| Show LOCAL locan NE news WS FROM FRIDAYS FRIDAY DAILY dally APRIL 11 third district court proceedings in ings s before chief justice hunter on friday q april lith 1884 1881 gurdan conkling vs revere concentrating company default reference and lud iud judgment m ent for plaintiff as prayed wm win fa H ll II bowers vs london bank of utah limited motion of defendant to dissolve attachment heard on arguments of counsel baskin van home for defendant and J G sutherland and arthur brown for plaintiff case proceeding dim this afternoon obsequies we vve have received receive d from bishop D 11 cannon of st george a synopsis ot of the life of sister lydia G knight an account of which from other sources we have already published the funeral services brother cannon states were held in the tabernacle at st george saturday april ath at 11 a in the esteem in which t the h e deceased decease d was held by the deop people le was vas manifested by the general attendance from st george and the santa clara robert Prin Pr ingles kies kles death beath A brief item in the NEWS a tew leiv da days s a ago chronicled the death of robert pringle rl 1 by drowning while at work on the oregon short line mae bridge on the ath of april A letter to relatives in this city from a friend of the deceased gives lives ilves a few particulars which were backing hacking racking in our former notice of the sad event the deceased was at work as a mason on the stone abutments for an iron bridge over the snake Riv river erand and while crossing the river in a small boat from one pier to another a distance of 6 loo 00 or f feet bein being alone at the time the boat caught ht oWai on a wire vire suspended suspended across the river rier and was upset robert was never heen teen heen afterwards search has been made for the body but so far without avail the deceased was aged 3 30 36 years ye arsand and 6 months and was a resident of the twenty first ward of this city where his widow and six children now reside they have the heartfelt sympathy of allin all ail in their bereavement the press in russia A gentleman who traveled through russia a few years ago 1 relates the following while I 1 was at dios Alos moscow cowa a quarto volume was published in the vindication of tile the liberties of the subject in this work the czar was severely ariti c cited zed and freely blamed the iniquity and venality of the administration of kawwas law was described in strong language such a book in such a country attracted general notice and the offender was taken into custody after being tried in a summary way his production product Lon ion was determined to be a libel and the writer condemned to eat bis his own words 1 I was induced to see this singular sentence put into execution A scaffold was erected in one of the most public streets of the city the imperial provost the magistrate the physicians and surgeon of the czar attended the book was separated from its binding the margin cut off and every leaf rolled up into the forn k taken out of the wheel at guildhall the author was then served with them leaf by leaf by the provost who put them into his mouth to the no small diversion ot the spectators and was obliged to swallow this unpalatable food on pain of the knout a punishment more dreadful than death when the medical gentlemen gen flemen were of opinion that he had received enough into his stomach as much as was at one time consistent with safety the transgressor was sent back to prison and the business resumed the two fo howing following days after alter three very hearty but unpleasant meals I 1 am convinced by ocular proof that every leaf of the book was actually swallowed 11 |
