The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-02
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

! The United States refrigerator supply
snip Celtic, which left New York on Oct.
| u, arrived at San Francisco yesterday.
J -EX-Secretary -of State William NJ. Ev-
arts, who viii be 81 years of age next
Monday, has recovered from his recent
! illness.
SCaspar shoeller is. dead at Mascoutah,
/ Ill. after a spell of hiccoughing lasting
! six days. He literally hiccoughed himself
| to death.
| Fox of Dawson says the xlondike will
not produce more this year than last. A
nugget worth $S4S has been found near
| Eagle City.
The United States transports Ohio ard
Senator. bearing the Twenty-second
/ United States infantry to the Philippines.
sailed from San Francisco.
A memorial to congress was adopted by
the Wisconsin state senate protesting
against the seating of b. II. Roberts of
Utah IS a member of congress.
The steamship Empress OF Japan sailed
from Vancouver for Yokohama and Hong
kong. She carried over l.0000J0 bottles of
beer for Americans in the Philippines.
Colonel J. p. Smith, commanding the
Twelfth infantry at Jefferson barracks.
received Geographic Instructions from
Washington to sail on Feb. for Mania.
The oxford hotel, Seventh and st.
Charles streets. S.. Louis, was partially
burned and thirty guests, who We're
steering soundly al the time, had a mar
row escape.
Emanuel Strauss. a pioneer merchant of
San Francisco. died of heart failure. in
duced by old age. He was a brother of
the late Lazarus Strauss of Strauss d
Co.. New York.
Investigation of the books of Robert
Leadley. late chief clerk of the police
Justices courts, Detroit, resulted in show
ing a shortage of $1,000 Leadley is wide
ly known in baseball circles.
Mrs. John Krebs of Junction CITY, Kan.
who was convicted Of numbering Mrs
Lizzie Craig on Dec Is, was sentenced by
Judge o. L. Moore TO hard labor in the
state penitentiary for ten years.
The Rev. Charles Seymour Robinson
died at his home in New York. He had
been seriously i'll for some weeks Dr.
Robinson was Presbyterian divine well
known as writer of hymns and books
The press mill of the Ohio Powder COM
pany's works, located four miles north of
Youngstown. exploded with terrific force,
killing twos,sWployees. Evan Evans and
Henry DaviSan totally demolishing the
building.
The lower house of the North Dakota
legislature passed the bill requiring a
residence of one year before a divorce
can be secured. It has previously passed
the senate and will be approved by the
governor.
The three turf pool rooms that have
been operating in Kansas City were raid
ed simultaneously by the police last even
ing. Several hundred men and boys were
captured, including many well-known
business men.
Tom L. Johnson, capitalist, eX-congress-
man. and the late Henry Georges most
prominent disciple, has determined to re-
linquish his business cares and devote the
rest Of his life 10 the PRONUNCIATION OF the
doctrines of the single tax.
The Nutwood Driving Club of DUBUQUE
was awarded the Horse Review eombi-
nation futurity race for S-year-old trot-
ters, valued at $4,000. the biggest stake
and largest sum of money ever raced fo-
by harness horses. This brings the total
value of the purses for the Dubuque meet
ing to sS0,500
A certificate of consolidation of the
Union Tobacco Company of America and
the North American Commercial company
was filed with the secretary of state at
Albany, the title of the first-named cor
poration being retained. The comDany's
Sl2O0O.0OO common and T,0o0,000 preferred
stock.