The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-19
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

The empress of Germany has received
Mrs. Runyon, widow OF the late Unit
ed States ambassador, in an audience
of coincidence.
considerable increase in the num-
her of our battleshipe is likely The
house committee on naval affairs ap-
pears to agree with Secretary Herbert.
The total amount received and for
warded to Turkey for relief work thus
far by Frank H. Wiggin, assistant
treasurer of the American board, is
$70.022.S9.
A disparch to the London Times from
Constantinople says: ''All the powers
except England have assented to the
sultan's proposal to recognize Prince
Ferdinand of Bulgaria.
Complete returns on the head of the
ticket elect Kinsley (Republican) city
solicitor of Philadelphia over Biddle,
(Democrat) by 333 plurality. A year
ago Warwick, (RepubHcan) was elect
ed mayor over Pattison (DemocraD by
61,319 plurality.
Murad Bey, formerly imperial COM
missioner of the council on the public
debt, has taken refuge in Cairo and has
been condemned to death for alleged
treason. Murad was reported in De-
cennber last to have fled from COnStan-
tinople on a Russian ship for some
Russian port.
Secretary and Miss Morton enter
tanned the president and cabinet at
dinner last night. In the center of the
dining table was a huge floral plow of
red carnations resting on bed of as
paragus and smilax. 1t was fanked on
either end by a toy wagon filed with
Ian
The London Chronicle understands
that the postof1ce departmental COM
mittee appointed by the late govern
ment to consider the question of a
Pacific mail service has reported in
favor of substituting the Atlantic por-
ton of the scheme to the extent of
75,0 900 pounds provided tWenty-knot
steamers are employed.
A special dispatch from Shanghai
says that information has been re-
ceived there from Corea that a Rus
sian force supported the king of Corea
in killing the Corean ministers. The
new cabinet of, Corea, it is added, are
wholly puppets in the pay of Russia
and it is not doubted in certain circles
that the whole coup was directed from
st. Petersburg.
The house judiciary committee has
lions of the war department agreed to
report hill making offenses commit
ted in places under the jurisdiction of
the United States, or ceded to it by
states, or purchased for military pur-
poses, and the punishment for which
is not provided by United States law,
liable to punishment under the state
laws.
A special to the Detroit Free Press
IL. I ~,
panty of fishermen from Pequamig
went adrift on the ice in Keewena bay
yesterday and have been blown out
into Lake Superior. The closed condi-
ton of the ice prevented boats going
out immediately to the rescue and
nothing can be seen of them by par
ties who patroled the bay today
A special to the New York World
from Cape Town, South Africa, says:
The reform committee prisoners have
all been liberated by the TransvaaI
government under $4,000 bail. They
remain under police surveillance. The
Robinson mill has shut down for lack
of native labor. To deputation rep
resenting 5000 of the Rand unem-
ployed the Transvaal government has
replied that it will do its best to re-
lieve their situation.
The following has been received in
Boston from a resident of MarSovan,
Eastern Turkey, under date OF January
20. 1896: THE city has been in great
danger for the last few days and any
spark may easily discharge a maya
zine. Yizier Koopru and lille have had
awful massacres with looting. Amazia
is less badly off and Hadji Koy es-
capped with the loss of its market.
In this city poverty, hunger, fear and
hate have reached a terrible degree.
The condition is most pitiable.''
Assistant Secretary Hamlin of the
treasury department and Mr. Elliott
of the Smithsonian institute appeared
before subcommittee of the commit
tee on ways and means and gave their
views on the bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Dingley. chairman of the
committee, in regard to the externina-
ton of seals. Mr.. Hamlin recommen-
ded that all sealing be prohibited by
the American government and that
Great Britain perhaps could by the
force of our example be brought to do
the same.
Senator Turpie, from the committee
on privileges and elections, has pre-
scented the report of the minority of
that committee, composed of all four
of the Democratic members of the
committee, on the petition Of Henry A.