The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-28
TELFGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

Eighty postofices have been established
in Puerto Rico.
Treasury statement: Available cash
balance. $500, S5S, 1S5; gold reserve. Sil.SS4.-
1t is now recognized that the epidemic
I prevailing at Samarkand Russia, is the
true plague. The mortality is high.
Henry E Waterman, captain of the
United States engineer corps. died at St.
Louis yesterday morning from spinal
meningitis.
silas Packard. the well known educator
and founder of Packard business col
lege. died yesterday at his home in New
York. aged Y years.
Mrs. Richard Cooper, the last surviving
daughter of James Fennimore Cooper. the
novelist. is dead al her home in CoOpers-
town, n. Y, aged l9 years.
J. Z. Green Of San Francisco. repre-
senting the Green estate, has sold Di-
rectum TO w. T.. SpierS of Glen Falls.
n. Y. for $4,000 in gold coin.
Wednesday Emperor William and En-
| press Augusta Victoria visited Caeserea
and the plain of Sharon. Yesterday
morning they started for Jaffa.
A joint session of the United States
and Spanish evacuation commission will
I be held today in the palace of the
colonial government at Havana
! Some of the cannon captured at San
\ tiago are now on their way 10 the United
! States. These pieces will be stored at
| Governors island until disposed of by
! congress.
I
1 of serious trouble with the Indians
/ Alarm is not felt by the Reese River
| farmers and Notwithstanding threats, no
outbreak is expected.
A jury in the federal court at Keokuk,
I Ia, yesterday returned a verdict of 81
damage for the plaintin in the libel suit
! of Tyndale Palmer of New York against
| the OttumWa Courier
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. line steamship
Fuerst Bismarck broke the eastward
trans.Atlantic record between New York
and CherbOurg. her time being days,
10 hours and 10 minutes.
Judge ]. NJ. Hurt, the presiding judge
/ of the Texas court of criminal appeals.
has declined to allow the use of his name
| on the PODulist state ticket for re-elec-
ton to the same position.
About l o'clock yesterday morning an
| earthquake shock passed over Ottawa,
/ Ont II was felt distinctly on Sandy Hill
| and in the vicinity of Gilmour. The dur
! alton was about ten seconds.
! The postOffice department has ordered
| the establishment on Dec. 1. of military
postoffice stations in Cuba, at Baiquiri
Guantanamo. BaracOa. San Luis, Man
zanillo, Gibara and Holguin.
The United States transport steamer
Indiana sailed from San Francisco for
( Manila. having on board the First and
Second battalions of the Kansas regiment
under command of Colonel Funston.
I The owners of the Albany and Empire
/ coal mines in the fourth pool have
/ adopted the Chicago agreement and the
mines We're at once put into operation,
! giving employment to about 200 men,
| In the featherweight contest arranged
/ for 20 rounds at Birmingham, England.
I between J. White of Birmingham and
! Mike Sears of Boston, Mass, the English
man beat the American in y rounds.
J. c. Carlson, an employee of the West
ern WoOdenware company at Tacoma,
! Wash. was caught by belt attached by
band saw and dashed to pieces His
right arm was torn off at the shoulder.
Chief of Police HaagOt of Louisville.
] KY. yesterday received notification that
/ Charles e. Henning who abScOnded from
! the Bank of Louisville with $500 several
weeks ago. had been captured in London.
/ George Lavigne and Tom Tracey, two
/ of the most widely known pugilistS OF
| their class in the world. nave signed
| to box 20 rounds before the National
Athletic club of San Francisco on the
/ night of Nov. 22nd.
! The Speciality Carriage company as
signed with liabilities of S465,900. The as
| sets, exclusive of realty and machinery,
are in excess of this amount The COM
pany claims that its plant has the largest
capacity in the world for turning out
/ buggies.
/ H. Darwin McIlrath and his wife Of
Chicago arrived at New York from
Southampton. Eng. The McIlraths started
/ on wheeling tour around the world on
April 10. 1895, from Chicago. They have
ridden nearly 5000 miles, and viii ride
/ from New York to Chicago.
/ The Victoria Oh. c. Official Gazette
gives notice of the intended construction
/ OF a railway from North Vancouver to
the Lake Atlin gold fields. via Bridge
river and LilliOlet- There is said to be
strong financial backing behind the
scheme and work will be pushed immedi-
ately.
| New New York Herald's correspondent
at Managua sends word that the pro-
| Ylslonal federal government of the
| United States of Central America, COM
| posed of the republics of Nicaragua Sal
vador and Honduras. will be inaugurated
| at Amapla. the provisional capital. on
| Nov. l.
1 company held in San Francisco yesterday,
] the old board of directors was replaced
! by a new set of officials as follows: II. p.
| Baldwin president: j. d. Castle, W. NJ.
] Alexander, Albert Meyer and E. NJ.
/ Walsh. directors. G.. Nj ROlph was ap-
/ Mrs. W. J. Bryan is preparing to go to
| Savannah if the health of Colonel Bryan
] does not improve. Mrs. Bryan said last
night that she would not go for a num-
/ her of days unless there was a change
/ for the worse. A telegram received by the
family late last evening said the colonel
was slightly better
/ Since Oct. l. orders have gone from
Havana 10 Boston for S1.5O0,0G0 worth OF
sugar grinding machinery. Several other
| orders are now pending. large transfer
J of property in ObispO street. just below
mystery. but it IS reported the purchase
/ is for New York department sore.
| The official statement of the sealing
/ industry, for the season just closed. shows.
/ total of but q. sos skins for the fleet OF
/ b SchOOnerS. by far the EghteSt catch
I in many years; also fewer schOoners have
| of course. been employed. The catch is
| divided thus: ASiatic coast 40: British
| Columbia coast, 10,o50. Boring sea, 1870.