The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1897-12-25

The Lneteert trial cost Cock county
nearly s0.Ot0.
| Ten persons died from yellow feyel
It New Orleans on the 5th.
1 The government paid over s13e, 600.
600 to pensioners last year.
Three persons lost their lives at Ho,
Springs, Arkansas. In a IRE.
/ Work on naval vessels at the Brook.
iyn navy yard Is being pushed
Lieutenant Foote's bullet proof coal
York.
Frances E Willard viii Try 10
raise 500, 600 to purchase the bonds OF
the W. G. I. o. Temple in Chicago.
BY the wrecking Of the steamer Ida
no In Lake Erie nineteen men lost their
lives.
At Kansas City on the 4th 230e0
school children observed Eugene
Field Day"
It is now thought that the Republi-
cans viii have majority OF iye on
joint ballot In the Ohio legislature
The Ute delegation at Washington
have become satisfied with the new
government deal and viii return home.
The Portland and Seattle Chambers
OF Commerce are moving to get sup4
plies TO Dawson City TO prevent min
ers from starving.
A Brazilian soldier attempted to Kill.
President Moraes, but was prevented
Ivy bystanders, one Of whom was Ia
tally hurt In the struggle.
The Cologne volkszeitung announces
that two Rhenish missionaries, Mes
and Henle, have been murdered IN the
southern part Of the Chinese province
Of Shan Tung.
Major Moses p. Handy. special CON-
missioner from the United States to the
Paris exhibition of 1900. has returned.
Major Handy and Lieutenant Baker re-
ported that they had q very successful
mission.
Five powers Of the Latin union. on
the invitation OF Switzerland. have
signed q convention to increase the
number Of small silver coins by a franc
per head Of their population, using the
existing 5-franc pieces TO supply the
Necessity SILVER.
Mrs. A. ]. Baird, heading Christian
Scientist OF Kansas City, has been
nominally placed under arrest for not
placarding house where she had a |
case Of diphtheria under treatment. +,
The warrant was issued by DIR. Won |
Quasi, the city physician, and the case |
VIII be pushed. Mrs. Baird's arrest |
has caused a sensation in Christian Sci
ence circles.
The Carnegie and Bethlehem steel |
companies have no idea of abandoning
their armor plate plants, erected at
great expense, and have, In pursuance
of this idea, acquired the new Krupp
process for the hardening of armor
plate. The use of the Haryeyizing
ovens at Homestead viii be abandoned
unless purchasers of armor plate spec
lily that process.
Mrs. Celia Wallace, who resides at
Chicago and Is childless, has taken
fancy to Evangelina Cisneros and has
o9ered 70 adopt the Cuban maid and
make her helress TO q fortune esti-
mated at 100000. Evangelina looks
with favor upon the proposition and
has taken It under advisement A def
mite answer will be given to Mrs. Wat
ace within a reasonable length OF
line.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has
affirmed the decision Of the lower court
holding that the city of Chicago can
lot erect buildings on the lake front
The decision affects the temporary
)ostofiice and Battery d armory. The
)ostofiice -sill be allowed to remain
NTH the completion of the new govern
nent building, but the decision will
Undoubtedly result in the tearing down
4 the old arrnory.
The agreement entered into BIZ the
choctaw, Chickasaw and Dawes COM
nissions at Atoka last April has been
affixed by the Choctaw council Of
rushkah0ma and has been approved
y the governor. The Chickasaw Leg !
stature passed an act Monday ratify- .
lg the agreement A bill has also I
cen passed creating n commission of I
* members to wind up the affairs Of | !
be Choctaw nation. :
The Loyejoy monument In Alton.
LIMOS, was formally dedicated on the
~ ~ was sixty years ago tudt Love-
~ was assassinafed in that city be-
ause OF his outspoken and fiery. edito- b
ais against the slave trade. Love c
ly's remains would have been lost had
not been for Thomas Dimmock OF G
t. Louis. who had the grave located v
? an old sexton, the only person who o
new where his coffin was buried. d
The United States Supreme Court :
- affirmed the decision OF the Cir :
Iit Court for California refusing a :
rit OF habeas corpus TO William +,
enry Theodore Durrant, under sen 7,
nee Of death for the murder of Miss =,
Ianche Lamont In San Francisco in =
pril, 1885. The case has attracted :.
tention throughout the whole OF the -
nited States, and sthls decision =,
rmits the law to take it's course with -
e condemned man =
According to the news from the Arc
. brought by returning whalers. n.
mt vessels are now held fast in the st
!. The steam whalers BelYidere. 81
ca. Jessie 81. Freeman and the h
hocner Rosario are near Point Bar. Z,
n and the steam urhaIars Nar,-,.orr 1 ,.r