The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
TOW TALK.

The music at st. PauTs chapel this
morning viii be a repetition of the
Christmas music.
Mrs. Effie D. Knappen will sing 'Oh,
owe Divine at this evenings services in
the Eighteenth ward chapel.
]. NJ. Stout showed considerable i'm
provement yesterday and was able TO sit
up during a portion of the day.
The employees of F. II. Auerbach &
Bro. had their usual New Years eve BAN
quet last night, at the expense of the
house.
The city license revenues for December
amounted 10 SI3 1914. 81. for LIQUOR. mer-
chants and miscellaneous permits. The
increase over the same month of last year
is $1.6S0.2.
The Italian society, Christopher Colom-
DO, at its meeting last Sunday elected c.
Benefit, president; c. Gugiielamini. vice
president; A B~ertagnoli, treasurer, and
L. Picco, secretary.
John A. Evans, retiring manager of the
Deseret News, was last evening presented
n1In a handsome writing desk by the en-
ployees Of the News company, which
changes hands today.
There are still eight contagious disease
flags outstanding, covering twelve cases
of scarlet fever and II of d~iphtheria.
The births in the city last week numbered
twenty-one and the deaths fifteen.
Grand Organizer Meakin of the Wood
men OF the ora VIII denver d lecture on
"WoOdcraft' at the meeting of camp No.
%, on Tuesday evening, in the |. O.. o. F..
temple. The public and friends of the
order are invited.
Mayor Clark has requested all the city
officials to submit their annual reports
to him at the earliest date practicable, so
that he may commence the preparation
of his second nnua message TO the city
council without unnecessary delay.
During the year 1898 there were COZ
l. l. D. . l-k So 1@-a - = 4
Lake City. On a basis of 10000 popula-
ton, the annual death rate is S.674 per
cent of the population. Premature births
and Still-borns. numbering eighty-four,
are not included in the total.
Yesterdays clearings were S256, $50, as
compared with $434.373 for the same day
of last year. The weeks clearings footed
up 81, TAO, 81, a. against 81, 724,6 a for the
and the total for the month was $40. 525,
33c. as against 81, 102, 1917 for December,
The German Saints of Salt Lake City
viii have d grand reunion and social in
the Fourteenth ward hall Monday, Jan.
2, 1899, commencing at ? p. n. An elabor-
ate programme viii be rendered and a
general good time is anticipated. and all
speaking the German tongue are invited
especially visitors from the country. Ad-
mission free,
Chief Sexton Simmons yesterday with
drew from Recorder BacKman his peu-
ton to the mayor n council Tor an IN
crease in salary. Realizing that the only
legal way of securing larger pay would
be TO resign and then be r-e-appointed and
re-cOnhrmed, the thrifty sexton concluded
10 not swap horses in midstream, but TO
peg along without running any unneceS-
sary risks of the hazardous kind.
One of the most .ag things in the
history OF home amusement IS the way
the local opera company's rendition of
The Chimes of Normandy" has struck
the public. The opera is now on its third
revival. and the demand for seats for
tomorrow's performance is just as heavy
as though the work We're about to be done
for the first time. The matinee will be
sold out before the curtain rises and the
night attendance will be almost as large.
a serious accident happened to Edward
Southam yesterday afternoon while at
work for the street department in the
gravel pit up City Creek canyon. A boul-
der became dislodged from above, and in
lis downward course il struck the laborer
q glancing blow on the head and in the
chest. He was taken 10 his home. at 800
West Seventh North street. By Foreman
Malin, and a physician was called TO at
tend his injuries. Unless Southam is in
ternally injured, he will o recover. He
is IN very poor circumstances. having
worked out his poll tax, and yesterday
was his first employment by the city on
wages to enable him to liquidate the sum
of 2.6O. the cost of commencing suit
against him for the collection OF his poll
tax.