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

i-Elihu Root OF New York became
United States secretary OF war.
2-Sevcnteen months drouth broken
by copious rains at 81. George. Utah.
Chief Justice Chambers OF Samoa vls-
tied salt Lake City.
3-Engineer and fireman killed In
Rio Crande Western railway wreck co
miles east OF Price. Utah.
Floods In Emery county. Utah. stop
railway traffic.
Storm along the coast OF tho Gulf
OF Mexico does great damage.
t-Ileavy rainstorm In Salt Lake city.
u. NJ. East. aeronaut. OF salt Lake
City. drowned In Lceeh Lake, MINI.
5-Joseph Hogan. Jr., OF Bountiful.
Davis county. ON mission to the Meth
erlands, drowned while bathing In the
river Rhine.
six hundred lives lost by typhoon
ON the coast OF Japan.
G-Thirty-six persons killed and many
Injured by an electric car going over
n trcstlc at Bridgeport. Conn.
Seventeen people drowned by the col
lapse OF gang plank at ferry ut Bar
liarbor. Maine.
New trial In the Dreyfus case be-
gan ut Rennes, France.
S-ScrBeant John Jackson shot and
killed at Fort Douglas. Utah. by Prl-
vate VIM. ii. Carter In an exciting
chase. Carter was shot while attempt
ms 10 escape,
g-Many lives lost ESTIMATED 1000
and vast amount OF property des-
troyed by n hurricane In Porto Rico.
li-Gov. Wells OF Utah proclaims Sat
urday, Aug. 10. n day OF thanksgiving
and rejoicing. on the occasion of the
arrival In the State, f'om the Philip
pines. OF the Utah light artillery.
Body OF Simeon Alvord. supposed TO
have been murdered by Il travelling COM
panlon &c years previously. found near
Meadow, Utah.
ii-Attempt at Rennes. France, to
Kill NJ. Labori. counsel for Captain
Drcyfus.
British Transvaai dispute assumes
an alarming phase. the Transvaal gov
crnment having failed to yield TO the
demands OF Great Britain.
Lilly Iangtry, the actress. married
20 Nugo de Battle, son OF an English
baron.
Lake city. attacked polygnmy. Con-
greEsman 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.
Wollman Polar expedition arrived at
Tromsoe, Norway. from an exploration
OF Franz Josephlnnd.
lS-Cup challenger Shamrock, Sir
Thomas Lipton's yacht. arrived at 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,
i9-utah volunteer Hight artillery ar
rived IN Salt Lake city and received
an enthusiastic welcome.
Incorporation o. q company TO build
an electric railway between Bingham
Canyon and Salt Lake City.
20-Eldcr Thomna Bell of Glenwood
Utah. ON u mission to the Southern
States, died nj Bcrselia, Ca, OF heart
failure, he had been III with fever.
Riots In Paris, France. $50 persons
| injured.
Elder Eohraim Jcnsou. Mormon
| missionary, addressed u meeting on the
| Common, Boston Mans,
23-Frcinccr Killed and fireman hur.
| In a coll ion on I've Rio Ora ide Westerr
| railway, at Nolan, Price Canyon
| Utah.
2t-Veterans OF the Blackhawk Indian
war held reunion ut Provo Lake re-
| sort. Utah.