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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
THE ALTAR.
Eying-Beecher.

Baltimore, Dec. 25.-The marriage of
Miss Frances Ewing, daughter of
Judge Ewing, United States minister to
Brussels, and niece of Vice-President
Stevenson, to Bayley Beecher, a prom
inent banker of Memphis, took place
tonight at st. Peters Protestant Epis-
|copal church. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. f. w. Clampitt, rector
of the church, who is a brother-in-iaw
of the bride, assisted by Right Rev.
William Paret, bishop of Maryland.
The bride was given away by her un-
Gle, President Stevenson The
only other attendant of the bridal par
ty was Miss Julia Stevenson, daughter
of the vice-president who was the maid
of honor
Among those present were: Vice
President and Mrs. Stevenson, Misses
Julia, Mary and Lettia Stevenson, Mrs.
Scott, sister of Vice-President Steven
son, Miss CockerilI, daughter of SEN
ator Cockerill, of Missouri; General
John G. Black, member of Congress
from Illinois, and others.
A reception followed at the residence
of Rev. Mr. Champitt, after which Mr..
and Mrs. Beecher left for an extended
tour of the west and northwest They
will reside in Men phis.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
The Maxwell Land Grant.

Denver, Colo, Dec. Ex-Governor
Waite has received from Secretary
Hoke Smith. of the interior department,
q reply to the letter the governor wrote
last month, characterizing the Max
well land grant, as "honeycombed with
fraud" The secretary's reply is dig
nified and respectful and directs at
tention to the confrmatory account of
Congress and decisions of the United
States Supreme Court as to the validity
of the grant, and closes by saying
that if the interior department should
disregard such adjudication and legis-
iation and restore to the local office
the plats of the public surveys of the
grant for filings and entry, the only
result would be to mislead innocent
parties into making entries of lands
to which the department would be
wholly powerless to convey title.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
win be Bettered Mt Once.

Topeka, Dec. 25.-Receiver Wilson, of
the Santa Fe, has arrived. He said
the receivers should appoint D. 3. Rob
inson, first vice-president agent of the
receivers, to have full charge of the
active operation of the entire system.
Wilson said the receivers had agreed
that no sweeping changes will be made
in the management. Wilson said the
receivers had just borrowed $780, 900
in st. Louis for the immediate pay
ment Of wages due the st. Louis and
San Francisco employees; that the en-
ployees of the Santa F'e system proper
would receive their wages promptly
not later than January 8, out of the
money boarded to meet the January
interest. Wilson said the Santa Fe
shops at Topeka would be filled with
additional employees at once and run
to their full capacity, and the road be
put in better condition.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
WILD SCENES IN A CHURCH.
A Man Who Threatened to Leave
Work for the Coroner.

Work for the Coroner,
Rochester, N. Y. Dec. Especial to
the Herald from Mount Morris: There
was great excitement at ST Patrick s,
the largest country church in western
New York, at midnight mass last night.
The former pastor, Father Flaherty,
was removed several months ago. after
a trial and a conviction of criminal
intimacy with a young girl of his par
ish, but he was granted a stay and a
motion for q new trial will be argued
in the January term. The church was
crowded to overlooking. After mass
was said by Father Day, now in charge
of. the church, and while Christmas
offerings were being taken, Father
Flaherty passed up the center aisle
and spoke to the congregation as fol-
lows:
"a year ago tonight 1 was at this
altar as your priest. and while tonight
am convicted and under sentence to
a condemned mans cell, there is man
lin this church tonight who was instru-
mental in my conviction. That man is
Cornelius Leary. This man came here
tonight with no sacred intention. 1t is
the sentiment of this congregation that
he leave this sacred edifice.'
Cries of Put him outr' were now
heard.
Cornelius Leary rose in his seat and
said: IF Charles Flaherty or any of
his friends attempt to eject me from
this church, viii leave work for the
coroner in the morning.
No attempt was made to put him
out. Father F'laherty then said:
s'LSary harbored Mary Sweeney sew
eral weeks previous to the trial. school
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
CHRISTMAS Avn rHE cAP1ro1.
The President, His Wife and Babies
Have a Happy Time.

HAVE q Happy Time.
Washington, Dec. Christmas day
opened bright and sunny. The tenn
perature was unusually mild. 1t was
an ideal day to be out of doors. The
streets and parks were filled with peo-
Iple. Early in the morning express wag-
Ions began arriving at the White House,
to add to the great stock of presents
which had previously arrived. One huge
/ dry goods box from New York. labeled
for Ruth, Handle with Care.". told of
its delicate contents. The bundles and
boxes We're taken to the large front
room on the second story, where white
apr0ned nurses superintendent the I'M
packing. The president and family en-
Joyed genuine home Christmas. The
stockings of the little ones had been
hung up and were filled to overflow
ing this morning with presents great
and small, some of them rare and
costly. They came from every
part of the country; not only from
personal friends, but people in remote
locahtles were among the givers. OF
course, President and Mrs. Cleveland
came in for their full share of pres
ents. but the president did not wish
his individual gifts mentioned. as he
regarded them as personal and family
affairs.
At 10 the president went to his desk
for an hour to attend to such matters
as required immediate attention. The
House was closed except to specially
invited friends
AS the Presbyterian churches did not
have Christmas services, none of the
White house family went to church.
President and Mrs. Cleveland took adj
vantage of the bright weather about
noon and drove about the city. This
afternoon, little Margaret Bissel,
daughter of the acknowledgements
had a Christmas tree, at which Mrs.
Cleveland. with Ruth and Esther, Mrs.
Carlisle and the youthful members of
her family, Mrs. Thurber and various
cabinet women and children were pres
ent. Ali attaches of the executive
mansion were remembered by the pres
ident. most of them receiving turkeys,
and those of the longest services get
ting articles of more permanent use.
Secretary and Mrs. Gresham had a
Christmas dinner at the Arlington.
Secretary and Mrs. Lamont had a
Christmas tree for the little ones. Sec
rotary Morton and daughter entertain
ed a number of family guests from a
distance
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
HOW TT WAS DONE.
The Details of the Kansas and Ark.
ans1s HOId-TID

~tnAAS OH the KANSAS and Ark
ansas Hold-Up.
Little Rock. Dec. 25-The first ac-
curate details of the Kansas & Arkan-
sas Valley hold-up at Seminole on Sat-
urday evening, reached Little Rock
this afternoon when the robbed train
arrived The train reached Seminole
on Sunday night, shortly after dark.
The switch had been turned. throwing
the train on the siding. When the
train stopped, two men mounted the
engine and began by robbing Engineer
Bush Harris of his watch and $40 cash.
They then proceeded to the mail car
and rif1ed the mail pouches
Mail Clerk Pinckney was forced to
deliver the register } packages. Pinck-
ney was relieved OF his watch and IS
cents, % cents of which was returned
to him to buy lunch. Entrance to the
express car was gained without re-
.Sistance by the express messenger
There was nothing of great value on
board. The robbers commanded Mes
senger Ford to open the safe. from
which they took two small packages
value unknown, and 800 in money.
Two Of the robbers then went
through the coaches, while the other
maintained a constant firing outside
So much time had been consumed in
the mail and express cars, the passen-
gers had ample opportunity to secrete
their valuables, so very little of value
was obtained in the coaches. The rob-
beers appropriated all the overcoats
and watches in the cars, but the sum
total was less than $500. Several pas
sengers saved large sums by hiding
their purses under the car seats. The
train was held an hour and twenty
minutes 1t is stated the railroad off,
Gals here have the names of the four
robbers, and it is believed their cap
ture is only question of a few days.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
CERTAINTY A CRANK.
A Fellow Who Has Been Writing
Letters to Public Wen.

n.
Washington, Dec. 25.-Joseph Donjon,
the man who has been writing threat
ening letters to a number of prominent
public men during the last two weeks,
is in Jail tonight.
A letter from this man to Senator
Mills, a few days ago, caused the sena-
tors son to secure leave from the au-
thorities to go armed for the protection
OF his father. For several months past
he has been writing similar letters to
number of prominent public men,
among them Vice-President Stevenson,
Senators German, Mills, Sherman and
President Cleveland and Secretary La
mont. During the fight over the silver
question in the Senate Vice President
Stevenson received letters almost daily
from Donjon, then in Newark, N. J.
The vice-president today received one
dated from 404 Leigh street, in this
city. Donjon talks very nationally and
with rather studied effort to avoid
any appearance of bitterness or the ex-
preston of any anarchistie views. He
is an Austrian by birth and lays stress
upon the assertion that he is a Catho-
lie, and processes piety
AS to the letters he has been writing.
he claims he was melted to write them
by other people, receiving S1OG for doing
II. He dlScldimed they were anarchists
or had formed any association. and
said they were merely private persons.
he denies any threats in the letters or
any references whatever to dynamite.
never saw dynamite and would
not know it if I saw it," he said.
He claimed that all that was con-
tanned in any of the letters was a
proposition to each of the men ad-
dressed TO forward him the cost of
transportation to Washington and an
oiter to come on there and make a
business proposition to them. The man
tells connected story. but the police
put no faith in the assertion that he
was melted to write the letters by
other perSons -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
A New Schedule of Wages.

ST. Paul, Dec. Pa week from today
a new schedule on the Northern Pacific
railroad will go into effect, unless some
change in the plans is brought about
by conferences to be held this week,
which is a very remote probability. I'm
der this schedule, the railroad officials
say the Northern Pacific men will fare
better than those on any road between
st. Paul and Chicago, though in even
ing up the rates the employees of the
mountain division are considerably af-
fected. Committees of train men in
the city are very strongly opposed to
the adoption of the new schedule and
will insist, as far as they can, that the
old one be maintained. They say the
unannounced portion of the schedule
is much adverse to their interests, but
refuse to tell what the Objectionable
features are. The final answer to their
protest against the changes will be
given out tomorrow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
UTTERLY INsoLvENT.
Not Enough of Money to Pay Day
Laborcrs on it's Line.


Topeka, Kans., Dec. 25.-George F.
Sharitt, clerk of the United States cir
cult court, has returned from Little
Rock. Ark, with the papers in the
Santa F'e receivership case The bill
OF the Union Trust company was sworn
to before New York notary on De-
cember 81. This effectually puts aside
the impression that the death of Geo
Magoun, chairman of the Santa Ele
executive board, precipitated the re-
celvership, for the papers drawn were
sworn to before Magoun died. It is
stated IN the bill that the Santa Fe
has been dangerously near insolvencv
Tor a year, and that for some months
premiership has been known To he
only question of a brief time. The
company was so hard pressed for
money, the bill recites, that on An
gust last, its president went to the
once or the Union Trust company. in
new York. and borrowed 5000. 900 at Z
per cent. to meet the immediate de-
mands Of the company 1t is stated
that since that time, owing to the
period of financial depression. the
Santa re has been continually en-
parrassed for money. The company
has not repaid to the Union Trust com
pany the short time loan negotiated
in August, nor has it paid interest on
It. 1t is set forth in the bill that in
December, 1893, the company will have
to pay $40, 000 the interest on it's first
mortgage, and that in January. 1894.
1t will have to pay $450,OO0 and be-
tween February and June. 1894, there
will become due floating debts to the
sum of $4,000, the floating debt of the
company being now $5,920,0 900, and the
interest on guaranty fund notes for
100000 will be due in May, 1894, and
this interest will aggregate S27O. 600.
These fund notes have been twice re-
newed, and besides there are other
debts of the company due or soon to
fall due. aggregating some 81, 900 900.
The, petition sets forth that the COM
pany is totally insoIvent; that with
all this debt staring it in the face it
has not enough money to pay
the day laborers along its line,
and that inasmuch as its
creditors are becoming impatient, it is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26

Washington, Dec. PA subject
at the hands of the committee on APP
preparations of the House at this ses-
sion of Congress is embodied in a bill
introduced by Sayres, it's chairman,
entitled. "A bill to repeal certain laws
Irelating to permanent and indefinite
appropriations" Bills having this OBJ
Iject in view have appeared perennially
during the past ten years, but for vari-
Gus reasons have failed of enactment
The object Of repeating these perma-
nent appropriations, and having Con-
gress pass upon the matter covered by
them each year is that it will conduce
to a more thorough and careful exam
ination of the items of appropriation
than is obtainable under the present
system, by which accounts are audited
and passed upon by accounting officers,
and where no opportunity is left for
scrutiny by congressional committees
At the same time, the objection is
made against the changes proposed by
the bill because of the injustice that
would result to claimants entitled to
the amounts paid them under the pres
ent system without recourse to specific
congressional legislation. The bill now
before the committee excludes from it's
provisions the various laws thereof
specified. including the sinking fund
and others. the appropriations under
which amount to many millions of dol
lars, roughly estimated at about one
third of the total permanent appro-
priations. The total annual appropria-
tons for the fiscal year of 1894 were
Sis, 444, $50, and the estimates for 1895
are $101, 074,6SO The committee has re-
ferred the bill to Secretary Carlisle for
his views on the changes proposed and
the accounting officers of the depart
ment will be asked to submit their
opinions before any Recommendation in
is made in the matter by the secre-
tary
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
Harriet Hayden.

Boston, Dec. 25.-Mrs. Harriet Hay
den, widow of Lewis Hayden, has died,
aged IA. Mrs. Hayden was born a
slave in Kentucky and made her es-
cape early in the forties. She became
identified with the anti-slavery move
ment, and her house on Phillips street
became the rendezvous for fugitive
slaves. John Brown held a meeting at
her house with some of his associates
prior to his departure for Harper's
Ferry, and perfected some plans there.
Mrs. Hayden was a warm personal
friend of William Lloyd Garrison. Wen
dell Phillips and Charles Sumner.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
WIZ Not Get Up a Fnnd.

New York. Dec. 25.-Dr. Thomas Ad-
dis Emmett, president of the Irish Ma
tional Federation of America, said to-
day the federation would not get up a
fund for the evicted tenants in Ireland.
The federation was not formed for that
purpose. The people of Ireland will
have to support them. The Fedora
ton of America was organized to sup
port the parliamentary party, num-
Der of whom are young men who could
not remain in parliament without as
sistance. If there is a balance over, it
will be given for the evicted. 1t takes
100000 a year to support members of
parliament.
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Couldn't Collect Fifteen Million.

St. Louis. Dec. 25.-Ed NJ Kenna,
general attorney of the st. Louis &
San Francisco, part of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe system, said this
morning in reference to the appoint
ment of recivers: THE directors be-
lieve that within three or four, or at
least six months, they will be able to
devise a. plan by which the company
can be taken out of the receivers
hands. This plan will not involve any
assessment of stock or shrinkage in
value of the interest rate of bonds, but
will be formulated by the use of the
collateral of the company as a basis
for a collateral trust The principal
cause of the collapse is said to be the
failure of the Atlantic & Pacific to pay
over SIS, 100000 it owes
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
Thex win ~ Agnin.

London, Dec 25-The Times an
nounces that Admiral Victor Montague,
who had the Viola, Corsair, and Ven
delta built will have a new forty-rater
next season. 1t will be designed by
Watson and built at Clyde. Admiral
Montague says he is open to race the
cutter against any new forty-rater de-
signed by an American designer, for a
substantial stake, the best of three
matches under the rules CT the British
Yacht Racing association rating The
American boat must be designed by an
American. but if thought advisable,
may be built in England or in any
other country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
Policemen in Jail.

Chicago, Dec. 25.-Patrolmen Healy
and Moran are now locked up, charged
with the murder of Samuel Nelson, pro-
prietor of a small cigar store After
accepting his invitation to have a
Christmas drink in a saloon near by,
the officers left Nelson there. He had
a row with the bartender and was
elected. The officers tried to pacify
Nelson, but he knocked Healy down.
He was then arrested and attempted
to escape. The officers fired on him,
inficting a wound from which Nelson
soon died.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
win Whistle at Them.

Washington. Dec. 25.-The major
general commanding the United States
army has approved that part of the
new tactics providing for the officers
giving commands, under certain cir
cumstances, by whistles instead of by
word Of mouth. The whistles are
placed IN the cross pieces of the guards
of swords, and an order has been issued
commanding the officers in command of
the Springfield armory and Rock Island
arsenal. TO make this alteration as
promptly as possible.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
A NEW DEAL IN DENVER.
silver Producers to be Brought Clos
err to the Buyers.

Denver, Dec. 25.-At the beginning of
the new year, London dealers in bull
lion, especially silver, will establish
agencies in this city for bringing them
into closer relations with the pro-
ducers. This will involve the establish
ment here of reduction works on a
large scale, owners Of smelters in Den
yer, Pueblo. Leadville, Durango and
Salt Lake holding stock. The great
mass of Colorado's bullion now goes to
Newark, N. J., or Aurora, Ills, for
ceIaa "a tim
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
G. HI. Anderson.

Youngstown, Ohio. Dec. 25.-Chaun-
Icey H. Andrews, many times a mil
honaire and the foremost business
man in northwestern Ohio, died this
morning. He was one of the first part
ners of the Standard Oil company, and
is widely known as a financier and an
industrial organizer. He was one of
the leading spirits in building the Pitts
burg & Lake Erie railroad. He leaves
a widow and two daughters, one the
wife of John A. Logan, jr., the other
the wife Of L. G. Bruce, of the Turf,
Field and Farm. The funeral will be
held Wednesday.
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a question of but few weeks untl
suits may be brought that will dis
integrate and ruin the system; tnere-
fore, in consideration of all these
numerous allegations, receiver or re-
ceivers are asked for the property.
Accompanying this bill was tne
answer of the Santa Fe company.
George r. Peck, general solicitor CT
the company, answering the charge,
confessed that all the statements were
true; that the Santa F'e was wholly
inSolvent; that the creditors were
growing impatient and liable at any
time to close in on the company.
]. w. Reinhart, president OF the
company, and Peck make this con-
fession in New York and swOre to II
before a notary on December 20, the
day before the bill asking for receivers
was sworn to. This goes to show the
receivership were brought about by
the Santa Fee company itself because
lit desired to give up the fight and get
under the protecting wing of the court
The receivership of the Santa Fe was
not brought about so much by the
probable default in money interest pay
ments as by the company's utter disa-
bility to meet the floating debts. The
Earrings did not bring about the col
lapse.
Magoun's death did not cause or
even hasten it. The company is hope
lessly in debt and Reinhart went all
the way to London a few days ago
to bet s1000,000 not to pay the in
terest as every one supposed, but TO
pay the floating debt Reinhart re-
manned in London a week. He could
not get a cent, and when he reached
New York City on his return his first
official act was to order the prepara-
ton of receivership papers. 1t now
develops that certain people in Topeka
have known since August that the
Santa Fe could last but few months.
Officers of the United States court
were on the lookout for papers almost
daily and when it was announced that
Reinhart had failed to get the money
lin London, ten days ago, the receiver
ship was a foregone conclusion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26
.eIqnqoad 81 qsuIo xpooEa V

Jacksonville, Fla, Dec. "a special
to the Times-Union from Wildwood.
Fla, says: A difficulty between a
white man and a negro this morning
eliminated in a riot tonight in which
two white men were shot by negroes,
one seriously and the other slightly
wounded.
Armed negroes now surround the
town. Forty armed white men have
arrived from Leesburg and there is
imminent danger of a bloody clash be-
tween the races.
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: snd Cnsc.

Pittsburg, Dec. PA woman named
Burke was found tonight in a howell in
Allegheny, dying from starvation, abuse
and neglect. She has been unconscious
two days and physicians say she will
die before morning. Her husband was
lying beside her in bed intoxicated.
The woman has been sick for some
time and had not had food for several
days.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26

London, Dec. 25.-The preliminary
statement of the board Of agriculture
shows the years yield of barley is
10000, 900 bushels less than in 1892, al
though 0,Go0 more acres were planted.
Of oats there are 5000, 900 bushels less.
although 10000 more acres were
planted The yield of wheat has fall
len 100000 bushels and the acreage
has increased 300, 600.