The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-26

London. Sept. 25.-(Special London
cable, copyright, 1887, 10y the Associated
Pross.)-The present extraordinary
epidemic of murder suicide and out
RACES upon women in London and its
vicinity g unequalled since the days
of Jack the Ripper" Daily FOR a
week past the public has been startled
by an atrocious murder and the alarm
is increased by the fact that the per
petrators Of the crimes have all bafRed
the police ana have escaped without
apparently leaving a ciGe as 10 fheir
laentify.
The murder 10 Q railroad carriage Of
Miss Camp in February last, the per-
DetuatGr OF tne crime not having been
discovered has been followed by an
other railroad tragedy in which Mrs.
Bryan. she wife of a Dr. Bryan of
Northampton has been killed under
circumstances pointing to murder and
thu Rev. Or. Aubrey Price. a We'll
known Gsviae, was killed at his resi-
dence on MONDAY. A little boy has
been kidnapped and murdered in the
suburbs rich. misery Ucman has
heGa found cut to pieces at her resi-
dence. Benthal Green, and farmers
daughter. Emma Johnson, has bssn
murdered at Windsor under peculiarly
atrocious circumstances Her holy was
mutiIated, stripped and thrown into
the Thames The authors of all these
outrages are sill al large and there
seems to l5 no trace Gf them, al
though The murderer Of Emma Johnson
IS IyeIEAve9 TO be q maniac whose &C.
tuaA identity is not known, hut VITO
for many moEths past has frightened
and assaulted persons on the road from
Windsor TO MaidPphead and who has
always managed TO elude capture.
Queen Victoria VIII privately visit
the Marquis and Warehouses Of Sails
bury at Hatfield House about the mid
die Of N0Yen.Ser, after The return of
the court TO Windsor.
THE DUCHESS JOYFUL.
Vanity Fair, commenting upon tins
joy experienced by the Duchess OF
Marlborough at giving birth TO d.
rect htir to TIE BIenheiIn estate, says
"Consuelo. who has been nearly off
her head with delight since Inc fear
vas removed OF Lady Randolph
ChurchiH's sen succeeding to the duke
dom. is rapidly recovering and the fam
ily is making as much fuss a. trough
an heir had been borne to the throne.
They take care that everything Is l'ut
in the papers"
There is ,ride- interest among oars
men at Sand9W's offer TO train t9le
Cambridge crew fer the boat race Of
1898 with oxford and to back them 10
Min. Sand0T insists that the old
methed OF dieting, living UP 10 hard
and fast rules and not smoking IS
wrong and he proposes. in the event
Of Cambridge ret accepting his offer,
In undertake The training Of one Of
TIE Henley crews. The presidents of
the oxford and Cambridge boat clubs
are both considering the subject and
have been ~ communication with
Sand0w. President Phillips Of Oxford,
is Keeping q sharp lockout 10 see that
Cambridge does not mOnopolize the
advantages promised by Sandow.
The medical press warns the public
against 4 probable recurrence Of in
hUeuZa. Fer months past that dis
ease has been raging in q severe form
IN the districts OF Merry, Turkes;an.
The number Of victims is immense and
although there are fever deaths than
formerly. thu Virulence of the epid5m-
ST. is said 10 nave increased rather
than lessened. The latest reports show
that the attack Of influenza leaves Sc
Vere results such as heart affections.
paralysis, etc.
TRAINING WOLF HOUNDS.
The French newspapers note With
much satisfaction that the German
military authorities are 50 exercised
at the progress made by the French
military bicYciists that they are train
Ing enormous wolf hounds TO attack
militant ileld men The papers assert
that daily on the outskutS of Berlin
wolf hounds are trained to seize dunn
mics in French uniforms which have
baeR CerCaed On bicvcizs
The growth OF London is astound-
ing. The LATEST returns on the subject
show that over l,200 houses are erected
monthly in the metropolis. Between the
months Of August, 1886 and August,
1897, 1881 houses were built
The statement IS rea+aia,i tssf f1a
Prince Of Wales VIII shortly visit the