The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-20
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

The new Korean minister, Sob Kwan
Pom, has presented his credentials to
the president.
Ex-Governor Robinson of Chicopee,
Mass, suffered a shock of apoplexy to-
day, and is now in a critical condition
A dispatch from Pierce, Neb., says:
Rear Admiral Fyffe, U. S. N, retired,
is seriously i'll at his residence there.
The London Daily Telegraph says it
has the highest authority to deny the
report or rumor circulated on the stock
exchange today that Great Britain
has purchased Delago bay.
President C. c. Waite. of the Hook
ink Valley railroad. is lying critically
i'll with pneumonia in his private car
in Columbus city. Very little hope is
entertained for his recovery.
Reports from a number of cities and
towns in Illinois, indicate the coolest
weather of the season is prevailing
there. The thermometer ranges from
zero to y degrees below, and it is get
ting colder.
BY far the worst snow and wind
storm this winter ragged IN Buffalo
and throughout western New York all
day and up to 10 o'clock last night.
Line GalITOaQS SunGISu severely anu
trains were late.
Reports along the road lines of the
upper Peninsula state great difficulty
is experienced in getting trains
through. AS the storm shows no sign
of abatement today, it is likely rail-
roads will be completely blocked.
The report of the local board of in
! spectors of steam vessels on the subject
of the grounding of the American liner st.
Paul has been forwarded to Washington.
1t holds that Captain Jameson was not
blamable in the matter and that in naVf-
eating the steamer exercised every eau
ton.
Judge NJ. D. Hathaway, of Rochelle.
Ill, died at Cotton, Cal, yesterday af-
ternoon. He was at one time attorney
for the Chicago &. Alton railroad. His
fortune is estimated at quarter of
million dollars. His remains will be
shipped to Chicago on Friday.
One of the chief features of yester-
days convention at Chicago of south
ern and northern business men was
the stand taken by the representative
of the city of New Orleans, Mr. David
Hellock, the special commissioner ap-
pointed by Mayor Fitzpatrick, who
made a notable address, placing the
metropolis of the south squarely in
favor of the projected cotton eXposi-
| ton in Chicago.
A letter to the London Times from
Georgetown, British Guiana, says it is
understood that as an outcome of the
official visit to the frontier in the
Uruan district, beginning in February,
an important dispatch be sent to
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain. The
British residents it is further said, are
Gapc1,I Dot
in collecting data for his government
on the boundary question.
Zero weather and lower temperature
out Michigan the past twenty-four
| hours. In the western part of the state
the snow fall has been tremendous and
at some places the dark colored snow
reported from Chicago has been seen.
The temperature in Detroit is at zero
and going lower. but the snow fall in
this section is only intermittent
Freight traffic on the Duluth, South
Shore & Atlantic road has been aban-
doned and passenger trains with
double-headers are all late.
The secretaries Of the American Bap-
fist Missionary union, the American
Baptist Publication society, and the
American Baptist Educational society,
acting under the advice and authority
of the respective boards at a meeting
held in Philadelphia unanimously voted
that it is impracticable to hold the an
niversaries in May. in Portland, Ore.
according to the previous arrangenent
and announcement Several reasons
are given for this action. Times are
hard and it would be difficult to secure
a quorum of the board managers in
Portland. The recent destruction bv
fire of the Baptist Publication society
building in this city is another reason.
An invitation to hold the anniversary
at Asbury Park, commencine. Nav %