The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-15
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

The heaviest fall of snow in twenty
years visited San Antonio. Tex, yester-
day.
Lionel Garden. the British consul at
Mexico City, has been appointed British
consul general ct Havana.
The National board of trade refused to
pass & resolution urging congress to en-
act legislation specially aimed against
monopolies.
Colonel Ruhlen, Major Purdy and Cap
tain Lydig, with the quarteTmasters pay
and commissary departments, will remain
in Honolulu.
Eight additional survivors of the crew
of the lost ship Londonian We're brought
into Baltimore by the North German
Lloyd steamship Maria RickmerS-
Prices on all grades and gauges of black
steel and galvanized iron sheets will be
advanced probably from 10 to II per cent
over the present rates within few days.
The Oystermen's association of Puget
object of the association is to further the
oyster industry and secure needed legiS-
ton.
Nearly every state and territory in the
union was represented at the second
annual convention of the interstate Ma
tional Guard association which opened at
Chicago yesterday.
The Hamilton club of Chicago has de-
cided to send a. delegation of 100 mem
bers to attend the Inauguration of
York, ct Albany Jan. 2.
Nance O'Neil and Mckee Rankin re-
turned from Honolulu on the steamer
Alameda. The Mckee Rankin company,
of which Miss O'Neil is leading lady. did
remarkably well in Hawaii.
Fire destroyed an apartment house at
22S Union street, Brooklyn. Thirty fam
lilies were driven out into the cold, and it
is believed that George and Edith Girls
void persisted in the flames.
The largest individual subscription yet
received by the Central Cuban Relief COM
mittee OF New York is a check for $1,000,
nobleman, who lives in Paris.
Frank Moran, one of the most widely
known MINISTRIES in this country, died
at Philadelphia aged u years. He was
one of the founders of the Benevolent
and Protective order OF ElkS.
Reports gathered by the Associated
Press show that the rain on the Pacific
coast has reached almost every section
of California, and all danger of droughth.
for the time being is passed.
Madame Schumann-Heink the famous
contralto singer, has given birth to her
eighth child, a son, last night. She eX-
poets to be able to sing in the Grau
company's first production Of 'Lohen-
grin" next week.
A combination of all the rubber con-
Germs of Trenton, n. j., has been formed.
The companies consolidated are the En-
pire, Globe, Hamilton, Home, Mercer and
Trenton, with the United Rubber and the
Whitehead company:
The charges of the government fiscal
agents at Santiago de Cuba are consid-
cred to be excessive, as they charge / per
cent on all money sent to the United
States, also / per cent on their own drafts
from the Unitad States.
General Wood has for some time been
advising the government of the fact that
a regiment of cavalry was needed in
Santiago district, and he has recently
hpcA
able to grant his request for a regiment
they will send him 1000 horses, carbines
and accoureInents for the purpose of
mounting two companies in each of the
white infantry regiments in the province.
To be entirely relieved of the aches
and pains of rheumatism means a great
deal and Hnnd,s Sarsanarilla does il