The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-24
DOMESTIC DOTS.
Telegraph News From All Parts of
the Land Over Which the Stars
and Stripes Wave.


The Dime Savings bank, at Milwaukee.
has closed.
Fire in st. Paul, yesterday. did 500, 900
damage.
Buchanan has been granted g respite
of one week.
The speed trial of the Minneapolis has
proven satisfactory.
Secretary Gresham has returned from
New York and attended the cabinet
meeting yesterday.
The Nyack, N. Y, postofice was
robbed last night of nearly $3.50. The
safe was blown open.
The navy department has been notified
Of the arrival of the United States
steamship San Francisco at Mersin.
Asia Minor.
Ex-Representative Pearson, of Ohio,
has declined the position of mineral land
commissioner to which he was recently
appointed.
Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt
has decided to accept the police commits
sonership for the city of New York,
rendered him by Mayor Strong.
In the New York assembly, last night,
the bill to make Lincolns birthday ma
tional holiday, February Il, was passed
without a dissenting vote.
Shipments will commence on May 1 Of
5000 young trout to be placed in the
streams of Natrona county. Wy. by
Fish Commissioner Schnitger.
Frederick Baker, alleged defaulting
clerk of the Shoe and Leather Bank, of
New York, has friends who hope to
prove his innocence.
Mrs. ParneI is now in a critical con-
dition. She has had five commissions
since early this morning and has grown
much weaker.
James H. Eckles. comptroller Of the
currency, has declined an offer to be-
come financial editor of the Chicago
Times-Herald at a large salary.
The Minnesota legislature has dealt
body blow to every kind of gambling on
horse races by sending to the governor
a bill forbidding bookmaking and pool
selling.
Chaplain McCabe, of New York, ap
peared before the Troy conference, in
behalf of the Methodist building now
being erected in Rome, Italy, and re.
ceived subscriptions amounting to $3.50.
James r. Holland. cashier of the Mer-
chants and Farmers National bank, of
Charlotte S. c., has been discovered
short in his accounts to the amount of
$4,000.
Mrs. William Taylor, known as 1.-The
Virginia Fat Midget" a museum char
acter, is dead at Peru, Ind. She was
three feet tall and weighed over 400
pounds.
Two thousand tallors on ready-made
work struck yesterday in New York in
obedience to an order of the Tailors'
Progressive union for an increase of
wages Of from 10 to 10 per cent. over last
years prices.
New York retail butchers declare that
consumers need to look for no relief I'M
til next fall and there may be no
appreciable decrease in the present high
rates then. They say the demand ex-
ceeds the supply.
The police of Chicago have identified
the woman who drowned herself and
child on Monday. as the wife of man
named Root. She recently came. from
the west. The theory is that she found
him with another and that they quar-
relied.
A recent shipment of beef from Casper,
wy, to the Chicago market by the
Carey cattle outfit netted s6S21 per head.
One steer in the bunch weighed 1000
pounds, and brought in Chicago sSS. 10.
The cattle were range steers fattened on
native hay and alfalfa.
Yesterday afternoon the live stock SAN
itary commission of Eureka, Kan. issued
an order that the cattle brought here
from Arizona last Sunday be immediate
~ removed from the state, and that the
Santa Fe yards in which they were quar-
tered be placed in quarantine.
An evidence of Los Angeles good
standing in financial circles yyas given
today when $4,000 in bonds were sold
to Street, Wyke & Co., New York at AS
per cent. premium. Bidding was very
spirited.
Patrick Slayin of San Francisco and
Jack Mccarthy of Chicago, fought late
last night on an island near Alton, ILL.,.
at welter weights. The fight lasted nine
rounds. Mccarthy was knocked out by
a blow on the point of the chin.
The Omaha live stock exchange yes
terday censured Secretary of Agricul-
ture Morton for his erroneous ideas at
present working to the great detriment
of the cattle interests of the country in
creating a wrong impression as to the
relative cost of cattle and beef"
The miners employed in the Germapia
mines of Henry Floerscheim, on the
Wheeling division of the Baltimore &
Ohio, have struck against a reduction
from Sc to 60 cents. Floerscheim says
ne will have no trouble in getting all the
miners he needs at a 60-cent rate.
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