The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-15
DIED FROM EXPOSURE
Journalist Ulick Burke Frozen
to Death in Chicago.
Adventure of James Whitcomb Riley and
George W Cable-COIOnel shepard Wants
to Run a Newspaper at the Fair.
special to THE HERAID-Exam1ner Dispatch. ]

Special to THE HERALD-Examfner Dispatoh.1
CHICAGO, Jan. A. The first fatality
here from the polar wave was passed
upon by the coroner to-day with verdict
of death from exposure. As luck would
have it the victim was a newspaperman.
The poor unfortunate is Ulick A. Burke,
who, for the past two years, has been en-
ployed upon the Courier dc pIltinois. He
was born of aristocratic Irish parents at
st. Omer Department du Pas-du-C Calais,
France, and was educated at the Uni
versity Of Liege, Belgium. Burke was
AMAN OF BRILLIANT ATTAINMENTs,
being good French, German and English
scholar He leaves sister married into
one of the best known families in England,
and a brother, an officer of the British
army.
A strange chain of circumstances
led up to Burke's death in Chicago.
He was brother of Thomas
H. Burke, the under secretary for Ireland,
who, with Lord Frederick Cavendish, was
assassinated in Phoenix park, Dublin, on
the evening of May 8, 1888. The tragic af-'
fair caused a tremendous sensation, as did
also the trial and conviction of the sup
posed perpetrators, and the pursuit and
Staying OF INFoRMER CAREY BY o'DoN-
NELL,
the avenger, who came all the way from
the Rocky mountains, in this country, and
who was hanged by the English authorities.
The succession of horrors beginning with
the brothers. death is said to have driven
Ulick Burke to drink, and to that habit was
due the exposure" which Is the coroner's
way Of saying that poor Burke froze to
death
Two other newspaper men had chilly
enough experience last night, though of a
less tragic nature. James Whltcomb Riley,
known outside newspaperdom as
THE Hoos1ER POET,
and George W. Cable, VINO has risen to
the dignity of a ''the popular novelist"
gave a delightful reading entertainment
Tuesday night before an audience COM
pletely filling the Central Music hall. The
feature of the affair, however, was pow
erful recitation delivered at the COX office
window by Deputy Sheriff NickersOn, in
response TO which he was awarded the box
! office receipts. A claim against Manager
/ d. W. Buletine was responsible for the
| extra number.
! venture akin TO Riley and Cables en-
| terprise in that it connected the newspaper
and theatrical worlds is that OF Leader
Richardson who, it is announced this even
I e.
| EUentng Post building and will issue there
/ from next Tuesday the first number OF
THE CHICAGO DRAMATIC NEWS,
a sixteen-page weekly journal devoted to
theatrical news and gossip. feature Of
the new paper will be special telegraphic
news from well known theatrical writers
in the leading amusement centres.
| An even bigger thing in a newspaper way
is the fact Just made public that Colonel
Elliott f. Shepard, president OF the MGI
and Express newspaper company, has ap-
piled 10 the Worlds fair commissioners for
$500 feet of space for the establishment Of
A COMPLETE NEWSPAPER PLANT
and daily issue of his paper every week
day while the exposition lasts.
At meeting of the directors OF the Union
Signdl, the official organ of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, to-day, Lady
Somerset, Miss Frances Willard and Jen-
ME Stewart, of Ohio, were added to
the editorial staff. Miss Harriet Kells
and Miss Margaret Ledduth were made
Office editors. 1t is expected that
on Lady Somerset's return to England in
June next after her visit to Japan, an
English edition will be issued, edited by
her and under the name of the orld's
White Ribbon.
Whether or not a result of the para
living gloom and cold and wind that seems
to have settled down like the proverbial
''palln on the town, the local papers in the
, matter of news or editorial features are
too fiat. stale and Improbable to particu-
lariZe.