The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-18
BRIEF KILOGRAMS.

During the recent snow storms in the
province of Orel Prussia, $50 persons
We're frozen TO death in one night.
The Republican county convention of
y ork, Pa, elected r. Fl. Shindel delegate
to the national convention at st. Louis,
instructed TO vote for Mckinley.
The eighth district convention at APP
pleton, Wis. selected NJ. I. Parker and
A. G. Nelson delegates TO the St. Louis
convention and instructed for Mckinley
Edwin f. Uhl, the United States am
bassador to Germany, sailed on the
steamer Saale for Bremen yesterday. He
was accompanied by Mrs. Uhl and the
children.
George Fitch and B. Sedgwick of Wis
consin, were elected delegates to the st.
convention. They We're instructed for
Mckinley.
The feature of the derby betting has
been the appearance in the lists of the
hackers of Mr.. Richard Crolers Montauk
yesterday. He was backed to win for
$4,000, a odds of so to ].
A large Italian caravan mas reached
hassala, showing that communication
with that place is open and that the SEN
sationaI stories circulated I'm regard to the
danger of the garrison there are I'M
founded.
The third congressional district Re-
publican convention held yesterday at
Madison, Wis., elected Richard Meyer
and ]. W. Rewey delegates to the St.
Louis convention. Resolutions were
adopted endorsing Mckinley.
Ground hiss been broken for the con-
vention auditorium at the south end of
the new city hall on Clark avenue, St.
Louis. a big force of men and twenty
teams were put to work yesterday. All of
the sub-contracts have been let.
The first congressional district Re
publican convention at Beloit. Wis, yes
terday elected Charles Ingersoll and D.
NJ. Johnson delegates TO the St Louis con-
vention. Resolutions endorsing Mckinley
for president and Cooper for congress
were passed.
A Rome dispatch to the London Times
says the Marquis oi Rudinis statement
regarding the new governments policy
in Africa has not produced a good i'm
preston and is considered pointless and
indicative of an uncertain policy. The
comment of the press is mostly unfavor-
able.
AS soon as the Cuban resolutions and
the Dupont case are disposed of in the
senate it is the intention of the Wisconsin
senators to bring up the matter relating
to the statue of Pere Marquette, recently
placed in the capitol. Senators Mitchell
and Villas of Wisconsin, and Senator Hoar
of Massachusetts will deliver addresses
and possibly ether senators.
Fire at Clinton. Wis. inflicted loss
of from S75, 900 to $780, 900. The large stock
of general merchandise of Crosier
/ Brothers is q total loss; also the Y. NJ
c. A. fixtures, and the q Iildings and
stocks of several other firms. The fire is
the second one recently and is believed to
have been inceDdiary in its origin.
James H. Stewart, well-known rail-
road builder and manager, died at his
residence at Sandusky. Ohio, yesterday.
asphyXiated by natural gas. He built the
Winono & st. Peter road, the Midland of
Ohio, and was long connected with the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern. He
leaves a widow, son and daughter.
The New York Herald's correspondent
in Bogota telesraphs that Acting Presi-
dent Quinero Calderon has accepted the
resignation of the ministry, and has
formed new cabinet as follows: Minis
ter of interior, Abram Moreno; minister
of foreign affairs; ]. Cricocchea; minis
ter of war, DR.. Molina; minister of fin
ance. Francisco Groot; minister of pub
lie instruction, DR.. Marrisquin.
The question of the connection of the
seed resolution which has now become a
law. and its effect on the law, which
it is intended TO enforce and under
which the former seed distributions have
taken place, have been referred by Sec
rotary Merton to both the attorney gen
eral and the comptroller of the treas
uTy for opinions
The New York Advertiser says: Car
dinal Satolli will say farewell to America
forever and sail for Rome early in May.
The man who in all probability viii sue
coed the cardinal is already here. He is
Archbishop Averardi, titular of the an
Client see of Tarsur. in Asia Minor, and
is one of the ablest of the younger dig
nitaries who have the ear of the pope.
The Paris correspondent of the Times
suggests that the tone of NJ. Berthelots
communication to the Marquis of Duff
fern. the British ambassador. calling at
tention to the serious character of the
proposed Egyptian campaign, may be
explained rather by his unfamiliarity
with diplomatic usage than by a delio-
crate intention to be discourteous.
Nothing is known at the state de-
partment of the detention in a prison in
France of ex-Consul Waller as suggested
by Paris newspaper. The records OF
the department show that he was re-
leased February g. or at least Ambas-
sador Eustis so advised Secretary Oh
ney by cable, and it was presumed he
has started for the United States some
time ago.
Ex-senator Henderson of Nebraska, re
ferring to the proposition OF Senator
Thurston, relative TO the Nebraska dele
cation to St Louis, says that 1t Fmp.y
nlaces the cart before the horse IF /
ia not go into the convention with my
state behind me-" he continued. Il will
have no status and will not be entered
in the race AS | have said before,
when my state delegation sees an OPP
portunity to make a nomination by sup
porting another candidate, it will be well
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