The news boy., 1896-03-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

GOLD has been discovered in the CITY
Creek canyon. within the city limits of
Salt Lake. Utah. Assays are reported
running as high as $500 gold and $40 in
silver per ton.
THE remains of Gov. Greenhalge
were inferred at Lowell, Mass. on the
9th. After private service for MEM
bers of the family and immediate
friends. public services were held in
the First Congregation church.
A DISPATCH from Lincoln. Ncb., on
the 10th. said: Gen. John NJ. Thayer
is dying at his home here, and his end
is expected at any moment. He as.
sumed active charge Of the Mckinley
campaign few weeks ago, and by
| overwork was taken ill and can not re.
cover. He is about seventy years of
| age, and has received more honors than
any man in the state"
The Massachusetts legislative COM
mittee on constitutional amendments,
| on the 10th. reported reference to the
next legislature of a petition for an
amendment giving women the right
| of suffrage.
GEN. BooTH of the Salvation army
arrived in London unexpectedly, on
the 9th, overland from Brindisi, in re-
sponse to urgent appeals from head
quarters for his advice regarding the
American situation.
A FAVORABLE report was made, on
the 10th, by the house commerce COM
mittee on t.. bill for third bridge
across the Mississippi river at St.
Louis.
THE Raines liquor tax bill passed
the New York senate, on the 10th, by
vote of 81 to Is.
SIR AUGUSTUS W. L. HEMMlNe, the
newly-appointed governor of British
Guiana, sailed from Southampton for
New York, on the 11th, on board the
steamer Havel, en- route for his new
post.
CARDINAL SAToLLI arrived in Chicago
on the 11th. from Omaha.
SAMUEL RUSSELL, a coachman, and
two children, Carlos II. Blac!sman
eight years old, and Willis 4. Black
man, Jr., 18 years old, were killed, ant
Marguerite Blackman, ten years old
was seriously injured, her right leg
being broken and her body bruised, by
/ tiClk bCluS otiuth ny Il tIdll
at Hinsdale, Chicago suburb, on the
night of the 10th.
CHARLES c. HAYS, boy, died o.
smallpox, on the night of the 10th, a
the Eruptive hospital in Louisville, Ky
Two other children in the house il
which he lived on Frankfort avenue
were reported down with the dis
ease.
Mr.. GLADSTONE arrived .in London
OIL the 10th, from his trip to the Ri
viera. in excellent health.
X SENATOR DAVID B. HILL and Benja
min Dos Passos, of New York, actin.
rs attorneys for the state, have filed al
appeal in the matter of the Jay Goul
estate. They make four separate count
of S., ,O00, 900 each, and say that to eS
empt those moneys from the trinsfe
tax affords every descendant an cas-
method for evadlng the statute, an
that it is expressly fraud.
ONE of the most disastrous accident
in the history of the Delaware, Susque
hanna & Schuylkill railroad happene
! at Gum Run, Pa, on the 11th, when tn
boiler of an engine attached to a coa
train exploded, killing four men an
fatally injuring one other.
WILLIAM WEHRLI, residing in Wood
|, county, Okla, was found dead IN hi
house on the 18th. He was sitting az
right in his chair with bullet in hi
! head, the worls of some assassin. Their
|. is no clew Io the murderer.
Il A GANG of Mexican desperadoe
crossed the river, on the 1lth, nea
Fort Hancock, Tex. land captured a,5t
sheep, belonging to a Mr.. Pitehery
They drove the sheep to the Mexica
> side and into the plaina The Mex
' can frontier guards started in hot pu
. suit OF the shieves.
al r. H. McDoSAIp, Jr., president {
, the defapct Pacific bank O. San F'rar
. cisco. was, ON the lIth. acquitted Of th
j charge Of sslsifying the records OF tb
) concern. Mcdonald was arrested IN
y yssss sCo. after the failure, and hs
4 been n px3son over since. The inr
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