The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-25
News of the World Caught and
Condensed.

of Prince Henry of Battenburg.
w. K. Gillett, general auditor of the
Atchison road, has resigned. He will
remain with the road until May 1.
Captain B. ]. Tracy, the famous
horseman of Lexington, KY, has as
signed. Assets, $4,000; liabilities, $780,
0o0
The president has sent to the senate
the nomination Of Patrick S. Maggie to
be marshal of the territory Of Okla
homa.
William T. Ash, shoe manufacturer
of Lynn, Mass, has assigned to B. L.
KimbalL Liabilities, $65,U00; assets, I'm
known.
The tenth annual convention of the
Improved Order Bnap Birth takes place
on Sunday and Monday at Webster
hall, New York.
Mrs. John w Mackey and her family
are en- route from London for the Unit
ed States with the remains of her son,
John w. Mackey, jr.
Senator Lodge, in canvassing the SEN
ate on the Monroe doctrine, has been
able 10 find only eight votes against
the Davis resolution.
Galveston was selected as the next
meeting place of the National Editor
ial association. Salt Lake was an ap-
plicant for the honor.
George Ward, a Cherokee Indian,
was hanged at Vanburen, Ark, yester-
day, for murder. He was a noted des-
perado and all-round criminal.
The Canadian Pacific earnings for
the week ending January q were $341,-
600, as compared with $274,000 for the
corresponding period of last year.
OF the five Lawrence brothers who dis
tinguished themselves in India, has
died at Biarritz.
The funeral services of General
Thomas Ewing, who died on Tuesday
last in New York, were held in Yon-
kers, n. Y, yesterday.
It is reported from London that the
shipments of gold to America today
will probably exceed a quarter mil
lion pounds sterling, and that more is
coming next week.
The house committee on public lands
decided to favorably report the senate
bill to devote % per cent of the pro-
ceeds of the sale of mineral lands in
the public land states to the support
of Schools Of mines.
Toronto is cut off from communica-
ton with all the rest of Canada and
the United States, a sleet storm having
rendered the wires useless. 1t is not
known how far the trouble extends
through Ontario.
Mrs. Lease. the Kansas woman Suf-
fragist, is seriously i'll with pneumonia
at the home of E. ]. Weylicke of VIM
dom, Mimi, Populist member of the
legislature. She delivered a lecture
there Wednesday night.
c. L. Mitchell, a patient at the Matte
Wan hospital for the insane, Pough-
keepsie, n. Y, set ire to the institu-
ton in five different places tonight, and
for few hours the buildings were
threatened with destruction.
A Constantinople dispatch to the
London Chronicle says that letters re-
ceived there from Arabekir report that
1000 Armenians were killed in the re-
cent riot, the slaughter being mostly
done with axes and choppers.
Henry c. Foster (colored) was hang
ed in the Cook county Gid Jail yester-
day for the murder Of a salOOnkeeper,
G. W. Wells when the latter was at
tempting to save a citizen Foster way
laid and was robbing on the street in
front Of Wells saloon.
Mrs. Judge Scott Of Seattle, Wash.
the sister-in-law of eX-President Har-
rison. who was assaulted by an insane
domestic, is recovering, although still
suffering from the nervous shock. The
woman has disappeared.
The Western Association of Califor-
mia Pioneers held its annual meeting
in Chicago yesterday. After the cleo
ton of officers and addresses, the bal
ance of the afternoon was spent in
telling stories of early life in Califor-
MIA.
A st. Louis morning paper says: If
the plans of a number Of leading citi-
zens of St Louis are successfully car
rfed out this city will soon have a con-
vention hall which will comfortably
seat over 10000 people, and which will
be second to none in the United States
It is stated upon excellent authority
that General Maxine Gomez, comman-
der-in-chief of the insurgent forces,
has consumption in the advanced stage
complicated with fever. and the doc
tors are agreed that he can live only
about two months longer.
The American ship Roanoke, Cap
tain Joseph Hamilton, which left New
York 217 days ago, has at last reach
ed San Francisco after a season of
disaster and delay. Three of her orig
inal crew were lost in the Atlantic and
sixteen were left in the hospital at
Rio Janeiro.
The town Of Farley, Iowa, twenty
five miles from Dubuque, is on fire. A
special train with an engine has been
sent from here. At midnight the fire
is still under way. A brick block con-
tanning half a dozen stores, the opera
house and secret society lodge rooms
have already been burned.
A delegation OF the American Asso-
citation of Masters and Pilots, of whom
Captain Thomas Wallace, San Fran
cisco. is one. addressed the house COM
mittee on commerce Friday, in support
of the bill of MIR. Loud, Of California.
10 require the second and third mates
of sea-going vessels to be licensed.
Secretary Herbert has decided to ac-
cept the torpedo boat Ericsson from
the Iowa iron works, subject to dock
trial at New London, to demonstrate
that her engines have been repaired
properly since the last mishap. The
department is satisfied that the boat,
when properly handled, can make at
least twenty-four knots an hour, or
half a knot more than required by the
contract, so another speed trial at sea
will not be called for.
The arguments in the Pacific Railway
company litigation case are now all
concluded and Judge Horton of Chi
cago has the case under adyisement
The concluding arguments were made
by Attorney General Walker, who an
swered a number of the propositions of
the defendants. Judge Horton, it is
expected, will arrive at an early de-
cisfon in the matter, as he commenced
the consideration of the case this morn
ing.