The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-07
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Joseph Banigan has resumed his po-
6ition as president of the United States
Rubber company.
John Hays Hammond, charged with ths
leadership Of the late uprising in johann
neSburg. was liberated on bail yesterday
The London Times this morning. prints
verbatim from the Congressional Record.
Senator Wolcotts speech on the Monroe
doctrine.
By the collapse of a two story frame
Hurle, a lather, was instantly killed and
six other mechanics working on the
structure were seriously injured
The Harris local option bill at Co
lumbus, Ohio, was defeated in the
house by a vote of so yeas to SO nays
The senate passed bill to increase the
Dow liquor tax to $500.
The Indian appropriation bill was
completed by the committee having it
in charge yesterday. 1t carries some
thing over 100000 less than the ap-
preparation for the current fiscal year.
A Cape Town dispatch to the London
Times says the Spanish authorities OF
Teneriffa, Canary islands, refuse-'to
arrest Mr.. Leonard, who is wanted at
Cape Town, in connection with the
Transvaal outbreak.
Only one horse brought over $500 at
the Woodward & Shanklin sale at Lex
ALSLOIf n.y. LIZ SsVV1St ReS~@AAe58
was sold to J. D. Creighton, Donerau,
KY, for S1.15O. The next highest was
Dorfmark, 2:20, sold to Bayless & Tur-
ney. Paris, KY, for $3.50
The London Times has a dispatch
from Constantinople saying the Eel
tounlis have informed the consuls that
they are willing to surrender their
| weapons of war, while retaining the
| hunting weapons they usually carry.
I'M. -f-ks
/ The London Times announces that
| Cecil Rhodes, the retiring premier or
! Cape Colony, had two hours inter-
view yesterday with Joseph Chamber
! lain, secretary of state for the colo
/ MES in the presence Of Lord Sleborne,
under secretary in the colonial office
Messages received late tonight from
| Bound Brook, a village six miles from
! Plainfeld N j. state that the town IL
! being sWeut by both fire and flood. The
| last messenger that arrived from the VII
/ lage reported that fire which had us
! origin in Cooks lumber yard nad de-
1 stroyed over twenty buildings and was
I still raging, threatening everything that
/ stood above the flooded streets
/ The London Graphic says this morning
/ in an editorial: Of the French mean buSl-
/ ness in their dispute with Brazil ne
/ American jingoes will have another
/ chance for a war scare. Possibly they
will not take 1t, because they are aware
! that France is less likely Iudu We "
/ stomach a bullying. We have yet 20
learn. that it is possible to overd9 an b. e5,
| by making US the laughing STOCK or the
/ world. and sometimes ends by making
war inevitable
/ According to advices received from
1 Honolulu, the leaders Of the Japanese
colony have given notice that they pro
pose, next month, to demand Of the
Legislature the enactment Of law per-
uniting Japanese merchants to become
/ Hawaiian citizens. They will also de-
mand that the tariff on certain wares
/ rnanufaetured in Japan, and which
I do not come in competition with Aneri-
can goods, be abolished. Many con-
sentative citizens believe that If these
concessions are granted, only short
time will elapse before the same people
will be demanding franchise OF all Jap
anese subjects, which are so numerous
that they would soon develop enough
strength to secure a law acceptable to
japanese importers