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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-24
Not a Enendthrift.

81 am dying Of hunger" says madame to
her husband on returning from shopping
tour "Why didn't you stop at a restaurant
and get something's" "Oh, l don't ike to
spend money useleSsly." well, did you find
what you wanted!" Eyes, indeed; some
lovely little hats at ninety-five franoE." After
a pause-"I took four of them. Paris FL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-24
A Chance fer Realism.

A theatre is to be rsopsned in Pompeii 'af-
ter lapse of moro than 1,sOO years" It is
said that none of the old company, which ap-
peared in tho house just before it closed, have
been re-engaged, though we should think any
one of the male members would make rsal-
istic ghost in Hamlet. n-Norristewn Herald.
The Springdale news., 1889-07-26
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

ON the night of the 17th the stable of the Lowell (Mass.) Horse Railroad Com- pany was burned, with 120 horses, five cars and other contents. The Hotel Bel mont was damaged, and several persons were slightly injured.
 CUMMINGS, a New Haven (Conn.) letter. carrier, charged with soliciting campaign money from post-officee employees, was examined before the United States Com missioner on the 17th. He admitted the charge, and the case was adjourned for one week.
 JACK THE RIPPER, it is stated wrote letter to the police officials of London before the latest Whitechapel murder stating that he was about to resume his work"
 NEAR Shamokin, Pa., on the 11th, two runaway cars on the Lehigh Valley rail- road dashed into passenger train, kill ing three people and badly woundlnS many others.
 EARLY on the morning of the 17th the Russ House and stables at Fresno, Cal, were destroyed by fire. Some horses perished It was at first reported that a number of persons had lost their lives, but after a thorough search of the ruins | death Several persons sustained burns. but were not seriously injured. OK the 18th the bodies of Mrs. William Gilchrist and her two daughters, aged two and five years, were found in small stream six miles north of Goungstown, O. AN engineer of Hamburg, Germany, named Revenue, died from injuries sus- tadned while making an ascent in ball | loon.
 EARLY on the morning Of the Dth a man supposed to be Jack the Ripper" was arrested in the Whitechapel dis | trict London. He had just killed wom- ma, and had the knife on his person
 with which he had committed the deed. | OK the l9.h Fred w. Worrell and Ma | thaniel Taylor, of Bloomington, were
 killed, and several injured by the ex- 1 plosion of a portable saw mill boiler at | Washington Court House, Q. | A. F. WATSON, Of Williams & Watson,
 paper hangers of Springfield, Mass, has | absconded with Ss. 100 of the firms money. | DURING the noon hour on the Fist the 1 Milwaukee (Wis.) post office was robbed | of a package of registered mail, believed to contain at least Sl0,000. IL is supposed to have been the work of a sneak k-thief. Ar Southington, Conn.,, Charles Deg nan attempted to board moving freight train, when his feet caught ill the steps of the caboose. and he fell backward, and
 was dragged quarter of mile before discovered. He was dead. OSE of the most disastrous storms ever known in the Hooking valley eliminated on tho 20th in the breaking of Sharp's dam at Sugar Grove on the Hooking canal, Roads and bridges were annihi'
 lated. and the whole valley for miles l looks like dry water course. Compe.
 tent judges place the loss in the hun
 dreds of thousands, No lives were re-
 ported lost,
The Springdale news., 1889-07-26
TRANSPORTING THE DEAD.

Regulations for the Transporta Ot Dead Bodies Adopted at the Conven- ton of the National Association of
 General Baggage Agents, in Session at Detroit, Mich.
 DETROIT, Mich, July 19. The convcn- ton of the National Association of Gen. eral Baggage Agents at its session yes- terday adopted a code of rules to govern the transportation of dead bodies and uniform transit permit and death certi- ficate to be filled out by the undertaken and receiving agent. By these rules transportation of the bodies of persons dying from small -pox, As!dtic cholera, leprosy, typhus fever or yellow fever is absolute ly forbidden. Bodies of persons dying from other contagious diseases must be thoroughly disinfected by bi- chloride of mercury. Persons who have been ex- posed to infection of the disease will not be permitted to accompany the body. Bodies dead of diseases not contagious must De incloscd in air-tight cuffius. Every body must be accompanied by q person i'll charge. The box carrying the body must De plainly marked, with the name of deceased, place and cause of death. No disinterred bodies will De received for transportation unless their removal has been approved by the State Board of Health, and the local health authorities have consented to re- moval, when the dsinterred remains must be inclosed in dramatically sealed casket. These rules have been referred to the General Baggage Agents Associa- ton for its approval.
The Springdale news., 1889-07-26
AZ E AIRS IN HAITI.

Hippolytc Knocking at the Door of Port
 Au-?rince and tho City Ih a Ferment-
 Foreigners Threatened, But Measure,
 Taken for Their Protection by the Conn
 manders of Foreign Vessels m the
 IIarbor.
 NEW YORK, July 19-The Times pub- fishes a letter from POrt-au- Prince dated July :, which says: Port-au- Prince with in the last few days has been i'll state bordering on frenzy. Hippolyte has as- saulted the extreme outworks. He is being held in check at the present writing. Legitime is impressing into the rank every man capable of carrying rife. The people have been delirioCs with excitement. The Minister of War has executed some of the prisoners with his own hands. Hippolyte is burning farm houses and villages i'll the very sight of the city. All foreigners have been threatened with extermina- ton, but the United States naval force ou hand is ready to take tho city if neces- sary. The British cruiser Forward and two Spanish cruisers are also in the harbor prepared to protect the citizens of their respective countries, and a French man of war i'll said to be coming. sys- tenn of signals has been established with the American consulate, and the moment the danger flag is exhibited picked in- fautry companies from tho Kearsarge and Osipee will be sent ashore.
 The Captain of the British cruiser de- clares that if an Englishmaa is touched Inc will shell the city. So serious has been the aspect of affairs that none of the vessels have dared to leave for St. Nicholas Mole to place themselves in communication with their governments.
The Springdale news., 1889-07-26
THE CHAR AND HIS MOBILES.

The Czar of All the Russias Desires tO
 Carry Out the Late Count COlstOfs
 Plans of Administrative Reform, But
 the Council of State Bitterly Opposed
 to It-The Czar Obdurate and Friction
 the Consequence.
 LONDON, July 19.-Reports from St. Pe- tersburg indicate that the Czar is having a hard time with the reforms he is trying to introduce for the better administration of his dominions. Count Tolstoi, late Minister of the Interior, before his death prepared comprehensive system of reforms calculated to relieve the subjects of the Czar. to some extent, from the terrible load of oppression under which they have gfoaned for centuries. The Czar ap- pears to be in earnest in tho wish to push the project of Count Tolstoi, as is also his new Minister of tho Interior, General Duenowe, but the Coun- cil of State of the empiro inter- poses obstacles at every step. This body is composed largely of the nobles of Russia, and these are hand and glove with the petty officials all over tue empire who are the beueficiaries of the corrupt sys- tenn of administration which it was Tol- stoi's dream to crush out. Before Tolstoi's death this council had his whole schem of reform under discussion for some time, and finally threw it ont as i'm practicable without attempting to deal with the subject further. This angered the Czar greatly, and he returned tn 0 measure to his council with instructions to take some action. He read them lecture, which few of the nobles relished, and intimated that 1t would have been more statesmanlike to have amen ded Tolstoi's plan in such particulars as seemed necessary, instead of incon- tinently throwing it out The time had come for the council to close it's sessions, and the nobles were anxious to get home, but the Czar told them very plainly he would keep them there six months, If necessary, until they reached some intelligent solution of the grave problems presented to them. But so bitter is the opposition to the whole Tolstoi scheme of reform-sO many selfish interests does it touch-that the council has not yet been able to twist it into shape to suit themselves. Tho project, as a whole, only commands one vote in the whole body, and that is Fl 6 vote of Count Tolstoi's successor. They propose now, however, to pass a few of the more harmless clauses provisionally, and set them in operation in four depart- mcnts of the empire to test their value. This proposition the Czar has just rejected, and he insists that the council pass some comprehensive measure on the lines indicated by Tolstoi, with whatever amend ments they see fit; but he will not listen to any experiments of this sort, the cer- tain outcome of which he very well un derstands.
 What the result of this friction between the Russian monarch and his nobles will be it will De interesting to watch.
The Springdale news., 1889-07-26
A "OUEER" HAUL.

Oecret-Service Men Mako a Big Haul of Counterfeit Greenbacks. Capture One of the Gang Doing the "Shovingf and Have a Warm Pistol Duel with Another. in Which Ono of the Officers was Wounded.
 DAYTON, O., July 19-united States secret service men captured S21, 1000 in l counterfeit money here yesterday even- ing and had pistol duel with James Guyon, @ counterfeiter, resulting in Guyon's escape and Detective Donello re : ceiving a wound in the head. Nelson Griggs keeps the United States hotel, a road house near the Soldiers Home. About fifteen years ago Griggs and Guyon were members of a gang of counterfeiters in Illinois. Griggs was arrested and served eleven years at Jol- let. Guyon escaped, carrying with him counterfeit plates and 5000 in bogus greenbacks.
 This money never made it's appearance till las February
 Chief Bell, of the secret service, came here in March and made Driggs' ac- quaintance, pretending to be all attorney named McWilliams, of Hartford, Conn.
 A short time ago Bell broached tho subject of counterfeit money to DriCgs. who offered to get Sl0 900 counterfeit for him. Bell then summoned Detective Donello to assist him. Driggs went to Cincinnati to get the stuff, but returned with only S1oO00 saying Guyon would come on with tho balance. Guyon came, and Driggs delivered all of the bogus money to Bell re- ceiving in return what purported to be 5000 in good money, but which was really only $500.
 Driggs was then placed under arrest and guarded in his room. Yesterday morning an attempt was made to capture Guyon, who was supposed to be concealed on Driggs' premises. Bell, who had been reinforced by five more secret service officers, posted his men, three of them at the edge of a wooded lot adjoining the house, With instructions to close in on signal. Gnyon, it proved was hid i'll some und arbrush, and when the officers closed in he passed unobservcd between them but he had not gone far when they saw him and opened fire on him Guyon lodged behind a tree and returned the fire, putting a bullet through DOncllO's right ear and glanciug over his scalp.
 Guyon then took to his heels, and was soon lost to sight. The officers are SCOUT. ing the country i'll seach of him. One Of the officers claims to have wounded Guy on during the pistol battle.
The Springdale news., 1889-07-26

Another Broken Dam Carries Destruction
 In tho Path ot It's Released Waters for
 twenty Miles Down the IIoclSing Valley.
 But Fortunately Without Loss of Hu-
 man Life.
 LANCASTER, O., July 21.--One of the most disa strous storms ever known in the Hooking Valley culminated Saturday in the breaking of Sharp's dam at Sugar Grove, on the Hooking canal. The dam held in store large body of water that supplied the lower levels of the canal. The heavy rains had filled the reservoirs to the banks when suddenly the dam gave way, and with mighty roar the sea of water went out through the valley, talk ing with it every movable object. For twenty miles the soil is plOwed up. Trees, fences, crops and hundreds of hsad of live stock have been swept away.
 No lives were lost, because the people had taken warning, and because the houses are situated on the bluff that over- looks the valley. But the canal for miles is a wreck, and thousands of feet of rail- road track are washed away.
 At Athens, the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore and Hooking Valley railroad tracks are carried away, and trains will be delayed several days. Roads and bridges are annihilated, and the whole valley for miles looks like a dry-water course. Competent judges place the los in the hundreds of thousands.
The Springdale news., 1889-07-26
DARING ESCAPE.

Two ConvictS Make a Successful Break
 PeuitentIary. After Drugsing the Guard
 arri a Number of Their Fellow Convicts.
 COLUMBUS, O., July 23.-John Hill and James Davis, convicts in the peniten- tiary, both sent up from this city, es- capped about four o'clock yesterday morning by drugging a guards supper with morphine stolen from the hos pitals, where they were night nurses. They also drugged all the patients found to be awake. They dug a hole through the ceiling of the kitchen and got into tho loft of the hospital and thence through scuttle on to the roof. They then, by meaus of ropes made of bandage muslin, suspended themselves to the roof of the State shop, two stories high; thence went through a skylight to the leather room and reached the clothing room. There they rigged themselves out in citizeus' clothing, taken from prisoners on enter ing the penitentiary, aud lowered them- selves to the ground They ascended a stockade around gate and mounted the wall and with their muslin rope, swung off to liberty The drugced guard was doing substitute duty in the hospital Both of the escaped men are desperate fellows, Davis being a Gov ernment convict for counterfeiting.
The Springdale news., 1889-07-26
STRUCK A BRIDGE.

An Excursion Steamer Loaded with Col
 ored Pleasure-Seekcrs CollideS with a
 Drawbridgc on St. Augustine Creek Near
 Savannah, Ga. with Disastrous Results.
 SAVANNAH, Ga, July 2l.-The excursion steamer St. Nicholas, having on board a party of colOred excursionlsts, came into collision with closed drawbridge over St. Augustine creek, four miles south of this city, last night. The forward part of the steamer was demolished. Tha party on board numbered five hundred. Two women were killed outright, and thirty others, men, women and children, were injured. Some are believed to bs fatally hurt. The pilot of the boat says that he signaled the bridge tender to open the draw, but that he paid no atten- tion to it, and did not signal that the draw was closed until the St. Nicholas was only a short distance from tho bridge, when it was too late to stop the boat.
 Every thing possible was done to avoid the accident The steamers engines were reversed, but the momentum of the boat could not be checked. The pilot house and upper deck were carried away, and the hurricane deck crashed down on the people below, burying them under it's weight.
 The steamer was headed about and re- turned to this city, where the wounded received medical attention. Great ex- citement prevailed among the colored people when the news of the accident spread, and thousands of anxious friends lined the wharf.
The Springdale news., 1889-07-26
NAVAL RED TAPE.

An Idea of tbe Amount of Red Tape Con"
 sidered Necessary in Order to Keep tho
 Officers of tho Navy Honest-It Would
 Make an Ordinary Business Man Very
 Weary.
 WASHINGTON, July 22.-A Sunday jour- nal here says: The new order of pur- chases which went into effect July is not meeting with much favor with the disbursing officers of the navy. A pay" master who is now on duty at the navy yard, New York. relates the amount Of red tape necessary to procure single article on board ship. Supposing that a paper of tacks is wanted on board q United States ship on q foreign station. the following is the routine required un- der the General Order No. i3 Four requi- sitions are made out which are signed as follows: Officer making tho acquisition four times; Captain, eight; paym3ster, eight, and Admiral four. Bids are sent out to five merchants which are signed by the pay officer five times; merchants bidding five; acceptance of bd, paymaster one. Bills are then made out iu quintuplicate, and are signed by the Captain five times, paymaster ten, senior officer of the Board of Inspection five, and person re- ceiving the money five. A report is att tached by the senior officer of tho Board of Survey in duplicate, two signatures, and the officer who has made the requtSl- ton signs a receipt or tho bill five times, when it is complete with sixty-two sig natures. This is called sinplihcation of methods and protecting the Government with system of checks and balances.
The Springdale news., 1889-07-26
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

IN the South Dakota Constitutional con- vention, on the 22d, resolution was ln- troduced and referred instructlng the joint commission in session at Bismarck to come to some amicable understanding in regard to the uncertain seventh stand ard boundary line.
 THE principle matter before the North Dakota Constitutional convention, on the 22d, was a resolution providing that the Legislature shall consist of but a single body It was discussed in committee or the whole, but no result was obtained. AT Fort Andover, Mass, on the 22d, Albert r. Whitman, aged nine, and Henry E. Hamlin, aged ten, were drowned while bathing in the Merrimec river. Whit man was seized with cramps, and Ham, | lin went to his assistance and both were drowned.
 STEVE ERODE says he has decided tO drop from the new suspension bridge at Niagara some time between August b and %.
 MURAT HALSTEAD has been informed by his physician that his disease is incur
 able, and that death is question of only
 short time. MT. Halstead is now ln Europe.
 THE Massachusetts Prohibition State 1 committee, on the 22d, decided to hold
 the State convention at Worcester, Sep 1 tember 4.
 l GOVERNOR RICHARDSON of South Caro- | lima has accepted Dr. McDow's resigna- | tion as surgeon of the First Battalion ot | infantry of that State. ~~ MIR. EDWARD JOSEPH KENNEDY, former 1 ly member of the House of Commons l for South Sligo, is to succeed Mir. Thomas l Sexton in the Mayorlity of Dublin. l SECRETARY BLAINE visited Senator
 Hale at Ellsworth, Me, on the 23d.
 THE late confagration in Paks, Hun-
 gary, leaves a thousand people homeless. 1 Six persons were burned to death. | THE St Cloud Hotel, at Meadville, Pa.,
 was destroyed by fire at midnight of the l 22d. The guests escaped without injury, 1 but several servants were badly injured
 by jumping from the third story window.
 MIR. THOMAS A. DIXON, a member of
 the House of Commons for St. Stephens
 Green, Dublin, has completed the pur.
 chase of twenty thousand acres of land
 in Paraguay.
 IT is reported that the brewers of the
 country who have not sold out to the
 English syndicate are forming trust to
 protect themselves against the operations
 of the syndicate brewers. The plan in-
 wolves the purchase of raw material and
 sale of finished product through com mon agency so far as practicable.
 THE Russian Government has set apart
 a large tract of land in the Circaucus for distribution among the Mussulman popu. lation of Kabarharda, near the Turkish
 frontier. Such gifts are unusual, and art
 generally the prelude to conflict with Turkey, being intended to furnish tan' gible inducement to Russia's Mussulmar population to keep quiet
The Springdale news., 1889-07-26
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Father and Son Shot Dead by Bravc PcddIcr. Whom They Intended t. E1I

Father and Son Shot Dead by a Brayc
 PcddIcr, Whom They Intended tn E1n
 MONTREAL, Can., July 20< Reports of terrible tragedy c@a from St Cuthbert a village fortyZiIes down inc river. A pcddler fro< Montreal arrived there on Tuesday ypEht, and went to stay ' v . ., VI Irn- 2 S1se, but found that all but a daughter aged fifteen had gone to the city. The peddler told her to go to g neighbor's house and get companion to stay all night with her, aut the neighbo, refused to allow one of the children to go.
 During the night the girl was awakened by knocking at the door. She went to a window, and saw two masked men, who demanded her money. She awoks the peddler and told him, and he handed her bis pocket book to givo to the robbers The latter said that it was not enough, and the girl again returned to the ped- dler. who said he would attend to the matter himself. Taking a revolver from his valise, he went to the window and shot both men dead. The girl ran to the neighbours house aud told what had hap pened, when the woman exclaimed that it was her husband and son who had be en killed They had intended robbing tho pa1dlpr
The Springdale news., 1889-07-26
JEALOUS FRENZY.
A Ru u>sian Jews Frenzy Impels Him to Murder Ills Wife on the Street m Phila- deiphia-Two Other Persons Wounded by stray Sh ots.

A Ru u>sian Jews Frenzy Impels Him to
 Murder Ills Wife on the Street m Phila-
 deiphia-Two Other Persons Wounded
 by stray Sho
 PHILADELPHIA, July 2l.-About seven o'clock last night Max Lee, a Russian Jew, living at Mo- 429 Spruce street, jeweler by trade, shot his wife at the corner of Seventh and nbridge streets. It appears that Lee in a fit of jealousy followed his wife down Bainbridge street and, on reaching Seventh street, pulle out arevolver and fired at her, the ball striking her in the breast. She rushed screaming into the store of Samuel Gull chinski, on the corner, followed by Lee, who fired three more shots, one striking his wife, another wounding Culchinski iu the stomach, and the other woundiug Mrs. Culchinski in the hand. crowd collected and Lee was disarmed, and the police called a patrol wagon aud took the wounded parties to the Penns ylvania Hospital. Mrs. Lee died befora reach- (lg there. Mr. Culchinski's wound being dressed, he was able to go hom9, but Mrs. Culchinski remained at the hospital.
 It appears that Lee is of a very jealous disposition, and has been watching and following his wife whenever she loft the house. It is said there was not the slight est cause for it, as Mrs. Lee was iu every way correct and very industrious wo- man. They have three children, boy aged nine, and two daughters, aged re- spectively eleven and sixteen.
 Lee |Ss arresteH- eH-aelnl4l aelnl4l-t taken to the sta- house, and Mrs. I2e,s body has been taken in charge by the coroner.
The Springdale news., 1889-07-26
A Dcluge at Peoria.

PEORIA, H., July 19.-One of the heav- jest storms ever known visited this city this morning about three o'clock. The upper part of the city and the race track at Lake View Park was deluged. A t the race track there were about hun- dred head of racers. and if the storm had continued half an hour longer they would have been swept away. The track is entirely under water and the amphitheater is gone. It is impossible to get horse either in or out of the park. The damage to the track and grounds is estimated at several thousan dollars. Nothing but miracle prevent' cd the drowning of many dne horses.