The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-28

! two days before Judge sherman OF the
| superior court. The testimony showed
that they used four ounce gloves.
HAMMOND, Ind.-I.ake county's grand
! jury which has been in session for nearly
! three weeks, have returned some 200 IN
/ dictments against Violators of the re-
/ Gently enacted Nicholson law. The jury
! is not yet through with its work, ana
/ it is said that as many more VIII be re-
! turned before the session IS over.
/ NASHVILLE. Misunderstanding citi-
/ zens of Iewisburg yesterday held a mass
meeting and adopted resolutions and Or
/ gan.zed for the purposes Of assisting the
/ sheriff and other officers of the law ia
arresting and suppressing bands of dis
/ guised men who have been committing
deeds of violence aud robbery in Lewis
burg and Marshall counties.
HUNTINGTON, W. VA cyclone
/ passed over Green Bottom yesterday, do
ing great damage to property. Sixteen men
were in one barn, which was blown away.
| John Nance and VIII G.nbiy We're hor-
ribly injured by falling timbers. Timothy
Blake and Isadore Clark were seriously
injured
CHICAGO.-General John C. Black,
United States district attorney, received
instructions today to investigate the al
legged combination of Chicago packers to
control the price of beef. The tnstruc-
tions came from Attorney General Har-
picions regarding the alleged trust, pre-
pared by Secretary of Agriculture Nor
ton.
WASHINGTON Secretary Herbert to-
day awarded to the Herreshoff Manufac-
turing company the contract for building
two of the topedo boats authorized by
the act of the last Congress. Mr.. HERES
hoff was the lowest bidder at $4,000 for
each boat The third boat will go to
Moran Brothers of Seattle, Washington,
if the department is satisfied Of their
ability to do the work.
LOS GATos, cal.-The forest fires
which haze been burning for the past
devastated an area of five square miles.
The fire is affecting the temperature of
the towns in the valley where the Their
mometer has for the last six days been
at fever heat Ten Thousand acres of
heavily wooded territory are located in
the path of the fire and will undoubtedly
be destroyed unless rain opportunity SUBJ
dues the conflagration.
RICHMOND, -Va.-Comnlent here on
| United States Senator Thomas S. Mar
tins position in declining to say how
he stands on the silver, question has been
increased by his speech made last night
before the state Democratic committee
in which he advised against allowing any
speakers from outside of Virginia to
come here and inject agitation of the
currency question. Senator Martin be-
leYeS in Ignoring that in the state cam
vass, but it is widely discussed.
ST. LOU1S.-The disappearance of Ed
ward Taylor. who was supposed to have
been drowned in the Mississippi Sept. "a,
which fact however, the insurance COM
panies doubt, is still snrouded in mys-
terry. The prevalent opinion in the neigh
borhood of Loughborough avenue, OPP
posite the spot where Taylor was last
seen alive, inclines to the belief that he
is. not dead but in some way managed
companions. Others, however, believe he
was devoured by aigators that abound
in the river where Taylor disappeared
and often measure over six feet in leagth.
CHICAGO.-As the Wabash limited
was leaving the city for Detroit last
night, a well dressed man entered the
Pullman, and stopped at the first occu-
pied berth and climbed in. at the, same
Mack, the occupant. After securing the
well-filled pocket book, jewelry and
clothes of the terrified woman whose hus-
band sat in the smoking compartment
! only a few feet away, the robber at
| tempted to leave. Mrs. Mack chung to
knocking her senselss. He jumped from
the moving train and apparently uniil-
iured escaped in the darkness.
NEW YORK.-The grand jury today
ordered indictments for manslaughter IN
the second degree against the following
men, who are held responsible for the
collapse of the Ireland building, August lg
last, when fifteen men were killed:
Thomas Murray, masons' foreman;
Thomas Walker, superintendent: John
Parker, contractor; Dennis Buckley, eX-