The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-12
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ry. The defense introduced no testimony.
FREDoNIA, Kan.-The flood in the fall
River valley has nearly passed, but the
flooded section is III bad shape, with its
previously heavy crops of all kinds III
many places totally destroyed. The flood
in 1889.
TACOMA, Wash.--A Ledger special
from Port Townsend SAYS that Winnie
today notifying her of the death of her
grandmother, who died in Boston, leaving
her $4,000. She has quit work and will
go east to get the money.
SAN FRANCISCO Occidental and
Oriental Steamship company has received
a cablegram from Yokohama to the effect
that if the weather continues favorable.
the Japanese coast last Sunday will prob
ably be saved. The passengers and mail
have been conveyed to Yokohama
ST. LoUIS.-Lawrenc Hanley, who is
filing season at the Grand Opera house
here IN The Player" has wired David
NJ Newberger, Il New York attorney, to
institute proceedings for divorce from his
wife, known on the stage as Edith Lem
inert: Mr. Hanley says his wife left him
IN Cincinnati last Tuesday.
CHICAGO.-A Washington special to
the Daily News says: Mrs. Francis Hold
son Burnett, author of Little Lord
tauntleroy," will hereafter live apart
from her husband. Mrs. Burnett is now
in London. Her husband admits that
mutual separation has been agreed upon
on the ground of incompatibility of tenn
per.
SANTA CRUZ, Cal-Arthur Owings,
who is wanted in Jasper county, Mo, on
a charge of seduction, is under arrest in
this city awaiting eXtradition papers from
Governor Stone, of Missouri. The COM
plalnant in the case is Miss Bertha Spon-
able, a member of a prominent family in
Jasper county. Owings was indicted last
October.
NEW YORK.-The officers of the Clyde
line steamer Delaware, which has just
arrived i'll this port from Hayti reports
that while they lay. at Port de Paix.
they heard that a great ire had ragged at
could not be confirmed because the tele-
graph wires were down between Port de
Paix and Gonaives at the time.
DULUTH, Minn.-The receipts of new
grain from the Dakotas and this state
by far exceed the big receipts of 1891, the
big crop year, Receipts reported yester-
day, were 1,4S1 cars. against 700 in 1891.
and the railroads are preparing for even
larger receipts in the next few days.
About 80 per cent. of the grain, it is said,
is badly smutted.
1SHPEMING, Mich.-Agent Hall, of the
Lake Superior Iron company, informed
the men formerly employed at section Il
mine, that if they did not report for work
on or before o'clock this evening, the
mine would be closed down for an indie
finite time. Mr.. Hail says if the men do
not return to work the mine will be
closed until spring.
CHICAGo,-A difference of five cents a
garment between employees and the F.
SiegePS Bros. cloak making establish
ment of this city, has caused a strike in
Makers union has takeA up the fight
and members of the union have pledged
| an assessment of from 10 to 10 per cent
of their earnings to support the strik-
ers,
SACRAMENTO. Cal-Wells. Fargo K
Co.'S agent in this city today paid to
! Louis r. Kelly, Daniel A. Thompson and
which was recovered by them while
searching in Yolo county for treasure
taken from train last October by Brady
| and Browning, and by them buried. Kelly
$3.50, one-fourth of $3.50, which they re-
covered for the express company.
WAsHINGTON.-The announcement
| that the syndicate has deposited in the
sub-treasury S3,000,00O in gold, was re-
| ceived at the treasury department with
much satisfaction. The earlier notice
that $1.100,000 had been withdrawn made
| the news all the more gratifying. The
| amount Of the reserve at the close OF
! business was $685. COS.
SAN FRANCISCO.-An attachment for
| Sc, 900 was placed on the jewelry of Ham,
mersniith & Field today by the California
! Jewelry company. The attachment is to
| recover the amount due oh nine prom1s-
sorry notes. The embarrassment of the
I &f,syNa IA Hn On 70 fDil IIfT6 tn
make collections. The firm of Hammer
I smith &, Field has long been one of lhe
largest jewelry houses on the Pacific
| coast
! MADISON, VISA telegram received
at the governors office from the Ameri-
can consul general at Quebec announces
that there are thirteen Wisconsin Indi-
ans stranded in that city that were en-
! gagged at Black River Falls by Wild
west show. The show has gone to pieces
and left the red men with their squaws
and papooses without means of support.
| The department at Washington will be
notified.
sCITHATE, R. Lone of the most ter
rible thunder storms experienced in
many years has just visited this section
and $1,000 worth of property has been
| destroyed in the neighborhood of the for
mer home of eX-Congressnan Charles II.
Page. The famous General Lafayette
tree was split in 1wo The tree is the
only historical one i'll Rhode Island. and
is the one under which the General ate
his dinner while the Continental troops
were marching from Rhode Island to
Connecticut.
CHICAGO.-Sentinel Jack Kress, who
shot private James Coffey at Fort Sheri-
dan yesterday, as he was attempting TO
escape, used one of the new Krag-Jor-
gersen rifles. Coffey is said to be the
first man killed in the country by the new
rifles now used by the United States sol
d;ers Coffey was fifty yards away when
Kress fired. The nickel pointed ball
passed through Coffey S head. then II
went through tree eight inches in di-
ameter, and afterwards buried itself
three feet deep IN the hillside thirty
yards beyond.
TACOMA, Wash--A million dollar
mortgage was filed with the auditor to-
day, being given by the Tacoma Land
company on its Tacoma property, valued
at over S5,0OO,0O9, to the Provident Life
and Trust company, OF Philadelphia, ia
secure a loan of S1,000,000 The proceeds
are being used in the construction of a
10000 ton wheat warehouse, the purchase
ard filing in of a portion of the Tacoma
tide flats and dredging Of waterways.
The loan is evidenced by an issue of 1,0N
81, eco bonds, running for twenty years