The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

! Ernest Marriott the Oldest artist in Cali
fornia. is dead. aged II years.
Thomas T. Bayard, former ambassador
Mass.
Japanese newspapers say that japan
wants to buy the Ladrone islands for their
! fish resources.
A triennial convention of weather bu-
reau meterOlogists will be held at Omaha
! in the middle of October.
General Coppinger has been ordered to
remove all of his corps. now al Fernand-
ina, to Huntsville at once
Statement of the condition of the treas
ury shows: Available cash balance s2S4
.S96; gold reserve, sos. 006. 063
Cardinal Gibbons arrived at ANNAPOLIS
and called on Admiral Cervera with
whom he remained for over an hour.
Roswell G. Rolston. former president of
the Farmers Loan & Trust COMPANY
died at his country home, Babylon L. l.
Orders have been issued directing Cen
eral Miles to send home from Porto Rico
all troops not actually needed, for service
there.
The United States transport VigiIancis.
left New York with the Twenty-third reg
iment of colored infantry from Topeka
Kan, on board bound for Santiago.
The national league board of directors
has reconSdered its suspension of Holmes
the Baltimore baseball player The fine
against the New York club still stands.
The four big monitors. Terror. Puritan
Miantonomah and Amphitrite and the
cruiser Montgomery have been ordered by
the navy department. to Newport, r. l.
BY the first of October the Seyenty-first
New York and the Second Massachusetts
regiments, now at Mantauk Point N Y
will have been mustered out of the ser
vice.
. In Barcelona the labor question seems
to he approaching an acute stage 1t is
estimated that something like 5000 work
ingmen are pennilesss and on the verge of
starvation.
Manager E. Rosewater had extended an
invitation upon the part of the Omaha ex-
position to Admiral Sampson 10 particf-
pate in the peace jubilee as representa-
tive of the navy on army and navy day.
Postmaster General Emory Smith will
dispatch committee to Porto Rico
shortly to examine into the postal neces-
stiles there and make recommendations
for the establishment of a complete SER
vice.
DR.. Edmund James, professor of polfti-
cal science in the University of Chicago
has been appointed dean of the new teach
ers' college organized by the university on
the foundation created by Mrs Emmons
Blains
The Pacific Express company has no.
titled the Texas ocials that their com
pany will comply with the recent ruling of
the state railway commission to paw the
war tax on express matter destined to
points in Texas.
The treasury department is now send
il5 Oul " TO the
amount of $3.50 COCO daily. The aggregate
so far delivered is $5S, S33. 320 The average
number of war stamps issued during July
was %. 1882 daily.
President Mckinley announced that ne
viii leave Washington for Somerset Pa.
at o'clock next Saturday morning to Wis
it his brother. Mr. Abner Mckinley He
will spend Sunday there and on the way
will stop off at Camp Meade Middletown
for about an hour.
Thirty persons who have been spending
the summer at Greenfield. N V were
poisoned by eating ice cream. Two women
have since died. Mrs. Jessie Setter of
Mount Vernon, and Mrs. Michael. of New