The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-23
TELEGRApRIC BRIEFS.

Generals Miles and Breckinridge were
society banquet at Cincinnati.
Andrew B. Young. a pioneer of the Pa
young came 10 California from Maine in
lSl6.
The Cincinnati Consumers Brewery
assigned to Walter L. Granger. Assets
are placed at $4,000 and liabilities at s40,-
The American Sugar Refining. company
announced a reduction in the price of
package sugar from BIS TO 506 equal to
%sc pound.
Andrew N-anless. a well-known literary
character of Detroit, and poet and prose
writer Of no mean ability, died vest erday
from pneumonia.
It is the belief at army headquarters at
San Francisco that the First California
volunteers Will be brought home on the
return trip of the Scandal.
The call for the tenth annual conven-
ton OF the United Mine Workers. TO be
held in Pittsburg in January. has been is
sued by the national officers.
Charles G. Martin a California pioneer
Of lS49, and formerly sealer of weights
al his nome in MI. Vernon n. Y, aged
81 years.
/. NJ. Jaffray, center rush of the Har-
Vard university football team, died yes
terday from spinal meningitis Mr.. JAM
ray was q years Of age. and his home was
at I-vington-on-the-H Hudson. y. Y.
John w. Kelley, an Ohio veteran Of the
civil war, has receiveG notice that his
pension of So per month, issued for gem
eral disability, has been stopped because
he did service in the war with Spain
Arbuckle Bros. Chicago house began
selling sugar direct to retailers, ignoring
the jobbing trade. Sales 10 retailers We're
made at $40 pei pound for fine granulat-
ed, which was 1sc under the trust price
The wife Of GustaVus H. Thiel. presi-
dent Of the Thiel detective agency, was
I'll IA 4 "a
Tnony by Judge Wood at st. Louis on the
grounds OF desertion and failure TO sup
port.
The health authorities of Brooklyn re-
preceding 10 O'Clock yesterday twenty
deaths from grip and pneumonia occurred.
The number OF cases is increasing rather
than diminishing.
A new combination of some of the lead
ing rubber firms in the United States is
now in process of formation, and it is eX-
pected to be complete in about a week.
Ii is understood the organization will have
a capital of S30.000,080.
a dispatch from Mexico City says Am
hassador Clayton and the minister for
foreign affairs, Senior Mariscal have
agreed upon the form and substance of
United States and Mexico.
Fred Smith of Victoria, just out from
Atlin, brings news OF two more rich gold
bearing creeks discovered. The new find
creeks. He had both hands frozen and
nearly lost his life on the way out.
Miss Louise Hay Becker. daughter of
Colonel T. J. Hecker of the transporta-
ton bureau Of the war department, and
Guyla de Szillassy, an attache of the Aus
trisn legation at Washington, were the
principals in a very exclusive society we'd
ding at Detroit.
William G. Spaulding, cashier of the
German-American bank at Port Clinton
o., and Mrs. Martha E. Jameson of
Toledo, have been arrested on the charge
of causing the death of Miss Amy Meeker
by permnrming a criminal operation upon
her, II is said that Spaulding has made a
confession
The Illinois court Of claims has denied
the claim of Isaac r. Hit. Mary s.
Logan. widow of General John A. Logan,
and Catharine Wiltshire, of $4,000. The
claim was for services alleged to have.
been rendered by Hit John A Logan and
Wiltshire in securing the refunding Of
the direct tax TO Illinois.