The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-18
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

Joseph Jefferson, the actor. was report
ed slightly improved last night.
Fire at Portsmouth, O., destroyed Dice's
livery stable, Farmers hotel, Frick s
Touring mill and residence. Loss, $75, 010
partly insured.
About seventy-five delegates are partici-
pating in the fifty-Second annual eonVen-
ton of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra
ternity, at Detroit.
The directors Of the National Lead com
pany have declared regular quarterly
dividend on the preferred stock Of ~ per
cent, payable Dec. -.
Showalter and Janowsky signed articles
Tor their match Tor seven games up at the
Manhattan club, New York. Play will
begin today at 1870 p. m.
The Arizona capitol site committee
adopted plans for a new capitol building
to cost S103. 600. Bids for construction will
be advertised for at once.
The seventh annual convention of the
American Republican College League
convened at Indianapolis, with about
twenty college men in attendance.
Prof. Henry Vaningen, the artist. who
has been art instructor at NaSSar college
since its opening in 1865, died suddenly
of angina pectoris at his home in Pough-
keepsie, aged 50 years.
The directors of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship company increased the semi-annual
dividend rate from 1 to IL per cent. Pres
ident c. z. Huntington said that this
action was warranted by the cash hold
ings Of the company, over 81, 100000.
Fifty Of the 361 savings and loan asso-
Citations organized under national and
state charters in this country are repre-
scented in the fourth annual convention
of the interstate league of building and
Joan associations, now in session at St
Louis.
c. w. Schmidt, wholesale liquor deal
er, at Pittsburg. filed his petition in vol
untary bankruptcy in the United States
district court. This in no way affects the
firm Of G. w. Schmidt & Co. The schedule
as filed shows liabilities SSlS. 723; assets,
1896, Az
in Brown, Rock and Dixon counties
Nebraska, thousands of acres have been
swept by prairie fires and much grain
many barns and several houses destroyed.
In Gregory, Todd and Trip counties
South dakota, the range is on fire and
many cattle are reported lost.
Emil Seidenberg, Joseph Seidenberg and
Adolph Steifel. constituting the firm of
Seidenberg, Steifel & Co., cigar dealers.
New York, fled a petition in bankruptcy.
The liabilities are $30S, S66, and contingent
liabilities 500. 922. No assets are stated
but few of the creditors hold security.
Prof. George /. Osborne. president of
the State Normal school at WarrensbUrg.
No. for twenty-four years past, and once
first vice president of the National Edu-
catfOnal association died at Kansas CITY
in a hospital TO which he had been taken
TO undergo a surgical operation. He was
6S years Of age.
General Wood has temporarily sus-
pended foreclosure proceedings at Santiago
owing TO the fact that the money
sharks have. been trying to .orce the col
lection Of small amounts loaned during
the war He believes the mortgagers
should have reasonable chance to re-
deem.
AT a meeting of the stockholders of the
National Cycle Board of Trade at New
York. il was decided to dissolve the cor
poration. This action is due TO a resoIu-
fion passed by the board of directors at
their meeting held Nov. g. favoring the
dissolution Of the corporation and the
forming Of new organization to ge
lzrowr as the Cycle Manufacturers As
ISOLATION Of America.