The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-11
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Bereshaven.
The will of William H English has
been probated. Estate is said to be
worth s5,O0O,000.
]. H McVicker. the veteran theatri-
cal manager, suffered a stroke of par-
alysis yesterday.
Senator Cullom has introduced a bill
giving a pension of $24 per month to
all ex-soldiers rs years of age. who
served in both the Mexican and civil
wars.
One man was killed, one fatally in
Jured and five others slightly hurt bv
the explosion of a boiler at Ann and
hop cotton mill, Lensdale, r. L, yes
terday.
By an explosion of gas in the fur
mace at Jones & Laughlin's iron works
at Pfttsburg yesterday, Martin Kron-
SKI. a. workman, was fatally burned
and three others seriously injured.
A dispatch from LeWisburg, Cape
Breton, announces the wrecking of the
schooner Resolute off Little Lorraine
island on Cape Breton coast. One of
the crew, A. G. Rogers, was drowned.
The president has nominated and the
senate confirmed Edwin F. Uhl, Michi-
gan, assistant secretary of state, to be
ambassador extraordinary and pleni-
potentiary of the United States to
Germany.
The Republican congressional con-
Vention for the Seventh district, which
met at Temple, Tex, yesterday and
elected delegates to the ST. Louis con-
vention, passed resolutions endorsing
Speaker Reed for president
The secretary of the treasury has ac-
cepted the offer of A C. Dake for the
sale to the government of site for
the new Denver coinage mint building
The property is located ON Colfax ave-
nue., South Thirteenth and Evans
street. The price is 100000.
An aerolite exploded above Madrid
yesterday. The loud report was fol-
lowed by a, general panic. All build
fngS were shaken and many windows
were shattered. According to the Off
Gals of the Madrid observatory, the
explosion occurred twenty miles above
the earth.
President Kruger has notified Sir
Hercules Robinson, governor of Cape
Colony, that he is willing to visit ing
land, according to the suggestion of
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, provided the
subjects of the proposed conference
between himself and Mr. Chamberlain
are definitely specified before hand.
A dispatch from Pretoria says: The
trial of the members of the reform COM
mittee of Johannesburg was resumed to-
day, having been adjourned over from
Friday last. The examination of witness
SeS with reference to the funds of the
national union showed that bank ac-
count had been opened in the name of a
development syndicate by Cecil Rhodes.
Messrs. John Hays Hammond, Phillips
and FitZpatrick.J
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Valparaiso says: Your CORE
spondent is informed that an agree
ment has been reached by the minister
of foreign affairs and the French min
lister in Santiago de Chill by which all
claims of citizens of France against
the CHILEAN government are to be can
ceIIed for the sum of $4,000. 1t is said
this is a very small amount in view
Of the many claims advanced. They
are the alleged wrongs perpetrated on
Frenohmen residents in Chill.
The action of the Populist senators
In deciding to put their own ticket in
the field for the senate officers has
caused some of the Republican sena-
tors in Washington to doubt the expe-
diency of attempting to complete the
reorganization of that body at this
time and it now looks as if this at
tempt will be deferred at least until
there Is greater certainty OF accom-
plishing something more than now APP
pears to be the case. Some of the older
Republican senators have expressed
the opinion that it would be unwise
to tie up the senate indefinitely over