The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-03
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Editor H. C. Bunner of Puck is very i'll.
Brick" Pomeroy is on the verge of
death.
Indications point to rise in the prices
of iron and steel products.
Matt Adams the defaulting district
clerk of Denver, has been arrested in
Southampton, Eng.
The navy department has been notified
that the Indiana will be taken out of the
Port Royal dry dock next Tuesday
Harrison marriage on Monday next is
causing much comment Ben, however,
does not appear to be greatly worried.
Brockton, Mass, Republicans refuse to
endorse Mckinley as second choice. Reed,
however, was unanimously endorsed as
first choice.
The meeting of the Denver, & Rio
Grande directors was adjourned without
action having been taken on the question
Of a dividend.
The Southern New England Methodist
conference has given an emphatic en-
dorsement of the plan of admitting women
as lay delegates.
Augustus Hoppin of Providence, R. L.,
who was formerly one OF the leading car
icaturists of America, is dead at Flushing,
L. !. He was a member of the Rhode
Island bar.
Another shortage amounting to $4,000
auditing the books of ex-City Attorney
Moreland of Pittsburg. The total amount
is now more than 100000.
The following named persons have been
appointed cadets at the United States mil
itary academy: James T. McVicker of
Sigourney, Ia; Frank Richardson of Au-
gusta, Kan; George Authenreith, jr., of
Clayton, Mo.
The president has approved the act ex-
empting logging trains from the opera
ton OF the act requiring equipment of
trains with safety brakes and couples;
also Joint resolution authorizing Ben
jamin Harrison to accept medals from
Spain and Brazil.
Representative Meiklejohn of Nebraska
today introduced a bill providing that the
president may meet Discrimination against
the United States by any means, by in
creasing the rate of duty on the products
OF the country making the discrimination
TO an amount equal to the discrimination
made.
Booth-Tucker, the new commander of
the salvation army in America said to
reporter that he would either see or
write to Ballington Booth as soon as pos
slble and see what can be done in the
way of winning him back to the regu-
lar army.
A dispatch from Bucharest to the Lon
ocn Times says: The papers here an
nounce the conclusion of military con-
ventlon between Russia and Bulgaria, I'M
der which, in the event OF war Bulgaria
would cede to Russia ports on the Black
sea, and would concentrate an army at
Shumla.
The people of FL Paso and Juarez.
Mexico, celebrated yesterday thanking
President Diaz of Mexico for his deciara-
ton in favor of the international dam
and reservoir a this city. 1t is believed
that acres of land below the city on both
sides of the Rio Grande, heretofore
abandoned, will be reclaimed by irriga-
ton.
Secretary Olney has designated the fol-
lowing committee to arrange a plan for
the future work of the bureau of Ameri-
can republics, in pursuance of the direc-
Mendonca, the Brazilian minister; Senior
Romero, the Mexican minister; Senior Ar
rlago, the Qua tmalan minister, and Senior
Calve the Costa Rican minister.
President Kruger, at Pretoria, has re-
ceived from Governor Sir Hercules Robin
son of Cape Colony reply to his Offers
OF assistance in quelling the uprising in
Matabeland. Sir Hercules declines the of
Iers OF assistance, and thanks President
Kruger and the burghers heartily for
their offer. Governor Robinson saws he
considers the imperial force of 5000 men
suficient to quell the disturbance.
Or: l. " Cortelyou of Brooklyn, who
started from home last December for a
eour o. the world, was brought back from
San Francisco and placed in a private
Santarlum. The doctor reached San
francisco about January 10. and FIVE
days later visited the Eureka Music hall
where ne occupied a box. He got into
an argument which ended in a fight. He
was beaten and robbed. Dr. Cortelyou
has never recovered
The ice bridge at Niagara Falls has sue
cumbed to the influence of spring. and
the huge honey-combed hummocks of
ice winch have been piled mountain high
in the gorge are now scattered like ice
bergs all over lake Ontario at the rivers
mouth. The last person to cross the
bridge was the veteran guide of the
American Cave of the Winds, John Bar
law. who went across safely yesterday
morning. Not in twenty years has any
one crossed the river on ice so late as
April.