Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-02-26
Salt gake democrat,
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TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

, A memorial service in honor of General
w. S. Hancock, was held at Governors
Island last night, under the auspices Of
4 the military service of the institution.
ARTICLES for w. X. aNanderbilt's large
steam yacht were signed yesterday. The
builders are the Harlan & Hollingsworth
company, Wilmington, Delaware. She
will be 2S5 feet long 2o'5't " .E8F
The House Committee on Territories
has directed an adverse report to be made
on Representative Townshend's bill to
organize the entire Indian Territory into
the Territory ofsOklahoma.l a.
THREE New York cigar firms, Brown
& Earle, Levi Bros, and NJ. Gov & Co.,
have concluded to accept the knights OF
Labor labor rates. paid by the Union
shops, and all hands in the shops will 90
to work tomorrow. ale7 HfWtl q :
THE prospects OF the trade dollar re-
demption bill are as uncertain as ever.
Fairly treated on its merits, such a propo-
sition would doubtless pass both, Houses,
but it is involved in the general middle
into which Congress has fallen over the
silver question T1la ali b9p2iET .ii.''
The tour of the German Metropolitan
Opera company has been arranged as
follows: Chicago, March Is, two weeks !;
st. Louis, one week Baltimore and
Washington, one week. 1t is reported
they go directly to the Pacific Coast after
their Washington engagement. jig b.
+ AN Albany IN. Y ) dispatch says: A
bill was introduced into the Senate to-
day, annulling the privileges and iran
chises of the Broadway Surface Railway,
New York City, and providing for the
appointment OF Commissioners to take
possession of all its property and sell the
same, including its franchise, at public
N = ' alu baa sIajsGJ' sdt ~ hEso.
The reports that the Parnellites pos
sess compromising letters from Lord
Randolph Churchill pledging himself in
favor of Home Rule, are declared to be
untrue. Churchill, it is asserted, never
committed his offers to- writing. The
Parnellites assert that Churchill had per-
sonal interviews with the Irish leaders,
and offered them Home Rule. yD
YESTERDAY in the House of Com mons
Committee of Supply, Mr.. Healey, Ma
tlonalist, refused to grant 81 200 for med,
ais for the volunteers who took part in
the campaign against Louis Riel. He
said that if Canada chose to 60 to war
with Riel, she ought to pay for the med
ais. Mr.. w. II. Smith and Lord Ran
dolph Churchill denounced Mr.. Healey
and praised the volunteers. Mr.. Glad
stone urged that the rejection of the pro-
posed grant might possibly create bad
feeling in Canada. The sum for the
medals was agreed to by a vote of 200 to
&c. ~ Or"
A dispatch Of yesterday says: 'tPoli-
tics are booming in Guatemala. Many
arrests have been made. o Offenders are
being locked up every day. tits rumored
that Mrs. Barrios has given $50, 900 to-
ward the disturbing movement, and that
Mr.. LienHesta, who is also in New York,
has helped the revolutionists with funds.
There have been two vessels off the
coast of Honduras with men and arms,
sailing under the Costa Rican flag. Soto,
the President of Honduras, is ambitious,
and it is understood he says that he will
not be satisfied with anything less than
the Presidency OF Guatemala. Honduras
and San Salvador ,s+ ft