The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-19
BRIE TELEGRAMS.

BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
JOHN BRIGHT has suffered another re-
lapse.
THE King of Holland has had re-
lapse. His condition is critical.
SING YoN, cashier of See Son & Co.,
Chicago, has skipped to Canada with
$1,000.
A Berlin dispatch says the Emperor
gave protrac5ed audience to Bismarck
to-day.
FREYcINEr has declined a position in
the Joint cabinet which Meline is at
tempting to form.
A LONDON dispatch from Munich says
that King Otto, of Bavaria, has been
proved without doubt to be hopelessly
insane.
A KEY WEST dispatch of yesterday
says the United States steamer Galena
with Rear Admiral Gherardi on board
sailed for Port Au Prince.
G. P. HUNTINGTON will, in a short
time, Withdraw from all roads east of
the Southern Pacific road only.
Mrs. FRIEND and other Electric sugar
people are still in Jail. They will make
a strong fight against the validity of the
papers held by New York officers.
FAMINE prevails in interior Russia,
Distress in Greenbury, where many
are dying of starvation. Crops, have
been bad in afiict districts for the
past four years.
SENATOR BERRY, in connection with
vote of thanks to the people OF Michi-
gan for the presentation of the staue of
Lewis Cass Palmer, delivered an eulogy
yesterday on that statesman.
JAMES ELLIsroN, one of the largest
ranchmen of western Kansas, accused
his ranch uperintendent @. L. Badly
with undue intimacy with his, Elliston's,
wife. Subsequently Badly shot and
kille Elliston.
A decision is handed down by the ap-
pellate court of London unfolding the
electric light patents of Edison and
Swan against the Holland and A. glo-
American Brush patents, thus revers-
II is reported that cyclonespassed
through Biff County, fifty miles south
of Birmingham, Sunday night, doing
great damage. Several persons are
said to be killed and many injured. It
Is impossible to obtain full particulars.
A TELEGRAM was recsived at Wash
ington from Rear Admiral Bslknap
commands at Mare Island navy yard,
California, saying that the United
STATES ship Vandalla arrived at Homo
lulu on FEBRUARY 2 and was to sail for
Samoa February Z.
IT is reported that at the coming
session of the English Parliament the
government will propose a defense #
the loan of 91OO, 900 900, the proceeds
to be devoted to the construction of
twenty men-of-war, fifty cruisers, and
increasing torpedo boats.
AFTER being out since Friday the
Jury in the Monroe County white cap
case tried at indianapolis, Inc. lana,
announced to-day fer the third time
that they were unaD.o to agree and were
discharged. Eight OF the jurors were
for acquIttal and four for conviction.
WILLIAM O'BR1EN was arraigned at
Tarlee, Dublin. yesterday, on the last
summons for ofeases under the crimes
act. During the progress of the case,
Mr.. Healy, OBrisn's counsel, called
Colonel Turner a sneak. The magis-
trates demanded that he retraot the
epithet, but Healy refused.
Steamer Faraday has just completed
laying 626 miles of heavy submarine
cable between Coatzacoalcos, Mexico
and Galveston, Texas, for the Mexican
Telegraph Company, thus duplicating
its Gulf system of cables and insuring q
more speedy Geographic communica-
ton with Mexico, Central America and
South America.
THE Cologne Gazette at Berlin, says it
thinks the White Book" on Samoan
affairs, recently issued by the govern
ment, bears striking testimony to the
wisdom and moderation of Prince Bis
marck. 1t holds that the reports OF the
German consul at Apia prove that the
action of Americans was illegal and
overbearing and that the policy of Ger
many was bringing peace to Samoa.
The handsome tfagedian Downing,
under the MANAGEMENT of James Fl.
Mack, opened at Tabor Grand, Denver,
last evening to the largest and mo. t
cultivated audience drawn by any legi-
innate attraction this season. The re-
ceipts were more tIan ST. 200. Mr..
Downing met with an ovation and with
other principal members was repeat
eddy called before tho curtain.
Now that the parties connected with
the recent Friend electric sugar swindle
ia New York have been arrested in
Michigan. further developments are
promised. Lawson NJ. Faller, one OF
the directors of the company. main
tains that there is no doubt tina!