The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-24
GENERAL NEWS CONDENSED,

Henry y. Payne OF ONO lett fortune
of $4,000, COO
Henry Hickey of Wapakoneton, N. Y.
was gored to death by a bull.
A. ]. Hunter accidentally shot and
killed his wife at Greenfield, Mo. :.
Alderman Frank Gazzolo of Chicago
was beaten and robbed by footpads.
Ex-Alderman William Dwyer of New
York well known in politics, is dead.
The Galley L." road, Chicago, was
sold at auction for s4,100,000.
Fourteen cars loaded with seal skins
were hauled east over the Union Pa
cific.
Cars are being sent west from east
ern market centers to move the west
ern stock of sheep.
William Bishop, drunken sailor, fell
81 feet from the top of a Cincinnati
bridge and escaped injury
The gross receipts of the Illinois Cen
trail for the month of August amounted
to S1,67S, 1916, an increase of $3.50
Ed. Crane, once noted pitcher of the
New York ball team, committed sui
eide at the Congress hotel, Rochester,
N. Y.
Emil Renbaugh, a German naturalist.
fell from a cliff while touring in the
stantly killed.
Alonzo ]. Whitman, convicted in
California of forgery and sentenced to
nine years, has been granted new
trial by the supreme court.
An Indignation meeting to protest
against the prison treatment accorded
DR.. Thomas Gallagher and other polit-
ical prisoners will be held in New York
September %.
julius Gotleib of New York was at
tackled with nasal hemorrhage and is
slowly bleeding to death at Mount ST.
mai hospital The physicians are I'M
able to render assistance
Mrs. A. Bayrel, No. Is Sedgwick
court, Chicago, discovered in small
closet in a house recently rented a
documents. The police are investigat-
ing.
Typhoid fever prevails to an alarm
ing extent in the Illinois hospital for
the insane at Kukakee. Twenty-Five
inmates are now down with the dread
disease. There are over 1000 inmates
in all.
Anthony Bower, an umbrella member,
living the life of hermit and residing
in cave at Beaver Falls, Penn. has
fallen heir to a fortune of S1,000,000
through the death of relative in
France.
Emil Haberland, ex-marshal of Col
fax, died at the county hospital in
Denver from the effects of a. shot fired
by Marshal Bachenberg of Colfax.
Bachenberg is in Jail awaiting the
result of an inquest.
The common council of Allegheny,
Penn, has decided that all the bonds
and city sureties issued since 1877 are
illegal. Special legislation will have to
be enacted to legalize the bonds issued
during tbe last twenty years. 1t
amounts to millions.
The taxpayers of Chicago are trying
to abate the township system in Cock
county. A petition containing $1,000
names has been filed with the county
commission, asking that the question of
abolition be submitted to a vote of the
people at the coming general election.
Big Jim, chief of the Pottawatomies
at Norman, Oklahoma, fined Joe john
son, an Indian who had killed two other
Indians, $40 and two ponies, and when
the sheriff arrested Johnson the big
chief exclaimed: white mans court
too severe" The killing was in cold
blood.
A committee from the common coun-
Gil of the city of Milwaukee, appointed
to look into the kind of material best
adapted to municipal thoroughfares, has
reported in favor of asphalt, first; brick,
second, and granite, third. Cedar and
cypress blocks are pronounced unfit for
paving.
Two balloons were seen to pass over
Jacksonville, Fla, and it is thought
that the Cuban insurgents had sent
them out to elude the Spanish and
eret immortal t MESA PPS tn the CtubaO
junta in New York. When seen they
were travelling in a northeasterly di-
rection and were about 5000 feet above
the earth.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes
a dispatch from its Philadelphia CORES
pondent in which it is stated that by
direction Of Mark Hanna emissaries are
being sent out among free silver Re
publicans to tell them that four years
from now the Republicans will not OPP
pose free coinage. The correspondent
states that Hanna has become alarmed
at the spread of silver sentiment among
the common people of the east.
The New York police arrested three
Frenchmen who were giving an exhi-
pition with Two large Russian bears.
The men were locked up, and so were
the bears. Now the police are Won
dering what to do. They have two
vicious bears to care for and no officer
is brave enough to unlock the bear
cells and take the dumb, but refrac-
tory, prisoners into court. One officer
started to do it and got a blow from
one of the bears that sent him Keeling
to the floor. The judge has ordered
the bears produced in court and has
been politely invited to take a hand
in producing them.