The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1899-05-20
NEWS SUMMARY.

The scarcity OF pig irou and OF steel
is getting more pronounced.
The Third Nebraska, Colonel william
j. Bryans old regiment, has been mus
tered out at Augusta, Ga.
Leading German professors express
the belief that the neace conference
will be without practical Importance.
At Bitterfeld eleven persons were
drowned in attempting TO cross the
river Nude. The rains still continue.
More than 700 Cuban stevedores are
out on strike and the work on ships in
Havana harbor is being done by Chi
nese under police guard.
In Rome, although the composition Of
the reconstruction cabinet has not yet
been officially announced, IL Is con.
sidered the ministerial crisis is passed.
@. Il. Littlefield of Rockland, was
nominated by reclamation by the Re-
publicans OF the Second Maine dis
trict, TO succeed the late Nelson Ding.
ley
Three men were seriously and two
probably fatally injured by the ex-
plosion of boiler at the works OF
the New Jersey Iron and Steel com
pany, Trenton.
The iDsurrection in Yemen is gain
Ing ground. The Turkish commander,
Abdullah Pasha, has been forced to
retreat TO Sana, the capital OF the
province of Yemen.
DIR. Clifford Mitchell Of the Chicago
Homeopathic Medical college staff has
discovered that u per cent. OF the per-
sons who committed suicide in 1898 did
SO by drinking carbolic acid.
Secretary Long has received a cable
gram from Admiral Dewey, asking
permission TO keep the cruiser Boston,
on the Asiatic station for short time
The request will be granted.
An extraordinary movement Is on
foot looking to the consolidation OF
Presbyterian congregations In New
York City, some of them among the
!
The London Daily Mail declares that
a group Of American and English liter
airy agents has formed syndicate for
the purpose of controlling the future
productions of Rudyard Kipling.
A cabinet member is authority for
the statement that the president has
practically made up his mind to call
congress together ia extraordinary
session about the Goth of October.
In great Are in the town OF Graue
Humora, province of Dukowina, Aus
tria, 200 buildings, including the prin-
cipal church, the town hall Leid other
public editices and all the school houses
were destroyed.
Major-General Otis has virtually de-
cided against the legality OF claims for
indemnity filed by residents OF
lloilo. whose property was destroyed
during the operations incident to the
capture Of that city on February II.
The Seminole burning and kidnap-
ping cases, in which there are thirty
defendants for kidnapping and after
ward burning ut the stake Lincoln
NcGeisey and Palmer sampson, Semi
mole Indians, are on trial at Musco-
gee.
Representatives of the chief iron
manufacturing houses of Scotland de-
ny that scheme has been submitted
to them by an American syndicate,
headed by Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, to
absorb the iron and steel interests of
Great Britain
At Auburn, New York, the bodies Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Tincknall were
. found in their room. The man was
dead without mark upon him. The
. woman was unconscious, with the side
Of her head battered in and the brain
protruding.
: After confinement OF about six
| years in political prison in the Re-
|. public of Colombia, Archie McCarter,
civil engineer and contractor promi-
. nent in Fort Scott, Kansas, until 1891,
when he left for Yucatan, has just
been liberated
An association of heirs, with George
Mills, manager of the United States
Touring mill, as president, has been
formed in Chicago TO recover an estate
consisting Of sixty acres OF property in
the heart Of New York and Brooklyn,
valued at 5000, 900, 600
BY an understanding arrived at by
the American and Spanish ministers
accredited respectively to Madrid and
Washington, both of whom are now in
Paris, it is arranged that their arrival
In the two capitals shall be as nearly
as possible Simultaneous
The Pacific coast seal herds are to
be reduced without interference by the
government. The treasury depart
ment has Endorsed the movement and
instructions have been issued to Com.
mander Sebree OF the twelfth light
house district on the subject
The good feeling in this country to-
ward France is shown In three distinct
projects for erecting statues in France
during the Paris exposition. The pro-
posed statues are Rochambeau, Wash
ington and Lafayette.
Near Howard City, Mich, Joseph
Harvey killed his wife, his uncle, Rob-
ert Pierson; his grandmother and NOR.