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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
BRIGANDS IN CUBA.
They are Numerous and Holding
Victims for Ransom.
DESCRIBED IN PLAIN ENGLISH
Every Article of Food at Carnegie's Grand
Dinner-Dudiey's Request Denied Russia
and the Behring Sea Question.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Cable.1
HAVANA, Feb 25.-An attempt was made
to blow up the Antilla Cabana cigar factory
Sunday night. A dynamite bomb was ex-
ploded close to the walls of the main build
ing. The adjacent houses were badly
wrecked but the factory was not seriously
damaged. Hardly had the people recovered
from their fright when tremendous ex-
plosion took place yesterday morning in
the Batabaus railway station on Plaza des
Arms. This, although powder was used,
was terribly effective. The station was
totally destroyed. Traffic was active at
the time and the building was thronged
with employees and passengers Thirty
injured have been taken from the ruins.
some of whom my die, others are missing.
On top of this disastrous outrage news
comes from Cardenas that the warehouses Of
Henry Izurriza have been DESTROYED by fire.
The losses are estimated at $500 900. on
which the insurance amounts to sos, 600.
Inere is great excitement and alarm in
Havana over these events. Coming at
time when the government is without a
head. the authorities are paralyzed and the
worst is feared. Since the strong hand of
Captain-General Salamanca has been with
drawn brlgands are increasing in numbers
ana audaclty. Ihey are swarming in the
country around Puerto Principe. Thew
have seized Two wealthy men of that CITY
and carried them off to the mountains,
where they hold them for ransom. Similar
cases have occurred in other parts of the
island. The victims having no hope of sue
cor from the local authorities, they have
yielded to the demand of the robbers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
The Great Walnut Grove Dam Disaster.

PREscoTT, Ariz., Feb. 25.-The worst
fears OF the Walnut Grove disaster are
more than realized although particulars
come in slow and are still meagre. Two
prospecto rs arrived late last night from
the upper dam. They state that they
camped above the dam on Friday night
about L o'clock Saturday morning the
dam broke. the water running down in the
narrow, steep canon in q solid body eighty
feet high. One man was rescued from the
top of tree. They state that not even a
remnant of the dam exists. An immense
body of water a mile and a half square and
sixty feet deep was emptied in an hour
They had talked with many from the
smaller dam, fifteen miles below, who said
that up to Saturday evening twenty-five
bodies had been recovered, but could give
no additional names. The survivors were
in great restitution, having neither provis-
ions nor clothing. Coarse grain sacks were
being used in lieu of clothing A camp of
workmen engaged in building the fume
has not been heard from at all and it is
feared that all are lost. No news is vet
received here from Wickenburg or from
the settlements below the dam. More de-
tailed particulars are looked for now every
moment
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
Where Chicago Win Put the Fair.

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-The Lake Front park
will almost certainly be the site for the
worlds fair. The Daily NeUs will to-mor-
row state authoritatively that so far as
Chicago's sub committee can decide the
question of location, it has settled the
scheme toprovide for widening the park
from 500 to loo feet. This will give 26O
acres for building and promenades, depots,
etc. The Illinois Central's tracks.
now skirting the waters edge,
are to be lowered below the grade and
covered with a grass plot as permanent
Improvement. The scheme will increase
five times the space of Lake Front park
and provide the largest park in the world
1t is located in the very centre of the great
city. The site as outlined is twenty-five
acres larger than the grounds of the Paris
exposition. Lake Front is the focus of all
the street car lines in the city and Is ON
the Belt Line railway which crosses every
railway track entering Chicago. The
harbor also will be greatly improved.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
BASEBALL TALK.
What Day Says About the Offer to Purchase
the National League.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. |
New YORK, Feb. %. = There is much
more in the offer to purchase the National
league made through the firm of TRACK, Nc
Farland, WINS, oardman & Platt, No
30 Wall street, than appears on the surface.
F. E. Anderson, speaking for the firm,
said:
President Day is reported as regarding our
ofier as bluff think the standing of our firm
should have been sufficient guarantee of good
falth on our part. We wrote Mr.. Day. thinking
he was president of the National league saying
our clients would consider 81 100000 as a proper
basis upon Which to negotiate the sale of the ten
franchised properties OF the organization In re-
ply we received polite note from Mr. Day in
which he said w. F. Young, of Washington was
president and referring US to him. We mailed
the proposition TO President Young II Day
thinks we are blulfing, all he has to do is bring
proper contract to us and he will soon know
whether our offer is bona fide or not Our eli
ents are men OF the very highest social and
financial standing. i cannot disclose their
names because l am not empowered TO do so. 1t
is sufficient to say that they are all bespeak for
them.
The head of this law firm is Secretary
Tracy. of the navy. and the other members
are gentlemen whose names are well known
to every prominent business man in New
Y ork city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
Want a Celebration at Wasbinoton

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. = The national
board of promotion, of Washington,
adopted resolution tonight, that while
they favor a worlds fair in Chicago, which
has been chosen by the House of Represent
tatives, they recommend the incorporation
into the bill of provision for an inter
national celebration at Washington in 1892
III commemoration of the four hundredth
anniversary Of the discovery of America
and that the Presidentappointa government
commission to formulate plan for such a
celebration, the plan to include an enlarge
ment OF the national museum into three
American museums, to remain as memorial
buildings and repositories for the anti
quities and history of the western hemis-
phere; memorial bridge across the Poto-
mac; statue to Christopher Columbus, and
the participation of all the nations of the
world to be invited.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
Another Account.

PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 25.-News from the dam
disaster reaches here slowly. The camp three
miles below the lower dam contained i25 people
two weeks ago, and there were probably that
many in IL at the time of the disaster, and fears
courier from near there says the wave
was fifty feet high when he first
saw it. The canon full of cottonwood
ties was swept out clean, and where
the lower dam was in the building, $40 feet long
and go feet above the bed of the river, thirty
feet above the surface. Every vestige of the
structure was swept away. A prospector camp
says the sight from where he stood was sublime
in the extreme. AT narrow place Just below
them, where the canon contracts to about
one-fourth of its width between perpendicular
rocks hundreds of feet high, the waters leaped
up and piled on top of one another for hundreds
OF feet high, with fearful crash and roar and
rushed through the narrow gorge like lightning.
cleaning the last vestlge of everything movable,
leaving the bare hard rock
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
SILCOTT Is IN UTAH.
Louise Thiebault Virtually Adj
mitS the Defaulter is Here.
THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD.
How it Will Affect European Trade-New
Rules for the French Chambers
Behring Sea Question.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-[Special tele-
gram to THE ERALD].-When Louise
Thiebault, the mistress of the defaulting
cashier of the sergeant-at- office,
Silcott, visited Washington last week, it
was to arrange for the shipment of certain
personal effects which she had left
behind her to her new home in the west.
Ii Is now understood that the goods were
sent to Seattle, Washington, to which
place Miss Thiebault will shortly proceed.
During her stay in this city she
virtually confessed that Silcott was still in
Utah and the impression that she conveyed
to her lntimates was that he had been liv-
ing quietly in Salt Lake for several weeks
prior, and that she would ultimately Join
him there or in Washington. She saws
S1lcott is not afraid of capture, although
ne IS not counting arrest During his stay
III Salt Lake he represented himself as an
eastern capitalist who had gone west in
search of profitable investments.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
Spalding,s Visit to Mike Kelly.

Especial to THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch. |
New YORK, Feb. 25.-A rumor is current
to-day that A. G. Spalding's visit to this
city is for the purpose of getting Mike
Kelly to desert the brotherhood. 1t is
known the two men have had conference.
Kelly when asked ABOUT the matter said:
have been approached and the man was out
for the league. l am not now at liberty TO say
anything and Will remain silent on the main
subject for the present. All the people care to
know Is that [ will remain true to the PLAYERS
leagues cause through thick and thin can
GET big money to desert the boys, but I'll never
do it, if l starve. I haven't got dollar right
now, but Spaldnig, Day and all the Boston df-
rectorS are not rich enough TO purchase The lit,
tie word gave when L signed the Brotherhood
agreement.
A well known baseball man said that
Kelly had been offered a very large amount
of money to sign the league contract and
the refused point blank.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
Almost a Cyclone.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. 25-The storm
here last night nearly reached the proper
lions of cyclone. The new cotton com
press near the depot, brick mill and the
Northern Methodist church were com
pletely wrecked and many houses dam
aged. Trees were uprooted and tossed
about like straws. In the business portion
of the city not much damage was done
beyond tearing down signs and break
ing windows. A severe wind and
rain storm visited Memphis again this
morning, but beyond a general prostration
OF wires no serious damage was done At
brownsville half the business portion of
the town was badly wrecked and many resi-
dences damaged. So far no fatalities are
reported, but a lack of wires makes com
munlcation difficult.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
Described in Plain Enpliah-

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a dinner was
given tonight at the Arlington hotel by
Andrew Carnegie to the President and
cabinet and the delegates and officers Of the
international American conference. twas
undoubtedly the most elegant affair of the
kind ever given in this city. The floral
decorations were novel and unique Among
them were orchids, tulips and crocusses,
there being thousands of blossoms, COL
lected in New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah
and other southern cities, as well as in the
green houses of Philadelphia, New York
and Boston. The menu was engraved in
fine script upon heavy bevelled blocks OF
papier mache and every article of food was
described in plain English. There were no
formal speeches.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
In the House.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The committee
on commerce called up, and the House
passed, bills extending to San Diego and
Wilmington, Cal, the provisions of the
act relative to the immediate Transports.
ton of dutiable goods
On motion Of Butterworth a bill was
passed authorizing the secretary of state
to appoint two suitable persons to repre-
sent the United States at the international
conference in reference to the protection
OF industrial property at Madrid, Spain,
April l. The House then went into com.
mittee of the whole, and resumed the
Oklahoma bill.
Hooker moved to strike out the first
section OF the House bill which is substi-
tute to the Senate bill fixing the boundaries
SO as TO include the Cherokee outlet. After
long discussion Hooker's motion was de-
feated and pending further action the
House adjourned
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
A. G. Leonard & Co. ASSIGN.

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-This afternoon A. c.
Leonard & Co., boot and shoe manufactur-
ers, made an assignment, liabilities and as
sets being placed at s100, 900 each The i'm
mediate cause of the assignment was the
failure to meet a payment due on the new
factory. The real trouble, it is claimed, is
the embezzlement of large sums of money
by the firms foreman, S. M. Cutter. The
amount of the ENLIGHTENMENT is not vet
learned, but the firm claim he has been
robbing them Systematically for eighteen
months. Cutter is missing and is thought
to be in Canada
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
The Storms In Kentucky.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 25.-The storm of
Monday night worked great destruction
with the telegraph service, and not word
of direct communication can be had with
the south until II O'Clock tonight. AL
connection with the southern states was
cut off, but at the time the Western Union
succeeded in getting wire to Chatta-
nooga. 1t is impossible to ascertain any
thing about the damage done to either
wires, houses or people, or even to find out
the area covered by the storm.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
Louisville Physicians Robbing Graves.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 25.--The city is
angry on account of an attempt of three
prominent local physiciansof this city to
rob graves. Tom johnson and Ed Pearce
We're buried at New Albany cemetery Sat
urday. The men were to commit the deed
early this morning, but officers got wind of
1t and We're gin waiting. DR.. j. II. Black
burn and DR.. W. e. Grant were arrested
and placed in jail; the third doctor fed his
identity is not known. The negro who
drove the wagon was shot dead as he
started to run. A second colored man who
went along to help the ghouls was also ar
rested. Medical students from this CITY
are said to have robbed the same cemetery
repeatedly The offense is felony in In
diana.
Doctors Grant and Blackburn, who were
captured, are prominent in medical circles
and occupy high positions in the Kentucky
school ofmedicine. The grand Jury, this
afternoon, indicted them on charges of
grave robbery and conspiracy to commit
felony. The penalties for these charges
range from three to fourteen years i'm
prisonment. The college faculty have en-
gagged counsel to defend the doctors. The
state will make spirited effort to convict.
The negro boy killed in the fight was
buried by the college today.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
A VERY STRANGE DUEL.
Two Men Fighe One With One Pistol, Shoot
ing at Each Other Alternately.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. I
KEYsER, W. Va, Feb. 25.-The new min
ing town Of Ell1ins, on ex-United States
Senator Davis' new railroad, was the scene
OF duel last night, possessing some re-
narkabIe phases. James Neel, a coal miner,
and carpenter named Archer We're fast
friends. They went on a big drunk to-
gether Saturday after drawing their pay
and continued their spree over until Sun
DAY. That evening they went TO Mrs.
Wlse's saloon, where they had been fire.
quent patrons during the course of their
spree, and getting into dispute with the
woman drove her out of her house. They
unen proceeded to wreck the interior of the
saloon, smashing glasses, windows, mirrors
and breaking the furniture. While thus
engaged Neel accidentally hit Archer and
the two men quarreled and a had rough
and tumble fight. This did not satisfy
them and they agreed to fight a
Duel. There was but one revolver
between them and with drunken gravity
they agreed that the pistol should be used
turn ABOUT, the shots to be fired while the
men stood at opposite ends of the bar room.
Inc choice for first shot fell to Archer, and
Neel, taking his place at the other end of
the room, Archer blazed away. The bullet
struck Neel in the head ploughing fur
row along the scalp causing a profuse
hemorrhage.
When Neel came to shoot he was blinded
by blood and was so nervous from the
effects OF the shot that he could not aim.
Inc result was miss ana Archer then
TOOK second shot but also missed and
handed over the revolver to Neel for a sec
ond shot. By this time crowd had been
attracted to the saloon but no one had the
courage to enter. The men refused to pay
any attention to calls to desis., and Neel
hired at Archer, shooting him through the
hand. He took the gun to Archer for the
fifth shot but before it could be fired the
CROWD 'rdsdedf in, grabbed Jae revolver and
put a stop to the desperate proceedings.
Neither of the wounds inflicted is at ali
serious.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
The Trans Siberian Railroad.

NEW YORK, Feb, 26.-The St. Petersburg cor
respondent of the Tribune writes: A final de.
clslon is at last reached by the imperial govern.
ment regarding the Trans Siberian railroad
The work OF construction will be begun at once
and pushed vigorously to completion. The sur
veyS have been made with sufficient ac-
cuuracy to determine the most practicable
route, and also to indicate the cost and time
required for the enterprise. General Annenkon
builder OF the Trans Caspian road, reclxonS the
entire line to Vladivostock will cost less than
Two hundred million dollars and through trains
from the Baltic to the Pacific can be run within
i've years from beginning.
hghly important consideration in this mat
ter is the colonization of the country along the
AMOR river. Besides the vast agricultural
possibilities the region is exceedingly rich
the precious minerals. For years it has
been known to contain some OF the richest
deposits OF gold in the world and vast stores of
gems and also taken from the mines of all this
region are the products belong to the Russian
crown, but that II borders the northern part Of
CHINA, and the boundary line is i'll guarded
The result Is that the Chinese swarm across by
thousands, really securing the lions share of the
spoil.
There is still another immense advantage to
De secured to Russia by the construction OF this
Railroad and that is. the trade of the Pacific
ocean. AT present this tratfice reaches Europe
almost exclusively by English routes Northern
Pacific trade Is carried across america by the
Canadian and United States Pacific railroads and
silppeu 10 Europe by Atlantlc lines The trade
OF The central part of the coast finds
Its way to Europe by English routes through the
SueZ canal. With the opening up of China and
Japan to commerce, this trade is famously in
creaslng In Importance, and it is to capture a
portion OF 1t that Russia now aims. The Pacific
terminus OF the road will be at Vladivostock
There soon will be running another road from
some point In China TO Vladvostock which win
convey no the platter point the traffic of China.
steamship lines VIII also connect it with all i'm
poftant chinese and Japanese ports, thence
transit across the Russian empire to Europe
VII be much easier, quicker and cheaper than
Ne American route. In point Of time it
a week, and will al.o avoid the
risks and unpleasantness of voyages across
two oceans, ana will require far less handling
ana reShlpment of goods. Whether or not ii be
true, That sea voyage impairs the quality of
tea here at any rate there will be possibility
OF conveying the tea of China TO Europe over
land.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
In the House of Commons.

LONDON, Feb. 25.-Cobb, Radical, gave
notice in the commons to-day concerning
Smiths motion asking the house to adopt
the report of the Parnell commission with
the Lewis amendment censuring the Par
nellites and that it be carried, that he
would move resolution declaring the
house deDlores that it appears that at the
time the Parnellites were engaged in
alleged reasonable conspiracies, many
members of the government, especially
Salisbury ana Balfour, were in close
alliance and treaty with those members
and therefore Salisbury and the other
members of the government deserve the
severest condemnation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
In the Canadian Commons.

OTTAWA, Feb. 25.-In the commons to-dag
Mitchell, member of the opposition, called
attention to Washington dispatch saying
that England had abandoned her contest
in the Behring sea matter on compensation
for last seasons seizures. He thought
England dilatory in asking for Canadian
representative at the last moment and
that Tupper was not well qualified to repre-
sent Canada. Sir John Macdonald ex-
pressed confidence in Upper 1t is as
serted that negotiations thus far at Wash
ington are purely preliminary and no set
Element had been reached.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
A NIHILIST'S CONFESSION.
Petchk Joffgk, Expecting Immediate Dissolu
ton, Tells Of a Plot Against the Gar.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Disnatch I
PIERRE, S. D., Feb. 25.-Sensational de-
velopments last night followed an accident
to workman. The unfortunates name is
Petchk Joffgk and he fell from scaffold
at the electric light works, breaking both
thlghs. Inc victim was atwor1 repairing
the smokestack when he came in contact
with an electric light wire and was
stunned, falling distance of hundred
feet. Petchk Joffgk- thought he was about
to die and made confession He is an
exile from Russia, being implicated in the
great ploo to blow up the Car two years
ago, and gave the names of several high
Russian officials who were also concerned
He has important documents in his posses
sion to substantive his assertions, and has
promised further developments.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-26
A Three Masted Schooner Wrecked

New YORK, Feb. 25.-Captain Turner. of
the American schooner Harry Prescott, re-
ports that February in latitude "a, longi-
tude 20, he hove-to near the wreck of
three masted schooner dismasted and wa
terlogged with the sea making a clean
breach over her. Four men were clinging
TO the alter house, but owing to the dan
gerous sea, Captain Turner says he was
unable to render them any assistance.
When last seen the wreck was drifting to-
ward Hatteras shoals
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that some of the states had not been able
10 meet the question. Federal aid, there
lore, became necessary. When education
became universal the question of race dis
tur6ance would be obliterated. 1t was in
tended that the bill should benefit both
sexes alike. He hoped that under
It's provisions women would be
educated in the different callings of life
suitable to their sex. From education
grew morality and religion in harmony
with sublime and always beneficient
creator. The result would be to make
humanity better, wiser and happier. 1t
was through education that possibilities
were to be ascertained and obtained. there
lore he was strongly in favor of the pas
sage of the bill.
Reagan obtained the floor and spoke
against the bill and the Senate then ad-
iourned 49,