The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-13
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Peru and Bolivia have submitted their
| territorial dispute to the arbitration OF
! Spain.
Four fishermen have been drowned on
| the fishing boat Amelia, which left San
| Francisco six days ago.
| A syndicate of capitalists in the eastern
part of the United States has bought gold
property in the state of ZacatraS.
The Illinois supreme court has handed
down a decision declaring the indetermin-
ate sentence law to be constitutional.
President Diaz of Mexico will receive
Minister Clayton today. General Clayton
has already made an excellent impression.
General Wesley Merritt has issued an
order refusing to appoint a court martial
TO try the charges against Lieutenants
O'Brien ard Bamford, preferred by Cap
tain Romeyn.
Europe IS suffering severely from a
heavy snowfall. frosts and storms. In
all the mountain districts of Austria and
Germany the damage to fruit trees has
been very great.
The case of Bastian vs. the Modern
Woodmen of America has been decided in
the supreme court of Illinois, and the
headquarters OF the order will remain at
Fulton, ILL.,, as result.
A dispatch from Naples says that two
large streams of lava that have been
flowing down Mount Vesuvius for the
last two days have united at the deposit
from the eruption of 1895. The activity
of the principal crater is normal.
The reading of the annual address of
President John w. Eicholtz and the sub
mission of the report of Secretary Palmer
were the principal matters which engaged
the attention of the supreme council of
the American Protective association.
Among the passengers from Hawaii
who arrived at San Francisco yesterday
was S. NJ. Damon the minister of finance
of the Hawaiian government, who Will
represent the republic at the diamond
jubilee of Queen Victoria. He is accom-
panied by Major P C. Iankea as his aide.
The annual meeting of the Civil Service
Reform association was held at New
dent, Carl Schurz; vice presidents. JO-
seph II. Choate, Norman Beaton. Edwin
L, Godkin; d. Willis. A; r.. MacDonough1,
and Oscar S. Straus.
Thirty leading manufacturing corpora
tons of the gas belt in Indiana have or
ganized the Manufacturers association,
for the preservation of the gas fields
courts. demanding injunctionS against oil
drillers, and fund of 81 500 will be raised
to prosecute the work.
T. response to an urgent request from
the director general of the Nashville ex-
position, the secretary of the treasury has
decided TO admit for exposition purposes
the 261 Cinnamon recently arrived at San
Francisco and Ga at Tacoma. The secre-
tary states, however, that under no cir
cumstances will any additional permits
to enter be granted.
An appeal signed by the lord mayor of
Dublin, John Redmond and other infiuen-
tial friends of the late Charles Stewart
Parnell. has been Issued in behalf of dona-
lions to a fund to assist Mrs. Della Par
nell. mother of the great leader. and
other members of the family by freeing
the Parnell estates at Avondale from debt
and other obligations.
Lieutenant James A. Moss of the Tween
ty-fifth infantry, u S. A. is en- route to
Fort Missoula Mont under Instructions
from General Miles, to organize a corps
of 20 troopers to ride bicycles from Mis-
soua to st. Louis. This expedition is the
result of the belief which prevails among
military men that the bicycle can be
made an efficient addition to the equip
ment of an army in the field: that it is
practical for long Journeys and that its
utility will be fully demonstrated by the
trip which Lieutenant Moss and his 20
negro soldiers will begin June 1 next.