The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-08
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

Jake Glover, negro, wa iynched near
Monticello Ga.
The Illinois supreme court sustains the
validity of the Chicago cigarette ordin-
ance.
The hat factory of John W. Green &
Co.. one of the largest at Danbury, Conn.,.
was DESTROYED by fire. Loss, $125. 900; in
surance. $4,000.
Henry. B. Hyde. president of the Equit
able Life Assurance society is seriously
i'll at his home in New York, suffering
from nervous exhaustion.
The closing arguments in the trial of
Mrs. Cody for seeking to blackmail the
and the case went to the jury.
Judge Ball of the superior court, Chi
cago, has appointed f. II. Gansbergen re-
ceiYer for the Canadian-American Loan
q Building association, with authority to
wind up its affairs.
The United States survey steamer Path
finder was launched from the Nixon ship
yards, in Elizabeth, n. J. Miss Ruth w
Crandon, niece of Secretary of the Treas
ury Gage, christened the vessel
About 800 brewers from all parts of the
against the continuance of the war tax
of a dollar a barrel on beer and to
formulate measures to secure its abolish
ment.
between Janowski and ShowaIter was
drawn, after seventy-one moves The
score now reads: Janowski, 5; ShoWalter
2; drawn, 3. The ninth game will be play
ed today.
Negotiations which have been proceed
ing for over three months have resulted
in the sale TO a New York syndicate, rep
resented by Brown Bros, Of the Lindell
d Missouri street railway systems of St
Louis, for $S,500,0o0.
The cruiser Buffalo left her anchorage
off Tompkinsville and sailed for Mania
by way of Suez. She had on board about
I IN AsIrN afr-ra1 a
Manila, who are to replace those whose
terms have expired.
The New Time, a Chicago reform
magazine, edited by Frederick U. Adams.
Boston. John Clarke Ridpath, the
former editor of the Arena, has been sue
ceeded by Paul Tyner.
The Paris exposition commission has
received a letter from the French offi-
Gals conveying the information that the
Lafayette memorial monument would in
tall probability be given a site in the gar
| den Of the Tnilleries.
The first cargo to reach Philadelphia
from a Spanish port since the outbreak
Of the war with Spain came in yesterday
on the Norwegian steamer -KingSwood
from Barcelona The KingsWood carried
a light general cargo.
Benson Ferris. for nineteen years presi-
dent of the Westchester county savings
bank. was found dead in bed at home in
/ TarrytoWn, N. 7. He was "a years OF
| age. washington irving bought Sunny
/ side from Alr. Ferris father.
| AT special meeting of the Harvard
! college @oVerseers it was voted to place
women upon the visiting committee in
! the department of the college. President
| Eliot, after the meeting, explained that
one of the women is Mrs. Henry Draper
Of New York, an expert on astronomy
The Cuban Educational association of
| the United States has been organized, for
| the purpose Of organizing and carrying
| out the offers made by the American col
| leges in response to General Wheeler S
suggestion that these colleges each give
| free tuition to two or more reputable Gu
| bans.
The decision of the federal court of
! Wyoming in the Howell-Jo hnson case has
| stirred up the Kansas farmers in the Ar
case against Colorado irrigators for TAX
| ing water from the Arkansas river in Col
orado. Kansas farmers claim a prior
right for sub-irrigation.