The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-15
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

The Republicans of the Third Illinois
district have renominated Hugh r.
Belknap for congress.
Jacob Vogel 6 Sons. pork packers of
Cincinnati, assigned to Frank ]. Dor
ger. Assets, $4,000; liabilities not
known.
The steamship Ethiopia. from GIas-
cow to New York, in which several
Utah people are interested, reached
port last night
The so-called Maybrick committee in
London has submitted an exhaustive
presentation of Mrs. Maybrick's case
to the home secretary, presenting new
and important matters for his consid-
Grafton.
The British and Foreign Arbitration
association has delegated one of its
vice presidents to visit the United
States in order to obtain matter for a
report to the association upon the Ven
ezuelan boundary dispute md its out
come.
Today in Grace Hospital the value 70
surgery of Professor Roentgen's dis
covery was again demonstrated A
woman patient whose foot had caused
her intense pain was submitted to the
cathode rays and the photograph re-
yealed the presence of needle.
Judge Lacomb in the United States
district court at New York yesterday
afternoon adjourned the hearing on
the application for an injunction re-
straining the Joint Traffic association
from operating under its agreement
until March 6. 1t will then come be-
fore Judge Wheeler.
John r. Gentry, the champion pac-
ing stallion of the world. was the star
of yesterdays sale by W. B. cFasig OF
thoroughbred horses at Madison
Square garden, New York. Gentry
was started at $4,000 and run up by
$500 jumps to $1,000. at which figure he
was transferred to William Simpson,
a. pawnbroker.
A telegram received by the Science
Observer of Boston announces the dis
covery of a new comet by Perrine, one
of the astronomers at Ninee. The fol-
lowing position was secured at the OBJ
servatory of Kiel in Prussia, February
is, 7:05 Greenwich mean time: Right
ascension 10h Ann. 48s., declination
south 2 degrees q minutes seconds.
On the request Of counsel for the
bondholders, the hearing on the ap-
p0intment of receivers for the North
ern Pacific railroad, which was to have
gone on today in the United States
circuit court before Judge Lacomb
was adjourned for one week. The ad-
jOurnment was opposed by counsel
representing the railway company.
Governor Mcintyre has issued a
proclamation forbidding the importa-
ton of cattle and horses into Colorado
from California, Texas, Oklahoma and
all states and territories south of the
thirty-si:xth parallel of north latitude,
except upon certificate of inspection is
sued by the state veterinary board GER
tifying that the animals are free from
Texas or splenic fever.
Julius u. Fredericks. who was a ser
geant Of the Greeley expedition that
reached latitude 1924, 394 miles from
the pole, said he thought it was within
the bounds of possibility that hansen
had reached the north pole, but it was
improbable that he had reached it and
started down the east coast Of Green
land. Sergeant Fredericks thinks it
probable that the pole is on land.
Timothy Hea1y has written to
Thomas Sexton, urging him. on the
ground of party needs, to reconsider
his refusal Of the Craftsmanship Of the
party and Offering to withdraw from
the party If that will purchase Mr.
Sections acceptance, or the heartiest
cooperation of the HeaIyites whose
only wish, he says, is to make MI
Sections tenure Of the chair agreeable
and honorable.
A special from Frankfort to the
Louisville Post says: The five gold
standard Democrats are unanimous in
saying that the petition forwarded to
Secretary Carlisle by friends of Sena-
tor Blackburn, asking him to use his
influence to induce them to vote for
effect on them. No one here believes
the secretary will pay any attention
to the petition.
A dispatch to the London Times
from St Petersburg says No conffr-
nation has been received Of the news
that DR. Nansen has discovered the
north pole and is returning to ciViliza-
ton. If he IS returning, his own dis
patches are likely to arrive before any
answer is available to inquiries to such
wild regions, devoid as they are Of
telegraph or other means of regular
communication.
Former Chief of Police Thomas
Byrnes will leave New York early next
week for Hot Springs to remain there
for about two months. He says that
his visit to the springs Is not in quest
of health but merely for recreation.
Saving an occasional twinge Of rheu-
matism, his health has never been bet
ter. While away he proposes to finish
the second volume of his book "Pro-
fessional Criminals of America" which
is a continuation of his first book with
additions which will bring it fully up
to date. 1t was while travelling in Eu-
rope last summer that Mr.. Byrnes was
struck by the necessity for a work that
should place the authorities in posses
sion of all obtainable information re-
garding criminal type.