Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-12

| Vlsr dead. He was born 10 SnaiI
n 1911 and made csrdlnal in 1884
Ottawa, OIt., Aug. l2.-rhe govern
ment has advised all CAnaJian collec
tors Of customs to give France the
benefit OF the preferential clause OF tbs
tann. This mRkes three countries
France, Belgium AMI GsrmHuy, whC
are now enjoying the benefits OF the
| reciprocal arraugement.
| Tie question O establishing banl
at Dawson City, Yukon, Ia now before
the Dominion government.
Lonuon, Aug. 12.-Gou. Stewart J..
WoodforJ, tue new U. 5. minister u
| spain, started for Paris today with hit
staff, on his way to Madrid.
HALIFAX n. s, Aug. l2.-rhc
| baItlesnip InnIans was successfully
placed ~ dry dock tn mosniag.
PEORIA, Ill.,, Aug. IL w. A.
ShehnAu, ex.Rranu secretary anu
treasurer OF the brotherhood OF railroad
rainmeD was arrested today at the
iustigalion OF grand trustees, charged
with embezzlsment OF sl.S4D. He
was released upon giving S2,6OD bail.
lie Chime AZ II al over draf.
Tue Information was attest.
ed in Justice Storey's court
by j. w. Mcclure, member OIL
the boaru OF trusiees. Ii is claimed b.
Mr.. SheRhau's friends that prosecutiOI
IL simply persecu ion and that the
matter might easily have been ali
iusteI within The orgRUizltiJn. Shea.
han's RtIurney bscsms nis security on
the bail bind.
San Ftencisco, Aug, l2-Mr,. il
De X. TOWNSEND, wiie OF VISA
known slock broker of this city anu
iOtmerly of New York, was iound
dead iu bed thIs IN ring. Her death
Ia believed to be due from natural
causes.
New York, Aug. II -Bulletir: &.
s. Meileu was today tlecieI president
ot the Northrrn Pacific Railroad Co.
Daniel s. Lamont was elected
director aud vice president. Mr.,
Mellen Ia the seconJ vice presl-
den. OF the New Yurk, New Haven IL
Hartlo5d raiiryuu ana was formerly
general manager Of the Union Puciflc
Taiirosd. Tue office OF President o
Ihe Northern Pacific road was re-
tered vacant by the resignation o
Mr.. Winters. Hitherto tuure has been
no vice president. MIR. Lamont, 1t
has long been Iumored, was u fiji
como flee In the company.
L1s AngeleR, Aug. l2.-John V.
SSenningsen, veteran OF the oivI
war, lately returned from South
America and visited the Sold ers'
dUmo at Santa Monica, was astoun5e ed
to Hold that he himself had been regis.
Tered as an inmate OF that institute for
more than two years. Tue result OF
the discovery and exposure is thai
Peter MikclseD, an aged inmate OF tn
nome, IL under arrest.
Cleveland, o., Aug. I2-At the
Cleveland ButcheIs' union plcnic the
urestert' contest was won by Paul
reelzel OF New YORK by 81 poinis, In
ak minutes and SIX anu Une-nalf sec
oDis. +. AuIlln OF Chicago, cham
pioD OF the world, won second prizs
ny IA points. ree,zsl challenged
Auliiu u beei dressing contest for
u 81 900 purse.
TsllaC Lake. CAL, Aug. 12.-Philip
KJrp, q wealthy coffee pla ter OF S u
salvador, dte1 here yesterday. He
was the sou Of one OF the Iargest
coffee planters in Central America.
He commenced business fifteen y ears
ago At since that time has amasseu
a fortune Of s5,0UO,OO0. He was q
Germsn by bir.n.
Vobala Castro, a twc-yeai-oid baby
girl, fell out Of a winuow ct San Fran.
cisc9, Monday sfternOoO, a distance OF
twelve feet anu sustained fracture OF
the skull. She was taksn to the re.
ceiving hospital by her father who
stated that the htile one had been
standing on u chair looking out OF al
open window AMI hau overbalanCeI
hetseli. AT tlrst 1t was not thought
that her injury was very severe, but
thorough examination revealed the
fact that the skull hau been fractured
from forehead to base aud that there
WAS no hope of the bAOy's rtcovety.
Raymond Yater, the eight yeaT.oId
son Of William IL. Yales, the gram
broker Of San Francisco, was severely
burned while he and another youth
were playing with gunpowder at the
residences oil his father, near Core
MRders, Cal, on Monday. The flask
exploited and the iace Of young Yates
was badly scOrchei. d.. Woodruff
dressed his injuries anu hopes t. be
able to save the eyosight OF the by.