| Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER the year 1890 will certainly bea be a memorable one in meteorology as well as in other affairs it is iu in truth a year of disasters there is not net a day that something more thrilling lingas is not chronicled it w would be safe to say that many thousands of lives have been lost by asters and such causes only a few days ago chicago was startled by the blowing up of a large steamboat resulting in a loss of some thirty lives alves next day comes a terrible cyclone in minnesota bringing death to hundreds of pleasure seekers turnover turn over the files of a daily paper for fora a few mont heaDd figure up what nature in the way of wind water hail and lightning has lone done kentucky seems to hae suffered most on january 18 13 vou va lives were lost by a cyal r JT 1 arh 27 lives were lost b bj baville v cyclone on june 13 twelve ve U lives were lost by a cloud cloudburst burs also in kentucky this makes lives lost for kentucky alone by the february floch flood in arizona sixty five lives were lost the april cyclone in arkansas destroyed fifteen lives the june cyclone in nebraska 15 and by the june cyclone in illinois some twenty lives were lost during what has been spent of this year it is safe to say that about 2000 ii lives vies have been lost by cyclones and lightning both directly and indirectly A gentleman named duncan in kentucky says that all this means the end of the world he quotes scripture to prove it and when lie he finds it convenient be draws on science the chicago post says that it does not mean the end of the world but that it might mean something to remind us of the transitory nature of earthly things the post contends that if these disasters M meant bant the chastening cha of a wicked world chicago could hardly escape that 1890 is one of disaster calamity and catastrophe no one can dispute scientists seem as much in the dark about it as the religionists in th the e primitive days of christianity we find that the great roman empire was visited by similar calamities devout christians looked upon these as visitations of providence for the cruelty and rapacity of ra asman man soldiers and citizens it is probable that devout mormons cormons in the future will look upon our disasters as similar visitations of providence for the cowardly crristian br istian treacherous manner in which mormons cormons are treated today certainly the pious mormon has as much reason and right to think so as his prototype the early Cb christian ristian had at all events we have had calamity enough to remind us of what we owe to god and to humanity the year opened with sorrow in the most distinguished families of our country how it will end god alone can tell teil the prospects are gloomy with yellow fever raging in cuba and cholera holding high carnival in spain speaking of carnivals it was in extremely bad taste for the people of ogden to advertise themselves as a colony of mummery kings ard and princes of pantaloon dukes and earls and of plastered last ered clowns and cranks while beath death and destruction at jia ji a prevailed allover all over the country if an individual or city cannot be ser serious in the presence of death then there is something radically wrong there are nations nation it is said where the wakes and funerals are scenes of revelry and mirth if so sad indeed must be the condition of such countries A little nonsense is not at all out of place sometimes but when it comes to making mummery a king and bowing the knee to with governors judges and generals playing harlequin and glorying in it as a symptom of national grent greatness ness it is little wonder that providence is angered after the carnival comes the lottery and under a gentile or liberal rule the louisiana rol bery may find a home A new development in divorce business has brought utah once more into public notice it appears that a character named doc sims well known in criminal matt matteis els and implicated in fia the recent election frauds made a business of procuring divorces according to the utah law his method was to advertise extensively that divorces could be obtained without ancor ven lenience veni lence ence or notoriety for residents of any state or city by virtue of the utah law the reply to this advertisement usually coming coining of course from a prospective candidate for divorce was met by another reply which stated terms and regularly reg regu laTy printed form s to be filled out aad returned with an accompanying fee of 20 A few weeks later the doctor would again write and say that the divorce was secured and all the papers ready to be delivered when the regular fee of 50 would be sent A pennsylvania woman went through the process but not having the 50 in full more correspondence than usual was occasioned the doctor compromised for 40 and the 20 presentation fee making in all 60 instead of 70 the regular expense this voluminous correspondence brought the affair to the notice of the postal authorities inspector fleming investigated vesti gated and the result was that the doctor la Is now held iu in bonds of 3 to the grand jury U 8 district attorney milchrist explained to the papers the doctors doctor Is system after relating in full the negotiations by which the pennsyl pennsylvania woman obtained her divorce he says the mono money was w as sent and sins sims 1 returned the uree decree this is is what puzzles us ua it purports to bo tho the decree of a probate judge in B ba ba county utah regu regul larik aily attested by the clerk and bearing the great seal of that court together with a further authentication that the clerk had cor acely transcribed the decree signed by the judge we have been in correspondence with that judge and he be says no ng such decree was ever made in his court burt furthermore it is not at all unlikely that the court seal was used to stamp the document we will thoroughly investigate that matter after the matter was ni nude ide public the attorney received lutters fron from various parts of the cou country atry telling of the utah divorces alost of the parties who got these divorces are now remarried aud and it is said that the doctor did a very large business the attorney says lie he is in correspondence with the judge ol of ba ba county then ba ba must be a reality though as a county name it sounds strange anti and many of the geographies dont give it nevertheless it ft brings utah to the front and we all know there is a utah the condition of the worlds fair is most reassuring chicago is in a fair way to raise towards making it a success ten tell million dollars will be raised by E private private subscription and by y taxation through the proposed constitutional amendment then congress is not yet done with and that more is expected from ahat source towards arranging for exclusively foreign exhibits the real estate sharps who expected large profits by a suburban site are completely sat upon it is now cert certain aill that the best part of the fair will be held on the lake front and more land reclaimed from the lake thus throwing the speculator underwater it must be understood that the pair fair will be managed by two bodies the board of directors a local body and the national commission an imperial body of course after the site and character of the buildings are determined the management ol of the fair falls almost entirely into the hands of the national body tho the local body the board of Dire directors dors has hals just chosen its seere secretary tary heis he is no i other than ban the well known ben butterworth af pf ohio he is a member of ess his home is isla in cincinnati cincinnati but when his term in congress expires he intends making chicago his permanent home great diversity of opinion prevails over this selection conservative persons hold that it will give the fair a political and partisan complexion democrats dont like it and the republicans as a whole dont endorse enderse it the chicago tribune is enthusiastic in sustaining the appointment it says butterworth from his large washington experience is just the man to obtain more favors from congress that he has bad practical connection on with all the great expositions 11 i ons of the past and that he was once commissioner of patents this is certainly good showing and if correct the selection of butterworth as secretary was a judicious one some other papers held that butterworth has no conscience no ait aia principle no consistency this is all nonsense to be a success n chicago hi cago it is nut conscience nor principle that helps but a gizzard and a policy these latter make the man william bunham an In indiana liana politician now sojourning sojo in cb cago says that the republican county convention of president harrisons Hamson own sown county mec meets ts next week anti and that it will repudiate the harrison administration he says the resolution to be introduced er dorsing harrison will be voted down ile he says harrison has not made one appointment in indiana satisfactory to his own party mr is a 0 republican republica anti ami says his baity in indiana is split into factions factious jolin john 13 of montreal Is now dow iu chicago having just arrived from england he says that if the Nic Kinley bill bee becomes omesa a law england will seek no more reciprocity but will adopt a course of retaliation equal to prohibition of amer can products into britain he says that if reciprocity is good for north and south america it ought to be equally good for england and north america hiram hudson of iowa a stalwart prohibitionist says that the house amendment to the senators senates original package bill will prove a setback to his party this bill at first referred solely to liquor but objection was made because of discrimination against one special article of commerce the if house ouse bill gives the states authority over the sale of all goods shipped from other states provided discrimination is not made in favor of homo home products or manufactures this bill mr hudson thi thinks aks would kill the interstate dressed beef trade and also the oleomargarine interests ho says the packers and others will lobby against the bill and thus cause it to be shelved this year cherf by giving the original package houses in iowa full swing for another year JUNIUS CHICAGO july J uly 16 1890 |
