The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
DOMESTIC DOTS.
Telegraph News from All Parts of the
Land Over Which the Stars and
Stripes Wave.

A bible printed in 1885 has been found II
Eureka, Gala
The Bank Of Commerce of New Kirk
o. T.. has failed.
The Goulds have won the suit brought
against them by the Sailors and Soldiers
home.
Judge Windes has discharged Charles
j. and Frank r. Meadowcraft, insolvent
bankers, from indictments for receiving
deposits after they knew the bank was
! insolvent
Mayor Strong has asked for the resig-
! nations of Police Commissioners Murray
and Kerwin. Republicans. Colonel Grant
and Theodore Roosevelt are to be ap-
! pointed to succeed them.
The Modoc Gold Mining company, at
! Leadville, has uncovered three and one
half feet of ore, carrying ten ounces to
! the ton, and from 10 to 80 per cent lead
1t is nea.' The Little Johnnie.
Mrs: Fred D. Grant is now quoted as
saying that Mrs. Sartoris has stated pos
itively to all members of her family that
there is no truth whatever in the report
of her engagement to General Douglas.
Rev William Walker, of Denver, has
reached Rochester, driving a team of
hardy Indian ponies attached to prairie
schooner. He said he had driven all the
way to New York for the benefit of his
health.
James F. Wilson, said to be wanted in
Brooklyn, n. Y, for a $4,000 swindle.
was arrested at Lexington Ky. today. It
is charged that he ordered a large con-
signment of shoes on credit sold them I'M
der the hammer and disappeared.
The resignation of Charles Lyman,
member of the civil service commission,
is in the hands of the president. 1t is re-
garded as likely the commission will be
practically reorganized. Lyman and
Roosevelt, Republicans, will retire; Proc
tor, Democrat, will continue a member.
Insurance Commissioner Rose has noti-
fed the American Benevolent Legion Of
California that they would have to cease
operations in Texas. as they were in the
state in violation of the law and had
made false representations to the insur-
ance department as to their capital stock
and object of their association.
The Texas and Louisville Lumber assoc
citation has. resolved to abstain from SELL
ing lumber to other than legitimate lum-
Der dealers and that lumber for oil mills,
compressers, steam power elevators, street
and other railroads, government buildings
wharf companies and foreign bridge COM
panies must be purchased from middle
men. It was also resolved to lessen the
output one-third.
1t is announced that the entire inter
est OF John NJ. ftEfheS, IN the dry SOOQS
firm of Hilton. H1ghes & Co., has been
purchased by his partner, Albert P. Hill
ton, who VIII in the future conduct the
business alone. It is understood that the
present firm name will remain unchanged.
The business of the firm of Hilton,
Hughes & Co. is the continuation of the
immense business so firmly established
by the late A. T. Stewart. Since his
death it has undergone many changes.
Norton Reed, of Hartford, Conn, COM
mitted suicide by taking arsenic while
harboring the hallucinations that he was
under the hypnotic influence of Svengali
the bad man of DuMaurier's novel
Asked why he attempted suicide, Reed
said, ii was because that villain Sven
gall hypnotized him. I tried to sing this
afternoon and he would not let me. The
only way 1 can escape him is by dying.
Do YOU think he can hypnotic me after
I am dead? He wanted to know whether
he would see Trilby and Little Billee in
Heaven. Soon after this he died.
A jury in the district court at Fort
Scott, Kas., yesterday awarded 1000 dam
ages to John H. Mohler, an old man,
who sued A. c. Dark, superintendent of
the county poor farm under the Llewell-
ing regime, for damages suffered by him
as the result of maltreatment while an |
inmate of the institution under the adj |
ministration of Dark. Mehler proved !
that he had been beaten and imprisoned |
without cause in foul smelling and YER |
cell and imprisoned, too, |
beyond a reasonable length of time.