The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-12
TISTELIES.

The supreme court and chancery
court of New Jersey have decided TO
refuse all credits on fees, etc. to at
torneys.
All the electric light and heat COM
panies of Philadelphia are consolidating
The capital Of the combine will be over
s., 100000.
Merchants of Council Bluffs have
taken up the problem of preventing
trade going across the river 10 ''inana.
The city attorney of ST. Louis has
rendered an opinion which viii result
in the taxation in 1897 of all church
and school personally in that city.
Philadelphia people are talking CT
providing their mayor with a summer
home. The residence of Benedict Ar
mold may be purchased for the pur-
pose.
The Illinois state board of health de-
cided at its recent session 20 prepare
some kind of a measure that VIII pro-
vide better sanitary laws for the 20.
Missouri is to vote this fall on con-
stitutional amendment reducing the
school age for children from 6 to D.
Physicians are fighting the amend
ment.
Windsor, Mich, has joined many
other smaller cities of the country in
having the curfew bell rung at s
o'clock to keep children off the streets
| after that hour.
The SLOGAN Star mine in Washington,
one of the biggest producers of silver
lead ores in the northwest, has made
q bid for eminence by declaring div
idend of 100000.
Chicago's Civic federation is to
prosecute the ice combine of that city
for its exorbitant prices on ice. The
ct of Trofffit for
nation of trusts and monopohes.
a great religious revival among
southern Illinois negroes terminated
one day last week. Forty-three INNER
] sions of new converts were made in
the presence of thousands of observ-
| ers.
1t has been found that the trial OF
/ Theodore Durrant, the convicted muir
derer in San Francisco. cost the city
! S16, 1913. The largest single item in the
! account was $500 for the stenograph-
/ ic reporter.
| Detroit, Mich, will probably emerge
| into the realm of modern municipali-
ties shortly by abolishing the toll gates
which have been a feature of many
/ of the streets and bridges of the city
/ for many years.
/ Justice Pryor, of the supreme court
| of New York has pronounced as. .mon-
/ anu illegal LIle DllS u tue
| police department Of the city for the
/ expenses of police spies who were used
| to get evidence against houses of ill
fame.
The latest sensation in connection
/ with the bankrupt condition of the
/ Chicago city finances is an investiga-
ton into the accounts of the school
architect, who has increased the ex-
pense of his department $4,000 in four
years.
A member of the United States fish
commission is on the Pacific coast try
| ing to find a trace Of a variety Of cum
ming crustaceans planted off Monterey
years ago by the government. but
which have always eluded capture.
In the raising of funds for the pro-
posed fiesta in San Francisco in the
fall the plan has been devised of sell
ing souvenir carnival medals as
means of raising money, the medals
/ themselves to entitle the holder to adj
mission to the festival.
The smaller telephone companies Of
| western Pennsylvania are endeavorinS
to form a combine to fight the Bell
| telephone company. The sympathy of
the public seems to be with the propos-
! ed combine because of excessive rates
alleged to be charged by the Bell COM
pany.
A fine distinction in style was epit-
omized by a New York woman who
was asked if she thought certain
! matron of her acquaintance pretty.
Rather" was the answer; but she
is not the style 1 admire; she is the
kind of woman that her servants all
ways y.''-Argonaut
Pretty Swiss petticoats, made with a
deep Spanish f1ounce, on which is
gathered a narrow lace-edged ruffae.
may be bought ready made, and will be
found an admirable substitute for silk,
under gowns Of dimity, organdie, etc.
A specially is made of cycling foot
gear at many of the largest shops. The
newest thing in this line is a shoe Of
cloth, made without seam and fas-
tened with a buckle and strap. which
passes over the instep and can be
regulated to any degree.
Shopping makes one moralize at
times. It's only a little thing to- be
, civil, but it's an enormous defect to
: be uncivil, and the woman who re-
! mains silent when she is courteously
5 addressed. be she saleswoman or Gus
toner, is guilty of the grossest. rude
| ness.
A devil fish, measuring 151z feet from
: the tip of enc OF his eight arms to the
tip of another and 10 feet from the top
of his head to the tip Of his longest
arm, was killed in the channel at Santa
! Barbara. Cal, by two boys a few days
ago. 1t was the largest devil fish ever
caught in those waters.