Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-02-20
NEWS NUTSHELL.

clded to make an eShibi, in Chicago
in 1904.
Mrs. Picottc, wife Of tho proprietor Of
the HALEY tidaho) iu'es, died on the
10Th Inst.
Jay Gould was born la Roxbury. y.
Y. His father was n farmer. lie Il
not jew.
Judge berkshire, Of the Indiana su.
| prone Court, died Of pneumonia Oh
the l1th inst.
The estimated cost OF the grounds,
buildings, etc. u The Worlds Fair,
win be STA OO00OO.
Woman IL n good deal like sugar, the
more yuhnui she II. the harder 10 is 10
detect the sand In her.
Ethel Glover, tho actress, clorcd
with Harry Horton, a minstrel ma1.
| Ethel was married ~ Edward Handle.
lie wants n divorce now.
The bodies % young Big Hampton
and Charlts Speam were recovered on
! the lDth inat. In. body of young
Hampton will arrive IN salt Lake 10.
day.
The Unilc1 Slat,s Senate bin for
the creation u fourth judicial dis
tricl In Utah was reported Ia the House
! from the Judiciary committee, On the
/ 18Th Inst.
The Montana House rejected thr
eight hour bill after ga exciting de-
bate. II will lcali 10 a conflict between
labor and capital. The nincfs are
Indignant.
4 colorcd water In Richmond. Va.
! thfuw a pot Of boiling coffee at John l..
Sullivan, who was creating n disturb.
ancn In the dining rU1m OF a hotel.
John subsidized, but the jarkcy sided.
The Rev. Mr.. Kyle, recently elected
United states senator flum South Da.
kota, It IA claimed, h not eligible, on
the ground that ~ o. foreign mission.
AIRY he was not u citizen VI the United
States.
Annie johnson, q young woman,
| died ~ Helena, Mont, recently, under
mysterious circumstance. An inv.s.
tigatlou IL nov In progress, aud some
prominent citizens are likely TO bc im.
pllcated.
The Rev. Kendall r. Srolthorn was
| distributing money 10 the poor Ia Ne
braska for the American Sunday School
| Union. IL now transpifca that he ap'
proprlatod large sums of money 10 his
own use.
Timber talked Of for Secretary OF the
| Treasury, John G.. New, oi Indiana,
cx.Gov. Foster, Of Ohio, AIr. MclSin.
ley, Cornelius y, Bllss, John Jay
Knox, john sherman, AMI General
Nettloton.
The parking.house managers Of
| South Omaha have withdrawn from
ia. Omaha live Stock Exchange. The
| trouble arose over commissions. The
/ Fafmers' a llisnce has taken siues with
the slOckmon.
Some lunalic has started a scheme
| for draining the Great salt Lake. a
similar scheme was started for Lake
Michigan, some yCats ago, but iis
promoters are now wearing straight
Jackots.to keep them from draining
themselves.
Chauncey Drprw says that whcu
sherman contemplated his iamoui
march from Atlanta ~ the sra, h,
fcaicd Orders from Washington coun
t.rmanding the expedition. Sherman
In order 10 prevent these ordeIs, had
the telegraph wins for hny mile
around Atlanta cut.
The acting Secretary Of the Treasury
few days ago Issued warrants Tor the
payment OF 81 100000 on account Of
pensions, aggicgaiiug s8DOO1,u11 due
during the quarter ending March I.
The latter amount represents the pres
Ont availnbla cash halanc, NJ the Treas.
ury, DO that the only Treasury surplus
that will exist after these payments
shall have buen met viii bp thu excess
\ ofrccelpts over other expenditures dur.
Ing that period, now estimated at less
than Sl000O,000.
Cremation Is becoming daily morn
popular abroad. In Baden tho Oilcu.
burg aud Heidelberg city councils
have decided 10 erect furnaces. The
government In Basel has formally
| granted 10 all citizens OF the canton the
right 10 choose between being hurled
and being burned. a cremnlory n
being erected In Manchester at cost
Of Sa7, 500. Tho Italian friends u cie.
nation have recently assembled In
Milan 10 consider the best means Of
burning bodies and VI spreading propa-
gandsfor their ideas. fkis il the see.
0nd congress OF crematlonists that has
been held In Italy since tho Italians,
and more especially the Milnncse, took
tho lead In pushing the cremation
movement.
When Stanley reached the spot
where Livingston had turned back he
was again confronted with the neros.
sity Of instantaneous decision. Ho
was In quandary. II he turned back
he would stamp his enterprise with
failure. II he went on he knew not
what would happen. lie held u con.
sultation with his lieutenant, aud the
latter suggested that the matter might
DO settled by tossing n coin. lie ac.
oeptod the suggestion ana tossed up n
rupee. The coin decided against 10.
Ing on. Hat Stanley was not satisfied.
He tossed again, aud still again, and
each time the coin said that Stanley
should not 10 on. Then he had re-
course 10 long and short straws and
three times this diylnation declared
that the explorer should turn back. but
he WINS still not satisfied 10 go back. He
thought that something must be the
matter with the rupee and tho straw,
and 10 he cast aside tho prophecies III
both and went On following the course
Of the great river until he found
whence II came. When he returned
TO London after this expedition he
found the Geographical Society debat.
Ing whether II should call him pirate