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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-19
RAIL POOL COLLAPSES.
Carnegie Company Positively Re
fused to Enter the Pool.

New York, Nov 18.-The Times will
tomorrow print the following: An at
tempt by the steel rail manufacturers
of the country to form what has been
called q pool was abandoned yesterday
for the time being. The endeayor was
to bring about an understanding among
the manufacturers as to territorial di-
visions and prices.
1t was understood yesterday that OPP
position to the plan by the Carnegie
Steel company was SO uncomprOmiSing
as to hold out no hope of arriving at a
concert of interests In spite, however
of the breaking off of negotiations, it
was semi officially declared that the
manufacturers made arrangements to
continue in the endeavor to unite, and
that it was fairly certain that work.
ing agreement would be reached early
next week.
The only official concerned in the plan
of uniting interests who would talk for
publication was eX-Judge e. H. Gary
of Chicago, who is president of the
Federal Steel company He said:
There was no idea of forming a pool
During the week the steel rail manu-
facturers of the country have been
striving to reach a fair and equitable
working agreement in regard to the
division of territory and prices. But
at this meeting it was found that it
was not possible to reach an agree
ment, and the plan was abandoned. I
think, however, that there is a dispo-
stion among steel rail manufac turers
to live up to prices"
The meeting yesterday was held in
Walla street. Nearly every steel rail
manufacturing interest of magnitude
was represented. It is claimed that the
plan to work in harmony as to terri
tory and prices did not meet with the
approval of the Carnegie interest, and
that were the negotiations continued
those interests would withdraw In
these circumstances a peremptory res
olution, offered by an officer of the
Illinois Steel company. to adjourn sine
die, was put and carried. No eXplana-
ton was had on the Carnegie side. The
Federal Steel securities were little af-
fected by the failure of the plan of
union. It's common stock closed at 3111s
a net decline of IS. and preferred at
753s a decline of 49,
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FAMOUS PRISONS TO VANISH.
Paris Is Removing All Her Great
Prisons From the City.


Following the example of London and
Of other great European capitals, Paris
is now removing all her great prisons
from the center of the city to more re-
mote metropolitan districts far beyond
the ramparts. The reason is partly
due to sanitary grounds, partly to the
necessity of additional accommodation
for the prisoners, and last, but not
least, to causes of economy. The old
prisons, comprising Mazas, the Grande
the Petite Roquette, .Sainte Pelagie
Sainte Lazare and the Conciergerie,
are all located in the most densely pop
ulated quarter of the town, where every
square yard of ground is valued almost
as a small fortune.
BY dismantling these prisons and sell
ing the sits for commercial purposes the
government has been able to secure
funds for the construction of new pris-
ons in the distant suburbs on a modern
and far more extensive plan. Thus Ma
zas, where, during the past half CEN
tury, so many famous French and for
eign financiers have been confined, both
prior and subsequent to their trial, has
just been purchased by the Paris &
Lyons Railroad company for the sum
of 5000, 900 francs, and is to be utilized
as a goods station, while the site of
Sainte Pelagie has already been pur-
chased by spectators, who propose to
erect thereon number of apartment
houses.
With regard to Sainte Pelagie there
are few Literally men of any eminence
in Paris who have not at one time or
another done time within it's walls
Likewise many of the statesmen of the
present day have undergone detention
there, especially during the latter por-
ton of the reign of Napoleon III, for
it is the prison which from time i'm
memorial has been specially appropri-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-19
ELECTTIC INITIATION.
Illinois Dentist Receives Serious In
iuries In a Lodge.

Moline, his, Nov. 1S.-Dr. William P.
Sensibaugh, a dentist of Port Byron, just
east of this city, is in a serious condition
as a result OF pranks played on him while
being initiated in a fraternal insurance
lodge in that city. During the initiatory
ceremonies he was blindfolded and given
several slight shocks from a live wire.
The bandage over his eyes having become
loosened. he sought TO outwit those who
were having fun at his expense by locat-
ing the wire and attempting to avoid it.
One of the initiating team, seeing the
candidate was able to evade the wire,
gave him a little shove, which proved suf-
ficient to throw him off his balance. He
fell hands down on the battery itself, and
received a shock which rendered him I'M
conscious. After working over him two
hours and finally reviving him, it was dis
covered that his right arm hung limp and
loose, and in this condition it has remain
ed ever since.
A week ago the doctor was stricken with
an affection of the pneumogastric nerve.
Since then he has been kept UP mainly
through electrical treatment. One of the
attending physicians says that paralysis
Of the nerves is threatened, in which
event the sufferer cannot live.
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America the Dumping Ground For
the Worlds Treasure.
AREC0RD-BREAKING YEAR
ENORMOUS IMPORTS OF THE
YELLOW METAL.
For Ten Months the Excess of Gold
Imports Over Exports Has Been
S129, $3.50, 246-Result Of the Trade
Balance In Our Favor-Increase
In Circulation.


New York, Nov. ia dispatch to
the Tribune from Washington says:
The importation of gold into the
United States in the year 1898 are by
far the largest in the history OF the
country and The explorations are the
smallest in many years, while the pro-
duction OF gold from American mines
viii prove the largest in many years, If
not the largest in the country's an
mails The October statement of i'm
ports and exports, Just issued by the
treasury bureau of statistics. shows
that the total imports of gold in the
ten months ending Oct. 81, 1898, are
SAB IS, which is more than 80 per
cent in excess of the amount imported
in the corresponding period of any pre-
ceding year. The exports in that time
have been only S14,06l, $40, which is less
than in the corresponding months of
any preceding year for more than a
decade. This gives the enormous bal
ance Of S129, 1886, 246 in excess of -eX-
portations.
In only one other year in the decade
have the ten months ending with
October shown an excess of imports
Of gold over the exports, that occasion
being IN 1896, when the excess of i'm
ports was, $3I0S5,S61. In all other
years from 1888 to 1898, the October re-
turns showed for the ten months of
the calendar year an excess of exports
of gold over the imports of that
1884 So, S0S, 800.
This unprecedented flow of gold into
the United States is accounted for, in
part at least, by the enormous balance
of trade in this country's favor which
the ten months of the year have af-
forded. In those ten months the total
10
only 1927, 757 ,554, while the total i'm
ports OF merchandise amounted to only
$527, 757 ,554, while the total exports
were 1887 964. $50, a favorable balance of
trade OF S460, POS, S02. The total exports
of merchandise for the month of
October, 1898, amounted TO Sis, $50, 232,
a sum larger than in any preceding
October in the history of the country,
the figures for October, 1897, being SILL
1887, and those for October, 1896,
S113,516, $50.
The enormous importation of gold in
excess of the expectation is plainly
perceptfble in the increased circulation
shown by the figures of the treasury
department. The latest statement of
the gold in the treasury shows a. bal
ance of S242, S05,604 while the gold in
circulation on Nov. 1 was S649 SAG, 727,
being S110, 900 greater than on Nov.
/ of last year, and nearly 5000 GOO, 600
more than on July l, 1896, in which
month il touched the lowest point in
several years.
The total money in circulation at the
beginning of the present month is
shown by the treasury figures to have
been $1,S66, 575, 7S2, against 81, zoe. 732, 904
at the corresponding date last year,
and $1.509, 725, 200 on July l, 1885, the
increase in circulation in the last year
having been $3.50, $40, SIS and since July
l, 1895, $3.50, $500
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fraction of police regulations, but like
wise for wives faithless TO their mar
riage vows, disobedience to the seventh
commandment being considered in the
eyes of the French law not merely as q
civil offense, but as a crime, when it
is the wife and not the husband who
is the guilty party. On one memorable
occasion the late Lord Colin Campbell,
son of the Duke of Argyll and brother
in-law of Princess Louise of England,
endeavored to get his wife committed
there, on the ground of her alleged
intimacy with the late Duke of Marl-
borough.
The Conciergerie is the prison where
prisoners are detained pending their ex-
animation. and adjoins the palace Of
justice. 1t is there that Queen Marie
Antoinette was confined 100 years ago,
and among other distinguished people
by whom it has been tenanted at vari-
Gus times have been RObespierre. Char
lotte Corday. Emperor Napoleon III,
while still a pretender; the present
Duke of Orleans. the late Prince Jerome
Napoleon and the late Duke PersignY.
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Recent events showed that a camp is
more dangerous than a battle. Not only
in the army, but in ordinary life, more
lives are lost by a needless disregard
Of the beginnings of Door health than
by all other causes combined.
Dyspepsia or nervousness is abso-
lutely inexcusable now There is no
more reason for a man or woman eat
ing with poor appetite or sleeping poor
ly or suffering continually from neural
gia or rheumatism today than there is
of his or her going without the necessi-
ties of life.
Every candid person who has dragged
along, under the depressing effects of
nerve and brain exhaustion, needs to
take to heart the words of such unbi-
ased persons as Senator Tabor who
cannot afford to attach their guarantee
to anything they have not themselves
investigated.
Denver, Colo, Sept. 20, 1898.
Messrs. Wells, Richardson & Co., Bur-
lington, Vt: 1 heartily recommend
your Paine's celery compound.
It is the one remedy which should be
widely used. L have used it, and 1
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-19
TORPEDO BOAT FAILURE.
Farragut Falls Below the Thirty-knot
Requirement

New York. Nov. 1S-A dispatch to the
Tribune from Washington says: The first
Of the thirty-knot torpedo boats built in
the United States and the only one OF that
speed which has as yet undergone official
trial, has finally failed TO reach the re-
quirements, after three attempts the first
two CT them resulting in serious damage
to the vessel. A telegram received from
Lieutenant Commander Franklin ]. Drake
by Secretary Long shows that the Farra-
gut, on her final trial near San Francisco.
on Nov 10, ran 2S. - knots in an hour
lie says that this remarkably high speed
was achieved with no excessive vibration
Of the hull or undue friction of engines
THE vessel ran straightaWay for half an
hour at the rate OF 1874 knots. followed
by q turn, accomplished within fifteen
minutes. and another dash of half an
hour, this time at the rate Of 1913 knots
the average for the whole course being
29.1S. The Union Iron Works of San Fran
cisco. which built the vessel, has appealed
TO Secretary Long TO accept her, declaring
that she easily makes the required speed
OF thirty knots under ordinary conditions
bur was retarded in the official trial ~
rou gh water and heavy winds in the first
hat when the speed fell behind the con-
tract rate The act OF congress of June
10 1896, authorizing this vessel and the
Dah9gren, and the 7. A. NJ Craven now
building at Bath Ne. is novel in thar If
stipulated that the vessels shall make al
least 80 knots. and the contracts call for
that speed and declare that If the vessels
fail to make Il they shall be rejected
to decide that q fourth trial would he
necessary, it being pOWerlesS to waive
the conditions. although the belief was
general among the officers that a differ
ence of Observation-Disclosures of q knot
was imDracticable Of measurement in a
tllrty-hve-mile run.
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ated to political offenders. and to jour
nalists and to authors guilty of offenses
against the press laws of France.
One of the most recent prisoners of
note of Sainte Pelagie was Henri Roche
fort, the editor and owner of the In
transigeant, and among those whose
names NAV still be found on the for
mer registers of this house of deten-
ton are the late Gambetta, Senator
Rane, Villemassant, the founder of
the Figaro: Emile de Girardin, Jules
of marine; Alexander Dumas, the elder
and younger, and, in fact, almost every
star that has appeared on the literary
armament of France during the past
century.
With regard to Mazas, probably the
most famous prisoner who spent any
time within it's walls. was the cele-
brated banker Mires, who practically
ruled the money market in the French
capital during the greater portion of
the reign of Napoleon Ill His mere
touch seemed to convert everything
into gold and he dispensed the latter
with as much recklessness as if his
treasure had been as ineXhaustible as
that OF Monte Cristo.
All doors were thrown open to him.
He was welcamed everywhere with
open arms. was a favored guest both
at the Tuileries and in the exclusive
Faubourg st. German, where one OF
the grandest of the ducal families es-
teemed itself fortunate in being able to
marry one of it's members, Prince AL
phonse de Polignac, to his only daugh-
ter. Suddenly the crash came and
Nires was dragged from his palace in
the Champs Elysees to end his days
behind the bars of the Mazas prison,
convicted OF frauds of the most col
ossal description. His widow died only
year ago.
ST Iazare, now dismantled, was for
a couple of centuries the prison not
only for the fallen women guilty of in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-19
BANKERS WILL BE ARRESTED.
Refused to Appear In the Proceed
ings Against Quay.

Philadelphia, Nov. 1S.-Judge Gordon,
in the quarter sessions court today, is
sued attachments for the arrest for
contempt of court of William Mont
gornery, cashier Of the Allegheny Ma
tional bank of Pittsburg and Steven B.
stone, cashier of the Beaver Deposit
bank of Beaver, Penn. Montgomery
and Stone We're subpoenaed TO appear
before the grand jury yesterday to
testify in the case of Commonwealth
against United States Senator Quay,
his son Richard r. Quay and ex-State
Treasurer Haywood, who are charged
with conspiracy in the misuse of state
funds. The sUbpoenaes commanded the
respondents to produce certain books
Of their respective banks before the
grand jury but they failed to appear.
Affldavits made by Montgomery and
Stone were read. in which the conten-
ton was made that they had no right,
without the consent OF the depositors,
TO expose their accounts, and they
stated that they had refused to obey
the subpoenaes, as they had been ad-
vised that they had no authority or
right to remove the books or papers of
the bank from those institutions
Mr. Montgomery, in his affidavit said
he had been subpoenaed to bring with
him deposit slips, tickets, ETC., of NJ. S.
Quay and r. R. Quay for May, July
and August, 1886, and April, 1883.
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PRIESTS OF DEMETER.
One Thousand Changers Elevated to
This Degree.

Concord, N. H, Nov. 1S.-At today's
session of the National Grange, reso-
lutions We're introduced and referred
relative to the action of the grange in
Oklahoma in prohibiting the utterance
of political opinion by state and ma
tional grange officers, and expressing
the opinion that such officers, when
nominated for public offices, should
resign their grange positions.
The climax of the great national
grange meetings in this city was reach
ed this evening, when more than /, 900
patrons of husbandry We're advanced to
the highest body of Grandom, the
seventh degree of priests of Demeter
The members Of this great class, one
of the largest in the history of the
grange, came from every section of the
country. Tomorrow the White Noun
tain excursion win give the grangers a
holiday.
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-1s-1En-<>--
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

There has been a rapid decline in
Hawaiian Commercial stock the shares
falling from $3.50 to SAC. The stock sold
at $50 a week ago.
The United States battleship Wisconsin
will be launched at San Francisco on
Saturday, Nov 26 and will be christened
by Miss Elizabeth Stephenson, daughter
of Isaac Stephenson of Marinette, Wis.
The unknown man who recently at
tempted TO kill Turkish Consul Hall at
San Francisco by means of explosives
sent by mail forwarded no less than six
packages of dynamite and Illuminating
caps from Butte Mont
j. A. Brandreth, who claimed to be a
nephew of the millionaire pill-maller of
that name was found dead in his cell at
the county Jail, at Fresno, Cal, having
been arrested on charge of vagrancy
Alcoholism is supposed TO have caused
his death. He was a graduate of Yale
college and had Travelled all over the
world
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-19
Pacific EXPRESS SHORTAGE
FORMER AUDITOR ON TRIAL
FOR EMBEzZLEMENT.
One of Bechel's Clerks Tells How He
Forced" the Balanc ss-Irreg ulari-
ties Went On For Years.


Omaha, Neb.. Nov. 1S.-Fred Bechel,
who for eighteen years was chief audi
tor Of the Pacific Express company, has
been placed on trial for embezzling the
funds OF that company. Erastus Young,
auditor OF the Union Pacific railroad,
who succeeded Bechel long enough to
make an investigation, which, he al
leges, developed that about Sl50,O00 of
the com9any's funds had been squan-
dered, furnishes the evidence for the
prosecution.
The first witness to testify was one
of the clerks under Bechel He testified
to forcing balances frequently, one time
adding $4,000 to make the books bal
ance. Re said he did this under in
structions from the assistant auditor,
and understood this money was used
for legislative purposes at Lincoln.
These Irregularities had been going on
for zen years, he said.
The case viii continue a week.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-19
SPANS ARMY MUTINOUS.
Discomfort of Troops Alarms the Gov
eminent


London, Nov 1S.-The Madrid cor
respondent of the Standard, whose dis
patch is forwarded from the Spanish
frontier, says: The state of the army
causes anxiety in political and official
circles. IT is an oDen secret that Off
GERS of all ranks and the repatriated
soldiers are discontinued; Airst, at the
non-Dayment Of arrears, and then be-
cause they are profoundly mortified at
the manner in which the war was con-
Quoted, which prevented the army from
getting much-desired opportunity Of
coping with the Americans, as they be-
lieved the army would have turned the
tide in Spain's favor.
Thus FAR the Republicans have not
attempted to tamDer with the loyalty
of the army, but the Carlists are posi-
lively trying TO do so in Catalonia and
Valencia. They announce the imDend-
ing publication of a manifesto chiefly
addressed to the artillery, declaring
that Don Carlos no longer considers
himself bound to show any considera-
ton for the present dynasty and gov
eminent whose shortcomings and
errors have involved the loss of both
territory and honor
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-19
OPERA SINGERS STRANDED.
International Company Is Unable to
Make Expenses.

Kansas City, Nov. 1S.-The Interna-
tional Grand Opera company, composed
of seventy people, including some of the
best-known SINGERS of this county, as
we'll as some of European fame, is
stranded here. The company is playing
an engagement at the Coates opera
house, and will, according to aSfgnor
Romualdo Sa9io, its financial hacker
and musical conductor, disband on Sat
urday night unless the houses for the
remainder of the engagement improve
or outside aid is received. One of the
company has gone to Chicago in an en-
deavor to raise funds.
The cast includes Madame Clemen-
tine de We're Sapio and Madame Selma
Kronold. Signors Augusta Dado, Vir-
gilio Bellati and Francesca Collonz. The
company was booked to appear at Oma-
ha and several Pacific coast cities
Late tonight it was announced that
Paxton & Burgess, the Omaha theat-
ricaE managers, had made arrange
ments to take the company to Omaha
at the expiration of their engagement
here.
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PREVENTION OF YELLOW FEVER.
Quarantine Convention Favors Ma
tionaI Health Bureau

ClOna1 aGalBh bureau.
Memphis, Tenn, Nov 1S-The ma
tional quarantine convention reassem-
bled today, with a large attendance. 1t
was ordered that the executive COM
mittee be instructed to perfect a per-
manent organization.
The annexation of Cuba and the
adoption of modern sanitary regula-
tons there for the purpose of eradi-
eating the disease was the solution Of
fered by Dr. W., S. Robbins of Vicks-
burg, Miss, in a paper read to the
convention. He advocated giving the
whole matter of cleaning up things in
Cuba to the United States hospital ser
vice If the fever is eradicated in Cuba
it will solve the problem for this coun-
try, he commended.
The committee on resolutions report
ed the following:
Resolved, That there be established
a national bureau of public health in
the department of the treasury of the
United States; that the administration
of all the public health functions now
exercised by authority of the United
States be placed in charge of this bu-
reau; that the sanitary authorities and
commercial interests Of the several
states of the Union be brought into i'm
mediate relation with the bureau, and
be given a due share in the power and
responsibilities of the control board
through the agency of an advisory
council, consisting of one member from
each state, to be appointed by the au-
thoritieS of the several states
After much discussion and parliament
taTy tangle the resolutions were adopt
ed by an overwhelming majority
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Formerly U. S. Senator.
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