The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-26
TELEGRAPHIc BRIEFS.

Vice President Hobart is at Kingston
Ont, attending the yacht races.
The new Chilean cruiser. Almirante
O'Higgins, arrived at Valparaiso.
Right Rev. Thomas McGovern, bishop OF
the Harrisburg diocese, died at Harris
burg.
The war department set all rumors
about the removal of Camp Alger at rest
There will be no change.
Statement of the condition of the treas
ury shows: Available cash balance. $780,
SOS. l09; gold reserve, $50, 043,61S.
Evan McColl. the Scotch poet. is dead
He was the author of many poems, both
in English and Gaelic. He was 80 years
old
The Rev. Rufus Nutting. D. D., one of
the most prominent educators in Illinois,
died at his home in Cariinvilie. aged a
years.
W. p. Merrill. a Milwaukee millionaire
and one of the Oldest residents of that
city, died OF heart disease. Deceased was
81 years of age.
The ship Kenilworth, bound from Hilo,
Hawaii. for New York, with d cargo of
sugar. has put into Valparaiso. on fire.
Both the captain and mate are reported
dead.
Mr.. Perry Heath. first assistant post
master general. today went TO New York,
where he will take a steamer for Berlin.
Mr. Heath expects to be absent one
month.
the Aurora Vapor Stove company
which has been in operation at Cleveland
for % years made an assignment The
assets and liabilities are reported at $4U,
900 each.
According 10 a special from Rome the
vatican has instructed the papal nuncio
at Madrid to threaten with severe pun
ishInent any priests favoring Carlist or
anti-dynastic intrigueS.
The town of Pugwash. Nova Scotia of
! 30 Inhabitants. was wiped out by fire
yesterday. Two hundred dwellings, five
churches. 20 stores, three hotels ana sew
mills bpinp DESTROYED.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that Lii
Houi the king of Korea, desires 10 alb
dictate and TO take refuge at the British
consulate at Seoul The British consul,
however. declines 10 receive him.
Prof. George L. Seymour. for 80 years
a professor in the ST. Louis High school
and author Of works on mathematics and
bookkeeping used in the schools of Kan
sas and Missouri. died at Ann Arbor.
Moses Seligman. an attorney. was found
dead in the bath room of his residence at
san Francisco The gas jet was turned
OIL. bus not lighted. 1t Is not known
whether death was caused by accident or
Toe result OF a suicidal Impulse.
Four children of Elmer Wattman,
farmer near Beatrice, Neb., were burned
20 death during the absence of their par
ents. Their ages range from years 10
an infant How the ire caught is not
known.
~ the hoard meeting OF the Los An
Angeles Oil Producers trustees the price
OF crude petroleum was advanced TO 81 Ia
a barrel The chief reason for this ad-
Vasee is that the present supply above
ground is deere sing instead of Increasing.
While preventing the police from arrest
ing his brother. John Cooley, a horse
traine:. who is wanted for numerous
burglaries. = unan Cooley was shot ana
fatally wounded by Detective Michael Kill
crac at Chicago. rhe shooting followed a
desperate Eight waged between the police
and the three Coiley brothers. in barn.
The report of the Brussels sugar con-
ference shows that IL failed through the
refusal OF France and Russia to join the
other powers in the suppression of the
axnort bounties. The British delegates
that the other governments /
,,tJlffv the French and Russian bounties I
nv the imposition OF countervailing duties !
as done by the United States.
The German Opera House company, I
oc-ner OF the Schiller theatre, Chicago, /
90 fessed judgment to the Garden City /
,f~,,st company on a note for $4,000 Judg- /
,,,ant rrss entered and the sheriff levied /
o. the theatre building. Later. attorneys
,rss1nresenfiag the Garden City company
me- . bilI askiry for a receiver for the
rssrss..n Opera House company.