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

The bank of Waverly, Ills, closed its
| doors. The liabilities are estimated al
/ 500, 900 to 100000.
! Senator George Vest of Missouri, whose
health has been source of anxiety to his
| friends is improving rapidly.
Statement of the condition of the treas
ury shows: Available cash balance, $685.
1874; gold reserve. S194, 452, 677.
At the election for governor of the Chloe
! taw nation, Hon. Dug Johnson defeated
II. II. Burris by majority of 1885,
Diego De Vivo, one of the best known
impreSsarios in the United States. died
at his home in New York from paralysis.
The press of India welcomes the ap-
pointment of Mr.. George n. CurZon as
viceroy of India as being eminently salts
factory.
The Sixth regiment of Missouri volun-
teers. commanded by Colonel Letcher
Hardeman, broke camp at jefferson bar
racks, and left for Jacksonville, Fla.
In view of the success which has attend
ed the use of dynamite guns in Cuba the
Russian minister of marine proposes to
put such weapons on four Russian war
ships.
The North American Trust company
has filed a bond of $3.50 600 with the sec
rotary of the treasury, and has been made
fiscal agent of the government at San
tiago.
Secretary Alger cabled to General Miles
to apply Immediately to the Porto Rican
ports captured by him the tariff drawn up
by the government for Santiago and other
Cuban ports.
Secretary French of the National Relief
committee cabled to United States Consul
General Wildman at Hongkong 81, 600 with
instructions to use the money to buy food
supplies for the troops at Manila
The elections to the house of representa-
tives of the Japanese imperial diet prom
Use a sweeping majority for fiount Oku-
mas government The estimates for the
next nscal year show deficit of 50,0000O0
yen.
Five thousand tons of commissary
stores will be sent TO General Merritt by
a special steamer. The provisions will be
rations for 10000 soldiers for several
months. All the stores will be purchased
from firms on the Pacific coast.
Adjutant General Corbin announced that
hereafter the designation of the camp at
Montauk Point will be Camp Wikoff, in
Twenty-seventh United States infantry,
who. was killed at the head of his brigade
on July l, at Santiago.
over 5000 people attended the initial pro-
duction of Our Naval Victories by lmre
Kiralfy at Madison Square Garden. The
idea of the American naval show was
to create correct reproductions of the
American and Spanish warships which
have taken place in the recent naval en-
gagementS.
Miss Blanche Walsh, leading lady in the
stock company now playing at Manhattan
Beach, Denver, has been engaged to take
the place of Miss Fanny Davenport, who
is i'll, in the presentation of Sardou's plays
in this country next season. She will be
supported by Melbourne Mcdowell, Miss
Davenport's husband.
Reports from Sacramento, Stockton, Los
Angeles, Fresno and many other Califor-
MIA points show that yesterday was the
hottest day of the year, and one of the
ever experienced in the state.
The thermometer ranged from 81 degrees.
at Los Angeles, to 122, at Pennington. in
the San joaquin valley. At Sacramento
it reached 40, the highest on record.