The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-16
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

Robert K. Taylor was nominated for
! congress by the Eighteenth Ohio district
/ Republican convention.
Statement of the condition of the treas
ury shows Available cash balance, Is. =
645.195; gold reserve, s164. 49, 15.
At the commencement exercises of
Princeton university. Admiral Dewey was
| honored with degree of LII. D.
1t is stated that f. Benjamin Andrews
of Brown university has received an offer
I of the superintendency of the Chicag go
public schools.
Secretary Alger denied positively that
the government was considering the adj
visibility of making another call for
! volunteer troops.
The total subscription to the new per
cent. government bonds at the San Fran
! cisco First National bank at p. m. yes
terday amounted to $3.50. 900.
| The New Jersey prohibition state con-
vention nominated George Lamonte. of
Bound Brook for governor. The present
nominee was the prohibition candidate for
governor in 1882.
Frank Murphy. aged 10 years. is though
to be dying, and two other men, named
Thompson and Hunt, are in the hospital
at Newark n. J.. as the result of ''scorch-
ing on the streets of that city.
The imperial chancellor, Prince Hohen-
lobe. and a number of ministers and am
bassadors were decorated at Berlin. the
occasion being the tenth anniversary of
the accession to the throne OF Emperor
William II.
Fire at Charlotte. Iowa. destroyed K
p GOlman's Hardware store: NJ G. Col
mans hotel and restaurant; the Bank of
Charlotte; j. Nj. Laughlin'S drug store
and several other buildings. Loss. $780,,
OC0. partly insured.
A mob tried to batter down the doors
of the Clay county jail at Liberty. Mo.
1t is supposed that the men were after
William S. Foley, convicted of the mui-
der of his mother. but he had been slipped
out of town and taken to Kansas City.
The effects of the new war revenue
measure are already becoming apparent
at San Francisco. The receipts of the in
$26. 900. or $4,000 more than the best rec
ord OF any day IN the history of the Of
fee.
Willis H. Stacey. prominent insurance
agent of Leavenworth. and member of
the firm of Stacey and Bacon at Kansas
City, shot himself in the head, produc-
ing a fatal wound The cause is I'M
known. Stacey's business is apparently
in good shape
The state department has been officially
advised that reports that Germany would
make an issue in the Philippines are UNI
warranted. German ships would be on
hand ct Manila to afford protection to
German subjects and property, but Ger
many has not thought of intervention
Advices from Newfoundland states tina,
a British syndicate is buying all lobster
factories on the French shore ar il IS
believed that the company has ms .e in
formation OF pending settlement of the
French shore question, as otherwise the
investment would be precarious.
w. D. Humiston, who gives his address
as 500 East Fifteenth street, MinneaD polls
and who is supposed to be a newsDaper
man. attempted suicide at the Palace no.
tel, San Francisco. He d-a7'S fon-
ounces oe laudanum but the dose was
such an excessive one Jnat ne NC-a.te,a
thus saving his life.
The national association of railway
postal clerks, in session at Omaha.
adopted the report of the COMMITTEES in
favor of the introduction of an Insurance.
branch to the association. 1t is proposed
to pay an indemnity of 5000 to the heirs
of a deceased member and SIS weekly in
demnity to any disabled by accident for a
period not to exceed 81 weeks.
The house committee on Pacific rail-
roads. by a strictly party vote of to 4
killed the Mcguire resolution calling on
the administration for Information as TO
the alleged failure TO protect the govern
nent's interests in the sale of the Kansas
Pacific and the delay in foreciosing on
the central and western Pacific roads.