The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-31
BRIEF TALES By WIRE.

A lightning rod agent has been Wnched
in Minnesota.
Erastua Corning, of Albany. n. Y, died
of apoplexy, aged 70 years.
New York exchange sold at LAO pre-
MUM in Mexico City yesterday.
E. R. Balfour. the famous Oxford oars
man, died on Friday in Scotland.
4 commercial treaty between Japan
and Portugal was signed yesterday.
Tie Paris Journal says the car will
visit Paris at the end of this autumn
President Mckinley spent very quiet
day at Senator Hanna's home yesterday.
The loss by fire at AIS and $50 Pearl
street, New York, Sunday night, was $780,
000
There are 1900 clock. makers on strike
looked for.
There. are many cases of yellow fever at
Colon. in the isthmus of Panama, not
wltaStanding all the late demials.
The fund raised in Canada for rhe
India famine sufferers has been closed.
The amount contributed was s17.161.
William Maher, a blacksmith of Albany,
Ore was stabbed, probably fatally, by
James Blackburn. a son of Judge d. K.
N. Blackburn. g
Forest fires near Georgetown and Sill
yer Lake. Mon. threatened great dam
age yesterday. but it is now believed i'm
medfate danger is over.
A great fire occurred r1r,r the center of
Venice Yesterday and 1t believed nine
men were burned to death and that their
bodies are buried in the S3bris.
The Mark Lane Express reviewing the
crop sftqa ton says the weather mas Sc
riously delayed the harvest and that the
new wheat is bound to suffer
The Great Falls Manufacturing COM
pnay's mill. New Hampshire. has re-
sumed operations on full time after hav-
ing been run 90 hours since May
The decision of the attorney, general in
the matter of the Canadian discriminat-
ing duty clause Of the Dingley tariff law,
will not be announced for several days.
The Spanish cabinet council has decided
10 summon the next class of 10000 re-
serves. 1900 of whom will be sent to
Cuca and 1900 to the Philippine islands
AdviceS from the Bering sea by the
steamer Portland show that the entire
catch of the North American Commercial
company for the season was 10000 skins
John r. Bitner. president of the Full
ton National bank of Lancaster, Pa, and
q prominent capitalist of this city died
last night from stomach trouble He was
Il years of age.
Lord Salfsburys proposal for joint
guarantee of the indemnity TO be paid TO
Turkey by Greece has fallen through.
owing to Russ.as reluctance and Ger
many's jealousy.
Twelve hundred trouser makers struck
in Philadelphia yesterday for shorter
hours, better pay and the adjustment of
the sweat system, The strike will, 1T is
thought, be of short duration.
The New York delegation to the Letter
Carriers national convention will leave
for San Francisco at noon today. The
party will be 125 strong. including the
Letter Carriers band of 60 men
a London dispatch says. The forth
coming promotions will include the raising
OF Lord Charles Beresford to the rank
of rear admiral. Lord Charles is at
present captain in the royal navy.
a special to the Herald from Valparaiso
says French residents here and in
Santiago and other large cities in Chilli
VIII hold q fete to celebrate the official
declaration of the Franco-Russian al
lance which was proclaimed on Satur-
day.
The Daily Chronicle publishes the an
ncuncemeat that the car has decided
upan the partial abolition OF the exile to
Siberia of criminals and xle substitution
therefor of confinement in large central
prisons in Russia. The change viii be-
cssme effective O. year hence.
Herman w. Van Sender, nrivate sec
ratary to- Secretary Carlisle in the last
sdmin.sr.r2t.lcn, and Denis j. CAVITY,
fNrmel. clerk IN the hter state com
n!erce commission. were arrested today
On warrants charging them with embez-
zleinent of Sf.SS7 from Wilkin & Co., a
brokerage firm