The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-30
TELEGRAPHIc BRIEFS.

The British America international con-
| ference will open at Quebec on Aug. %
next.
The president appointed Rufus W. Lane
Of Ohio as consul of the United States at
i Smyrna
Statement of the condition of the treas
/ huy shows: Available cash balance. S259.-
1852; gold reserve. SIS. 5se.O31.
/ Twenty-Five United States marines IN
I der command of Lieutenant Lambert.
sailed from Seattle for Skaguay. Alaska
/ Three Spanish prisoners died at Camp
/ Long Two deaths were due to pneumon-
ia and one to complication of diseases,
Her majesty's torpedo boat destroyer
Sparrow Hawk returned to Vancouver
after a fruitless cruise in the North Pa
cific for the alleged Drivateer.
Four deputy sheriffs raided the Harlem
race track. Chicago. and placed under
arrest four bookmakers. The racing was
not interterred with
The factory of the Mergenthaler limo
type company at Montreal was badly
damaged by fire. The loss is placed at
$50 eco.
destructive cyclone swept over the
southern portion of Buchanan county.
Missouri A dozen farm houses near
Cover were demolished. Many persons
were injured but no deaths are reported.
The entire Second army corps will be re-
viewed by the secretary of war today. It
is expected that Camp Alger troops will
show a great Improvement in appearance
over the last inspection.
The federal council of Switzerland has
minated to Don Carlos. the Spanish pre-
tender, now at Lucerne. that he must
leave the country in case he starts an
agitation in Spain.
Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson
has consented to preside at a public meet
ing 10 be held under the auspices of the
New York Soldiers and Sailors Families
Protective association at the Metropolitan
opera house Aug. 4.
The state department has received news
of the death of Mrs. Ophelia Coleman.
wife of the president of Liberia, in the
executive mansion at Moravia. June y,
last. She was a native of Arkansas and
emigrated to Liberia in 1895.
Levi Catlin. of Rockford. Ills, was
killed at Clay Center. Kan. by a Union
Pacific passenger train. Mr.. Catlin was
rated as worth three-cuarters OF a mill
lion dollars. and has large interests in
Cla--- county.
The French government has received an
official dispatch reporting the assassina-
ton of the French captain CassemajOu.
and the massacre of mis- SenegaleSe escort
midway between the Niger and Laute
Tohad.
The army regulations have been amend
ed so as to provide that enlisted men,
hospital Tnatrons and females nurses shall
he entitled to one ration per day and also
that civilian employed with the army
whose pay does not exceed $50 per month
may receive one ration per day.
Alex Van Rensselaer,, of Philadelphia.
has placed his yacht May at Lne .ta.s ,sO-..i
of the national relief commission as a
supply vessel at his own expense with the
assurance that any orders the commission
might impose upon him will be faithfully
executed.
The commissioner of internal revenue
has rendered a decision in which he holos
that section Is of the war revenue Law au-
thorizes and requires the exemDtiO- ON
stamp taxation of all messages of rail-
road companies concerning All THE analrs
and service of the company, and of such
messages by and to connecting companies
in respect to the joint and mutual BUSH
ness of each.