The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-08
DOM ESTIC DOTS,
Telegraph News from All Parts OF the
Land over Which the Stars and
Stripes Wave.

Peter F. Clark has been appointed post
master at Aberdeen, Wash.
A cyclone at Summit, S. D., did great
! damage to life and property yesterday.
Among the graduates of the Naval ac-
ademy today were d. V. Todd and w. H
! Standby, of California.
The top of Doe Run lead mine, at Flat
! River. caved in, killing Robert Penberty,
! Robert Labuyre and John DeGrouse.
William Downs, of Morrellton, Ark,
| has been hanged for assaulting Pauline
Brindenburgh. He admitted he was
partly guilty
Four sailers were badly beaten by men,
bers of the Seamen's union, in New York,
because they were alleged to be working
under the scale.
The city directory OF Chicago which
will be published within a few days, will
give Chicago a minimum poulation of
1,6J5, 0OO-6O,OO mere names than last year.
Barron lake, near Niles. Mich, is slow
| ly drying up. Within two weeks the
shores have receded over five rods. No
one is able to account for the phenom-
enon.
The American Sugar Refining company
has declared regular quarter dividends of
3 per cent. on common stock and Ia per
cent. on preferred stock. The sugar div
ldends are payable July 2.
An official report received by the sur
geon general of the marine hospital con-
firmS the report of yellow fever at Vera
Cruz, Mexico, and says there were four
deaths in that city from the disease dur
ing the last week Of May.
The constitutionality of the Brush act
eXempting honorably discharged veterans
from competitive examinations for any
positions IN the city or state departments,
the salary of which does not exceed 81 q
day, has been sustained by Judge Gaynor,
of Brooklyn in the supreme court.
The Kanawha county, West Virginia,
Karney Toney, aged Y. from her hus-
ried three years, but expressed them
selves as having had enough of welded
life. The wife was granted alimony.
The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe and
st. Louis. & San Francisco roads filed
notices of withdrawal from the South
western Traffic association in St. Louis
today. This action by the Santa Fe gives
the death blow TO the association, which
covers traffic between, st. Louis and
Texas points. Nearly all commodity rates
nave been cut from 80 to 70 per cent.
The friends, of Rudolph schnaubelt, who
is said to have thrown the bomb in the
Haymarket riot, do not believe that he
has been shot as reported in dispatches
from Honduras. They claim that if any
thing of that kind HAD happened they
would have heard Of it. One of Schnau-
belts intimate friends has been in con-
slant communication with him since the
not
The San Francisco has zZiled from
Southampton for Copenhagen and the
Marblehead from the same port for
Hamburg en- route for Kiel. The Ma
chias has sailed from Chez Foo for
Port Arthur and the Baltimore from
Nagasaki for Kobe. The Atlantic has
sailed from Fort Monroe for New Lon
don to take part in the ceremonies to
be held there on the 18th ms. ~ the
army of the Potomac. Admiral Kirk
land is or board the San Francisco,
which will consequently continue to
the flagship of the fleet and the New
York will not, as was contemplated,
have that honor.