The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-14
TOLD IN BRIEF.

| The first round of the international
chess tournament was played at Ber-
| lin yesterday.
The village of South March was al
| most wiped out by fire yesterday. Loss
nearly $4,000.
| A most serious accident has occurred
| at the Champion Reef mines, Madras.
Forty persons are known to have been
killed.
! Officials of the vatican have strictly
urged the Spanish priesthood to abstain
| from all partisanship in the ,Carlist
campaign.
( yellow fever has appeared in Leon in
western Nicaragua. Several natives
have died of the disease recently and ii
is spreading.
| The railroads announce a cut in pas
! senger rates, Kan1Rs City TO Chicago
from sl2.50 TO ST. The rates will be on
| Tuesdays and THURSDAYS
| a reconnaissance force from Janrud
to Alih- Muedid has saown the Khyber
| pass entirely deserted. The Afridi6
J have Withdrawn into the hills.
! Tie arguments before the Bering sea
comrnfssion on behalf of Great Britain
we're concluded on Saturday. Yester-
| day morning Don NJ Dickinson opened
| the case for the United States
! From Jan. / to Aug. "a, this year,
there were 24.s60 cases of dysentary
reported in Japan, of which d,5oS proved.
! fatal. In Yokohama prefecture there
were 1927 cases and go deaths.
The Democratic Alliance Of Great
| New York, the supporters of William J.
| BRYAN and the Chicago platform. have
| decided to hold a Convention and noTrli-
nate a candidate for mayor on Oct.
| next. rteyr rs
The Austrian government is awaiting
| for more extended reports as TO the
conflicts between the authorities and
| the striking miners at HsZeltCn and
| has not yet taken action with regard to
| the massacre.
Twenty-one members of Atlantic
Cily's famous life guard force have
! agreed to stand by their captain, Char
| ley Lake. and accept a handsome offer
| for their services made by an agent OH
| the Cuban junta-
| The Nicaragua congress has appoint
! ed a committee to investigate the
! charter and affairs of the London Bank
! of Central America Qimited}. of Man
| aqua, with the object of annul1ing it's
| charter if possible,
! Pope Leo XIII has, through Cardinal
! Bamlolli and Archbishop heane, sig
nihed his intenticn of presenting to the
! Stanford University library an e1pen-
sively bound copy of the catalogue of
! the famous vatican library.
John L. Sullivan announced yesterday
that he would run for mayor Of Boston,
! ana chat he expected to Do1 5000 or
u 600 votes. Sullivan said his politdcal
| platform would be to license gambling
places and disorderly houses.
An official report flied yesterday by
Inspector Weber, whose detail has
! been at Point Roberts for the past
| three months show that the catch of
! the fishing season just closed is the
| largest eyer known In the northwest,
The secretary of the treasury has
given authority to the Nee Lee Wah
Village company to bring into this
! country 800 Chinese to take part in the
Trans Mississippi and International eX-
position at Omaha, Neb., next year.
General Wondford transmitted to the
queen regent yesterday a letter from
! President Mckinley in which the latter
expressed the warmest desire for a
maintenance OF the cordial relations
that have always existed between the
| Two nations.
The British war Office has notified
| the Amer of Afghanistans London
commercial agent that no war material
OF machinery for the manufacture
! thereof will be allowed to cross TIE
! frontier of Afghanistan during the
I present crisis.
Several officials of the Greater Repub-
lie of Central America who ere prom
inent in Directing to Hon. W. 3, Merry
as United States NJ Nlster to the Greater
Republic of Central America, are now
loud in his praise and are anxiouSly
awaiting his arrival.
The Reserve Commission company,
which has been doing a large commits
sion business, closed its doors at Chi
cage yesterday. The failure viii cause
the immediate death of a number OF
smaller concerns throughout the central
part of the United States
The funeral of the late Abel Stevens
was held at San Jose. Cal, yesterday
Kat 2 O'Clock in the parlors of the Ven
dome hotel, Rev. r. S. Canine pastor
of the Methodist church officiating A
large number of friends and proIni-
nent ministers we're present.
A cablegram received at the navy de-
partment from Commander Perry Of
the gunhoat Castine lfontevedio says
that commissioners representing the
government of Uruguay and the insur-
gents have agreed upon. terms of peace
which are still subject, however, to the
ratification of congress,
Late adyices from Havana as to the
capture of Victoria de Las Lunas by
the insurgents state that when the lat
ter, after leaving a garrison in the
town, started in the direction of San
Pedro, General Luque endeayored 30
prepare a column to go in pursuit, but,
owing to the prevalence Of fever among
the troops, he could not collect more
than I.500 men.
The following officers were elected by
the national convention Of the Order or
Hoo Hoos at Detroit yesterday. grand
shark of the universe, a. A. White of
Kansas City; senior hoo. w. H. McClin
tocaS of Chicago; Junior hoo hoo. w. B.
StiMwell of Savannah. Ga: boiuTn F. S.
4 Oakes cf Ohio; scllrivenoter. u H.
Baird of Nashville, Tenn; jabberwock,
r. II, Vidmer, Alabama; custocation. A.
Fl. Defebaugh. Kentucky; arcaneper, G.
A. LYON, Texas; curlon, W. U. Reilly,
New York.