Show A SENSELESS CANARD Alle alleged gelli shooting of president cleveland a baseless fabrication hay haj past four yester yeater vernoon an announcement was he 0 that b at president cleveland had u assassinated at kansas city toe the 80 spread read like wildfire and a f feel eel wt jeep deep gloom and excite excitement mant perm 0 the community from all wa ra came anxious inquiries and crowds gathered together at the telegraph office and other places to 10 obtain definite news of the terrible deed the dispatch had bad not been received by any of the newspaper offices and this fact threw doubton doubt on its authenticity and about an hour later the western union office came out with an emphatic dental denial of any tel e agram ram of the kind having been received there this had bad tee she effect of qui quieting ettag the people down as the information was spread and gladly received that the whole story was false and that the president was safe an investigation was made as to where the report originated and it was soon developed that the deseret telegraph operator had received the follo following wing message from the wistern western unto union n telegraph office at Og denand had repeated editto it to the deseret telegraph station and the utah central office kansas city p m president cleveland assassinated by hackman who drove him to train W asad bulletin manager dougall of the deseret telegraph made inquiries of the chief operator at ogden who stated that there was no one there ther who signed W and that all the operators denied having done anything of the kind the deseret telegraph operator however received the message from office G ogden as stated 1 it will be remembered in this connection that this is not the first canard that has been credited to tAle telegraph graph operators at ogden on the ad of lat last march when there was considerable anxiety as to the fate of the edmunds tucker bill a dispatch came from og den ing to be from washington announcing that the president bad signed the bill a statement utterly without found foundation allom another instance occurred last december w hen an operator at ogden informed the operator at price emery county that judge zane had been lynched in salt lake city these occurrences show there is something wrong in the junction city and while there may possibly be no definite end in view in such senseless and base proceedings roce edings the instances cited all point point in the same direction this mornings ogden herald has the foi following lowing to say of the rumor rumo in that city A report was circulated on en the streets yesterday to the effect that president cleveland had bad been assassin abed in kansas city A herald reporter looked the matter up and found that the rumor was first started from a side telegraph station and that there was no truth whatever in it abood A good many people were shocked at hearing wt were relieved when it was authentically aea dented f e the a western union office in this city has been getting etting t inquiries from many places for for information but bat from nowhere outside of utah the starting of such silly rumors is n not at a very nice occupation for anyone and should be avoided by sensible people |