The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-29

CHICAGO, Nov. 2S,-Samuel Shepard
! Rogers, at one time president Of the
itton and many years business manager
of the Chicago Daily News. died today OF
! paralysis, aged 81 years.
NEW HAVEN. Conn, Nov. 2S.-A gift
I OF $50 600 from Frederick ". Vanderbilt
| for the purchase OF additional property
for the enlargement OF Vanderbilt square
now occupied by the two Vanderbilt dor
| mitories. is announced today.
CHICAGO. Nov. 2s.-charles H. Bull,
millionaire retired banker one OF the
| Oldest citizens OF Illinois. died last night
In Quincy at the age Of Sc; He had been
| interested in many Of Qulncys business
projects and had been an officer and
! trustee of many public institutions.
| SAN JOSE, Cal. Nov 2s.-Mrs. Eliza
| beth Patterson, who was brought from
! ter Mrs. Fowler OF Santa Clara, for her
| health. was found dead in her room this
morning with the tube OF a gas burner
in her mouth, She was 6i years OF age.
MANILA Nov 29.-The transport Dix.
which arrived at Manila on November 20
will sail tomorrow (Monday) for Seattle
J The failure Of the department here 10 re-
| port her arrival caused the Washington
authorities TO order vessel to search
| for the Dix, believing that she was over
due.
LONG BEACH. Cal. Nov. 2S.-Major
Thomas Washington Rathbone, 81 years
Of age. Of civil war fame, organizer OF
the White Horse cavalry of Company
a. Thirty-fourth regiment. Ohio volun-
teers, is dead at his home. Major Rath-
bone had lived In Long Beach four years.
coming from Kansas.
KANSAS CITY. Nov. 2S.-A heavy rain
and snow, the latter from six to twelve
inches In depth in some places, has fallen
and the Texas panhandle, and as far
west as New Mexico. during the past
twenty hours The wheat crop Will
be greatly benefited by this moisture
SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,. Nov. 2s-The ac-
duittal today OF two more defendants is
generally regarded as forecastlng the coll
lapse of the cases growing out OF the re-
cent race riots. A verdict of not guilty
was brought in by the jury In the case
of William and Mabel Stout. who had
been on trial on an indictment charging
burglary and larceny.
SAN PEDRO, Cal. Nov. 2S.-The
French cruiser Catinat. flagship OF the
French Pacing SQUADRON, arrived at San
Pedro today for weeks stay. The Of
fcers were greeted by reception COM
mittee from the Los Angeles French col
ony. 1t Is understood that the flagship
America,
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 2s.-LitlgatIon OF
several years standing and involving
many residents OF the San Bernardino
valley has been settled by the recording
in the federal court OF the report Of the
sale al San Bernardino of the property of
the Bear Valley Irrigation company to the
Citizens Savings and Trust company OF
Cleveland. o., for the sum OF ST. 93i 500.
The trust company had brought suit TO
foreclose against about 100 persons
AUBURN. n. Y, Nov. 2s.-william
Robert Brasch. the Rochester wife muir
derer, In whose case Governor Hughes re-
fused TO interfere. was clectrocuted In
Auburn prison today. The crime for which
Brasch was executed was the murder Of
his wife, Roxanna, whom he pushed into
the Erie canal at Rochester on the night
Of June 10. 1906 He killed her that he
might marry May Gilmore Of Defiance. O.
NEW YORK. Nov. 2S-Mrs, Rebecca
Levy, 80 years old, leaped from the third
floor of burning tenement house in the
Bronx early today. with her 2-year-old
daughter In her arms. Both were serious
ly injured. Nearly a score OF tenants
were overcome by smoke but were res
cued by police and fremen. The fire
started in the basement and swept quickly
UP the elevator shafts.