| Show LOCAL AND OTHER MATTERS A special meeting of the rolle belie society of east mill creek ward was bead wednesday oct 25 addresses addressee made by mesdames E B wells welle and E 8 taylor on tuesday the same bame ladles ladies assisted in the reorganization of the relief belief society of the eighth ward vard this oily city caused by the death of the president preal dent mrs catherine K X palmer was waa chreen to fill the vaham bacan y william thorns thorn bishop of the seventh ward celebrated the bouty eighth anniversary of his hie birth binh oct 26 elder thorn is in still full of physical and mental vigor and is taken for a much younger man the NEWS extends happy returns and aad trusts that alder thorn may not only outlive the resent century but that he may con S oue due his hie earthly existence exia tence as far into the next as A his heart may desire thomas powers eldest son BOD of dr E H J powers of ogden died very gud suddenly denly tuesday october 24 after an illness of less leas than twenty tour four hours the young man took sick about 6 in the evening after having emp employed Joyed himself during the day at ai ills ibis fa office and aad at 9 next wora irig death had bad claimed him for its own the marems paro nir and family very keenly feel their lohsand loe loss sand and the sym batby of tile fe people go out to them in heir great bereavement today oct the family of the late general wells welle are commemorating the anniversary of his birth by holding bolding a family reunion at the residence 01 ot one of his children in toe the twelfth ward ard it is a custom that was wag bueti buted many years before his bis death and was aa always observed whether the general was at home or not these affairs have ever been pleasant ones and ad the NEWS trusts that the present say prove no less leas so than the wany many that have preceded it married at the salt lake temple on friday last oct bishop john B R winder and miss minna midna burnham of hlo arriba co now new mexico maxico in the evening a family ga therlow was aa held bold at the homestead poplar farm besides the immediate families there were present presidents wilford Vi lford woodruff george Q cannon joseph F smith and lorenzo JL orenzo snow and a few other friends the NEWS tenders to bishop winder and aad wife I 1 its to sincerest cino erest congratulations and wishes them much joy and happiness the following is self explanatory the following named prisoners will be released during the mouth month ol of november on dates named nov lot wm win avery A very from the first district for housebreaking housebreak log and grand larceny two years and six months from fram deg dec let 1891 nov chas just from the third district adultery two months irom from sept 27 th 1898 yours truly FELIX J STARK acting warden tuesday mary johnson joanson Job an old woman or of the fourth war warl J says cue brigham city bugler ot of the lost committed suicide she was past seventy evenly years of age and is in said sahl to have not been right in her mind for sometime she went wen toutin the garden placed a noose around her ber neck tied the other end to a strong peach limb and swung herself off into eternity ahe abe had been living jiving alone and the children who brought her dinner discovered her ber hanging to the tree the east bench street railway ca company m pan I 1 by J S cameron president pr elliden t has made a mortgage on all its pr p erty present and prospective t i george M downey trustee for with which to begin the construction of its road the popperton hopperton Pop place and fort douglas rapid transit company has also signed a mortgage by edward F colborn col born president homr downey lor for a similar amount and purpose the bonds are of the denomination of 1000 each and are issued on july Is 1 1893 and payable july 1 1903 with interest at P six ix per cent per annum through the instrumentality oi of at ai orney hempstead otio of the batet latet accessions to the salt balt lake bar am mo moi P pitkin who in may 1880 was sentenced at ogden oden to twenty years imprisonment for rape will emerge from the penitentiary now DOW too toe convict IR in now between fifty and sixty years of age anu ana just heard beard of his bia impending aing release mr hempstead on learning of we the case hunted through the old utah laws and discovered a cupper copper act PR february 1880 he has induced district attorney judd to coni erit to apply this to the case of Pitk pitkin ilu and hence the mans release after serving thirteen years of his sentence hurrah for utah silk enthusiast writes mrs blaine salisbury to mrs mra E B wells of this city ironi from chicago chiago the writer hall baa rood good ca cadee use to be gratified as utah has hae taken three medals for the best beet exhibit of silk mrs speaks in the highest terou terms of pi also of mrs margaret macgarr 9 A caine and her bar untiring efforts in 91 div V ing information to visitors via ilora on the silk ilk industry in utah mrs mr caine will wili peak on beriou altre in utah before a large audience in the Woma comans womans building on vay at the columbian exhibition the beautiful little work entitled charities and philanthropies in utah is highly spoken of by worlds fair visitors and is being widely circulated there was it a bold attempt made oct between 9 and 10 o to 10 hold bold up the lake breeze car or the city railroad company at the time named the car was proceeding along near the driving park when three men suddenly rushed out of the darkness and sprang upon it one t king the ibe front platform and the others the rear they covered the astonished with revolvers vo vol lvere vers but had not the opportunity to get any further up to this time the desperadoes were not aware that any other persons persona were near but upon observing three duck hun huntera Leris inside the car each in powes sion of a double barrelled barrel led gun they hey bolted off all ae fast fait as aa their logo legs could carry them before the duck buters hunters could catch up they had vanished the lat last few months have witnessed a number of serious shooting in the canyons and while in colease hall baa the victim been killed but in all injuries have been sustained that will maim for life in two or three cases arms have been either blown off or reduced to fragments in as aa many more the leade i pellets have perforated the lower limbs limb of the victim yesterday afternoon A W countryman who resides at no went fourth north street etwas ws similarly hurt while on a hunting bunting expedition in emigration canyon he had gone into the mountains earlier in the day with an acquaintance named keene they were walking along a trail tingle lingle file Y the latter some distance behind elders wm C winder of farmers ward salt bait lake county and N P lee of farr west weber county have returned from a mission to toe the southern stat slates s elder winder lof left t home oo on dec 1 1891 iana and was assigned to labor in the north carolina conference he met with good treatment nu nd su success cetas during the second year hla health was somewhat what impaired but not sufficiently so to disqualify him from uia labors he list ha i some experience with moba but received no injury upon one occasion ne be was wag arrested but when the case came up in c urt next day it was dismissed dismiE sed elder lee also labored in the north carolina conference but not in the hanie samo section as elder winder he left on his mission september 14 1891 H HIS la health was goods icord and the success be met with was encouraging he was well treated by the people oo 00 a few occasions he was threatened by mobs abut but was never molested elders elden and winder speak highly of the hospitality of the southern people while judge zane on saturday day oct 28 was wag passing sentence otence ae of ten year years Is imprisonment on john benson for abe killing of dr C OEl 0 elleott llott at grants ville the prisoner sd wife ife moaned pite bubly and very nearly fa intel she fell upon her knees clasped her der hands together ether anu and essayed to beg for mercy a behalf of her husband his hia honor eventually ul ui erected that she be taken from the courtroom again she wrung her hanus and again she tried ti t i speak rho fhe prisoner himself appeared appe areu greatly moved and big tears coursed down his nl cheeks the defendants defend anta attorney and court rt bailiff gently took hold of the unfortunate woman and asi assisted dated her from the court into the bitnes es s wattine room where after celvin rd sentence tier her husband joined her for a short time the scene between them was quilean quite an affecting one mr mn benson refusing to be consoled when the prisoner was taken away in the wagon to the penitentiary later she complete ly broke down and was an object of commisse corn ratio ration u among the bystanders bensons Ben brother had an interview with him before his bia removal from the marshal im quarters qu artere A utah mineral has haa taken another of the borla fair prime dr J IL talmage president of the f aseret museum has baa rece received led official notice that tio utah ael enite has haa been awarded the modal medal offered for the beat collection of that mineral at the great exposition ex DO the rho conditions surrounding this display were such that the award might easily have been given to another section had bad it not been for the greatly superior grade of the utah mineral glad and the tact laet that its existence and quality had bad become widely known through the efforts of dr talmage and others othera who have written and talked extensively of the wonderful erful deposit in this hie territory readers of the NEWS will remember that there was recorded in these columns um no a full account of the discovery ol of the io in large quantity in pluto county and a graphic description of the deposit the deseret museum took the precaution to locate this antor eating and valuable from a scientific point of view dl covery an extensive collection of the choicest specimens was maje made and these were distributed among various educational institutions in this country and in europe while some were sold to private individuals who were desirous of securing them because of their great beauty the deseret museum made no exhibit at the pair fair but many ot of the sol onite specimens which it had caused to be scattered throughout the country were sent in to the Exposi exposition tin the knowledge that these came from utah had been disseminated as before stated and ana when the specimens were reached by the judges they ascertained the source irom whence they came the result being that the deseret museum got the credit of making the collect collection iob add the utah barrieu off the prize |
