The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-08
BRIEF TALES BY WIRE.


There was 100000 fire at Quebec yes
terday.
Government crop reports are rather en-
couraging.
Wheat crop in France has fallen much
below the average
Count Won Thon Stadthler II the duchy
of SalZburg is dead.
St. LOUIS is taking active measures
against Yellow Jack.
Arguments in, the Angus Craven will
case have commenced.
Fire at Cairo, w Va, yesterday, did
damage TO the amount of $4,000.
The steamship Paris. sailing for Europe
today, will take $4,000 ounces of silver.
The Uruguayan rebels are within
two days march of Montevideo.
A rancher near San Gabriel, Cal. is
dying from the sting of mosquito
The Ohio state gold Democratic con-
Yention will assemble at Columbus to-
day.
All towns contiguous to Ocean Springs,
Miss. are taking precautions against yell
low fever.
Ex-Queen Ldloukalani and party are
coming west. San Francisco is the OBJ
JectiVe point.
The Polish National alliance of the
| United States is in biennial session in
Philadelphia.
Bismarck is quoted as saying that the
| recent efforts at Peherhof were so much
The Wheeling cup presentation com
mittee were heartily entertained in Sacra-
mento yesterday.
Emperor William has decorated Presi
dent Crespo, of Venezuela, With the order
OF the Red Eagle
1t is believed that the schooner Donna
Br.ggs, loaded With supplies for the Gu
bars, has foundered-
Cotton spfnners of Moselle have decided
to stop work for half day week. ow-
ing TO over production
President and Mrs. Mckinley and party
will spend a week at the residence of
Abner Mckinley, Somerset. Pa.
1t is unofficaIly announced that Dr.
Andrews will insist upon the acceptance
of his resignation by BroTn university.
The Marquis de Rochambeau died at
the chateau Rochambeau in the depart
ment OF Loci ct Cher, France, on Sept. 4.
Forty thousand dollars in wages will be
distributed monthly during the raisin
! LIcklng season in and near Fresno, Cal
| The French press is still greatly ger
| c.sed over the effect that the Franco
| Russian alliance will have upon European
! politics. ~ 81,
| Mrs. L. o. Spellman, mother in law of
| John D. Rockefeller. died at Forest Hill.
Ruckefeller's Cleveland home yesterday
| morning.
The government of Mexico has issued
notices that sailing vessels, coal laden,
will be admitted to Mexican ports free
| OF tonnage duty.
| Dr.. Andrews and the advisory and
executive committee of the corporation
OF Brown university had another meeting
/ yesterday. No results.
Customs inspectors at Laredo, Tex,
have found an 51,1 UNCLAIMED grip on train
containing S2G0GU0 worth of diamonds,
! jewery and other sValuables.
! 1t is announced that the attorney gen.
| eral VIII not render his decision in tie
case of discriminating section % of the
! tariff law for two or three days.
The Hon. Sir William Cave, judge of
! the high court of justices, is dead in. Lon
| don. He was born in 1892 and was the
edcor of many important legal works.
Walter WeIlman. the journalist and
npo W 5 5ey5 1t the a d hest y ea
! Wellman will have charge OF one OF them.
| Nucleus of the German co.ony, which
is to be. established in Monterey county,
! California. win arrive there about the end
+ of the month About 5000 acres are al
ready planted in sugar beets
Rates on hard coal from Chicago to
! Missouri river points took tumble yes
terday- The reduction amounts TO 39311s
/ per cent. For the last u months the rate
has been 81 a ton On and after Sept. 20
the tariff Will be 81 a ton
John A Gordon OF Trinidad. Colo,
nominated by Democrats for justice of
Many of the delegates have no hesitancy
in expressing their disgust at the hole
their hasty action has lett chem in
The Republican organization of the city
of New York, better known as the Brook
field faction, of which General Wager
Swayne is president, at a meeting adopted
a resolution endorsing Seth Low, the
Citizen Union candidate, for mayor.
The provisional state central committee
of the s:i"er Republicans will meet in
J Los Angeles on Thursday for the purpose
of establishing the party in permanent
form, SO that it may hereafter be pre-
pared for active campaign work in Cali
fornta.
Terry Barnett, well known pugilist
is dead in New York He was attacked
with pneumonia two weeks ago He was
( at one time the amateur light weight
champion Of the United States, and later
figured in a number of lights as a pro-
fessionai.
The state department has been notified
by Minister Sewall at Honolulu that
President Dole has issued Call for IL SEES
sion OF the Hawaiian senate Sept. j. The
! object of the session is not stated but ii
is supposed to be in regard to the pro-
posed annexation treaty.
Advices have been received from
Uganda stating that mutlrgy has oc-
CURED among the troops OF tAe Congo
Free State in the Foro district. The
nutineers. is is said. killed 50 BelEiar
officers and men and destroyed all the
forts, committing depredations right an6
4 PhAadelphia & Reading wrecl1ing en-
CINE crashed mo a wagon at grade
crossing al ETuSn Valley, a lew Mlies
above Reading. Pa. last night, and flret
lives were lost. The dead are: Ever
Hester, aged As; Warren Faust. aged 10
Leon Faust, aged I. An were instantly
k!Hec.
The comptroller of the currency has de
clared dividends in favor of the creditors
Of insolyent national banks as follows:
dividend OF 10 per cent to creditors Of
Bennett National bank, of New W.hatcom
Wash; dividend of 10 per cent TO credit
orS of Northwestern National of Grea
Falls Mont.
The Lower California Development com
pany of San Diego Cal. has arranged
TO establish line of steamers to pi,
along the coast. The vessels will go al
far south as San Benito, state of Chiapas
Mexico. San Diego will be the northern
terminus. The steamer Aloion which
will make. the first trip, Will arrive her,
on the Goth inst.
The invitation of the India council FOL
tenders of drafts for one crore of rapee:
(about So, 900. coo 000) produced tenders to
day of 292 lal5hs ct rupees (ahout s14. Goo
900 at an average rate of 4 10 1-6. The
government allotted II per cent OF tht
offers from the tenders az the highes
prices. naturally iirst accepting in fuA
all tenders below Il to S-32
The Trades Union congress of Birming
!; ham, England, has passed a resolution
in favor of the hours of labor beinl
occupations and inStructlng the Darlia
menfary committee to draft bin on tn
lines Of the restitution with the view o
getting it passed by parliament and mad
!, the law of che country.