Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-06
NEWS OF THE WEST.
A Woman Married Upon Returning
from O Funeral,
HOTEL CASHIER sKIPs WITH CASH
Stabbd by TN Employe-CIusii'd by
a Rock--Parnlyzsd Woman
Burned 10 Dcath.

The San Francisco Chronicle pub
lished an excellent portrait OF NON
Joe. L.. Rawlins the morning alter the
latter was elected senator.
August Ballg, driver OF brewery
wagon in Seattle, Wash, tell from bic
wagon through hole In wharf al
the water front MONDAY and drowned
before he could he rescued.
Joseph Abrams, a qusrrymaD, was
crushed to death Thursday afternoon
under q block OF stone nj the new
Dominion government buildings now
In course OF erection at Vlctoria, b. &.
Phenix's (Arlz)ua) station agent
for the IS. +. +. and p, wants com
one to take box OF live rsttlesnHks 8
and ella monsters off his hands. III
came from Kansas IA Oc,obsr and no
One claims Ii.
Benjamin Henderson,, wealthy
citizen OF Ukiah, CAL, and an Oh
pioneer OF that state, was stabbed to
death Thursday orniny at his resi-
dence, by q Spsniard nnmen hing,
who was in the employ Of Hepuereon
rs woodchoppsr. The cause Of the
murder 10 unknown.
A Justice OF the peace In Colfax,
WASH, was called upon last week e.
perform marriage ceremony In Ger
man. He at once secured no ipstruc
tor, and in an hour he nem0rizsd IN
that tongue the American marriage
ceremony, with which he ioined tne
lives Of Christian Klewend and Anna
NJ. Pr ff,nroth.
Mrs. Angus MCMILLAN, who with
her husband lived on the Peter Mccoy
place, Eureka, CAL, WIS burned to
death Wednesday afternoon. Bhs wss
partially pnralyzed, and while sitting
with her back TO the stove alone her
clothes caught fire. She hurried out.
side, which famed the fl auies into
blaze and she was burned 50 badly that
SHE died coon after. Her husband was
at work some distance away ana uii
not discover the terrible accident until
his return In the evening.
III. L.. Blanchard, q printer, well
known among the craft all over tue
state, was fatally itjureu while at
tempting TO steal "A ride Oh the South.
ern Pacific at Burbank, Cal, THUR.
Gay. Blanchard was beating his way
to his hons In Los Angelica from San
Francisoo. AT Burosuk he tried to
get on the iroot platform OF the bag
gage car. He missed his footing anu
Tell under the wheels. His lett log
VIZ SO badly crushed that It was rouua
NECESSARY TO amputnte 1t. He was
q also Injured internally.
Another cashier at the Russ house,
San Francisco, has gone the way
the irRnsgressor. Eugene w. Schu.
bert who has been keeping the books
End handling the cash Of that caravan
sasy for somewhat over year past,
departed for the south on the southern
overland train Tuesday morning with
some of his employer iunds IN his
possession. He had travelled as far az
Yuma, A. t., bsfore he was intercept
ed by the strong arm OF the law. He
was arrested as soon as the southern
overland reached the Arizona town,
and he ia now in Jail at thst place
place awaiting extradition papere. He
is the third cashier Of the hOuHs who Is
a delauiter. He took aoout 81, 200.
The Ian Frapoisco Chronicle ol
last Thnradsy says. III the statement
respecting the'cost OF construction OF
the Salt Lake aud Los Angeles rail.
road made by General Manager Clay.
ton IL tfue, or anywhere near the
truth, a puzzled public would Ike IL
Inquire what reason there is for ,cct.
ing the government to receive iabu-
lousy large amounts for the su bald zei
railroads n sold under tore closure pro.
ceedinge. Clayton says q large part o
the proposed road will be constructed
Mt an expense OF not more than Sl0, 100
mile. In the name OF common sens
II a new road can be built for ten or
twenty or thirty thousand dollars a
mile, why should capitalists scramble
over each other to escuTe roads ut a
cost OF seventy or eighty thousand dol.
lars miller"
a funeral ana wedding in the same
family and the sans clergyman off CT.
ating wac the unusual occurrence
iranspiring In Modesto, CAL, yester.
day. Mrs. Charlotte FTanklin died Al
the county hospital Monday fro IN CON
sumption. she had been an mate u
the institution Tor six months. Her
relatives were notified, and u siater.
Miss Anna r. McManus of Oakaalu
came to Modesto on Tuesday, accom-.
panied by her prospective husband, II.
h. Hays, also of Oasdale. Tney ar.
ranged that the funeral should be helI
at the expense OF tho county durn&
eHp S't'hoOh, bDHn iIOCtENS 10
notify Rev. Il. II. HsSes that .aey
would come TO the parsonage az
designated hour to he carried. In the
meantime preparations fer the funerAi
were carried on, and the g-sssnae OF
clergyman at the gra!S aeine desired.
the undertaken requested the services
OF the Rev. MI. Hayes. ~ have a
couple TO marry III that hour" re.
hpOned the minister, but g IL - W. fas of
explanation developed the fact .hat
the bride-te-be was the sister Of die
dead woman. Tno Clergyman there.
upon concluded that the wedding
could wait, and proceeded 10 the eeme-
terry. The service was brief, ana tn.
wasted form In the cheap o. fin WIS
coon consigned to mother earn. A
little later the monrnefs stOOG before
the same clergy man d, the parsonage
aud were united In marriage.