The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-30
FOR BUSY PEOPLE.
News Notes by Wire Caught and
Condensed.


The Waterville CMe.) Daily Nail
made its appearance yesterday.
President Cleveland and party
reached Washington last night. Seven
teen geese and ducks was the result
Of their hunt.
Ex-Governor Snas Woodson of Mis-
souri, has been baptised into the Roman
Catholic church None Of Mr.. Wood
sons family are Catholics.
The dry goods store Of Fessenden &
NIachbour, Chicago, was closed yes
terday. The liabilities will aggregate
$685. and assets $4,000.
It is reported that Germany has or
dered twelve torpedo destroyers from
Thornycroft & Co., the shipbutlders.
The new vessels are to have speed
of thirty knots an hour.
Edwin F. Uni. assistant secretary OF
state has been mentioned prominently
In connection with the ambassadorshlp
at Berlin. He has intimate knowledge OF
all matters under diplomatic conSldera-
ton with Germany.
The st. Louis Fair association does
not approve of the recent change In
the rules of the Western Turf congress,
and unless some of them are mod1fled
the ST. Louis race track will withdraw
from the congress.
The St Paul has not yet been foated.
A London dispatch to the Pail Mall Ga
zette from Cairo Egypt, says a serious
revolution has occurred at hhartoun,
growing out of the differences between
the NIahdi and tribes belonging. to the
interior of Soudan. The Mahdl is prac-
tically oYerthroWn.
The New York Herald's correspondent
in Rio Janeiro. Brazil, telegraphs that a
physician of that city declares that he
has found a cure which is almost GER
tain in its effects for yellow fever The
physicians new remedy consists of the
internal use Of doses of the extract OF
eucalyptus.
BY authority of the president the
military reservation of Fort Station,
n. NJ. containing 1920 acres, has
been transferred from the war depart
ment TO the interior department for
their disposition under the terms Of the
abandoned military reservation act.
The herd of wild buffalo which disap-
peared several months ago, We're seen
few days ago near the Rio Grande Dor
der. by Sam Hillington. Mr.. Hillington
at once communicated his discovery 10
Dr. J. B. Taylor of San Antonio. Or.
TAYLOR will q. pnce take steps tof thelT
canture. The Smithsonian institution will
have a representative in the capturing
party.
During a hearing given by the joint
executive committee on state house to
the petitioners for the erection Of an
equestrian statue of Major General
Joseph Hooker, by the commonwealth
on the state house grounds at Boston
Yesterday Colonel Greeley S. Curtis,
opposing the plan, denounced General
Hooker as having been a deserter for
resigning on the eve of the battle of
Gettysburg, and said he was unworthy
of a statue.
At the court martial of Captain Healy
of the revenue cutter Bear yesterday, H.
o. Nice, general agent of the North Am
erican Commercial company, at Unal-
aska: Third officer Ditson of the whaling
steamer Mary D. Hume. and Dr.. T. o.
Bodkin of the Bear We're all called as
witnesses and all testified strongly in
Healy's favor. The specific charges of
drunkenness were positively denied and
il was explained that the captains fall
into the water at Unalaska was simply
an unavoidable accident, and the wit
neSses united in giving Captain Healy
a general good character. DR.. Bodkin
took occasion to severely criticise Lieu
Captain Healy himself took the stand
in his own behalf, also denying the
charges against him, though admitting
that he drank little on certain coca
sions named
The house committee on agriculture
has finished the bill making appro-
priations for the support of the agri-
cultural department for the fiscal year
1897. The total amount carried by the
bill is S3,15S,3s2, as against SO, 1903, $50
appropriated for the present fiscal
year. The S130,000 carried by last
years bill for the purchase and distri-
button of valuable seeds, but which
was unexpended by Secretary Morton,
is again appropriated. There is an
expended balance of over a million
dollars that has accumulated from
the agricultural bills for some years
past, and the committee will recon-
mend that it be set aside as a nu-
cleus for the erection of a new building
for the department of agriculture in
this city