The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-24

today experienced the warmest Septem-
! Der weather in twenty-five years. The
mercury at the observatory office was at
| 80 at. 3 o'clock. Reports from the sur
rounding country state that the thermom-
eter registered over 100 IN the shade in
some places.
SAN FRANCISCO.-Th Occidental and
| Oriental company received a dispatch
! from Yokohama via Liverpool today stat
ing that the steamship Belgic was still
! ashore, but that preparations were nearly
complete to float her of.
SANTA CRUZ, Cal--Forest fires are
sweeping through hundreds of acres of
| is interfered with by trees falling across
the tracks. The fire is the worst that has
! ever visited Santa Cruz county.
DENvER.-F. II. Brandenburg, local
| weather observer, reports that the snow
| fall in Denver Saturday night amounted
| to ia inches, leaving all previous Sep
TENDER records far behind. The nearest
! approach to it was on Sept. 90. 1875, when
two and one-half inches Of snow fell.
BRUSH, Colo.-The Western Union
Beef company in the last two days, has
| shipped east 81 cars of cattle. The cat
tie were never known to be in better con-
dition than at this time. This makes in
all So cars Of cattle shipped from this
| place this fall.
FoN DU LAC, Nashville the wind
was blowing forty miles an hour late
last evening, fire was discovered in Moore
& Galloway's lumber yard, North Fon Du
Lac. The mills and 1G,Q0G.000 feet of lunl-
Der were burned. The loss is about $l4O,-
600; insurance, $79, 800.
HELENA, Mont.-Judge Blake, in the
district court today, held the anti-gamb-
be appealed. but the gamblers are SO
sure the decision will be sustained that
all old gambling houses in Helena will
reopen today. The decision leaves the
old territorial law, licensing gambling, in
force.
oTTUMwA. IAN. E. stinson, travel
ing man, and Miss Arta Moore, senior. at
Grinnell college, wore the victims of a
double tragedy at Oskaloosa yesterday.
Stinson shot the young woman and then
himself. They were secretly married in
Ottumwa on Oct. Y, 1892, by Rev. H. D.
| Crawford.
SAN FRANCISCO.-Mayor Sutro today
vetoed the tax levy in a long message in
which he said that the tax levy should
not exceed 81 on an assessed valuation
OF SS000O0,cC0, which would be ample TO
run the city on an economical basis. He
argued that although the order had net
been submitted to him for his approval
still the law empowered him to pass judg-
ment upon il.
NASHVILLE, Sept. 23.-At Gainsboro.
near the Kentucky line. a conflict has
arisen between Tennessee and Kentucky
sheriffs having reQuisiGon papers for the
arrest Of United States Deputy Marshal
Young and United States Commissioner
Linsley, charged with murder: They. re-
fuse to go, fearing they will be mobbed.
and have their friends in town armed
to resist attempts to take them They
are charged with killing a moonshiner.
WASHINGTON.-Post Coffin, at
fan Francisco, has notified Superinten-
dent Brooks, of the foreign mail division
of the postoffice department that foreiN a
mails arriving by the Gaelic from Hong
Kong and Yokohama were fumigated in
"a bulk, the bags then opened and the
contents fuuigated q second time. SUI
perintendent Brooks says the quarantine
regulations are so thorough that there
is no danger of contagion being intro
duced through the mails.
CHICAGO.-The Chicago board of trade
was victorious today in the fight on the
grain elevator men, the state railway and
warehouse commission declaring that the
in grain through their own warehouses,
shall be revoked. The elevator people
declared they at once would apply for
tnjunctions to restrain the revoldng of
their licenses and the war probably will
be continued in court.
wAsHINGToN.-The president, by ex-
ecutive order issued today, but dated
Sept. 20, has extended the civil service
system in q, modified form 10 all consular
officers whose compensation directly or
Vacancies in the service will be filed
hereafter by transfer or promotion, by the
appointment Of qualified persons formerly
ia the employ of the state department
and by the appointment of persons Sc
lected by the president after passing a
non-competitive examination.
NASHVILLE, Tsnn.-Yesterday ]. ].
Worreli. editor of the Jackson, Tenn,
Dispatch, and his little hoy, were severely
injured by the h, explosion OF gas Mr.
and struck a match, and an explosion
followed, the gas having been turned on
without their knowledge. Though Sc
verely burned their condition is not seri-
Gus.
FRANKFORT. Ky.-It has been dis
covered that counterfeit money has been
made in the Kentucky penitentiary.
Warden George has mOlds which he
took from the convict, billiard of Cat
tlettsburg. The denominations are nick
els. dimes and quarters.
CANTON, Ohio.-Ex-County Treasurer
u G. Clay. ,1 WHO no has been found a de-
folk & Western. going east, and since
then nothing has been heard of him. The
action of the county commissioners in
not causing his arrest, has created a
sensation.
DETROIT.-A special to the Free Press
from Esca naba, Mich, says: The schoon-
err z. H. Williams, iron ore laden from
this port to Toledo, SAM last night in
the big gale on Green Bay. with all on
board. OF the crew only the names of
ofos,, nd foe
Stewardess, are known, the crew of five
men being strangers here. The Williams
was in tow of the steamer Sente Nadia,
which returned this afternoon and re-
ported the wreck.
DENVER. "A special 10 the Republican
from Santa Fe. N. NJ, says. Mrs. Bar
of New Mexico, has sold her ranch near
Nogales. in Lincoln county, TO Kansas
City parties for $4,000 cash. The sales