The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04
BRIEF AND BREEZY,

An eastern mail twenty-four hours
late, was distributed yesterday.
Yesterdays clearings were $19S 766. as
compared with $iSS555 for the same day
OF last year
Charles c. jackson and wife, and w
II. Behrens of St. Louis. were visitors al
tie chamber Of commerce yesterday.
The postoffice will be open today until
p. m. The carriers will make two trips
in the business district and one outside.
A ten-year-old son of L. c. Trent, while
engaged yesterday afternoon in firing a
toy cannon had his face rather badly
burned by powder.
George Thompson will be released from
the peritentlary. this morning. he has
served five Years for burglary, having been
sentenced on May 4, 1891, from the First
district.
At a. m yesterday the thermometer
registered s., at noon so, and at p. m.
G., the maximum temperature being 81,
forecast for today Is: Fair weather,
warmer.
The sugar famine is almost here. Yes
terday many retailers were limiting the
sale to ten pounds to each customer
while the wholesale dealers did not care
20 sell more than sack at a time.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday
to Bryon Chase, aged 81, and Rose Saw
yer, aged %, of Ogden; Norman Boyle,
aged q, of Ogden, and Ida Snow, aged
q, OF Draper; John T. Snelson, aged y,
of Sanpete, and Annie Waterhouse aged
40, of Salt Lake: Fred T. Lloyd aged D.
and Clara Z. Mace, aged ls, Of this city.
In the list of life members of the D.
A and N. society published a few days
ago, the name of Mrs. Susanna Spencer
was was omitted. The lady presented her cer-
being one of the first ever issued by the
society. 1t is signed by Edward Hunter,
as PRESIDENT, ana Robert Campbell, secre-
tdry, ana IS dated September l. 1856
This will he rho
mail mas been received from California,
and there will be stack of it when ii
does come. The postoffice force are look
Ing forward to a big days work when it
arrives. The delayed mail from other d.
rections may come in at any time now
and the postoffce boys viii have TO do
some tall hustling during the next few
days.
Ivy Temple Pythian sisters are making
greN preparations for their excursion to
Saltalr on July 10. A large number of
valuable prizes will be given away
Among others will be a gold wedding ring
TO any couple who will be married in the
pavilion in public on the day of the ex-
cnrsion: The marriage ceremony will also
be performed for them. free of charge
Any couple willing to enter for the prize
can obtain full information by applying
70 Mrs. ". NJ Risley, the chairman of
the committee on arrangements.
DR.. Hasbrouck's two-story frame resi-
dence south of Liberty park was consid-
erably damaged by fire yesterday, the or
igin of the blaze being defective fue.
The fire department was called out al
1:30 o'clock and made the two-mile run in
Shore order, but a bucket brigade of
workingmen had put out the blaze. which
started in the roof. Shortly after 3 O'Clock
another alarm was received from the
same place. The engine and hose wagon
responded but the brigade had again
gotten in its work and with the aid of
the firemen the fire was for the second
time eXtinguished. The damage was sus-
tanned by the upper part of the structure
Some rattle-brained individual last night
turned in a false alarm from the box
near the Salt Lake brewery. and the
horses made wild run through the mud
to the corner OF Tenth East and Fourth
South, only to find that il was a false
alarm The man who turned il in had a
department pass key and after doing the
JOB. locked up the box and skipped. From
this circumstance, it is believed that the
guilty party was formerly connected with
the department and turned in the alarm
out Of spite.