The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-27

! IN Lit breaking the Track recOru py
second.
By the caving in of sand bank of
F'leming's Place IN Ludlow. KY, five
worknlen were buried. Three have been
rescued: one will die.
John Rigoulot has started to walk from
San Francisco to New Orleans-S,000
miles. He lost $4,000 by investing in
concessions at the Midwinter fair.
The suit at St Louis between Wells
Fargo Express company and the Cincin-
natl & Nashville. has been compromised
Wells-Fargo accepting $4,000 in full of
all claims.
John Hubbell, a well to do farmer of
Cuba, n. Y, vicinity has been swindled
out of $1,000 by the old time bunco scheme
in which the swindlers negotiated to buy
his farm.
Dominica Cateldo was murdered on
East Seventeenth street in New York
yesterday by a woman whom he had
formerly lived with The victim was but
"a years of age.
Mrs. u S. Grant and daughter. Mrs.
Sartoris, arrived in Chicago yesterday to
attend the Grant memorial services at
the Auditorium today, under the auspices
of the Press club.
Dave Bohannon. O prominent Choctaw
Indian, lieutenant of the. Indian police
force, was killed yesterday, near Durant.
I. T. He, before he fell. killed his as
sailant Jim Jackson, white man.
A proposition has been made to the
creditors OF E. S. Jaffray & Co., of New
York, for settlement on basis of IS
cents on the dollar Circulars to that eff
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The working model of magazine
breech-loading rifle was operated at Des
Molnes yesterday. Its speed is from six
to ten times greater tEan that of any
other rife now used by the United States,
England. France or Germany.
There was n duel on the streets at
Palouse. WASH, yesterday between ]. D.
Hughes and his ason-in-law., Raymond
Peiffer. Three shots were fired by Peif-
fer and one by Hughes. Both men were
wounded.
Mississippi Lodge No. A A. of I. and
S. w. of America, of East st. Louis, at
largely attended meeting passed resolu-
tons by a unanimous vote calling for
the abolition of child labor in factories
as indicated in a bill now before the
legislature of Illinois.
At Sidney. O., some nights ago, Mrs.
John Virhite was caught in a raid on
disreputable houses. Her husband was
away from home at the time. Yesterday
he returned, and went to the Jail to sec
her. He walked to her cell, and shot her
through the heart. He escaped.
Baron Won Saurma, the German am
bassador, has presented his letters of re-
cali to President Cleveland. He explain
ed that he had been transferred to an
other post 'Constantinople), and the
president expressed felicitously the re-
gard he felt at parting from the am
basSador.
The crew of the Olympic still complain
loudly of their cruel treatment. The fol-
lowing is alleged to be. the daily allow
ance per man: Fourteen ounces of hard
bread, one pound of salt pork, one gill of
vinegar every ten days, two ounces of tea
per day. four ounces of pickles per week.
sugar in their coffee on Saturday.
Secretary Smith has decided that lands
located within the boundaries of the Old
Crow Indian reservation in Montana
which by an erroneous survey was be-
lieved to be outside the boundary of the
reservation, and were settled upon in
good faith prior to the opening of the
for at the rate of S1.50 per acre.
A telegram received at the Japanese
legation states that his imperial majesty.
the emperor of Japan, has conferred up
on Minister Kurin6, the decoration of the
Second Glass of the Order of the Rising
Sun. This decoration is on account of his
services in the negotiation of the COM
mercial treaty with the United States
The Order of the Rising Sun is one Of the
oldest orders in Japan.
chicago persons who expect to found
the Plymouth farm colony in Idaho next
summer have appointed a committee to
come west to report on the character of
the soil. the crop prospects and the vari-
Gus questions in detail. If all be favor
able some of its members will probably
remain in Idaho to make ready for the
coming of the colony next August. There
will be demand for carpenters and
other artisans.
The shipments of oranges from River
side, Cal, to date amounts to LIS cars
which is still somewhat short of half the
crop. The daily shipments now average
twenty-four cars when it should number
ten carloads more at least. The exchange
is in receipt of a fair supply of orders;
but the branch associations are tndiffer-
ent to filling the orders at present prices
The supply of the navel variety is grow
ing short Orders for seedlings are in
creasing.
County Treasurer C. ". Rowe, OF /
Montezuma, Ia. has disappeared and with
him about $4,000 of the county money |
He left here last Saturday morning but /
nothing wrong was suspected until to-
day. All efforts to locate him have PROV
ed fruitless.
Yesterday was generally observed in /
Mississippi by confederate memorial ex-
ercises. AT Columbus there was a mill
tary parade. Three thousand people at /
Ficksburg listened to addresses and
decorated the graves of the confederate /
dead.
Memorial day was fittingIy observed at
Mobile. Ala. The First regiment of Ala
bama State troops and the United Con-
federate Veterans participated. The /
leading feature was the appearance of /
forty marines from the United States
cruiser Montgomery under command of
Davis, who took promi-
nent part in the exercises.
Specials from the northwestern parts
Of Milwaukee indicate that the much
needed rain has come to break the 1
drought and put a stop to forest fires.
Farmers all over Wisconsin, according to
the local weather bureau, are deploring
the lack of rain. Correspondents in the
western and southern counties, say the
ground is very dry. Some winter wheat
has been ploughed under.
George Ray. a disreputable negro. was
hanged about seven miles from Spriue-