The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

The American line steamer st. Paul
has sailed for Southampton.
The Washington News, daily even
Ing paper has suspended publication.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough
and Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt have arrived
at Monte Carlo
The Massachusetts, Republican state
convention has been called to meet in
Boston on March q.
Milwaukee street railway employees
are reticent regarding the contemplated
strike for shorter hours and higher
wages.
Fire is raging in the lumber yard dis
is already destroyed, $4,000 damage. Very
high wind prevails.
AT Birmingham, Ala, yesterday $50
leading Republicans and Populists held a,
conference to formulate plans upon which
the two parties can fuse and nominate a
joint state ticket when their conventions
meet April g.
Rev. Thomas Grace. rector of the
cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament,
Sacramento, Cal, has been appointed
succession to Right Rev. P. Magoue,
DID.
1t is believed there will be no strike
of street car men in Chicago. The men
have no utilization with outside organ
izations, and they now average more
strike is to be made.
Intelligence has been received at Phil
adelphia that Winchester Dana Osgood,
the well-known Pennsylvania. half-back
was among the band of Cubans captured
as they were making for the steamer
Bermuda in New York harbor.
There is no possibility of strike of
street railway employees in the West
street railway in Boston or the Lynn &
Boston road running out of it. Conduc-
101Ot for
hours, and q cents an hour for extra
time.
John Mackin shot and killed his WIFE
Lizzie Mackin. and his mother-in-law
Bridget Connors- and fatally wounded his
father-fn-laW Morris Connors last night
at Jersey City, n. ]. He has been mar
ried several years but recently his wife
left him.
The striking photographers of New York
have announced that their brethren in
Chicago. Boston, ST. Louis and Roches-
ter have succeeded in enforcing the de-
mands of the association. The members
in those cities, it was said, had all re-
turned to work. r.
The London Times announces that the
government intends to devote the bulk
of the money which would otherwise
have gone out automatically to reduce
the national debt to increasing the navy
on the lines of the bill introduced by the
Radicals year ago.
Six thousand garment workers of Bal
timore, members of the American fed
about 10000 people are idle in conse-
quence. Twenty-Five manufacturing firms
practically all in this city, are affected by
the strike. which is directed against the
Knights of Labor, as well as against the
employers.
The New York World this morning
says: President Cleveland has accepted
the invitation of the home mission board
of the Presbyterian church to preside at
q mass meeting next Tuesday at Car
negie hail, when q grand attempt will
be made to clear off the debt of S252, 900.
DR.. Talmage, DR.. Sheldon Jackson, Prof.
Booker T. Washington the colored ora
tor and other notables will speak. A
special box will be set apart for tlrs.
Cleveland.
Senior Andrade, the Venezuelan min
lister at Washington, has received word
from Caracas that the commission ap-
pointed by the Venezuelan government
to collect all of the evidence obtainable
in that country relative to the boundary
line for the use of the American COM
mission is making rapid progress with
its work and expects to be liable to for
ward the matter to Washington by the
next mail steamer.
According to the statement OF w. D..
Mahon, president of the Amalgamated
Association of Street Railway Employ
ees of America, at Philadelphia, a gen
eral strike is threatened on the lines Of
New York, Chicago, Boston, Worcester,
other cities, The decision was reached
at meeting In Detroit to ineugurate a
strike unless a ten hour day at ~ cents
an hour was conceded. The hight Will be
the men claim they have been tricked.
No third parties will be permitted to in
teryene, and, said Mahon, III Will De
a. fight to a finish.