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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
EIGHT-HOUR LAW.
Interesting Debate in Idaho's Legis-
lature.
ESPECIAL to The Herald.)


Boise, Ida, Feb. 2.-In the senate today
there was a lively debate over the bill
fixing eight hours as a days work for
miners. Nelson pop. of Latah) vigor-
ously opposed the BILL while Heitfeld,
Idaho's United States senatOr-elect,
among others, defended it In the course
of the debate. Nelson made some remark
that riled Heitfeld. In a white heat he
lowered above Nelson, and it was feared
for a moment these would be serious
trouble. but an encounter was averted.
The bill causing the commotfon was de-
feated-
TIE house resolution condemning the
proposed international monetary confer
ence and appropriation therefor. caused
prolonged debate. Some of the leaders OF
Democrats and PoDulistS objected to
throwing any obstacle in way of McKin-
ley's administration, but the rank and
file were unaiterably opposed to the meas
ure because, it was asserted by one of
Them it was ''daddied by old Cleveland
There is some talk of introducing bill
that will make Idaho a rival of Nevada
as the battle ground of American glove
gladiators. Some of the members think
by passing an act legalizing prize fight
inc and making the license lower than
Nevada. while leaving the promoters of
mills to fix their own rates of admission,
Idaho would force Nevada out of the
business and add largely to the state
finds
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
THE HERALD BULLETIN
PAGE ONE.

PAGE ONE.
Scott-Auerbach Building Destroyed
by Fire.
Rivera Causes Weyler Trouble.
Bimetallism in the Senate.
The Senatorial Fight.
PAGE TWO.
In Railway Circles.
The Chimay Scandal.
City Auditor Swans Report.
PAGE THREE
Active Stock Market.
Smelter in Trouble.
Making a Cabinet.
PAGE FOUR.
PAGE FIVE.
With the Lawmakers.
County Commissioners Meet.
Stockmen Liable For Damages to
the Roads.
PAGE SIX.
Wall Street and Other Stocks.
Murderer Butler Caught.
Venezuelan Treaty Signed.
PAGE SEVEN.
Jail Break at Richfeld.
Heavy Snowfall at Park City.
Big Fire at Eureka.
The University Lecture.
Report of Treasurer Lynch.
PAGE EIGHT.
Frank Williams Suicides.
The City Council.
Wiscomb Wants Damages.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
A NIGHT ATTACK.
Scheme of the Spanish Knocked Out
by the Cubans.

DY Tie CuDaQS.
New York, Feb. "A Key West
special says: Hearing that the insur-
gents had gathered at Alonzo, Santa
Clara province, General Montaner re-
Gently planned a night attack, intend
ing to surprise them. But the insur-
gents had warning and laid two am
buscades for the Spanish general. The
roads leading to the place were mined
and as the Spanish approached at dawn
the mine in TIE centre of the column
was exploded, killing 20 soldiers and
Captain LamantaZ.
The insurgents charged from both
sides of the road after firing a heavy
volley.
The terror dynamite always inspires
in Spanish soldiers took possession of
them and after firing wildly the troops
fled into Alonzo and tried to barricade
themselves behind houses. The Cubans
advanced, their sharpshooters doing
effective work, While the Spanish shot
wildly. After the fight had lasted two
hours, General Montaner ordered a
charge, but the machetes of the
Cubans. coupled with their effective
firing, broke his ranks and his men
again retreated.
General Montaner displayed great
bravery, squirting his horse in front of
his men. He was a mark for the
Cuban sharpshooters, but escaped in
jury save slight scratch by bullet
passing through his hat.
Reinforcements from General Wey-
ler's advance guard came up at a trot
in time to save Montaner's men from
annihilation.
More than 20 Spaniards were missing,
killed, wounded or prisoners. The
Cuban loss is thought to have been
about 20.
A Cuban named Rudolf at GUIANA
bacoa was accused of being a Cuban
guide, and a Spanish patrol went to
his house Thursday to arrest him. His
two sons resisted and were shot down.
Then the old man was cut down with
machetes. His four daughters, the
eldest not yet IS years, were bound to
trees in the yard, stripped and cruelty
whipped. Afterwards they were taken
away by the soldiers and have not
been heard from since.
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DODGING A FORTUNE.
Why Peter Renshaw Is Making Him

Why Peter Renshaw Is Making Him
self Notorious in New York City.
New York, Feb. "A young man in
this town has to get drunk regularly
in order to keep his money. If he
was sober and Industrious, as other
young men have to be in order to get
ahead in the world, he would be left
absolutely penniless. This young man,
Peter Renshaw of Mobile, aged %, can
be seen almost nightly along Broad
way drinking to excess to comply with
provision of his uncles will that re-
suited contrary to the uncle'S eXpecta-
ton.
1t was the intention of Renshaws
uncle to put a premium on his nephew's
SObriety and industry. Instead, should
Renshaw. who claims to have no
natural inclination for dissipation, set
tie down and gain good reputation
he would lose an income of over $4,000
a year.
Nathaniel Renshaw, the uncle, was a
cotton merchant of Mobile, who died
in 1882 and left a fortune of about $780,
600. The income of this fortune was
left to his WIFE who died a year ago
and upon her death was to be divided
among his nephews and nieces. Peters
share was about $4,000. But the old
uncle determined his fortune should
not be diSSipated in riotouS living and
added this clause to his will:
If, at the death of my wife, the
said Peter Renshaw shall be drunken,
dissipated or exhibit vicious or wild
tendencies or inclinations the share be-
queathed to him shall be retained in
trust by the trustee until such a time
as a court shall adjudge that the said
Peter Renshaw is sober and Industrious
and of worthy habits
1t was further provided by this will
that if Peter should continue drunken
and dissipated the principal should go
to his heirs at his death, he never be-
ing permitted to touch a penny of it
other than the income. These precau-
tionS might have insured a life of So
briefly on Peters part, but in 1893 he
started in the brokerage business in
Philadelphia with a partner named
Lonber whose alleged dishonesty
wrecked the firm and left Renshaw
with judgments against him aggregat-
ing $4,000. If his inheritance had been
turned over to him. his creditors would
have pounced on it and left him moth
ing. Renshaw did not see why he
should be ruined by his partners
irregularities, and besides he was en-
gagged to marry Miss Amy Hoag,
sweet girl of Scarsdale and did not
want to ruin his wife or his possible
heirs either.
So he consulted a lawyer, who adj
vised him to get drunk and lead a
sufficiently notorious and dissipated
life to convince the trustee the prop
erty would not be safe in his hands.
Renshaw complied with the instruc-
lions faithfully. it is said, by going to
Mobile. getting drunk, and throwing
a brick through the trustees window
He offered further evidence but the
trustee said he was satisfied and re-
fused to turn over the principal to the
legatee.
Renshaw gets the interest only, and
is acquiring practical dissipation in
New York, where they know few
things about it.
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Promises to Prove a Very Accept
able Substitute For Maceo.
WEYLER MUCH. WORRIED
WILL RETURN TO HAVANA TO
HEAD HIM OFF.
Sherman's Appointment to the Cabi-
net Has Created a Sensational
Is Believed in Madrid That Nc
Kinley Will Inaugurate Some
Scheme With a View to Ending
the War One Way or Another.

New York, Feb "A dispatch to the
that General Weyler will return to
Havana, in view of the great activity
IF the insurgents in this province, and
the plans attributed to General Ruis
Rivera for dealing a hard blow to
Spain at the very doors of the capital.
Since his arrival in the Havana
province from Pinar del Rio Rivera
has been organizing the Cuban forces
in such way as to give serious I'M
easiness to the Spanish authorities.
General Weyler and the Marquis of
Ahumada were in constant commune
cation Sunday and facts about the
suspicious movements of the Cubans,
now concentrating under Rivera's
command, were transmitted to the
Spanish commander-in-ch
The Cuban General Adolfo Castillo
narrowly escaped being assassinated
by a Spanish soldier named Pace Diaz,
who was paid for that purpose, and it
is believed here, by Governor Porrua,
under the instructions of Weyler
The chief engineer of the train to
Guanabacoa, arrested some days ago
after Arrangements attempt to kidnap
Major Tondeveila, who was supposed
to be on that train, hanged himself
yesterday in his cell in jail because he
could no longer endure the cruel treat
ment he suffered at the hands of the
SpaniardS. The poor man was tor
tured every day in order to extort from
him accusations against some of the
Cuban residents at Guanabacoa. He
left paper in which he said he COM
mitted suicide because he feared that
the tortures he suffered would induce
him to accuse innocent persons, who,
in their turn, would be made victims
of Spanish barbarities.
News comes from Matanzas Of a
serious engagement in Jaguey Grande
between the Cuban forces, commanded
by Brig Eduardo Carol and the Span
iSh column of Colonel Almendariz
The idea of Almendariz was, by an
unexpected attack, to prevent the con-
centration of Cuban bands ordered by
General Garcia. The fight lasted six
hours. and the Spaniards were COM
PEELED to retire, after having exhausted
ali the ammunition.
The appointment of Miguel Diaz to be
mayor of the city of Havana has Gre
ated a bad impression, even among
the Spaniards here. Diaz is an ignOr-
ant carman, VINO does not know how
to write his own language without the
lhOoN oi-iuoilS DAbAOClo III VI mug dpiiN-
he is accused of bribery
as the agent of the municipality
Advices from Madrid say that the
news of Mr.. Sherman's appointment as
secretary of state in the cabinet of Mr.
has created a sensation, and
that the unexpected change in Senior
Canovas' policy, as shown by his readi-
ness to grant reforms in the island,
though he affirmed a few months ago
that not the least concession would be
made to Cuba until the revolution was
is only due to the fear that
one of Mr.. McKinley's first steps would
be an effort to end the war in some
way favorable to the natives.
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In the House.

Washington, Feb. 2.-Nearly all of
today's session was spent by the house
in listening to a discussion of the con-
troversy now raging between two cleo
trio lighting companies in the District
of Columbia, which found it's express
sion in connection with the considera-
ton of the bill making appropriations
for the expenses of the district for the
year ending June 80, 1898.
The bill remains the unfinished bust
ness on the calendar. The house passed
the diplomatic and consular appropria-
ton bill with trifiing changes.
The usual resolution was agreed to
providing for a joint session of con-
gress on the 10th instant, to count the
electoral vote and declare the result.
Senate amendments were agreed to
to the resolution authorizing the tenn
porary stringing of wires for lighting
and decorating in connection with the
approaching inauguration.
The house at sos adjourned.
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President Roberts Funeral.

Philadelphia, Feb. I'm the Protestant
Episcopal church of st. Asaph, at Bala. a
suburb. there gathered this afternoon a
large throng to participate in the service
for the burial of George B. Roberts. the
late president of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road company 1t was an assembly
thoroughly representative of leading men
of the country. There was no display of
any kind. Service was also held at the
house.
At meeting tomorrow the directors of
the Pennsylvania Railroad company will
elect Frank Thompson, first vice-president
OF the road, president TO succeed the late
George b. Roberts Mr. thompson is
one of the best known railroad men in
the country and has been in the employ
of the Pennsylvania company all his life
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eminent officer on board the Dauntless.
which was then at Mayport, refused to
allow her to cross the bar and tow the
schooner in, though both were off the
bar.
He had to try to sail in, and thereby
grounded, the vessels hull sustaining in
juries estimated at $1,000. After she had
allowed to tow the schooner up to this
city.
The Hubbard leaks badly and after her
cargo is unloaded she will have to go on
the ways here for overhauling before
loading with lumber for New York.
Captain Mahaffri says the cruisers
must think the Dauntless a very slippery
craft. when she was not allowed to cross
the bar in their very faces and tow the
schooner in.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
DISASTROUS COLLISION.
Bob-Sled Collides With a Milk
Wagon-Eight Injured.

Cincinnati, Feb. "A disastrous coast
ing accident occurred here today. A bob
sled collided with milk wagon on
Columbia avenue and the following
children were injured:
Willie Fischer, 8 years old, left leg and
right arm broken.
Katie Fischer, 10 years, injured in
ternally.
Edgar Fischer, s years, hand crushed.
tured.
Frank Newcomb, s years. hurt about
face and head.
right arm badly cut:
Willie Everhardt, years. long scalp
wound.
Andrew Robbins, II years. bruised about
the body.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
ALGER VS.. ANDERSON.
Cause Celebre Now Up in Chatta-
uOOga.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Feb. 2.-The
cause celebre in which General Russell
A. Alger, the prospective secretary of
war to the incoming administration,
appears as a plaintiff, came up for
hearing today in the United States
court here. The style of the suit is
Alger vs. Anderson, and is brought to
recover $4,000, principal and interest
paid by plaintiff for $4,000 acres Of all
legged valuable mineral lands in Frank
lin county, Tenn, in 1884, at the height
of the boom period in the south. The
bill of complaint alleged that agents
represented the property as possessing
the richest deposit of coal in the south.
To deceive the purchasers, they washed
the billsides with black paint, it is al
legged, and by this ruse plaintiff alleges
he was induced to invest his money.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
'RAH FOR M'KiNLEY."
Chicago Tin Workers Strike Because
of a Reduction of Wages.

Chicago, Feb. "A strike of large pro-
portions is on at the big tin manufacture
ing establishment of Norton Bros. in
haywood as a result of 10 per cent
reduction in wages made yesterday.
The strikers claim that only 200 of the
900 employees were at work today, and
that in a day or two the factory will be
ager Norton, however, asserts that the
strike has not assumed serious proper
lions; that the company employs only $50
men now and that not more than one
third of them are on strike, embracing
only the unskilled labor. The strikers be-
naved threateningly toward all men who
applied for work in their places and
ers were assailed with insulting eDithets
and pelted with snowbaIis on their way
10 the factory
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
THREE MEN BURNED.
One of Them Will Probably Die
From His Injuries.

Chicago, Feb. 2.-Three men were Sc
verely burned, one perhaps fatally, by
the explosion of a large fuel oil tank
at the power house of the West Chi
cago street railway at Rockefeller and
West Madison streets narrowly escaped
destruction this evening. The injured:
A. z. Murphy, chief engineer, severely
burned and body bruised; may die.
Henry Martens, badly burned; will
recover.
will recover.
The explosion was caused by En-
gineer Murphy, who was looking for
leak in the tank with a lighted Ian
tern. The property loss was small.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
Those Alleged Reforms.

Madrid, Feb. 2.-Senor Canovas Del
Castillo, the prime minister, after con-
ferring with Marquis de Apezteguia, the
leader of the Cuban conserva tives, TODAY
announced that the latter favored the
reforms whick il is proposed TO inaugur-
ate in Cuba, and expected that they
would prove satisfactory to the Cubans
The prime minister added that he could
not say who would supervise the execu-
ton of the reforms, but whoever SUP
pressed the rebellion would probably be
the most suitable man for this task. He
further. said that he did not know
whether he himself would remain in
power after the war had been concluded.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
Sugar Bounty in France.

Paris, Feb. 2.-The debate on the
sugar bounty bill was continued in the
moved that the bounties only be given
to growers three-ouarters OF whose
employees are French. NJ. Meline.
prime minister and minister of agri-
culture, opposed the motion, but the
chamber, by a vote of 221 to 219, de-
cided 20 consider it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
QUARTER OF A
MILLION BLAZE
The Sc0tt-Auerbach Building
Destroyed Last
Night.
A MOST THRILLING SCENE
Hiss A. c. Smith Rescued From
the Roof of the Block.
A MOST THRILLING SCENE

Electrician Vail the Victim of Ser
ious Accident-Henry Wagner, a
Sign Painter, Injured by a Fall
ing Skylight-The Insurance Is
Upwards of 100000, Carried by
Hugh Anderson, Smedley & Co.
and A. Z. Jacobs-One of the
Worst Managed Fires in the His
tory of Salt Lake-Chief Devine
Censured in Unmeasured Terms
by Citizens Who Saw His Work
Last Night.
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National Saddlehorse Men.

Louisville. KY, Feb. 2.-The Ma
tional Saddlehorse Breeders associa-
ton today elected John r. Castleman
of Louisville president. The stock of
the members who wanted a dividend
declared was bought in by the asso-
citation and the money. in the treasury
will be used for prizes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
And Still No Result.

Pierre, S. D., Feb. 1.-THE vote today
in the joint session of the legislature
stood as follows: Picker, As; Kyle,
2S; Goodvkoontze, u; Plowman, 10;
Loucks, 10; Bowler, 4; Palmer, l; KEEL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03

Miss Hoag is uncertain how much to
admire this devotion TO a principle,
but Mr.. Renshaw is honestly endeavor-
ing to avoid the fortune. What the
late Nathaniel Renshaw would think
about the effect of his device to keep
his nephew sober would be interesting.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
Duestrow Denied a Rehearine.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Feb. 2.-The su-
preme court this morning denied a
rehearing in the case of Arthur Due
strow, who killed his wife and child in
st. Louis three years ago, and who was
convicted and sentenced to be hanged.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
DR.. Morrison Consecrated.

Albany. Feb. AT All Saints ca
thedral at IL o'clock this morning Dr.
James Dow Morrison, rector of ST.
Johns church of Ogdensburg, was con-
secrated bishop of the Episcopal mis-
sionary diocese of Duluth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
High School Burned.

Menominee, Wis, Feb. 2.-The
High school of the Stout Manual
Training school burned last night.
Total loss, $4,000
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white sparks shot from it as it clat-
tered against the wires. The warning
that came from the crowd saved the
lives of several good firemen, for real
izing their imminent danger they tum-
bled hastily from the ladder-way, sew
eral of them being severely shocked as
it happened
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
German Steamer Aground.

Hamburg, Feb. 1.-THE German
steamer Lain, of the North German
Lloyd line, ran aground in the Elbe
today.
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Will Sue the Government.

New York, Feb. "A World special
from Jacksonville, Fla, says: Captain
Mahaffri, of the schooner S. B. Hubbard.
of New York, says he will sue the gov
eminent for damages because the gov
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
Had the Thatcher and Hender-
son Supporters Alarmed
Yesterday.
THEY COMBINE
AGAINST HIM
Forced an Adjournment Without
Balloting in the Afternoon.

'ennion Makes Humorous Speech
On the Last Ballot, Thatcher
Had Twenty-Six Votes, Includ-
ing the Four Populists, and Hen
derson Fourteen - Republicans
Vote For Critchlow and Bennett
The Situation Last Night.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
ASSISTANT CHIEF DONOVAN.

Another moment of paralysis and
then Assistant Chief Donovan, recog-
nizing that Devine had gone to pieces,
ordered up a ladder against the front
of the three story Trust building next
door and ascending to the front, drew
up another and placed it against the
north wall of the burning building AID
climbing this support, brought the
hysterical woman to the ground. She
was Miss a c. Smith.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
In THE DIRECTION
OF BlMETALLISM
Chandler Makes a Movement ir
the Senate.
RESOLUTION GOES OVER
LODGE AFTER THE NORTH GER
MAN LLOYD COMPANY.

Says If the immigration Bill Be De-
feated It Will Simply Mean That
a Great Corporation Has Won a
Victory-Vilas' Fight Against
the Nicaraguan Canal Bill-Other
Washington News Notes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
RAwLINs GAINED ONE.

Thatcher and Henderson Forces
Then Adjourned the Session
Yesterdays session of the joint assem-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
CHANGES LOOKED FOR.

In view of the volcanic state of af-
fairs, today's balloting is likely to show
some important changes and may re-
suit in an election.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
THE POWDER MAGAZINE.

In the rear of the block where the
powder magazine of George NJ. Scott
& Co. is situated, the fire was always
at its greatest height. One inadequate
stream was poured into the windows,
but from the roof of a Main street
building. From the alley just back
of the magazine, the interior of the
block presented a seething mass of
fame, rapidly approaching the rear
wall The magazine had already be-
come heated and little puffs of smoke
were curling from its iron-girded
frame.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
THE RESCUE CHEERED.

DonOvan's gallant rescue was chehred
to the echo. 1t was the solitary in
stance of common sense during The
whole fire. Ali of this. however, used
up three-quarters of an hour of Tina
and in the meantime the blaze had
spread to the front of the building.
For another half hour two streams of
water were played against the front
of the building on the plate glass win
dows, none of it penetrating to the in
terror and therefore accomplishing no
more good than TO give the place a
bath, the water running down the front
wall and off the sidewalk.
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Other persons doing business in the
wrecked shell, all of whom have lost
everything, are: Johnston & Weaver
attorneys; Bird & Low, attorneys; e.
NJ. Keyser, dentist; Dr. Theodore
Meyer; Dr. Ned Hewitt, dentist. lost a
stock of $500. His insurance only
amounted to $780,
THE RESCUE OF MISS SMITH.
Five hundred people saw sight last
night which nearly eliminated in a
tragedy; five hundred hearts beat as
they never beat before
Ere the arrival of the department a
succession of agonizing shrieks came
from the top of the building. 1t was a
woman's voice, frenzied with terror
making an appeal for aid
My God. there is woman up there
went u from a hundred Threats at
once. Where is she?'