The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-15
BRIEF NOTE OF NoTABLEs.

The Boston Journal says: All our
! celebrated dead in the old Granary
| burying ground are at last obtaining
suitable tombstones. John Hancock
/ and Samuel Adams have recently been
so honored, and James Otis is about
| to receive the same long delayed at
| tention.
| Mrs. Cora Henner, who was chief of
the women detectives at the World s
| fair is to take charge of similar de-
partment at the Paris exposition. Mrs.
Henner personally made 200 arrests at
/ Chicago, and she had 80 women work
| ing under her. She will take 100 to
/ Paris.
! George Ebers, the distinguished Ger
man novelist, is seriously i'll at his
home at Tutzing, on the Starnberger
sea. and it is doubtful whether he will
| be able to do any more literary work.
He is 81 years old, and has been writ
ing poetry constantly for the past 80
years.
The announcement that Madame Re-
jane, the famous French actress, had
instituted suit for divorce is followed
by the news that the proceedings had
been dropped, and now a Paris CORE
spOndent writes that Madame Rejane,
/ her husband and their baby are fire.
quently seen in an automobile on the
"Bois''
Richard Croker has found revenge
for his snubbing by the Prince of
Wales by bidding $1,000 for Little
Saint, 5year-old that the prince
wanted, and which was sold al horse
auction, where it was expected to have
brought $780, The princes last bid,
through an agent, was $1,000, and
Croker got the horse.
Mr.. J. Morrison Harris, who died in
Baltimore day or two ago, was at one
time one of the best-known men in
Maryland, though he has not been
prominently before the public since he
ran for congress in 1876. He was the
organizer of many well-known reform
movements in Baltimore, and was one
of the original founders of the Mary
land Historical society
Captain Charles King, in San Fran
cisco. on his way to the Philippines.
attended a performance of a drama
founded on Fort Frayne,'' one of his
own short stories. He sat in a box
and was rather conspicuous because
of his uniform. 1t was full dress
uniform, the San Francisco papers say.
and they are sharply criticising what
they declare was a vulgar attempt at
advertisement on the part of the nov
eiist.
B. ]. Hallberg of Usage City. Kan.
recently received a check for SIS from
the auditor of the navy department.
together with a letter to the effect that
the money was his share of a fund
raised in New York for the benefit of
the relatives of those killed bv the
blowing up of the battleship Maine.
More than five years ago Hallberg's
son ran away from home, and his par
ents heard nothing of him until his
name appeared on the list of the
Names dead.
It was just one year ago that Andree.
Strindberg and Fraenkel assembled
from Danes island in balloon in the
hope of making the journey to the
north pole. A message dated July Is
was received from the party by car
rier-pigeons four days later It showed
that the balloon had travelled AS miles
north and 46 miles east, and was dis
appointing because the distance coy
cred should, according to previous es-
Inmates, have been 900 miles Since
that time not a single word has been
received from the expedition