The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-04
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

Nicaragua prohibits the importation
of Chinese.
Four more jurors were accepted yes
terday to try Adolph Luetgert.
The mounted police force in the Klon-
dixie district is to be increased.
A special session of the Illinois Iegis-
lature will meet Dec. to pass a re-
apportionment bill.
The Tennessee Medical college at
Knoxville was destroyed by fire last
night. Loss, $4,000.
Most of the single mills in the state
of Washington have closed down for a
period of two months.
Ten thousand bags of desiccated veg
etables are being prepared in Detroit
for shipment to the Klondike.
Reports from Kansas and Nebraska
say the snow fall was general, and is
of great value to the winter Whaet.
Senator NJ A Hanna continues to
improve, but says that he does not
know when he will be able to be out.
The remains of Ex-Governor Church,
who died in Juneau, Alaska, Nov. 20,
arrived in Seattle on the steamer Co
roma.
Alonzo S. Kimball, professor of ply
sizes at the Worcester Polytechnic in
stitute since 1872, is dead at the age
of So years.
AT Richmond Va, the Democratic
executive caucus named Hon. John
Daniel to succeed himself in the United
States senate.
A matinee held at the Knickerbocker
in New York, under the direction of
Daniel F'rohman, for the actors fund
benefit, netted 81, 600.
Ga
for the lowest price it has reached since
ing in the market for 5N
The battleship Oregon has sailed from
San Francisco for Puget Sound where
she is going to the new dock at Bremen
ton to be fitted with her Oilge keels.
Six men were severely scalded by the
explosion of a copper sugar boiler in
the candy factory of Dauerbach & Sons
in New York. Several of them Will
lose their eyesight.
The discovery of a new counterfeit
! of q new five-dollar silver certificate
of the series of 1891. with the portrait
of Grant, is announced by the treas
ury secret service.
Tuesday and Wednesday, JAN II and
II, have been fixed as the dates for the
meeting of the National Live Stock
GeueFS ana BF99QerS convention, dNQ
the hall of representatives at ST Paul
as the place.
The receipts from street railways in
| Pennsylvania show a remarkable fall
ing off. In cities like Harrisburg anc
many others it cannot be gainsaid thai
the bicycle has become the most SER
ious competitor of the railway.
| The report that the Russian govern
ment is buying large quantities of army
supplies in the United States has beer
verified. Gable messages from VIadi
| vostock asking merchants to bid OF
large lots are frequently received il
| San Francisco.
| Owing to the extremely dry weather
! this fall water was never so scarce il
| the history of Kansas as it is today
Emporia lies at the junction of the Ne
! osho and the Cottonwood rivers, anC
| for weeks not a drop of water has beer
flowing in either.
The trouble in the National Window
Glass Works association was amicabl!
settled by President Burns paying owe
SIS, 900 to the cutters and f1atteners, ant
the latter formally withdrawing from
the association. The wage scale vii
now be adjusted and general resump
ton of work is expected before the ent
! of the year. The court proceedings
have been called off