The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-21
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.


Word received here from Chill is that
that country is terrifying her coasts.
The railway lines leading Into Toronto
have been blocked with snow all day and
tonight with no prospect of lear track.
The fishing tug Jessie Enos, which was
abandoned by her crew just outside the
breakwater at Cleveland Ohio last night,
will probably be rescued.
The Winthrop miners who refused to go
to work at Ishpeming yesterday returned
later on the old plan of eight hours, the
difficulties having been adjusted.
The London Times announces that Hon.
Cecil Rhodes arrived at Beira, Portu-
gueSe Africa, on Thursday, and pro-
ceeded inland to Mashonaland
Yesterday afternoon twenty highly re-
spected ladies of Ladonia, Texas, Sc
verely cowhided Dr. Hancock because
he prescribed whisky.
Representative Gillett of Massachusetts
has introduced bill to protect state
anti-gambling laws from notification
through interstate gambling by tee graph,
telephone or otherwise.
Advices from Shanghai state that the
American ship Lyman ID. Foster has ar
rived from Port Townsend, Wash While
at sea, on February %, the cook became
insane and killed Captain Dryer.
The storm at Rochester, N Y, was
with in many years. Snow rloughs We're
worked all night and today ~ the roads
running into Rochester have had to
abandon or run trains behind time.
On account of the general depression in
the cloth market the Merrimac mills at
Lowell. Mass, which employ $500 people,
will on Monday close for one week. The
Lowell Manufacturing company will close
its Brussels department during the vame
time.
The English government gives wi
dence that considerable uneasiness is
! felt regarding the development of the
military situation in Africa The agrees
| sive movement of Osman Digna is a
special source of anxiety to the British
| government
At Milwaukee last night John Hobein-
ger. a railway employee, shot and killed
his mother-in-Iaw, Mrs. Katie Miller, and
fatally wounded his young wife. The
! tragedy occurred at Mrs: Miller's home
and was caused by Mrs. Hobelnger DeSln-
ming suit for divorce.
/ Admiral Selfridge, commanding the Eu-
ropean station, has lost his fleet engineer,
! through physical collapse. cablegram
received at the navy department today s
from him at Smyrna stated that Chief
Engineer McCarty has broken down and
/ was partially paralyzed.
The Choctaw Nation Republicans at a
mass meeting at South McAllister en-
dorsed William Mckinley for president
J
the Fort Smith, Ark, and Paris, Tex,
courts continuing jurisdiction over the
criminal courts of the Indian territory.
The house postoflice committee has au-
| thorized a favorable report on a bill in
! troduced by Representative keifer to in
crease the maximum salary of letter car
riers to cities of more than $4,000 popua-
! ton to $1,000 per annum and in cities with
a smaller population to $1,000 per annum.
The British ship Glenmora, in ballast
| tn nrt1 md acbn
| in heavy fog on the Washington coast,
about Is miles north of the mouth of the
Columbia river. Two sailors were killed
while leaving the ship. The remaining
% of the crew landed safely. The vessel
| will be total loss.
Immediately following the settlement
! of the American Watch company's strike
| at Waltham, Mass. comes notice from
| the management that the factory will be
| closed some time until further notice.
/ Manager Fitch says this is to secure a
more equitable division of the work some
! departments being able to go faster than
| others.
Assembly district conventions in New
| York, for the purpose of electing delega-
tiens to the Republican convention, we're
held in thrty-five districts last night
The First. Thirteenth, Eighteenth, Twen-
! ty-third, Twenty-Seventh and Inirty-hrSt
| were carried by the Brookfield men. The
Second was divided, while contrasting dele
! cations were sent from the Twelfth,
! Twenty-second. Thirtieth, Thirty-second
and Thirty-third districts. The remainder
of the districts were carried by the Plat
! men without opposition.
A sensation has been caused at An
thony, Harper county, Kas., by the ar
rest of Mrs. Redman, William Maddox,
| one of the leading men of the county,
| and 2 man named Clark, on charges of
| numbering the woman's husband. Charles
Redman, on the night of February %.
Mrs. Redman has made a. confession Her
statement Is that her husband had beaten
her and i'll treated her. Upon the adj
vice of Maddox, she says she hired Clark
for $50 to lie in wait for her husband and
shoot him.