The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-26
LOCAL BRIEFS.

IT WAS rumored on the streets last
night that Ensign Elliott Snow. u s.
N, who was appointed to Annapolis
from this city, died yesterday.
The PURCHASE of The transfer bust
ness CT MuIloy & Paul by the Grant
Bros. Company robs our downtown
contem. of vast amount of brilliant
local matter. The Improvement of the
condition of the street car service would
be vital blow to the sheets local page
THOMAS GoRMAN, chief of police of
Peoria, Illinois, arrived 10 this city
yesterday. He will start horne this
morning with Colonel John 3. Mcclure,
the insane banker in his care. German
states that Mcclure i5 the vice presi-
dent of the Peoria Merchants National
Bank, and is highly respected and in
hueHtial citizen.
MoNIsH's MINSTREL COMPANY ore at
war with NJ. B. Leavitt, whO mad charge
or their route out this way, and as a
consequence they have wired from
Omaha 10 their agent here that they
will lot come west, owing to Leavitt
having broken his contract. LsavitJ,
on the contrary, wires the Theatre
company, which is his reason for de-
Ginning to bring them west. And so
the matter stands.
Miss NJ. L. JONES, who came west
last August from Michigan, to accept
the position of matron sc the Orphans
Home, has been associated in official
capacities with number of govern
ment institutions-an was for four
years assistant marion of the Childrens'
Home in Kalamazoo. Miss Jones
says of thousands of children who have
come under her care, the little onesin the
Home here are about the brightes, and
the best. There are children at the
Home for whom the directors are look
iag for permanent homes. A boy aged
8 years. boy aged 6 years and 6
months, two boys aged 8 and 8 years
and very delicate little girl u years
of age.
SHERIFF BURT has of late been watch
ing the two dives on the State road,
which are noted as the chief resorts OF
the lowest women of he town. Last
night he made raid upon Groesbeck's
saloon, the Wayside Inn, and there
found four women with about twenty
men in smoky room, singing songs
thai would make a mule blush and
carrying on in a shocking manner.
The sheriff took the female IN tow, and
they will be before Judge Piper to-
day. Their names are Josie Ellis,
Chips Dewey, Lizzie Winters and Nellie
Green. . The resorts in question are
about the lowest places imaginable, and
the sheriff has started in, dead earnest
TO break up the girl traffic in that .di-
rection.
THE MONTHLY meeting OF the Fed.
Grated Trades and Labor Council was
held in this city on Sunday. Two
more unions were admitted. Resolu-
tons were adopted ellogistic of the
efforts of the Printing House Associa-
ton to maintain scale of prices, and
there was an interesting discussion on
the selling of China and tenement
house cigars, the trick resorted to by
at least one house in the city of dupli.
eating home made brands Of cigars with
cheap eastern truck being ventilated. A
resolution was adopted, by which each
member Of the Federation will refuse to
buy any other than the blue-iabel cil ars.
Resolutions condemning the habit of
some contractors paying off in saloons
were also passed. The brick masons
now work nine hours per day and re-
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