The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-23

in a verdict of murder in the second de-
gree and assessed his punishment at
Ray had a fight with Grain several
months ago and the same day drove up
to Grains house and shot him dead with
a shot gun. Ray went out to Montana
but was recaptured.
YANKTON. S. D.-South Dakota Of
ficials have completed an appraisement
of defaulter Taylors lands and finds
Bondsmen will have to make this up.
and action will be begun against them
at once.
today absolutely and emphatically denied
that there was any truth in the state
ment published today to the effect that
the state department finds that Wellers
States has no substantial ground on
which to base demand for indemnity.
CHICAGO.-Melville T. Roberts. ex-
bank Of this city. which ili II failed Ill during
the panic few years ago, was arrested
today on a bench warrant issued by
Judge Hutchinson, charging him with
c. P. Packer, ex-president of the defunct
Park national bank, on similar charges
BROWNSVILLE, Ky.-At Stony Point.
this county. last night. the cabin of Glib
son Armstrong, colored, was destroyed
by fire. His daughters, Nancy and Fan
ME Armstrong, and his niece, Mollie
Whitney, were burned to death. James
Wright. Armstrong; step-son, who had
uuarreled with his foster father, is sup
posed to have set the cabin on fire. He
has fled, but officers and neighbors are in
pursuit.
ST. LOUIS.-The ST. Louis board of
fire underwriters seem to have recog-
nized sex in business and to have drawn
the lime upon the new woman. At
meeting of the board the firm of F. F.
Hirschberg & Bro. was expelled for al
legged violation of the rules in employing
a. female solicitor, Mrs. E. NJ. Cent?,
who succeeded to her husbands bust
ness under the terms of contract held
with Hirschberg e. Bro.
NEW YORK.-Ives, the billiardist,
sailed on the Fuerst Bismarck. He goes
to Madrid, where he has a two months
engagement to play exhibition games
and later he may appear in Paris. In
the latter city the academies are reopen
ing after spell of inactivity and some
important matches may be played there
later on. Ives departure necess1tates
the FORGETTING his match with Gala
CHER, the king of the short stops.
CHICAGO.-A special to the Post from
Washington says: Representative Otey,
q IL Slllld OOUS ItSSLldU, announces HIS
purpose to introduce bill to appropriate
S27,0O0 900 for the benefit of the ex-Confed-
crate soldiers, conditional upon an equal
amount being appropriated by the states
in which the Confederate veterans live.
His proposition is founded on the plea
that the $27, 900 represents the proceeds
OF captured property turned into the fed
eral treasury during the war and that
the people of the south have a moral
claim for the money.
DIES MONIES, Ia.-An important deci-
sion has been rendered by Judge Hind
man in the district court at MARSHALL
town. The court sustains and makes
perpetual the temporary injunction is
sued last June restraining the Soldiers
Home management from Withholding
any part of the pension money Of in
mates for the support of the institution.
This is the outcome of case that caused
more bitter feeling in the Old Soldiers
home. in Grand Army circles and among
turbing incident since the home was
erected.
FRANKFORT, Ky-A strong effort is
Clay, the Bourbon county forger, now
serving a ten years term here. a num-
Der of prominent men are interesting
themselves, and Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay,
stood to have made a strong personal
appeal for clemency. The fact that
Hume Clay was sent for yesterday by
the governor and spent some time in the
executive Office. is regarded as signif-
cant. Clay's Aforgeries aggregated $780,
0O0.
CINCINNATI-T Commercial Ga
zette will tomorrow state on high official
authority that the trustees and directors
of the Presbyterian Western Theological
seminary may this week, in secret session
at Allegheny City. Pa, accept the propo-
sition that the Presbyterian general as
sembly shall have final control of theo-
logical seminaries and veto power over
the election of professors, instructors and
trustees and that all such elections to
be legal must have the approval Of the
eeneral assembly,