The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-12
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Mrs. Rose NJ. Leland, widely known as
theatrical manageress, died in Albany, n.
Y, on Sunday night.
In fight at Hurley, Wisconsin. between
Joe Sheehy, champion of Michigan, and
Fred. Tebe, of Cashland, on Sunday morn
| ing, Sheehy knocked out his opponent in the
! fifth round.
| The excitement at Los Angeles over the
gold fields Of lower California has some
what subsidized. Reports state that the gold
discoveries were started in the interest of a
land company and freely circulated.
Advices from Shanghai say that in ac-
cordence with an order of Viceroy Ii
Hung Chan, the native soldiers at Che Foo
who were suspected of contemplating an
attack upon the foreign settlement there
have been withdrawn from that place.
DR.. Sellon, who in January eloped from
Nice with Miss Wilcox, an American young
lady, has been sentenced by a Nice court to
eight months Imprisonment for appropriat-
ing property which Miss Wilcox took from
her mother.
A prize fight of three hours occurred at
Quincy, Illinois, Sunday morning between
Jack Piper, Of Quincy, and Red Hennessy,
of Troy, New York. The latter had the
worst of the fight from the start and was
knocked SenseleSS in the thirty-siXth round
by terrific blow in the mouth.
Four boys aged about sixteen, at Akron,
Ohio, stole quantity of blasting powder on
Sunday, and started into the country to ex-
plode it. On the way the powder ignited
from matches carried in their pockets and
exploded. AL four were terribly burned.
and two are not expected to live.
a sensation has been caused at Calcutta
by the discovery of plot in Cashmere
against the life of the British residents
The discovery was made through the letters
OF the late premier. These letters reveal
the plotting on the part of Maharaiha to
poison the British residents, and besides
other reasonable plotting. Maharaiha has
offered to abdicate.
little son, aged ten years, of Judge
Smead, of Augusta, Georgia, while playing
with colored boys, killed one named Santley
and wounded another. They were playing
prisoners and he was policemen They
made break for liberty, and young Smead
ran into the house and seized a gun which
he did not know was loaded, and fired with
the result as stated
The several legislative delegates have ar
rived in ST. Louis, where the convention
to effect a uniform plan of action against
the alleged beef and pork combine will be
held today.
The famous Clifton Hall hotel at Lake
wood, n. j., was burned yesterday morn
OlAUJ guests anu twenty servants eS-
capped in their night clothes
The Queen of England has approved the
appointment of Sir Julian PauncefOrte as
British minister to the United States.
A freight train on the Reading road at
ST. Nicholas, Pennsylvania, was wrecked on
Sunday. John Gilllner the conductor, and
Benjamin Walker, the fireman, were killed.
While Creagh, a landlord in County
ClaTa and his CiS yUeIa DRIVING pbOIph in
Dublin on Sunday, they were fired upon by
unknown persons, and both were badly
wounded.
Jno F. Swift, of California, was yester-
day, nominated as minister to Japan.
She president sent the following nomina-
lions to the senate on yesterday. Thomas
w. Palmer, Michigan, United States minis
ter to Spain; John F. Swift California,
minister to Japan; John d. Washburn,
Massachusetts,, minister to Switzerland;
Geo. Tichenor, Illinois, assistant secretary
of the treasury, vice Maynard.
The senate met yesterday without trans
acting business, took recess till 30, to
await the presentation of nominations by
the president.
On reassembling the senate went into
executive session on the presidents nominal
tions, ten minutes later the doors reopened.
Senate adjourned.
Judge Carey, solicitor of the treasury,
has rendered his resignation to take effect
upon the qualification of his successor.
E. B. Younans, chief clerk of the treas
ury department, has placed his resignation
at the disposal of Secretary Window. This
is position of a confidential character and
will probably be among the first to be con-
sidered.
Robert Garrett, late president of the
Baltimore and Ohio, who had been demen-
ted and under guard at Ringwood, N. J.
passed through Louisville, KY, on his way
to Mexico yesterday afternoon greatly i'm
proved.
In executive session the senate nomina-
lions were referred to the appropriate COM
mittees when formed. Some surprise was
expressed at the failure to confirm Pal
mer's nomination at once, but the senator
explained the rule of immediate confrma-
lions save of the cabinet was confined to
senators. Palmer is not now a senator,
and while every one it is said, wanted
to vote for him, deemed it best not to de-
part from the rule.