| Show EVENTS edmunds law prosecutions thomas highams was arrested in ila the twenty first ward september septemo r 13 on a charge of unlawful cohabitation Hewa he was taken staken before commissioner norrell and arraigned or a complaint made out jan 1889 1119 charging charging him with living with mrs higham and jane dole as his wives mr higham entered a plea of guilty and the commissioner fixed bail at which was given released from prison Sept 12 J G jorgensen of beaver city and christian nielsen of koosharem Koo sharem plute diute county were re leased eased from the penitentiary where whery they have been confined for with their wives they were sen aw 4 j fenced to the full extent of the ewt six months and and erg copt costerg and were detained 30 days for Us t l i 1 fl fine no y sept 10 elder B H roberts was 4 j released from the penitentiary myo where he has been confined undo under rj the provisions of the edmunds law his sentence for unlawful co habito tion was four months and a tine fine of 4 and costs for the lantere lat battel tere aie was kept in prison 30 days raiding meadow J we learn from meadow millard county that the united states deputy marshals have raided that tha 2 settlement seven times since the first of july last the object was to arrest certain alleged offenders offen deis dem against the edmunds law the gentlemen pursued were bishop bisho H B bennett joseph aller fisher james M stewart ben goo god dard david duncan and E A beckstrand the only one among the number found by the officers was A E beckstrand 3 all the others being absent from home when the de deputies made their do de scents took his own life thursday september Sept embar 12 christian Christ ism t jenson an inmate of the city prison ariso committed suicide in chemor th emor ing he had been sentenced to pay 4 r 5 fine for being drunk and in de fault of the money was placed ia B jail his was a bad case of jin J jams the result of a protracted spree in the afternoon attention was called to him by one of the prisoners stating that he had bad hanged himself T investigation revealed th fact that jensen had bad taken his bis aaa ponders penders and fastened them to the bars and around his throat he had also obtained a small piece of glass from a broken vial with which he severed the main artery in the left wrist and as he e fainted from loss of blood feu forward and was strangled to death whether or not he cut the artery before hanging himself is not noa known but had be not been strangled he would have bled to death but little is known of Jen bensoni soni history he has been arrested before for being drunk he has a family in ogden from which place he came a short time ago he was a carpenter by trade an inquest was held by coroner taylor the jury returning a verdict in accord ance with the foregoing facts accident to an immigrant Immig tant train the following private dispatch diaab was received sept from elder W payne in charge of the company Il LyNcHBuRG va sept 15 1889 the train was w wrecked at 12 last saturday night in a washout no one was ser seriously loudy hurt the tag baggage gage is badly date aged I 1 i the associated press gives the ft sr lowing account of the smash up WA 0 G va sept 15 A mormon emig emigrants mute train on the nor 6 fieric and western railway was wrecked early this morning about four foor miles below this city the wreck was caused by a small bridge oving giving way after the engine and e ew car had passed over it the water in n the creek was very high occasioned by one of the heaviest rain storms ever known in this location the emigrants numbered one hundred and sixty two of the cars plunged into the creek but strange to no one was killed arid and only fifteen or twenty were hurt none of them seriously the findt car that went down turned ofer oer and is ie a total wreck and the second car struck on one end and stood almost perpendicular all the paw pm engers were badly shaken up dp but when brought here elder payne who is iu in charge of the stated that none were crippled and that all would proceed on their journey as soon as the train could lie be made up there were nine mormon non elders in the party A great storm on sept the press dispatches began to recount the damage done by one of the most extensive severe and prolonged storms that ever occurred on the atlantic coast of this continent it began to rage on th the night of september ath and did not entirely abate for several days for long ing periods its fury was unprecedented dented at some points OH oa the coast great damage was done to shipping fam boston to the carolinas ocean Oje steamers amers arriving at new york on the loth alth and reported the ee severest verest weather they had ever experienced perien ced oed on the new jersey coast the storm seemed to have nihed the highest stages of fury of vessels were driven ashore catering places were submerged by the tremendous waves that rolled inland much farther than they were ever evec known to do before and traffic on mil railroads roads running near the shore w was suspended the night of september was one of terror along the 1 tow new jersey and maryland dom bore extensive tracts of beach were devastated buildings building and sand other to improvements movements rove ments upon them being de ced or swept out to sea and any many vessels were wrecked not until tiie the did the storm abate no ho estimate of the damage done or the dm number of lives lost has bas been given but the pecuniary loss must amount to many millions |
