The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-06
BRIEF TALES BY WIRE.

Old Strathmore, the famous stallion, is
dead.
Theodore Figers examination will be
! begun today.
Washington wheat market dropped 2
| cents yesterday.
Hubert Bros, dealers in bicycles, New
| York. have assigned.
Parliament will be prorogued today. 1t
will assemble in February
Jose PERUVIAN was legally hanged for
rape at Hattressburg, Miss, yesterday.
Three Cuban refugees with yellow
fever have been captured at Punfa Gordo.
Ship Otto beached herself at Mecox. L.
l., yesterday. VIII probably be a total
There are no noticeable CHANGES in the
peace negotiations between Turkey and
Greece.
Commercial Union Cigar and Cigarette
company, New York, has assigned.
Liabilities, $4,000.
The proposed calling of a constitutional
convention for Tennessee has been over
whelmingly defeated.
Charles Donohue committed suicide at
EilensbUrg. Wash, yesterday by shoot
ing himself in the head.
London Evening Post says the American
claim of s2S.5o0 for the extradition of
Frank Butter is an outrage.
Fibel & Crabb, distillers of Eminence,
KY, have assigned w. L. Crabb also
filed an individual assignment.
During the recent floods IS persons were
drowned by the collapse of bridge at
Keitl. province of Esthonia, Russia.
Davidson Bros, dealers in leaf tobacco,
New York, have assigned without pref
erence. Amount involved, $4,000.
King of the Belgians as arbitrator in the
dispute between Japan and Hawaii would,
il is believed, give general satisfaction.
o. ". Green, a tailor of Ventura. Cal,
is supposed TO have drowned himself and
his 15-year-old son while temporarily in
sane
According to the Cork Constitution the
Muckross estate, Killarney, has been Sc
lected as a site for royal residence in
Ireland.
British ship Cumbermere, coal laden,
has been nearly destroyed by fire near
Oakland, Cal. Incendiariesl doubtless,
did the work
Frederick DeForest Allen, Pho. Tor II
years professor of classical philologsr in
Harvard. is dead from the effects Of
paralytic stroke.
Atlanta women who struck because of
the Introduction of colored women into
the Button bag and cotton mills, gained
their point yesterday.
Fourteen ladies' of the imperial harem I
at ConstantinoDle have been arrested on I
charges OF completely with the intrigues (
of the young Turkish party.
Henry a. Baker (colored) has assumed /
his duties as revenue collector in Georgia. /
Sevecal white men quit. Baker has APP /
pointed a white man his chief deputy.
Al Sewanee University of the South) !
a monument to Edmund Kirby Smith, I
the last full general of the confederate
army, was unveiled on Tuesday last.
John w. Holiday, of Ohio. has been APP
pointed chief clerk Of the railway mail J.
service and succeeds Alex Grant, of
Michigan, appointed assistant general
superintendent.
The Gaulois points out that under the
commercial treaty concluded between
France and Canada in 1893 France will
DV which Canada /
gives Great Britain
1t is semi-officially announced that
Japan has announced that Belgium be
ions in dispute between Hawaii and the
Japanese government.
John Parke, a farmer living four miles
rom Kamiah. Ida. has been missing
nce Friday afternoon. His house is
ut down and two horses shot. 1t IS a
leep mystery
Cramp & Son have formally refused to
urnish armor plate for the new vessels
rm viii probably supply, however, the
comparatively small quantity of diaginal
ron that will be used.
Negotiations are now in progress with
he French government looking to the
onclus1on of a treaty of commerce to
overn the relations between the United
tates and Tunic. This is TO take the :
lace of the old treaty. which does not :
{ modern conditions and particularly !
he existing protectorate over Tunis
Maintained by France.
In the Hungarian parliament yesterday t
he minister of commerce, Baron De
Daniel, replying to an Interpolation on / f
ne subject of the Dingley tariff said 7
ae government considered that Hungary
promoting her export interests should [
OF act alone, but 10 insure success the
overnment thought thar all should
gree on common course of action.
A special dispatch from Sofia says: 1t
rumored there that the object of Y
le visit of Prince Ferdinand and of NJ +
teiloff, the Bulgarian premier. to King .
harleS of Roumania, at Siania. is to /.
iduce reluctant Roumania to join Seryia /
nd Bulgaria in rising against Turkey /
II which 1t is alleged secret preparations v
ave for long time been in progress q
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Jenna reports that the Bulgarian poet !.
onstantinom has been assassinated. 1t :
opears that he was making a political Q
ur with his friend Takef, who IS
rong opponent of the present cabinet {
Id of the government of Prince Ferdi- A
and According to the dispatch the Bull
irlan authorities gave orders for the :
isassination Of Takeff and the mis- :
eants who were hired TO carry out the'
structions mistook the poet for the in
nded EiCim. a