The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-16
Punishment Melted Out to a Logan
Wife-Beater.
LOST WIFE AND PROPERTY
HYRUM WOMEN, CHARGED WITH
INDECENCY, DISCHARGED.
Paradise Man Seriously Injured By n
Threshing Machine-Bad Weather
Interferes With the Utah County
Fair-Activity at Leaning ton-
Park City News.


Grom The Herald's CorrssporderJts.l
Logan, Oct. l5.-Last evening Judga
/ Hart sentenced James Lamont. for
battery on his wife, to % DAYS in the
county Jail and costs of appeal. and
! in default of payment to be confined
in Jail one day for each dollar This
morning the court handed down de-
eision in the divorce case in which he
is defendant and Mary Lamont, plain
! tiff, was granted decree on the
( grounds Of cruelty. The plaintiff was
! given the custody of their seven chill
( dren. was allowed 121A acres of farm
: ing land, two city lots on which the
( house stands, al the household furni-
( ture and personal property. excepting
! two horses, the wife to have first choice
! Of horses, and SO per month alimony.
1 i $50 attorney fee was allowed b.
the court the plaintiff to pay one-half
! OF the same.
Mr. Lam5ne's recent litigation has
taken all Of this seasons crop. and be-
/ ing poor man, the decree viii exhaust
! most of his other property.
! Judgment was rendered today in the
case Fof Sidney Stevens VS.. Hans
! Gabril. The defendant appealed from
| Justices court on the grounds that the
copy of the summons left by the con-
stable was not a certified, COPY, as re-
| Quired by statute. The objection of
the defendant WAS sustained. This is
! important to the plaintiff, as the case
is outlaWed.
HYBUM WOMEN DISCHARGED
At 10 o'clock this morning in City
Justice j. P. Smiths court the case Of
| Mrs. Mathea and Josephine Nielsen of
dyrUn, charged with prostitution,
came up. And on motion of City Attcr-
I ney j. y. Stewart. jr.. the case was
| dismissed, as the evidence did not justi-
! fly the charge as made in the com-
plant.
a new complaint was at once fled
against the two women, charging them
with indecent conduct. They, through
! their attorney, W. W. Maughn, en-
tered q demurrer. which was overruIed
by the court. Defendants pleaded not
! guilty. The case was set for 1 o'clock
today. 4 jury trial was asked for by
| the defendants attorney. AT the above
hour the city attorney appeared and
moved the dismissal of the case. The
/ justice dismissed the case and dis
charged the defendants
INJURED BY a THRESHER
Edward Howell of Paradise last We'd
nesday vas oiling the tumbing rod of
a threshing machine when his left
{ sleeve caught in the knuckle, drawing
him under the rod and in contact with
the gearing. Six of his ribs were
broken, one of them entering the lungs.
He received several scalp wounds, one
| about six inches long exposing the
skull He also sustained serious in
| teTnal injury.
The many friends of Mrs R. w.
| Shippley of Paradise, whose case has
already been mentioned in The Herald,
viii be pleased to learn that she has
fully recovered and left the Logan hos
pital yesterday. She had been confined
/ TO her he'd most of the time for IA years.
| being unable TO walk. She now walks
with comfort.
Mrs. NJ. Olsen of the Fourth ward.
! this city, underwent q surgical opera
ton one day this week and is progress
| ing nicely.
The wife Of Road Commissioner
Thomas H. Smith is very sick with
acute gasroenteritis.
Prof c, NJ. 4arris is on the streets to-
/ day after a severe attack of infiam-
nation of the stomach
! ". c. Gates. business manager of the
I Logan Dry Goods company, is confined
to his home with la grippe.
The junior member of Smith Bros.
! wood workers, is suffering with an at
| tack of mountain fever
Father n. W. Haws, a respected citi-
zen of the Sixth ward, is down with
! lobular pneumonia
Mrs. Leonard Jones, who has been
suffering for long time with localized
| peritonitis. is now improving.
David Homer of Charleston has gone
to California for his health, through
| the advice Of his physician. He has
been afflicted for many years with
! chronic lung trouble.
Died, in Logan, Second ward, of ty-
| phoid fever, yesterday, Joseph Almond.
| He leaves a wife and eight children
also his wife's father, IS, and her
mother 81 years, who were dependent
on him in part for support. A sub
| scription list is now being circulated
for their relief.
Great preparations are being made
for tAe Q. NJ. Harris concert tomorrow
evening Saturday. Oct. 49, in the
Thatcher Opera House. This will he
the young artists first appearance be-
fore the public since his return from
Germany. He will be assisted by
Mrs Harris, G. ". Thatcher. jr.. and
| Prof John ]. McClenen of SAT- Lake
City. A crowded house is promised.
Hon. L. John NuttaH of Salt Lake
is spending a few days in Cache val
ley.
Miss Alice Pe1rose, daughter of Pres
ident Charles W. Penrose Of Salt Lake.
is visiting in Logan, the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. George Robinson
Hon. p NJ. Maughn, business rustler
for the WelIsville Coop. came down
from Anaconda. Mont. this morning
after making 4 shipment of hogs. His
firm is paying from 3A to cents, live
| weight, for hogs.