The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-07
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS.

| An Englishman named Ware shot and
killed two persons at Sykene, Pa. Satur-
! day night. The quarrel was over d game
of cards.
Secretary of War Proctor arrived in Chi
/ cago Sunday evening, together with Gen
| erals Schofeld, Crook and Williams. They
will leave tomorrow for a regular inspec
ton Of the military posts in the west.
The passengers of the steamship Dan
mark landed at Castle Garden from the
steamer Wieland yesterday. There were
! 302.
DR.. p. H. Cronin, of Chicago, disappeared
| Saturday night mysteriously. His friends
express the belief that he has been foully
dealt with. Saturday trunk was found
on the prairie containing mass of bloody
cotton similar to that Dr. Cronin carried,
and some hair, said to resemble his in color.
| At COringtOn, Tipler county, Tenn,
Saturday night, Mayor Douglass and a
! posse of ten men went TO the house OF Henry
| Donaldson, negro, with warrant for his
arrest. When the demand was made for
| Donaldson to open the door, he fired through
the door, killing Mayor Douglass instantly.
The remainder of the posse reiterated and
| the negro escaped.
Director Hentsch, of the compton DIES
compile was taken before the magistrate
Saturday and admitted to bail in the sum
of 100000 francs. s'-''7sK!sz| D.. 3
! A cold blooded murder was committed
near Galena, Illinois, the victim being
Prof. II. Mitchell, founder of the academy
at Hanover, in this county. Prof Mitchell
and Henry Prask were in buggy when at
the turn of the road George Skene, son of
Supervisor William Skene. stepped out
from the outside of the road and fired two
shots, one killing Prof. Mitchell and the
other wOunding Prask IN the arm. The
murderer made his escape. The only
reason assigned for the deed is that Mitch
ell had objected to Skene's attentions to
his sister. Lynching is probable if the
murC erer is caught.
The London Times says there is little
doubt but that the yacht Valkyria will go
to America and try her speed mall races.
About half IL hundred walkers, a number
OF them old timers, entered in the six days
gO-as-y oC-please at New York, at midnight.
George Frances Train, who has been
fasting for sixteen days, delivered one of
his characteristic lectures at the Union
Square theatre Sunday evening to fair
sized audience
Tom Gilmer, prominent young man of
Albany, Ga, last evening shot and killed
his seventeen ear-old wife, Fannie, and
then killed himself. Gilmer and his wife
We're married but few months ago and
their life has been unhappy. Their mar
riaSe was contaminated by elopement
Numerous instances are known where
Indians are now taking land on the Sioux
reservation opposite Pierre, Dakota, under
the severality act, which denotes that they
are prepared to sign the Sioux treaty as
soon as the commission arrives.
A man named NJ r. Silver was found
near Port Blakely. w. T., Sunday
hanging to the mast of a small boat
drifting about the bay, with a bullet
hole in his head. The matter is a mystery.
The officers are investigating Silver came
to Blakely few days ago, and hiring
small boat went out into the bay. Nothing
was seen of him until his lifeless body was
discovered.