The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-10

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erS of Logan county, for presidential
| elector. General Charles Grosvenor OF
Athens, was renominated by acclama-
ton for congress.
Three men are dead and one more is
not expected to live as the result OF
| Sunday nights collision on the st.
Louis & Kirkwood electric line. Fifty
more are more or less seriously injured.
BY unanimous vote of the fourth dis
trict Republican convention at En-
poria, Kas., yesterday, Charles Curtis
was nominated for congress and the
delegates to st. Louis were instructed
for Mckinley.
| Melting snow and heavy rains have
occurred in the Bernese Overland.
The Rhine has overflowed ait Locle
and Marteaux inundating those places
Railroad communication to the towns
have been stopped.
A Rome dispatch to the London
Daily News says: The government
| has refused the offer of a loan by Lon
don and Berlin bankers, the Italian
bankers having offered to supply a
loan at days notice.
Leading members of the A. P. A. OF
| Omaha are asserting that the order will
cut big figure in selecting delegates
to the ST. Louis convention from Ne
VI dSofAd' hey are OppOSlllS OOl1l ACAA-
atorS Henderson and ThurSton.
A fire yesterday at Pittsburg de-
stroyed block of ten houses in Azure
| Illus street, rendering ten families home
less, causing loss Of $4,000. Captain
Fred Beckett, of engine company Is,
was seriously injured by fall
Interesting exercises attended the
breaking of ground for the first build
ing for the new American university,
the Hall of History at Washington
yesterday. Bishop Hurst, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, presided.
The president has pardoned Nathan
Blum, convicted in oregon of snug
Cling and conspiracy, but whose
sentence was suspended. and r. M.
Salisbury, convicted in Oregon OF mis-
using penalty envelopes and fined $500.
David K. Wilson has been renomi-
mated at Columbus. KY. by the Re
publicans for congress in the Twelfth
district, which is usually Democratic,
Watson breaking the record by defeat
ing Cultivate in the political landslide
of two years ago.
The Republican convention of the
first Kansas district yesterday renoni-
mated Broderiek for congress. The
delegates to the national Republican
convention were instructed for McKin-
ley. The resolutions adopted declare
for both gold and silver.
Rev. W. Paxton, D. D., superinten-
Dent of the American Sunday school
union work for many years, was
stricken with paralysis Sunday after
noon at the Arlington avenue Presby-
terrain church, of Orange, n. J., just
as he was about to speak. He has been
unconscious since the attack and his
recovery Is doubtful
Chester L. Long was renomtnated
for congress, Major William NJ. Nc
Kinley endorsed for president and a
strong resolution favoring ''the free
coinage Of all American silver adopted
by the seventh district Republican con-
vention which met at Wichita, Kansas.
Long is the present member of con-
gress, having been elected in 1894 over
Jerry Simpson.
James Duggan, a well-known citizen,
and five other Denverite3 have left for
Seattle, from whence they expect to
sail March 10 in party of fifty for
Cooks inlet, 800 miles northwest of
Sitka. From there they will go over
land to the Alaskan gold fields. The
party goes in a chartered vessel and
will carry supplies sufficient for a two
years stay.
A Berlin dispatch to the London
Times says: Although any reports of
the anneXing of Lapa or Juemo are
premature, there is every indication
that Germany proposes to acquire an
island or a mainland harbor on the
Chinese coast for a eoaling station A
Hong Kong dispatch to the Vossische
Zeitung reports that German officers
and merchants are surveying likely
points for such a purpose.
In the United States court of ap-
peals at New York Judge Wallace re-
affirmed the decision of Judge Town
send in the suit brought some time
ago to test the section of the tariff
law which imposes a duty on diamonds.
About $1,250,0 900 is directly involved in
the decision and had the government
been defeated it would have been
necessary to refund duties to this
amount.
Senator Cullom said last evening re-
garding story as to his probable
withdrawal from the race for the
presidential nomination: There is
not shadow of foundation for the
report The suggestion could only have
been advanced by those who would
like to have me out of the way and
with the malicious purpose of nislead-
ing the Republicans of Illinois and the
country. [ have no intention of with
drawing and will not withdraw. Put
that as plainly and emphatically as YOU
can find words with which ito express
the idea