The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-01
CRIMINAL CALENDAR.
The East Paramount Park
Mystery Solved.
FIRES AND OTHER CASUALTIES
Boiler Explosion Poles and
Two Kegs of Powder.

Seven Persons Drowned-Killed by .
Boiler Expi osiou- Poles and
Two Kegs of Powder.
PHILADELPHIA, December 31.-The
mystery surrounding the mutllated re
mains of the murdered man in East
Paramount Park Wednesday last. has
been solved. The corpse has been
identified and the murderer is In prison.
The murder is shown to be diabolical
one. The motive for the deed was to
obtain the money of the murdered
man. but all that the murderer is
known to have realized by his crime is
$40. Through a publish he'd portrait of the
dead man the body has been recognized
as that of Antoine Settling, and the
murder was traced to Jacob Schroop,
the partner of Schilling in a small
grocery store. Schroop has confessed.
The police decline to give details. His
wife and daughter are under guard, be-
leVed 60 be accessories to the crime.
THE RATCHET, AXE AND SAW
used by Schroop were found in the cellar
of his house this morning, covered
with blood. The body had been car
ried into the cellar, where it was evil
IDENTIFY allowed to remain until the
following morning, when, after being
cut into pieces, it was placed into bags
and removed to the place where found.
The wooden floor in the cellar, which
only partly covered the CELLAR, had
blood stains in many places resem-
bling slaughter house. Mrs. Schrocp
is Frustrated on account of her hus-
bands arrest, and will likely be re-
moved to the hospital until she re-
covers from the shock, when she will
probably be placed behind the bars on
the charge of having a hand in the
matter.
MURDERED BY BURGLAR.
HANNIBAL, No., Dec ember 30.-Amos
J. Stilwell, a wealthy merchant, was
murdered by a burglar while sleeping
in his home, this morning. The weapon
used was an axe, which, with SteilWell's
pocket book and S., was found in an
alley IN the rear of the house, There
is no clue to the murderer.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.
NEW YORK, December 3O.-Joseph
Solomon, Hebrew, who is a jobber
in laces and linen goods, shot his wife.
Dora, and killed himself with the same
revolver, on the sidewalk near his home
on East Nineteenth Street this morn
ing. The woman was shot twice in the
breast and right arm, and will prob
ably die.
PosToFFICE ROBBERY.
INDIANAPOLIS, December 31.-A dar-
ing and successful robbery occurred In
the money order department of the
Indianapolis postoffice, at - 80 to day,
Johnson, chief of the money order diVi-
sion, was persuaded to go out to the
sidewalk to see buggy. While he was
out another man had entered the
office and filed his pockets with green
backs to the amount of about 81. 500
SEVEN PERSONS DROWNED.
RIPLEY, Ohio, December 81 This
morning, after midnight, a short dis.
lance above here, Mrs. Turner and her
little daughter, a daughter of George
G. Lloyd, the three Brooks brothers
and man whose name is unknown, all
colored, attempted to cross the river
fr om Kentucky to Ohio in small fiat
bottemed boat. At some distance from
the shore the waves from two passing
steamboats, capsized the little boat and
ali seven were drowned. Their cries
for help were heard by persons on
the steamboat, but the darkness pre-
vented them rendering assistance.
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION
MILLBRooK, Mich, December 31.-A
boiler in Dushs' shingle mill, near here
exploded, this morning, killing w. W.
Dushs, proprietor, and John Carr,
nightwatchman. Bert Smiley was
fatally injured. The establishment was
a complete wreck.
TWO KEGS OF POWDER.
EvERsoN, Pa, December 31.-This
evening flames broke out in Browns
Row, and four houses were destroyed
The fire was caused by an explosion of
two kegs of powder. The house in
which the explosion occurred was oc-
cupied by Poles. They were preparing
their powder for work in the mines, to-
morrow, when spark from q pipe
ignited it. There was terrific explo-
sion, and the men were frightfully
burned. One. and perhaps three, will
die.
STEAMER BURNED.
NEW YORK, December 31.-F1re to-
night on board the steamer Mexico,
recently from Havana, did about Sc, 900
damages. There was considerable ex-
element, and ten fremen were over
come by the fumes of burning tobacco,
the ma n cargo of the steamer.
SHOCKING TRAGEDY
ST. LOUIS, December 3O.-Informa-
ton of shocking tragedy comes from
Craighead County. Arkansas. It ap-
pears that some days ago the wife
of William West, who was some
what of desperado, left him and re
turned to her mother, Mrs. Mary
Davey. West went to see his wife