The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-07
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Telegraph News from All Parts or the
Land over Which the Stars and
Stripes Wave.

telegraph News from All Parts OF the
Land over Which the Stars and
Stripes Wave.
The lumber and banking firm of n.
p Clark & Co., ST. Cloud, Mimi, has
failed.
A movement against Sunday saloons
and Sunday baseball games has been IN
augmented in Chicago.
Col. Fred Grant has been sworn in as
a notice commissioner in New YORK.
Roosevelt has been chosen president.
Shoe manufacturers of Brocktown,
Mass. have advanced the price Of shoes
to 20 cents a pair. The increased cost
of leather is given as the cause.
Peter Haronson and wife and daughter
were drowned in the Denton creek, near
New Orleans, last night. Their buggy
on account of the interruption of trafnc
will foot up nearly a million dollars.
It is stated in Cincinnati that there will
he a foreign book at the Latonla track
this year. The work of constructing a
big pool room at the track was begun
today.
Charles H. and Henry Delaney, ar
rested in connection with the blind pool
expose a few months ago, in Pittsburg,
have been found guilty of conspiracy TO
defraud
Isaac Jones. night clerk at Fifth ave-
nue. hotel, Pittsburg was found murder
ed in the basement of the hotel yesterday
morning. He had been beaten on the
head with an iron bar and robbed.
A telegram received at the. navy de-
partment announces that the Alert ar
rived at San Juan del Sur late Saturday
night. The Alert will protect American
interests on the Pacific side OF Nicaragua
in case of a revolution.
Firemen from Springfield were called
to Yellow Springs today by fire that
threatened to sweep the town. Little s
grain elevator Buchert's carriage works.
a livery stable and five dwellings were
burned. Loss $4,000.
The forest fires which began yesterday
in the vicinity of GlenbaZel, Pa, are still
burning fierceiy. 1t is estimated the GAM
age caused by yesterdays fire at Glen
hazel, including the sawmill, lumber yard
railroad property and the consequent
loss of revenue to the railroad companies
onaccount of the interruption Of uafhc,
will foot pu nearly a million dollars
A fire at Buffalo, n. Y. yesterday de-
stroyed NJ. Strausse & Co.'S tannery,
postal station, A. Groben's coal yard
barns, several freight cars and two dwell
lings. a number of horses and large
amount of stock in East Buffalo. The
loss is estimated at a quarter OF mil
lion. with SlZO,UUO INSURANCE.
Organized labor throughout the state of
Illinois will celebrate the Fourth of July
this wear. The general celebration will
be under the auspices of the illinois State
Federation of Labor, and that body has
requested its subordinate unions to recog-
nize the nations birthday in betting
manner.
Last night Policeman Baldwin and Ru-
merit went to the home of Joe Farkars,
and told him he must work He SAID ne
would not. whereupon he was struck, ar
rested and put in Jail. negro was
struck at the Browning mines and there
are warrants out for some miners Of
West Virginia, for keeping other men
from working. Trouble is feared.
James Herbert, clerk in a wholesale
shoe and leather house, in New York,
killed his wife, by cutting her throat with
a razor early today. He fled and two
hours later his body was hauled out of
the East river with the throat cut. The
husband had accused the wife of infidel-
ity with the sisters husband.
The Florida Senate today passed the
bill prohibiting prize fighting and glove
contests in Florida, giving sheriffs power
to arrest offenders without warrants,
making all participants alike liable, the
offense being deemed a felony punishable
ment of not more than five years, or
both fine and Imprisonment, at the dis
erection of the court.
The state department has been asked to
investigate the case of Manuel Fuentos
the correspondent of the New York
World who was arrested near Santiago
de Cuba on a charge of aiding the revo-
lutionists, it being charged that he en-
deavored to sell arms to them. This
ol,o &C. nd In Of he
mary methods of the Spanish court mar
tial, Secretary Gresham is asked to see
that Fuentos receives protection pending
the investigation
A special to the Chicago Record from
Bay City, says: Greenwood, Ogewame
by forest fires today. No information has
come from there since Z o'clock tonight
Partridge Bros. had lost a large quantity
of sawlogs, their mill Syas about to be
consumed and there was no telling where
the flames would end. There was no
water with which to fight the flames. A
steamer sent from here in the afternoon
was recalled on this account.
A dispute has arisen between the two
daughters of the late David Swing as to
the place where his remains shall be fin
ally inferred. Mrs. Helen Swing Starring
desires the interment 10 be in Chicago,
while Mrs Mary Swing Kicker wishes it
to be at Oxford, Ohio, where Mrs Swing
is buried. The matter has been finally
carried to the probate court, and came up
before Judge Kohlsaat today. A point of
Jurisdiction being raised, the judge gave
the attorneys one week to prepare briefs
on the matter.
Early yesterday morning at Minneapolis
two young men found in the gutter the
dead body of H. w. Thomas, superinten-
dent of the $500 Telegraph company.
There was a bullet hole in his head.
Thomas last night called on Mrs. F. L.
Williams at the home Of her father, r.
l.. Berglund. Soon after he left shot
was heard Mrs. Williams is the young
woman who ran away to Hudson, Wis,
to marry Williams. He turned out
worthless character and she obtained a
divorce. Williams was arrested and con-
fessed that he shot Thomas.
The Louisiana state supreme court yes
terday handed down decision reversing
the decision of the district court in which
the lower court ruled that prize fighting
as recently conducted here might be con-
tinued. The decision was rendered in
the appealed case of the state Of LOUISE
ana VS.. the Olympic club. The supreme
court rules that the recent alleged box
ing exhibitions were nothing more or less
than prize fights, and that as such they
are prohibited by the state law. The in
junction originally prayed for is granted
and prize fighting in New Orleans will
hereafter be prohibited. Associate JUS