The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-24
DOMESTIC DOTS.
Newsy Notes From All Portions of
the Land Over Which the Stars
and Stripes Wave.

4 Window. Mimi Dec. 2S.-Paul Peterson
and Andrew Foss, while skating on the
! lake today, broke through and were
drowned.
Kansas City, Dec. %. Charles Biggs
Sheffield suburb of this city tonight,
the result Of quarrel
| Chattanooga, Tenn, Dec. 23.-Colone1 r.
L. Watkins, one Of Chat anooga's Oldest
| citizens and veteran of the civil war,
! died tonight in his 18th year.
| Muskogee, l. T., Dec %. Tonight about
IL o'clock, win Rider was shot and killed
1t the home Of a woman named Chapman.
| The circumstances of the killing are not
known.
| Franklin, La, Dec. 23.-The bursting of
a steam pipe at the Caffery Central Sugar
refinery caused the instant death of two
men, August Brunei and Joseph Catill
But slight damage was done TO the re-
inery.
Tonawanda, N. Y, Dec 23.-FNire broke
out shortly after o'clock this morning,
in the lumber yards of Weston & Son,
and DESTROYED 5000 600 feet of lumber val.
to have been of incendiary origin. The
loss is covered by insurance.
Cattlesburg, KY, Dec. g. Charles
Fretierick white, fatally shot Clark Cor
nell, colored. during a dispute about a.
Lovejoy, white, also took a. hand in the
melee and stabbed Cornell twice in the
back. Frederick and Lovejoy escaped.
Burlington, Ia, Dec 23.-The Hawkeye
announces that the report from Cincln-
natl. that President Perkins, of the c.,
b d Q. railroad is about to resign is
only repetition of a rumor current in
western papers for several weeks past,
and is wholly without foundation.
Racine, Wis, Dec. 23.-Robert Smith,
alias James O'Connor, a notorious forger,
escaped from the county Jail last night.
The discovery was not made until this
morning. O'Connor was we'll known to
officers in large Scfties as a. clever all
AROUND thief, and had done service at
Joliet and Waupun. No clue to the prfs-
oner has been obtained.
Providence, r.. T., Dec. pa meeting
of the locked-out operatives of the Hosi-
cry mill, at Thornton, was held this AFT
ternoon. and lit was decided to remain
firm in the refusal to return to work for
was asserted that fully twenty workmen
would return to England rather than
surrender. Er .... l..
Jacksonville, Fla, Dec Ex-Governor
Mitchell received today at Tallahassee,
as for Henry NJ. Flagler, of ST. Angus
tine, the railway hotel and Standard Oil
magnate, who with other Standard Oil
magnates have been indicted in the Tex
as courts for violating the ANTITRUST
laws of that state. Governor Mitchell
has not indicated his probable course.
Memphis, Tenn. Dec. 2S.-At Rockford,
Coosa county, Ala-,eAlbert Gordan, aged
%. and we'll connected, was arrested en-
an indictment from Gilmore county,
charging gambling on Sunday. and was
jailed after desperate but unsuccessful
effort to escape. Last night when Tailor
Redit went to Gordan's cell 10 carry
blanket, he found him hanging 10 bar
by his suspenders with his hands tied be-
hind him with his handkerchief. dead.
over his arrest was the
cause.
Syracuse, n. Y; Dec 23-The body of
Matthew Fulton, a linen III in the en-
ploy of the Central New York Telephone
& Tel graph company. was ioInI carly
this mc'IiIg. beside the ira ks of the
Delaware. Lackawanna & We ;tern road
A large cash in Fulton s head was evil
IDENTIFY made by some sharp instrument |
F'ulton's pockets were empty when |
found 1t is thought he may have. been
The coroner and the railroad =
secret service detectives are investigating /;
the caSe4s