The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-01

walter chess match was contested at the
Manhattan Chess club and after six
hours play, when fifty-six moves had
peen made, the game was declined.
The Birmingham (Ala.) Rolling Mill
company filed a deed of assignment to
John NJ. Barr. jr., q director of the COM
pany, and Thomas Ward the general
800, CO.,
A Lincoln Lands. member of the
hrm Of Mayer. Lands & Co., whose file
gorks at Philadelphia were burned in
September. 1897. was convicted Of arson
the jury finding him guilty of having set
hre to the establishment.
The contest over the election for bishop
OF the Iowa diocese of the Episcopal
e eInatid,, was brought to a close by thy
electlon, on the second ballot, of ReyG
Dr.. Theodore N. Morrison, rector OF
Epiphany church. Chicago ~
James Stillman of New York has given
SSoO.OVO 10 Harvard college to cover the
Harvard infrmary, which will bear the,
name of the donor. In addition Mr.. Still
man will contribute $500 annually for
four years.
tween the states of Nicaragua. Honduras
and Salvador. to be conducted under a
common administration and known as the
United States of Central America. has
failed completely.
II. o. Havemeyer, president of the
American Sugar Refining company said
that there was 70 truth in the story OF
an attempt TO consolidate the American
Sugar Refining Company with the Ar
buckle, Doseher and other independent
refineries.
Robert H. Porter, United States special
commissioner to Cuba and Puerto Rico
charged with the duty of inquiring into
and reporting upon the economic and
financial conditions on both islands with
special reference to the tariff, has ar
rived 9 Santiago.
Arthur Hardy, leader Of the Federal
party in Ontario. has been given to I'M
derStand that he can be made a knight
at the coming new year. when the queen
generally DesloWS honorS on a number OF
home and colonial statesmen and others
| of distinction.
Rev. Thomas Hall will not succeed his
pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church. New York, for he has accepted
the chair of Christian ethics in the Union
Theological seminary, which was vacated
by the Rev. DR.. Charles a. Briggs.
The courtmartiaI appointed to investi-
gate the charges made against Naval
Constructor John f. HanscOm, the
League island officer accused of having
allowed wOrkmen at the navy yard TOO
much pay for overtime work. proceeded
with their inquiry at Philadelphia.
After fifty days continuous night and
day riot duty in Pana- troop Il of Bloom
ington, First Illinois cavalry squadron,
were relieved by company X, Fifth regi-
ment, Of DelaYan. DeSultOry shooting
COitluuSS ulSHLIy, the provost guard nav =
ing but little success in effecting cap
lures. Another consignment of negroes
arrived last night
The storm south and west of Denver is
the worst known in years. At Como the
snow is between two and three feet deep,
and between Como and Leadville and as
far as GunnisOn. ten feet of snow has
fallen. The South Park road is tied up
and trains on the Denver & Rio Grande
are generally delayed. Snowslides are re-
ported on all roads.
The official trial of the torpedo boat
Mackenzie, which took place over the
government official course at Deepwater
Point. below Wilmington, Del, was not
a success and another trial will be made
about Dec. TO- The contract speed of the
Mackenzie is twenty knots an hour, but
the highest speed attained on her fun
speed trial was only eighteen knots.
General Jose Gomez has called on Ste
Dhen b. Barton at the Red Cross head
quarters in New York to ask his aid in
sending relief to the sick and starving
women and children at Las Villas, Sancti
SDiritUs and Trinidad, in Santa Clara
province, Cuba The general stated that
the suffering was more intense there than
in any other part of the island, and if the
relief did not reach them soon it would
be too late.