The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-20
GENERAL NEWS CONDENSED.

GENERAL NEWS CONDENSED.
Mrs. Richard Hapson of Detroit sui
cided by drowning.
S. NJ. Farmer, the inventor residing in
Milwaukee, was run down and injured
by a West Madison cable car at Chi
cago.
| Senator Sherman says that Ohio is
not a. doubtful state The silver sentt-
ment, however. is reported to be MAX
ing much Roadway.
| Mrs. Sullivan, wife of Attorney Alex
ander Sullivan of Chicago, Is danger
ously ILL., Mrs. Sullivan is well known
in Chicago newspaper circles, being on
the editorial staff of the Times-Herald.
Omaha capitalists who are interested
| in the Trans Mississippi exposition to
be held at that place in 1898 have sub
scribed 100000.
Charles Boone, one OF the most wide
| ly known sporting men on the PACING
coast, is dead with indications that he
suicided by shooting himself in the
breast.
The gold Democrats Of Boston. Mass,
have openly bolted the Chicago ticket
and platform. The silver Republicans
have Joined with the free silver Demo-
Gratis, and have declared they will vote
! the Democratic ticket from Bryan
down to ward alderman.
Professor Francis ]. Child of Harvard
is dead. He attained to high position
/ in scholarship and was one of the most
learned men of the faculty of that
noted institution.
In a letter to the New York Tribune.
Andrew Carnegie says that the trouble
with the country is not the Wilson
! - far11 Tlf nf
men to lower the standard OF money.
Scarlet fever is prevalent at Ord, Ne
! braska.
Miss Eva Toomey of Rochester, n. Y,
fell from her bicycle in front OF an
/ electric car and was run over and in
stantly killed.
Louis Colomb, the defaulting book
keeper of the Union National bank,
New Orleans, is dead from the effects OF
poison aiken with suicidal intent.
Gold is being mined in large guam
titles al Rat Portage, Man.
The Mississippi Valley Medical asso-
citation is in session at St. Paul, Mimi.
There is a laundry war prevailing IN
Chicagv. The price of laundering SHIRTS
has been reduced to cents.
W. S. Forest, one Of the best known
attorneys in Chicago, was thrown from
his horse and probably fatally injured
Hugh Fisher of Anderson, Ind, was
cured OF epilepsy by transmitting the
disease tc pct dog.
At a Republican rally at Highland
park. Chicago, d 200-pound cannon ex-
nloded A piece of the cannon fell
| through the roof of Engineer McRsler-
sons house and fell on the floor close
to a crib containing q 4-year-old girl
No one was injured.
Joe Leonard of Cincinnati, to prove
that Steve Brodie's brddge-jlmptng rec
ord was nothing marvellous, on wager
of three kegs OF beer, jumped from the
Central bridge into the water, dls-
lance of 123 feet. Reaching the out
eide of The rail Leonard suspended hlm-
/ self in mid air momentarily, hanging by
his hands, and then releasing ms hold
shot downward with awful velocity
His legs were forced apart by the at
mospheric resistance and he turned
! partly over, striking the water with
I resoundng splash squarely on the
small of the back. He disappeared be-
meath the surface, and anXlously the
hundreds of spectators of his hazard
Gus feat watched for him to reappear,
which he shortly did, about ten feet
from where he had vanished from their
view beneath the water. Leonard shook
his head with as much unconcern as
one of the human WharfratS after TAX
/ ing a dive from q coal barge, and struck
out for a sl5iff that had put out to pick
him up. He got aboard the skill ana
was rowed ashore, when 1t was ols-
covered that he had made good his
boast and had escaped physical injury.
At the. annual sweet pea flower show
in Springfield, Mass, recently, no
fewer tnan 116 varieties of this pretty
blossom were shown.
Probably the oldest timber in the
world is found in the ancient temples OF
Egypt in connection with stone work,
which is known to be at least 4,OOO
wears old. This. the only wood used
in the construction of the temples, is
in the form of ties, holding the end
of one stem to another
With the decline of the grape crop in
! France, increased attention has been
paid to the cultivation of apples and
the production of cider, which has, in
a measure, superseded wine as the ma
tional drink official statistics just
published show that there were 67S,000,
600 gallons of cider produced in France
in 1895, being an increase Of 1877 900
gallons over the preceding year.
A Paris chief of the claque, who sued
a theater manager for breach of con-
tract, has ELECTED from the civil -r--
bunal of the Seine decision that the
claque is Illegal and contrary to pub
lie welfare on the grounds that it him
ders the expression of unbiased opln-
ion. destroys the liberty OF the paying
public and is likely to give rise to dis
turbanceS.
Everyone is familiar with the pine
nomenon CT echoes. In cave in the
Pantheon, the guide. by striking the
flap of his coat. makes a. noise equal to
a underground lannon's report. The
singu:arity is noticed. in q. lesser de-
gree. in the Mammoth cave, in Ken
lucky. In the cave of Smellin, near
Viborg, in Finland, cat or dog
thrown in will make a screaming
echo, lasting some minutes.
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