The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-17
GENERAL NEWS CONDENSED.

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DR.. Falcon, of Prairieburg, Ia, sui
cided by taking morphine.
The fire sufferers at ontonagon,
Mich, are calling for more supplies.
Crop reports from Iowa and Mime
sofa state that corn is beyond damage
by frost.
Farmer Henry steinke his wife and
daughter were killed by train at
Oshkosh, Wis.
Frank Ray, a Chicago clerk, was
found dead in his room, as the result
of asphyXiation.
A correspondent of the London Times
in Cuba reports that the insurgents are
gaining ground.
1t costs the city of St Paul, Mimi,
about S1SG,000 per year to maintain IT'S
fire department.
The safe of the Cudahy Packing com
pany, at Sioux City, Ia, was burglar
lied and $50 stolen.
John Morgan, coai miner fell so
feet down a shaft at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
and was instantly killed.
S. L. Hahn, of San Antonio, was
elected president of the Texas State
League of Republican Clubs.
Don Carlos Stevens, a balloonist, fell
from his parachute at Montreal Cam
ada, and was instantly killed.
The gold wing of the Democratic
party in Wisconsin has decided not to
place a state ticket in the field.
The Journeymen Horseshoers' union,
of ST. Louis, has decided to present w.
]. Bryan with a silver horseshoe.
Ex-City Detective Koran of st. Paul.
Mimi, is under arrest charged with
attempting to swindle a farmer out of
$2S.
Ed Wight, stone mason at Andover,
O., beat his wife's brains out with a
baseball bat and then cut his own
throat
Captain R. L. German, president of the
board of public works of st. Paul is
critically i'll. Appendicitis is the
trouble.
A man giving the name of George
and claiming to hail from Denver, was
arrested at Council Bluffs, Ia, for
burglary.
A C. Brunier, of Patterson. N. j.,
became demented over the death of his
wife and took poison, dying on his
wife's grave.
President Love. of the Cotton Grow
ers' association, places the entire crop
of 1895 at 100000 bales, considerably
less than last year.
B. S. Palsy, of Webster City, Ia,
placed a stick of dynamite under his
pillow touched a button and blew HIM
self and his house to pieces.
William Berl of Minneapolis attempt
ed suicide by jumping into the river
at Milwaukee. He was rescued and
sent to the Emergency hospital.
Infected plants, which will destroy all
horticultural specimens with which
they come in contact, are being import
ed to Seattle, Wash, from Japan.
HeaAh Commissioner Kempster of
Milwaukee reports that the treatment
of diphtheria patients with anti-toXine
was attended by success in every in
stance.
Clement Hooker, of Roweville. N. Y,
tried to play burglar and brighten his
sister-in-law. He got shot in the arm
and the doctor had to amputate it to
save his life.
Turpentine exploded in a drug store
at Wausau, Wis, wrecking the building
and seriously injuring William Bartel
and William Borchardt, clerks in the
establishment
William D. Hale, of Philadelphia, ac-
cidentaiLy shot his young wife and was
so grieved over it that he attempted
suicide. Both are at the hospital in a,
critical condition.
William Nicholson, while trying to
rescue am 11-year-old daughter of
George Burke, at Walnutport. Pa, was
run down by a passenger train. Both
bodies were terribly mangled.
The Canadian house of commons is
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of raising
the poll tax on Cinnamon from $50 to
$500. Some of the members advocate
the prohibition of Chinese immigration.
j. NJ. Folk, a carpenter of New York,
set UP Charles Flegnm in business as a
barber, and the latter shaved him for
thirty years. Folk recently died and
now FIemm has sued his estate for 1928
for services.
Mark Jones. a. banker at Grange,
Tex, who has been an advocate of
gold, has been converted TO free silver
He says the gold standard is aig right
for the large banking houses, but that
it is inimical to the smaller institutions
as well as detrimental 10 the people.
Henry Hildebrandt, clerk at George
Ringer & Co.'s brewery, New York
was held UP by robbers at high noon,
just as he was entering his own house,
and robbed of $1,000. He grappled with
one of the highwa ymen and succeeded
in holding him until the police arrived.
A dispatch from Odessa today says
that NJ. Kildischewsky, an electrician,
Has UlStONeISu an Improvement III the
telephone by the use of which distance
has no effect on the hearing, and he
may be able to phone across the At
iantic ocean. In a recent experiment
between Moscow and Rostoff, on the
Don, a distance of 500 miles, talking,
music and singing were heard with per-
feet distinctness. An ordinary tele-
graph wire was used. NJ. Kfldischew-
sky will go to London to experiment
with his Improvement on Atlantic
cables between London and New York.
Jesse Grant, the son of General Grant
who recently announced his withdrawal
from the Republican party. has made a
statement, setting forth his reasons.
He announces that he desires to be a.
candidate for United States senator,
and, favoring free coinage, the govern
ment ownership of railways and tele-
graph and other principles alike re-
jected by the Republican party, he
deemed it consistent with honor and
uprightness to join a party that main
tanned kindred ideas. He says there is
nothing to the talk OF Reputation, that
if credit is to be measured by the vol
ume of gold available the United States
is already guilty of Reputation, having
a mortgage debt of $19, 900, 900 600 with
only $500 600, 900 of gold to pay with.