Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-09
TELEGRAPHlC BREvlTlES.

Isaac Bergman. Citizens candidate.
was elected mayor of Astoria, Or, yes
terday.
Mex Monday is the date for insti-
tuting the provisional or autonomous
government in Cuba.
The Corinne company. which has
been playing the opera. The American
Beauty, has disbanded at Kansas City.
WI Yung. trusted member of
Chinese firm in st. Louis, has skipped
with $1,000 belonging to his country
men.
The Gerlach Belgian Antarctic ex-
petition has decided to spend the win
ter at Vietorialand, instead of on the
vessel
Miller. the bicyclist, fell asleep on
his wheel last night. He made 1900
miles in II hours, and is ahead in the
six days race.
The government is about to make
the experiment Of making loggers out
Of Its Indian wards on reservations
In north Minnesota.
Lord Aberdeen, Governor general of
Canada. was banqletod last night at
the National club. Toronto, by a repre-
sentative committee.
In Springfield. o., an epidemic of
measles is admittedly beyond control.
A total of 1.1ss cases has been repre-
scented in the last six weeks.
Haiti protests that she yielded to
Germany solely because of superior
force. and she asserts that the German
act was highhanded wrong.
Gov. Sadler of Nevada denounces
the work of the mob in Genoa, New,
on Tuesday, in the lynching of Adam
Uber, as an example of flendish bar
barism.
The city board of education has de-
cided to close the schools in Mime
apolis. Mimi. March 1. 1898, because 1t
has no money and no legal right to
borrow.
Gertrude Prince. the pretty nineteen
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
John Prince of Hayes, Octonto county
Wis, has eloped with William Smith,
a negro, and married him.
Mrs Emma Schumacher. keeper of n
grocery at Eighteenth and Campbell
last night by robbers, who demanded
the cash in her money drawer.
james Murray, constable at Jenny
Lind, n coal mining town in Sebastian
county, Ark, was lynched on Sunday
night by a mob of coal miners He
had arrested one of their number.
In Pittsburg, Pa, the execution of
the negro. Phillip Hill. which was set
for yesterday. has been postponed in
definitely. This act is held by lawyers
to be unheard of in the history of the
state.
j. Havelock Wilson. NJ. p, and NJ.
Parford, representing the British
Trades Council, both of whom are dele
gates to the congress of the American
Federation of Labor, have arrived in
New York.
Temple Houston. son OF Sam Hous-
ton, of Texas fame. will defend the
Jennings brothers and their gang for
train robbery and other crimes. Tenn
pie Houston killed one of the Jennings
brothers in a fight last year.
In Chicago, Mrs. Florence Van
Setback has begun suit against her
father-in-law Peter Van Setback.
asking damages in the amount of s75,-
900 for alienation of her husbands
affections, and $4,000 for libel.
Among the first articles of furniture
to be placed in the new College of His
tory, Washington. will be table and
set of chairs, once the property or
Charles Sumner, wardrobe that be-
longed to George Bancroft, and the
war desk of Edwin NJ. Stanton.
George w. Vanderbilt has taken out
n life insurance policy for 81 900 900,
said to be the largest ever issued.
His policy is on the 20-year endow-
ment plan, and calls for premium of
$4,000 a year for twenty years, pro-
vided Vanderbilt lives that long.