Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23
AUGUST.

1-ElIhu Root Of New York became
United States secretary OF war.
2-Seventeen months drouth broken
by coplous rains at ST. George, Utah.
Chief Justice Chambers of Samoa WIS.,
tied Salt Lake City.
3-Engineer and fireman killed In a
Rio Grande Western railway wreck GO
miles east OF Price, Utah.
Floods in Emery county. Utah, stop
railway traffic.
Storm along the coast Of the Gulf
Of Mexico does great damage.
4-Heayy rainstorm In Salt Lake City.
l.. NJ. East aeronaut OF Salt Lake
City, drowned In Leeeh Lake, MINI.
5-Joseph Hogan, Jr,, Of Bountiful,
Davis county, on a mission to the Meth
erlands, drowned while bathing In the
river Rhine.
Six hundred lives lost by typhoon
on the coast Of Japan.
6-Thirty-siy persons killed and many
Injured BY an electric car going over
a trestle at Bridgeport. Conn.
Seventeen people drowned by the col
lapse OF gang plank at ferry at Bar
Harbor, Maine.
New trial in the Dreyfus case be-
gan at Rennes, France.
S--Sergeant John Jackson shot and
killed at Fort Douglas, Utah, by Pri-
vate VIM. II. Carter In an exciting
chase Carter was shot while attempt
ing 10 escape.
9-Many lives lost ESTIMATED 1000
and a vast amount OF property des-
troyed by hurricane in Porto Rico.
ll-Gov Wells Of Utah proclaims Sat
urday, Aug. ~, day Of thanksgiving
and rejoicing, on the occasion OF the
arrival In the State, from the Philip
pines. Of the Utah light artillery.
Body Of Simeon Alvord, supposed TO
have been murdered by travelling COM
panion &c years previously, found near
Meadow, Utah.
li-Attempt at Rennes, France. TO
kill NJ Labor, counsel for Captain
Dreyfus.
British Transvaal dispute assumes
an alarming phase, the Transvaal gov
eminent having failed to yield 10 the
demands OF Great Britain.
Lilly Langtry, the actress, married
~ Nngo de Battle, son OF an English
baron.
l,-Methodst conference met In Salt
Lake City attacked polygamy, Con-
gresham Roberts. and "MormonIsm."
Six persons drowned In White river,
Indiana, by an accident TO ferry
boat.
President Mckinley issues an order
for recruiting ten regiments OF volun-
teers for service In the Philippines.
Wellman Polar expedition arrived at
Tromsoe, Norway, from an exploration
Of Franz Josephland.
cha lannap CbnunrnaE
Thomas Lipton's yacht, arrived al New
York from Great Britain. to engage In
the race with the Columbia, for the
Americas cup.
Seven men killed and three injured
by boiler explosion at Cardenas, Mex
leo.
twenty-five persons killed by a coal
mine explosion In Glamorganshire
South Wales.
l9-Utah volunteer light artillery ar
rived IN Salt Lake City. and received
an enthusiastic welcome.
Incorporation OF company 10 build
an electric railway between Bingham
Canyon and salt lake City.
20-Eldcr Thomas Bell, OF Glenwood,
Utah. on a mission TO the Southern
States. eied al Berselia, Ca. OF heart
failure; he had been III with fever.
Riots In Paris, France: $50 persons
injured.
Elder EchraIm Jensor. a Mormon"
missionary, addressed a meeting on the
Common. Boston, Mass.
23-Frcineer Killed and fireman hur.
In a coll son on tie Rio Ora lde Western
railway, at Nolan, Price Canyon.
Utah.
24-veterans Of the Blaekhawk Indian
war held reunion AZ Provo Lake re-
sort. Utah.