Show LOCAL NEWS t FROM FRIDAYS DAILY JULY jury 3 one of the banished coming conting home honke As will be seen by the following extract from a letter written to us by elder august valentine lately banished from denmark he is coming home with the company en route As you are aware I 1 have labored in bornholm but some of the ministers there and some of my pretended friends got tired of having me preach the gospel to the tile people so they took it into their heads beads to have me banished which they succeeded in doing they paid my passage to england not however until I 1 had tried every everyday way to get the privilege of staving until unell I 1 had fulfilled my mission however I 1 am not alone as four others of our breth brethren rn have been ban banished isted from that country during the last two weeks it seems strange that peaceable old denmark should be guilty of such a bad act but such is the case and I 1 am now released from further missionary labors at present and ain am permitted to no go home with the company that leaves liverpool on the of june the half holiday As A s announced the meeting of employed emp loyes int interested e rested in the half holiday movement was held in the city hall last evening mr air bir hin yearsley was elected chairman Nals naisbitt bitt and barney of the committee a appointed ot anted at the theli thell first meeting reported up th that t they hey had visited a great many of the merci merchants lants and had hen oben kindly received their proposition generally meeting with favor all of the business men had not been visited owing 11 to circumstances which prevented three of the committee acting shere there had been some diversity of opinion among those visited as to the most suitable day but bat to the majority thursday seemed preferable to any other the committee also suggested that if ii the matter was promptly acted upon it might be probable that the rule co could ald aid go lito tito i ito effect next thursday july 9 the committees r port was accepted with thanks s to the gentlemen for their labors oil on motion tLe committee of five were retained as an executive committee to direct operations and a committee of twelve appointed to prepare and obtain the signatures ot bu business biness ainess men to the necessary petition this tills committee were john al young harry field walter J beatie david years ley james H poulton Samue samuel brown lBrown henry heath geo arbuckle john S lewis walter earrell farrell J B bean and W A needham on motion the committee were instructed str acted ted to ask for thursday afternoon from 1 as a weekly half holiday hollday until the last lait of september and the meeting adjourned until tuesday evening next at 8 at the same place A vote of thanks was given the city newspapers for the encouragement they had given and also to marshal phillips for the use of the hall ball SUICIDE A womax WOMAN TAKES POISON polson IN IY A eit FIT OF INSANITY yesterday ip morning orning there arrived on the D E R G W train in this city from san frad Frao francisco cisco mr dir C E R cannon and wife they went to the metropolitan hotel and mrs cannon who was very weak and emaciated was taken to a room she requested ler ber her husband to go out and see their tickets were all right as they were going to colorado and she would take a little rest mr air cannon went out and attended to some correspondence pon dence t returning in about achour an hour to his cifes room to find her in great agony from some unknown cause dr dart was immediately summoned but when he arrived mrs cannon was in the throes of death and passed away in a very short time the Doctor discovered by the odor in the roo and upon the body ot the deceased that a virulent poison cyanide of potassium was the fatal cause and so informed her husband mr air cannon then explained the circumstances cum stances connected with the travels of himself and wife since last april in that mouth they lost their only hild by death deathy the sad event affecting mrs cannon so seriously that her olind min I 1 became impaired her husband nho is a landscape photographer took cook her to san francisco for health and it is sup posed that the day prior to leaving or the east she obtained and secreted the deadly drug until an 0 opportunity port unity was afforded yesterday for fon f or eer per affer to take it no inquest was held the county coroner receiving no notification of the occurrence the body was placed in a commin coffin n and sent east by the D R G train this morning momin A CLOSE CALL THREE YOUNG mes MEN NARROWLY ESCAPE DROWNING yesterday four young youn gentlemen from this city I 1 wm wood D J davis wm Vm gulver and finley brooks went dithing in jordan rivera bivera a short dis oce ace nce north of the white hirl firl bridge dge the L three aree firSt named had been swimming ar at und and hild and had crossed to the other ahde hda of the river rivers leaving mr brooks hind nind hl nd he being unable to swim they started to return almost exhausted and young gulver guiver requested them not to go too fast as be he was unable anable to keep up when nearly across brooks shout shouted edy eds what are you doin doln doing boys why donat you come on noticing that they were in a strong current carrent and were making slight headway they called to him not to make them laugh as they were swallowing water just then mr gulver who was still in the middle of the stream called for help woods and anti davis started to assist him though they felt that they were almost gone themselves the former reaching him first before this however guiser quiver had sunk once And when woods caught him I 1 he was compelled to let go when gulver went down the second time remaining under water for some time when he arose again davis and woods took hold of him one on either side and started for the shore ane three floated down the river in ta this position for about twenty rods getting very little closer to the bank and being entirely under water a considerable portion of tile the time mr air davis being the best swimmer fared better than the other two who thought all was over with them but still struggled feebly on occasionally touching bottom with their feet then washing off into deep water again mr air brooks seeing the dan gerran down the stream and waded out until the water was up to his chin as far as he dare go with safety and when the others came along succeeded in grasping one of them by the hand an and aud all t three ree were rescued guiver when he reached the bank was stiffened out but gradually recovered st strength reneth the others felt quite sies acs from the trial they had just passed through and the quantity of water they had swallowed they all returned to their homes feeling more thankful after their hair breath escape than for anything else they have ever experienced A COLLISION A BUGGY overturned AND A LADY SEVERELY INJURED about noon today to day mr henry din woo deys buggy was standing alongside of the water sect in front of bf barnes davis store the occupants bein being mrs ellen dinwoodey and a boy live five or six years old lee dinwoodey they were awaiting the return of a lady who had bad j just ast stepped into the store to make some purchases when a buggy containing miss aliss hattie white an and da a lady coi col companion panion came along the former driving and ra ran n into the stationary vehicle the animals attached to both buggies became frightened and th veti vett vehicle icle icie in which mrs dinwoodey was seated was overturned throwing the unfortunate lady to the ground and falling upon her several gentlemen who were passing and a number of the clerks from th the e stores near by prang sprang forward some seizing the frail frantic tie tle animals while others rescued the occupants of the buggies from their dangerous pred predicament icamen t mrs dinwoodey who is an aged lady and an invalid was assisted into the wasatch drug store and shortly afterward mr air dinwoodey arrived and removed her to her residence she Is SC verely severely bruised about the back and head and has received a serious shock from the excitement and her injuries the result of which cannot be stated at present the little boy who accompanied her was also thrown from the bugey buggy but was unhurt the occupants of the other vehicle were assisted out and escaped serious injury miss martha wartha gledhill who with a little girl eight or ten years of age jumped from another buggy was thrown I 1 into to hysterics by the fright right I 1 the horse attached to mr air dinwood eys ays buggy was soon quieted but the other animal was gotso easily handled and kept on plunging and kicki kicking ng in a frightful 1 manner smashing the front part of the vehicle and freeing itself after quite a struz struggle gle gie the harness ivas was removed and the animal became more docile the accident seems to have been the result of careless driving though without any wrong 11 intention on the part of anyone any one concerned there was plenty of room for vehicles to pass in safety and there seems to be no other gother reason for tor the collision than that dent attention was not being paid to the horse was going APOSTLE J 11 SMITH discharged I 1 THE WITNESSES are ARM TO APPEAR THE GRAND JURY the examination of witnesses in the case of apostle john henry smith charged with a breach of the edmunds law defore commissioner mckay was continued at 4 yesterday afternoon sheriff john A groesbeck was the first witness josephine groesbeck was his sister she lived about a block north of witness residence and had three children the youngest about seven months old she was married to the tile defendant about seven years ago presumed defendant was the father ot of josephides Jose phines children had occasionally met defendant at his sisters house had never heard him speak of the youngest child as being his or heard josephine call him its father defendant had always been received with favor by witness mother had never heard him film assert or deny that josephine was his wife judged from conversations that she was nai nad never heard his sister call rail defendant her husband she called him john henry witness regarded defendant fondant as her husband this impression was not gained from any statement made by defendant but from the association of bf the latter with witness sister in answer to fuestion questions 4 by the commissioner the witness stated that the defendant had gone to england about three years yeara hince bince and returned three or four lour our oar months ago witness sister did not go away with nim him but bat was absent part of the time that he sas vas was miss sarah arnold was recalled she had met defendant at josephine groes becks house several times daring during the jaag three or four months had never heard heird defendant speak of her as his wife nor introduce her as such did not know whether he treated her as his j wife or not there had bad always been a number of persons present when defendant ama ame to the house judge harkness asked that the charge against the tile defendant be dismissed a and d the commissioner stated that there was no doubt of there having been a marriage between josephine groesbeck and the defendant but as the latter had been absent for nea nearly x ly three ye years ars and the evidence lelath relating ig past three or four months being a little mixed the defendant would be discharged A look of chagrin had come over the face of the district attorney at his evident failure to find anything on which to base a prosecution he determined however to make another at tempt and instructed J his henchman collin to subpoena the witness witnesses cs to appear before the grand jury but that wort worthy hy had anticipated this said t that bat part of the business had been attended to FROM MONDAYS DAILY JULY 6 the immigrants the Th large elarge company of immigrants now en route are expected to arrive in n this city tomor to mor row evening evening plea pica entered by order of court at two this afternoon mr john nicholson appeared before his honor chief justice zane in the third district court that the matter of his plea to the I 1 indictment char charging him with unlawful cohabitation might be settled ile he maintained the same post position on the subject which he took a week ago today to day and nd declined to make any plea the court coart directed that a plea of not guilty be entered in behalf of the defendant which was accordingly done by the clerk dlo dio more re diphtheria victims it was hoped that the efforts made to prevent the further spread of that dread malady diphtheria in the family of brother brether john F of mill creek had proved successful after the death some weeks since of his son and dau daughter ahter tae the latter a young lady of 19 years but it has since broken gut wl with h fre fresh 4 virulence carrying off two more nore of his boys aged respectively ten und ind iud ind twelve years one of whom died on friday and the other yesterday morning in edward brain again arrested at about half balf past 12 on the morning of july ath mr air edward brain was aroused by a loud knocking at his door by three persons who proved to be deputy I 1 marshals areen dreen greenman collin and johnson and who stated that they had a subpoena they wished to serve and if they were not granted admission would smash in the door mr brain warned them not to attempt such a proceeding as if his house was broken into he would defend himself the marshals then sent one of their number johnson for marshal ireland while he was gone mr air brain concluded to go to a neighbors house and accordingly started stared out he was followed and overtaken uy deputies greenman and collin who placed him under arrest at th this 1 s time mr air brain had his hand on a le volver in his pocket and the deputies accused him of having drawn it but this he says is false Al arshal marshal ireland arrived short ls and aud a search warrant was read after which mr air brain unlocked the door and a subpoena was served on the desired witness the marshal then removed mr brain to the penitentiary and after daylight came brought him back to commissioner mckays office for examination the commissioner released the defendant on 2000 bonds to this mornin morning gg and today to day after an examination which elicited the statements made above placed mr air brain under 2500 bonds to await the action of the grand lury jury on the charge of resisting the officers H S beatle beatie jr and samuel mckay being his bondsmen the witness who was su subpoenaed was taken before judge zane who placed her under 1000 bonds to appear and testify in the district court on sept ath A IL DENIAL on sunday morning mor a sheet published in this city made the following statement relative to the flag being at half mast on the theatre when mr Ros rossiter giter of the theatre I 1 saw it over the building he ordered it hoisted to the masthead mast head or he would drop out of tile the employ emple y of the concern and the honor was due to him that the flag was so raised 11 in answer to this statement the following was handed in today SALT L LAKE lar eer CITY cirr july 6 1885 editor deseret news I 1 notice a disposition to eulogize me and give me credit for action in a line for which I 1 deserve none I 1 am credited also with having said that I 1 would quit certain employ if certain things were not done I 1 take this method of assuring you and my friends that I 1 do not deserve this praise especially from that source respecting the flags being at half mast roast I 1 feel exactly as au my co religionists do that it was a proper manifestation of our feeling upon the trie occasion if liberty Is not dead at least she lies bleeding bleed ln WA ROSSITER THE FOURTH OP OF juny JULY IN SALT LAKE the beau dear old iria rias at hair half mast in rolen token of mourning A MOB DECLARE THAT CITIZENS CANNOT EX express RESS |