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, us =
Gas, 1876; gold reserve, 1854, 776, 215
At the commencement exercises of
Princeton university. Admiral Dewey was
honored with degree of Ii. D.
1t is stated that f. Benjamin Andrews
of Brown university has received an offer
of the superintendency of the Chicago
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 al p. m. yes
terday amounted to Sl.S09.00
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 thouCE
to be dying. and two other men. named
Thompson and Hunt. are in the hospital
at Newark, n j.; as the result of 'seorch-
The imperial chancellor. Prince Hohen-
lobe. and 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 IL
Fire at Charlotte. Iowa. destroyed K.
p. Golman's hsrdWare store; M. q. Col
Charlotte: ]. Nj. Laughlins drug store
and several other buildings. Loss, $780,,
0C0 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 mut-
der of his mother but he had been slipped
out of town and taken to Kansas City.
measure are already becoming apparent
at San Francisco. The receipts of the in
ternal revenue office on Tuesday being
$26 800. or $4,000 more than the best rec
ord OF any day in the history of the Of
fee.
Willis H. Stacey. a prominent insurance
agent OF LeaVenWorth. and Il member of
the firm of Stacey and Bacon at Kansas
ing fatal wound. The cause is UNI
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 un-
warranted. German ships would be on
hand ct Mapila 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 ins~t in
French shore question, as otherwise the
investment would be precarious.
w. D. Humiston, who gives his address
as 500 East Fifteenth street. Minneapolis.
and who is supposed to be a newspaper
man. attempted suicide at the Palace no
tel. San Francisco. He d-a7t fNn-
ounces oe laudanum but the dose was
such an excessive one that ne ND.a.I.,,
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 PROMISED
to pay an indemnity of 5000 to the heirs
of 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
ment's interests in the sale of the Kansas
Pacific and the delay in foreciosing on
the central and western Pacific roads.