The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-06

NEW YORK-John e. Searles, treas
! urer of the American Sugar refining COM
| pany says that the meeting to declare the
! preferred stock of the company will be
! ED tomorrow at II O'Clock, provided a
| quorum can be secured Several of the
directors are out of town today.
DENVER was. begun in the
! United States district court today by
Joseph Manual, who vas seriously injured
III the Gumry hotel boiler explosion,
administrator of the estate of Peter
! Gumry, for $4,000 damages and $1,000 for
! doctors bills and other expenses. The
complaint alleges that the boiler was I'M
! safe and the engineer incompetent.
| WASHINGTON.-Aft many years as
a recruiting ship at New York, lying at
anchorage in the. North river, the old
! Put out of commission and the boys
| aboard are to be transferred TO the Yer
mont, lying at Brooklyn navy yard. BY
| consolidating the forces on one ship the
! department will save the services of 60
men and effect other economies.
ROCKFORD, Ills.-Commander-in- Chief
| Lawler has received an invitation for the
G. A. r. to attend the opening of the
| Cotton States International exposition at
Atlanta, the 21st inst. IT came too late
to be promulgated from headquarters,
yet he is anxious the comrades should
know they are invited 70 mingle with
those who were gray from 1861 to 1867,
and trusts large number will be there.
BROOKLYN.-The members of the ma
| val court martial ordered to try the
charges preferred against Captain George
w. Summer, in reference to the injuries
sustained by the United States cruiser
Columbia, while being locked in South
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day. Lieutenant j. M. Helm, who was
formerly attached to the cruiser Column
bia, and at the time OF her being docked
at Southampton, was the first witness
called today.
CHICAGO.-Railway passenger men re-
port that the amount Of Grand Army
business will this year be rather smaller
than usual. 1t is particularly light
through Chicago, as none of the business
that can be possibly routed i'll any other
direction is being brought through here,
the roads being afraid that so doing
would have a tendency to unsettle the
standard rates.
WASHINGTON The twelfth annual
convention of the Association of Agricul-
tural Chemists. representing agricultural
college stations and other branches of the
agricultural service in more than thirty
two states. opened here today. The ses-
sions today were devoted to a discussion
of the methods of analysis of potash fer
1ilizers and cattle foods. about Is dele
gates are present.
CHICAGO.-NTrs. Sarah CarIin. who
lives at 16 Bixbv place, became alarmed
about one of her children. Men were at
work tearing down a frame cottage at II
Bixby place and she feared the children
might be exposed to danger from the
falling ruins. She crawled Under the tot
tering structure and just then it fell. 10
rescue her it became necessary to pry up
the timbers and to cut through a floor.
When she was taken out 1t was found one
of her arms were broken and she had sus-
tained dangerous incerna1 Injuries. She
was taken to the hospital.
CINCINNATI-The Central German NJ
z. conference has indicated it's position on
the subject of admission Of women as
delegates to the geNcal conference. 1t
will be almost unanimously opposed. Its
committee reported in favor of what is
called the Baltimore amendment which
provides that women shall not be eligible
1t is said that no action will be taken
on the Hamilton amendment on the
ground that it is informal. Action upon
the report will be taken tomorrow.
BOSTON.-The cruisers New York.
Minneapolis. and Raleigh, of the White
squadron, that have been in the harbor
for the past five days, weighed anchor at
IL o'clock this morning and started for
Fishers island, where drills will be held
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island by another section Of four vessels
completing a squadron ana the fleet IN
der command of Admiral Bunce will
have heavy gun practice and naval bril-
gade drill on shore.
CLEVELAND.-The Railway Black
| smiths National association adjourned to
meet in Chicago next year, after electing
Sacramento Cal: first vice-president. r.
A. Mould, New York; second vice-presi-
dent Harry Jeffrey, Pittsburg; secretary
treasurer G. +. Henkins, Gladstone,
Mimi; executive committee A. L.. Wood
worth, John Bulky. T. E. Roeffle and H
a. Falk.
WARREN, O.-Charles Bray, manager
of the Beaver Tin Plate mills, at Lisbon
O., said todav that it would be impos-
sible much longer for the tin plate makers
in this country 10 compete with the for
eign manufacturers. The recent rise in
the price OF steel billets. he said, would
increase the cost of plates to point
| where competition would be impossible
and it would be necessary to close the
| mills.
WASHINGTON.-A dispatch has been
received at the state department from D.
lynch Pringle, charge d'affaires at Guat-
emala, announcing the discharge by the
| authorities of Robert J. Rreckinridge and
! c. G. Golf, both citizens of the United
| States. These men were arrested on sue-
| picion of being implicated in the murder
on the 18th of July, of P. o. Brooks,
cashier of an agency company at Living
| Ston.
| WASHINGTON.-The idea of attempt
| ing to dock the battleship India II the
| United States preliminary to ner speed
trial has been abandoned and Mr.. Cramp
! is now about to arrange for docking the
ship at Halifax. He first will assure him
self that the dock is of sufficient depth
! and width to receive the Irdiann easily
and will send a corps of his own expert
| workmen with the ship to place the blocks
! beneath the keel and insure the vessel
against improper treatment in the dock
1t is a matter of regret to the navy de-
partment that this, the first of our big
| battleships, must be sent away from the
| United States to be put into service, but
in view of the condition of our own docks
there is no help for it.