The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06
TOWN TALK.

All the state, city and county offices
and the courts viii be closed on Tuesday,
election day.
David Swenson will be tried on Monday
on complaint made by Adam Swenson.
charging insanity
Miss Mabel Shirley Of Dallas. Tex, viii
sing an offertory, by Millard, at st. Paul S
chapel this morning.
At the Ninth ward meeting house this
evening DR.. j. L. Millspaugh will lecture
under the auspices of the Al. IL. A Miss
Elsie Barrow will sing.
The drug store of j. B. Cries, who re-
Gently made an assignment, was yester-
day sold to T. A. Sloan, late Of Lewiston,
Mont, the deal being made by Mir. A.
Richter.
David McGiue was arrested last night
8 by Constable AIcDuff on the charge of
drunkenness and resisting an officer. He
was locked up in the city Jail, but later
released on bail.
Yesterdays clearings were SsS9, 299, as
compared with S329, sos for the same day
of last year. The weeks clearlngs Were
Sl,936,S20. as compared with S2,09ys59S for
the corresponding week OF 1897.
Mrs. Shelmerdine daughter of Mrs. E.
Crandall, returned home yesterday from
the hospital of the Holy Cross, after a
successful operation for appendicitis per-
formed by DR.. Niles and DR.. McElroy.
Chief of Police Pratt returned last
evening from Logan, where he looked over
some Cache county horses with the view
of purchasing a team for the patrol
wagon. He has not yet made the selec-
tion.N
Dr. James e. Talmage will lecture in
the Twentieth ward meeting house to
night under the auspices of the Mutual
Improvement associations. His lecture Is
on Failure and Success The public is
invited.
City Engineer Kelsey has Joined the
corps of surveyors at the head of Little
Cottonwood canyon and forks in the
search for data pertaining to future
water supply for this city. He will re-
turn in time to cast his vote on Tuesday.
The Lowell football team defeated the
Wasatch eleven on the Eighteenth ward
square yesterday by a score of to 0. The
notable plays were made by Earl Howe
of the Wasatch and Christensen Chapman
and Clayton Of the Lowell.
The remains of James Morgan, the Sill
yer City miner, who died at the Cliff
house Friday morning, are still lying at
Q,Donnelrs undertaking establishment,
awaiting word from friends. No arrange
ments were made for the funeral yester-
oay.
The remains of Mrs. Isabel Littlefield,
mother of Mrs. Joseph William Taylor,
who died at Logan on Friday, will be
inferred at Logan today Sunday at noon
instead of being brought TO Salt Lake City
for interment, as was the intention until
yesterday.
Six cases of typhoid fever were reported
to the health department last week, and
nine cases of scarlet fever in five house
holds are still under quarantine. There
were q births and seven deaths, exclusive
of one body brought from outside the
city for interment-
Mrs Ann Irwin Richards, wife of Hy-
rum p Richards, died at her home, rear
of 443 West Seventh South street, on Fri
day at midnight. The funeral will take
\ place at Z o clock, noon, today. from the
Fifth ward meeting house. Friends are
respectfully invited to attend.
Governor Wells, State Auditor Richards
and State Treasurer Chapman. constitUt-
ing the board Of control Of the state in
sane asylum, were in session in the gov
errors office yesterday afternoon in con-
ference with DR.. NJ H Hardy, medical
superintendent OF the asylum The bust
ness transacted was the preparation of
the annual report for submission 10 the
legislature
The fire department was called out at
1880 d. m. yesterday 10 2s1 East Brigham
street, where a fire broke out in the two
story frame residence owned b. J. Bam-
berger and occupied by c A Bradley. A
gas stove upstairs set IRE TO the floor
but it was extinguished by the use Of the
chemical engine. with only about SIS dam
age. The family were not in when the
fire started