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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-21

| San Francisco, March 20.-It was eX-
pected that Fitzsimmons would arrive
from Carson on the overland train
which got in at 9:44 o'clock this morn
inc.
The train left Carson at $50 o'clock
last night, but the sleeping accommo-
dations were not to the Australians
taste so he stopped off at Reno. He
took this mornings train. however, and
arrived here late this evening.
Steiner and Dan Hickey came on
this mornings train. With them were
about 80 sports. A large delegation of
newspaper men also arrived.
"Fitzsimmons won the fight as fairly
as a man ever did," declared Steiner,
when questioned 1.-THE Knockout blow
was the one he had been sDarring to
ger in ever since the sixth round, and
it was bound 10 come sooner or later.
"Corbett made q game fight, but
when it comes to hitting he is not in
it FOR a minute. Fitzsimmons hits
harder than any other man on earth
rs there any possibility of his fight
ing again?''
vi, OOil AhOW POSAlANClS- IAC tOA0
me that he was through with it now,
and 1 guess he means what he says.
He is going out with his company, and
will give exhibitions all along the line,
but as to a decisive fight, 1 think he is
through.
cat all events, what would be gained
by mixing with Corbett again? Fitz-
simmons has licked him. and there
should be no reason for another mill.
even if a big purse is put up.
Now, with regard to Sharkey claim
ing 70 be the champion of the world;
every one knows how foolish that is.
Corbett did not put him out in the four
rounds, but that don't cut any ice. and
then the decision against FitzsimmonS
when he had Sharkey clean out was-so
rank that it don't amount to anything.
.Fitzsimmons' condition is all right.
He is not hurt, though his face is a
little sore. He is ready to step into
the ring again tomorrow, if he wanted
to"
Martin Julian and Fitzsimmons' wife
will be with the party that arrives to-
night.
Fitzsimmons Will give public exhibit
lions at the Chutes tomorrow after
noon and evening, at which he will il
lustrate his famous krock- out blow,
Dan Hickey for the nOnce playing the
role of Gentleman jim
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Newport. KY. March 2O.-Scott Jack
son and Alonzo Walling were hanged
today.
The once promising lives of the
young dental students paid the pen
atty today on the gallows for the muir
der of the pretty country girl, Pearl
Bryan, of Greencastle. Ind.
| The scene was at Fort Thomas, and
the date Feb. l, 1896. The victim was
decapitated to prevent identification,
and the head has never been located.
The arrests, trials, confessions" and
general progress of the awful sequel
of today have been largely of the
spectacular order. especially the clos
ing hours of the tragedy this morning
in Newport, KY.
Nearly all forenoon Walling's fate
seemed swaying in the balance, and
the 5000 people, with a plentiful sprink-
ling of richly uniformed militia acting
as guards, waited with interest at the
high tension for the Springing of the
fatal trap or the announcement of the
clemency extended by Governor Brad
ley.
Walling went to sleep at 1 o'clock
until 6 o'clock. Jackson slept little.
From that early hour until the final
announcement that both must hang at
II 80, the prisoners sat at the windows
of the jail, facing the crowded court
house yard, with every appearance OF
unconcern. On the gallows neither was
deserted by the bravado that has
marked their CONDUCT ever since they
first posed before the public in the
celebrated tragedy
At 11:40 the double trap was sprung
and they swung in midair 20 minutes
before the horrible work of strangula-
ton was completed.
The time originally set was o'clock,
but almost as the start was made for
the gallows Jackson made another
confession" in which he said Walling
was not guilty of '.wilful murder
Again the governor was appealed to
at Frankfort by wire, Jackson himself
telegraphing: "Walling is not guilty
of this crime, but 1 am
Finally Governor Bradley, after pa
tient investigation of Jackson's tardy
attempt to save his comrade, including
a long distance telephone consultation
with Judge Helm, the trial judge. and
the attorneys in the case, sealed the |
doom of both by declaring against
further delay. Jackson is said to have |
left still another written confession to |
be published, or not, as his friends |
may see fit. The one of Thursday, !
trying to shift a part CT |
the crime on an innocent man, both |
Jackson and Walling acknowledged |
this morning to be a fake.
As there was objection to the re- |
ceiving of the body of Jackson for !
burial in the Greencastle cemetery, it. /
was shipped this evening over the Big
Four to his former home in Maine.
Walling's body was taken to Hamilton,
O., by his family for burial.
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B. s o. WRECK.
Ten Persons Injured and One Is
Killed by a Derailment.

Cumberland. Nd. March 2O-Ten per-
sons E:ere injured and one killed in a
w-ec1- on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
near Oakland. Md, this morning. Train
No. from Cincinnati and St. Louis was
derailed Three sleepers, two day
coaches and the postal car left the track
One sleeper rolled down the embankment
and into the river. The balance of the
train remained on the bridge, or, doubt
less. the casualties would have been much
greater. There Were IS persons in the car
r'S:ch rolled into the river adj of whom
escaped with trifiing injuries except two.
General J. s. Fullerton of st. Louis, a
Union veteran of Chickamauga fame,
was killed. The end of the sleeper in
which his section was located was sub
merged. Fifty workmen searched the
river all day, but We're unable to find the
body. The current is so swift al the
point where the accident occurred that it
is believed the corpse has been carried
down the stream reward for its re-
cove-y has been offered by the railroad
company.
The list of the injured is as follows:
j. Knight Thomas, Baltimore.
]. D. KuDDleheimer. New York.
Mrs. Jemina Boston, Davis, Va
NJ. D. Phelps, Barre, VT.
Mrs. NJ d. Phelps, Barre, VT.
w. r. Teller, Pullman conductor.
c. W. Davis mail clerk.
c. l.. Martin, Salina, Kan.
Mrs. James Hanlin. Salina Kan.
j. H. Richards Fort Scott. Kan.
1t is thought that none of the injured,
with the possible exception of Mrs.
Phelps. who was badly cut and bruised
and received internal Injuries, are fatally
hurt
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Bryan. because he saw her relatives in

Bryan, because he saw her relatives in
the room.
Turning to Walling. the chief asked
Walling, did you kill this woman? %
II did not
Who did, them"
L have every reason to believe that
from what Jackson told me. he did,
Then, turning to the other prisoner:
Jackson, did YOU murder this girl?''
L did not, sir e
Can you look upon this corpse and
deny that you committed the crime?"
I can, and / do most emphatically, ;"
replied Jackson, looking at the corpse
as he spoke
Who did kill herr"
have every reason to believe that
Walling did.
Mrs. Stanley, a. sister of Pearl Bry-
an, pleaded with Jackson to tell her
where the head was, but Jackson
looked at her and said calmly and
gravelv:
Mrs. Stanley, do not know
AT the coroner's inquest a verdict
was rendered that cocaine had been
administered and that Pearl Bryan had
been decaDitated while she was still
alive; that she was seen in company
with Scott Jackson and Alonzo Wall
ing getting into a cab at the corner Of
Plum and George streets in Cincinnati,
and that she came to her death on the
premises of John B. Lock, near Fort
Thomas, Campbell county, KY.
Jackson's trial opened April 81. 1t
lasted until May II. The testimony of
George H. Jackson. the colored cab
man, who said he drove the party to
Fort Thomas, was collateral. The main
evidence was in reference to the rela-
tons of Jackson and Pearl Bryan, and
the medical testimony as to whether
the girl had been decapitated before or
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UTAH MAY HAVE A CHANCE
Geographical Considerations, It Is
Said, Will Be Applied to Certain
Big Offices.

Washington. March 2o.-The state
ment is made. semi-off1cially, that geo.
graphical considerations will. in flu
ture, govern applications for assistant
secretaryships and similar high official
positions, and that states which are al
ready represented in the cabinet will
not be called upon to supply assistant
secretaries of the departments until
other great states are cared for. This
is thought to dispose for the present of
candidates for the assistant secretary
ships of the state, war, navy, treasury
and interior departments at least from
California. New York. Michigan, Hill
nois, Massachusetts, Ohio, Iowa and
Maryland This would apparently rule
out the following most prominent can
didates for certain POSITIONS:
J. Harrison Otis of California. for
war: Judge o. L. Spaulding of Michi-
gan for the treasury; Theodore Roose-
welt of New York. for the navy, and
Bellamy Storer of Ohio, for state.
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STORY OF THE CRIME.
It Occurred Saturday Morning,
February l. 1896

On Saturday morning, Feb. 1, 1896,
! the headless BODY of a young woman
was found on the farm of John B.
Lock, near the end of the Fort Thomas
electric car line. south of Newport, KY.
| No marks of Identification could be
discovered and no cards, letters or any
thing calculated to solve the mystery
could be found.
The body was taken to an undertake
er's in Newport, and a further exam
irationsshowed that the dead womans
shoes were stamped Lewis & Hays,
Greencastle, Ind"
With this clew the detectives went
to work, with the result that the corpse
was identified as Miss Pearl Bryan,
aged %, daughter of Alexander Bryan,
a well-to-do farmer living south of
Greencastle.
On Jan. q, Pearl Bryan left her home
ostensibly to visit friends in Indianapo-
lis, but instead came directly to this
city to meet Scot Jackson, a student
at the Ohio college of dental surgery.
Jackson failed to keep his appointment
with the girl, and after wandering
about the city she went to the Indiana
house and registered under an assumed
name. The next day Jackson called at
the hotel to see her. On jan 90 she
and fellow student, named Alonzo
Walling, and from that day until the
body was found at Fort Thomas, moth
ing is positively known as to the move
ments of the trio.
A post norton examination of the
corpse revealed the fact that the dead
girl was about to become a mother.
Jackson and Walling were arrested
at their boarding house and charged
with the murder. At the preliminary
examination of the prisoners, each &C
cused the other of having killed the
girl. Jackson admitted that he was ac-
quainted with the girl, but denied any
knowledge of the murder Walling said
he did not know her.
The students were taken to the I'M
dertaker's, where the head and body
was exhibited in the presence of the
father and sister of the murdered girl,
the chief of police asked Walling if
he recognized the corpse. He replied,
in clear voice that it was Pearl Bry-
an. Upon being questioned as to how
he knew that, Walling said that he
suspected it was Pearl BRYAN from
what Jackson had told him about her
The same question was asked Jack
son, who said that it must be Pearl
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Mississippi Missouri and Other
Rivers Away Out of
Their Banks.

points 90 miles south of that city have
been received, asking for steamers to
rescue people left by the last trip of
boats, and two steamers started out
on their mission of mercy.
The government is aiding the city in
its rescue work. A dispatch from
Washington asked the government en-
gineer to lend men and service to fur
Their the protection of life and prop
erty.
Flood conditions are reported from
Paducah, KY, the country for five
miles around that city being under
water, and every river and stream is
swollen out of its banks. The rain
has been falling steadily for 4S hours,
and the reports from that region last
night showed no cessation in the
downpour
The same kind of a story came from
Pittsburg concerning the rainfall, and
the headwaters of both the Mononga-
hela and Allegheny rivers were rising
steadily. 1t Is almost certain that the
Ohio river will make trouble again for
the people of Cincinnati land other
river cites.
The big thaw began last Tuesday
morning all over the Mississippi val
ley. For three days the temperature
has been an average of degrees above
the normal stage, and all the accumu-
lated snow and ice of the western and
northern states has been rapidly soft
enlng into water. Rain has been fall
ing almost continuously in the CEN
trail Mississippi valley and intermit-
tently in the other regions east of the
big river
The area of the rainstorm yesterday
was unusually wide, extending from
the Mississippi east to the coast and
south as far as Florida. Last night
there was prospect of clear weather
at st. Louis and the surrounding re-
gion.
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after death, and whether it was in
Kentucky or in Ohio. The state had
113 witnesses and the defense SO.
1t is generally regarded that the two
items that told most heavily against
Jackson were his admission that he
had been intimate with Pearl Bryan,
and the proof that two of his witnesses
were perjurers.
Scott Jackson took the stand in his
own behalf He was not crosse
ined. His story was not shaken, nor
was it believed. He took the death YER
dict calmly.
The Walling trial began May 26. 1t
ended June 49, The evidence in his
case was practically the same as
against Jackson. The most damaging
feature in the case against Walling,
probably, was his admission that he
knew Scott Jackson was going to kill
the girl, and would not warn her of
impending danger. In this trial the
state examined 62 witnesses; the de-
Tense 40.
Not once in all the hundred severe
examinations to which Jackson and
Walling have been subjected have they
Numbered or revealed anything. They
have been possessed, keenly intelli-
gent and cold blooded through it all
The petition for rehearing of the
case of jackson and Walling was over
ruled by the Kentucky court of appeals
and the day of execution was fixed for
March 90 1897.
On March Walling made a formal
appeal to Governor Bradley for Glenn
ency. The condemned man reviewed
his case in brief but the letter con-
tanned nothing more than developed at
the trial.
On March 10 Hon. L. j. Crawford, at
torney for Scott Jackson, and Colonel
George Washington, counsel for Wall
ing, made formal applications for exec
utive clemency on behalf of the prison
ers These appeals to the governor of
Kentucky were the last legal steps
taken by the defendants attorneys to
avert the doom of March 20.
Walling also made another appeal to
the governor. claiming that he was in
nocent of any crime.
Scott Jackson was p years old, the
only son of Mrs. John Jackson, a highly
respected widow of Greencastle, Ind
His sister is married to DR.. Edwin Post,
professor Of Latin in De Pauy univer-
sity, Indiana.
Alonzo Walling was 20 years old, son
of Mrs. Sarah Walling of Oxford, o.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-21

Commander Henry L. Howison. com
handing the battleship Oregon, from
which he will be. relieved today by
Captain Albert a. Barker, and of Cap
tain Charles D. Sigsbee, a naval by
drographer. from commander, who is
today ordered to command the coast
defense vessel Monadnoek, April 10,
relieving Captain g. w. Sumner.
Admiral Walkers place on the light
house board rs today surrendered to
Captain Winfield S. Schley, relieved of
the command of the flagship New York
by Captain Silas Caney.
Commander C. V. Gridley when de-
tached from the Buffalo, n. Y, light
house inspectorship, Will command the
receiving ship Richmond at League
Island.
Commander ]. E. Craig. now on duty
at the New York navy yard will sue
coed Captain Sigsbee as photographer.
Lieutenants w. E. Stafford and C. f.
Pond are detached from the Alert and
Lieutenant w. c. P. Muir is ordered
to Mare Island, Cal, to examination
for promotion.
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Fled For Their Lives.

Elk Point, S. D.. March 20-The flood
which has been threatening this valley
for two weeks, reached Vermillion to-
night. The gorge, which has been
viewed with apprehension by the peo-
pie for some time. formed about five
miles below Vermillion this evening,
and the water has been rising rapidly
ever since. The Missouri and the Yer
million rivers meet just below Vermil-
lion, and trouble has been apprehended
for long time. The gorge formed
three miles below here and the water
began TO rise shortly after dark The
Vermillion bottoms, occupied by prob
ably 200 families, everflowed aond the
people were forced to flee for their
lives TO the hills
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-21
THE HERALD BULLETIN

PAGE ONE.
Floods in the East
Fitzsimmons in Frisco.
Pearl Bryan's Murderers Hanged
PAGE TWO.
Local Politics.
Turkish Troops in Bad Shape.
PAGE THREE
The Stock Market Weak.
Mines of Marysvale.
PAGE FOUR
Editorial.
PAGE FIVE.
The Board of Pardons.
J. G. McAllister's Petition Denied.
A Hot Time at st. Louis.
PAGE SIX
News From Nearby Towns.
D. L. Tasker Charged With Big
amy.
Our Gilsonite Lands.
PAGE SEVEN
Glimpses at the Worlds Markets.
In Railway Circles.
PAGE EIGHT.
W. S. Stratton and His Wealth.
The Pioneer Jubilee.
SUNDAYS SPECla, FEATURES.
PAGE NINE.
Ogden Society.
At the Churches Today.
PAGE TEN.
Latest Achievements.
PAGE ELEVEN.
The Stage.
PAGE TWELVE.
The Mutable Many.
PAGE THIRTEEN.
In the Social Realm.
PAGE FOURTEEN.
Southern Negroes Return to Saw
agery.
From Girlhood to Motherhood
PAGE FIFTEEN.
A Visiting Gown.
Spring Shopping.
PAGE SIXTEEN.
Phrenograph of Mayor Glendin-
ming.
A Daring Escape.
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AT DIES MONIES, IOWA.
Situation Is Much Worse Than at
ANY Previous Time.

Des Moines. Ia. March 2O-The Des
Moines river rose four feet at this point
from last evening TO noon today and is
now about stationary. 1t is fourteen
feet above normal. and the situation is
much worse than at any precious time.
During the forenoon. Mayor McVicar
was called on by a delegation from the
north part of town and asked for aid.
The sudden rise in the morning had flood
ed many houses and people We're taken
out in boats. Crocker Wood Park is
under water and great damage has been
done to buildings. walks, boat houses
and other improvements. Water has
backed into the sewers. and cellars in
the lower part of the city are flooded
The great gorge in the Iowa river ut
Iowa Falls went out this afternoon, and
aside from damage to the mill and dam
at Alden no harm was do-e-
Onawa dispatches say the Little Sioux
is out of IT'S banks there. and in -laces
four miles wide and still rising fast.
AT Cherokee the situation is worse than
ever before.
The Little Sioux has flooded the lower
part of the town and hundreds of people
are driven from their homes. The town
outside world by rail.
From Cherokee to Sioux City the Il
linois Central is swamped. bridges are
out and grades washed away in se-eral
places. The only encouraging feature of
the situation is that the weather is much
colder tonight and the snow in the
northern part Of the state has ceased
melting.
The rain that was threatened yesterday
seems to be arerted for the present.
The Des Moines river IS rising fast at
II o'clock tonight, and it is just reported
that the water has invaded the power
house OF the City Railway and the fire
under part of the boilers has been
quenched by it. There is another bat
terry of boilers a few inches higher, and
if It IS reached, as is now expected. il
Will be impossible to produce power and
the entire city has a good chance to be
without street car service tomorrow. The
powe~ house IS a new one. on the east
side of the river.
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EVERYTHING LEFT STANDING.
Another Fight Could Soon Be Pulled
Of at Carson.

Carson, March 2O.-Dan Stuart, the
big fight promoter, and his partner. W.
K. Wheelock, Martin Julian and George
Siler, departed from here for San Fran
cisco this evening. Mr.. Stuart and his
partner will remain in San Francisco
a short time and then proceed to their
homes II Texas. Julian will Join the
Fitzsimmons party now in San Fran
cisco, and Siler will return to Chicago.
The big pavilion will be left standing,
also the extra wires put up by the tele-
graph company recently, which all in
dicates something is in the wind.
Mysterious Billy Smith was today or
dered TO leave town by the authorities.
they considering this means the best
and cheapest manner to get rid of such
hard characters.
Carson has once more resumed the
even tenor of its ways. The remains
of Willard Bradford. who was shot on
the 18th bv William Smith, were to-
night shipped to Missouri for inter
ment.
Smiths preliminary examination will
be held next Monday.
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The Uhls Not Ignored.

Berlin, March pa story is published
in some of the Berlin newspapers that
the emperor ignored United States Am
bassador Uhl or the occasion of the
last ball at the Royal Opera House, and
that he also neglected to speak to Mrs.
Uhl. The origin of the story is not
known, but the statement has not even
suspicion of truth. The fact is that
the emperor warmly shook Mr.. Uhl by
the hand and held a pleasant CONVERSE
ton with him. and also paid his COM
pliments to Mrs. Uhl in the ambassa-
doris box, chatting pleasantly with her
and the other ladies of Mrs. Uhrs
party.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-21
TRIBUTE TO BRYAN.
His Thirty-seventh Birthday Fit
tingly Acknowledged by Polit-
ical and Other Friends.

Lincoln, Neb.. March 2O.-A delega-
ton of neighbors and political friends
today called at the home of Hon. w.
j. Bryan and presented him with the
following complimentary resolution
adopted by the Democratic city con-
vention last night:
I'VE, the Democrats of the city of
in convention assembled, send
greetings TO William j. Bryan on this,
the thirty anniversary OF his
birth, and express the hope that the
future has many blessings in store for
him.
An appropriate response was made
by the recipient.
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Vessels Wreck Themselves.

Sheboygan, Wis. March 2O-Portions
of this city are flooded to a depth of
two feet. Five vessels tied up at winter
mornings have broke loose. The Moore
crashed into the Eighth street bridge,
smashing the north abutment, and then
swung clear around, striking the other
abutment and damaging it, then passed
out toward the lake. The other boats
followed the Moore, wrecking them
selves as well as docks and other yes
sells tied at the docks. Great damage
has been done. Three other vessels
were damaged
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ALL WILL HANG.
Nothing Can Save the Necks of the
New Mexico Assassins.

Santa Fe. n. NJ. March 2O.-The four
Borrego assassins will be executed on
Tuesday. All arrangements have been
made TO put into effect the death SEN
tence- No interference is expected from
the president. A letter from District At
torney Crist states that Attorney General
McKenna has informed the president
that he has no authority to interfere. The
usual stories about plots to free the
prisoners are afioat tonight and in order
TO be on the safe side the militia have
been called upon to act as a guard of
safety. They are now on duty and there
is no possibility of trouble