Houston works some SAM
pies of welding down by electricity. He
has one little bar about an inch and a
half long, in which there is copper,
steel, brass and German silver welded
SO neatly that while the joints are COM
pletely lost. the different metals remain
as distinct as though they had never
been joined. The process is very SIM
pie, tut still it is a s. cret that this COM
pany values very highly.
BEN WHITTEMoRE never does any
thing by halves. Last evening he called
his friends together at the Railroad
Exchange, and this is what he gave
theu= 4 musical entertainment by
Ellis and Dunbar's Minstrels, which
,wss O bowling success. Then there was
,dsucing, with music from Olsen's band.
After that a royal lunch followed by
singing and piano playing by the ladies,
then more dancing, which was con-
dnued well into the morning. They
had great time.