Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-14
ELECTRIC FLASHES.

The delegates 10 the National Ediio.
rinl association LETT Seattle Yesterday
afternoon FOR Victoria and Vancouver
on the steamer city OF puehIu.
Samuel Kcnnoy ST.. father of United
states senator lteunoy OF Delaware.
dicd suddenly yesterday from mn NJ.
tack Of paralysis at hlH farm near
Laurel. AGED % years
Port Angels. wash fsr1rta the
training chip Adams arrived from 10.
noluiu. The Adams will remain There
several days and Indulge be- target
practice.
Tho now Ecyrcr which recently broke
out before the Fountain hotel In Yrl-
lowstone National park. hnH boon
named Dewey in honor of fHo hero of
Manila bay
Pedro orzar, sixteen yoara old. who
i.h cruiser Nlscuyn, has enlisted in the
United states navy az the brooklyn
navy yard. lie win be- sent to- the train
Ink school at Newport
MAJ. John Calhoun Courtney. prcsi-
dent ~ tho Virginia HoeiCiy OF Atlanta.
secretary OF tho Cuultoi city club and
managor of the Western Union Tolo.
graph company died ut hIH home Doc
Atlanta last night ot the age OF 90.
Mrs. jennie r. lIampaon N sacrt-
monto u at Seattle on route 90 Edmln-
ton 60 search Tor her husband. John
n. Hnmpson, who left Tor rho Klpndikr
last year over the Edmonton route. and
who has not been heard from since.
Mr.. Solomon Thatcher Jr. who mo-
% parllnmentnrian and speaker, was
the acknowledged leader NJ the board
~ lady managers OF the Worlds fair
M|HI la NHhNWHH#4 ~
failure. HupcrInduccd by acute asthma.
She was Do years OF axe.
George Burrh, Frank Priest and
man known as Zion Charlie" were
fishing over the bar M Newport. or,
when 10 heavy sea cnpHlzrd their boat
George liurch was drowned, but tho
other mon were rescued by tho lifs.
saving CROW,
William Going. tho Ch6ctaw muir
dorcr, whose Indian name o. Wnlln To.
nukn, was executed az q o'clock yrstor.
day afternoon ut Alikicm iu tho Chloe.
thW Nation. The ChOgtlw Judge
IGNORED "a writ u Federal Judge
Thomas ot Tulsa.
At j. T.. Morgan & co.'s o0lro Sow
York q Or snl1 that the Mexican bond
Issue has been uyor-HuhuUr'hel Tho
amount DID Tor here o. about f3i. 100000,
the fun allotment Intended Cor dlstrlbu.
tlon ln this country and Holland Tho
books VIII not close before Saturday.
Tho magnificent country residence
Of W. q. whitney ON WhegtIry hills
two miles from WeHtbury. l.. J., was
destroyed by fire about no o'clock last
uIrht. and nt % late hour one OF the
three big barns in which Mr.. whitney
Keeps his thoroughbred. was ON nre.
Loss ON house, 10000.
Itta reported that dovcrnoir pinrrce
nH soon no. the Detroit. Mich, council
finally adopts the municipal railroad
ordinances. VIII bend his energies TO
secure special session ~ the lcriHln-
ture FOR the purpose NJ providing Tor
tho submission uf a. constitutional
m andmont tu the people. permitting
tho city NJ Detroit tu go into tho muni-
cipnl ownership OF street railways.
Hrlgadlcr-Gonoral Russell Farnham
Lord, whose hair sister "a the wife of
ox-prcHldont BENJAMIN Harrison. lr
dead in his home In New York. aged 81
years. He was commissioned brign-
dier-Eoncrnl 81 Pennsylvania yoluu-
teora during tho Civil war. and served
as an organizer of regiments. lie then
went vast aud engaged in mining en-
gincoung.
Work o. being pushed ON tho now
model camp ut the Preside, cal. Tor
tho accommodation OF tho returning
volunteer regiments, particular uttuu-
tlon being given 20 the sanitary arr
rangcmcuts. Every prccautlon viii bc
taken 90 guard against sickness among
the 1900 troops that are expected to be-
In camp on the reservation until they
can be mustered out OF the service.
Tho sale of tho Plcnsnnton stock
farm, one OF the most famous training
quarters In California FOR trottcrs. has
been announced. with itH equipments
u has passed Into the hands OF "a COM
pnny Of English capitalists. headed by
II, II. Anderson and g., n. Charles
Worth. They intend 90 make extern
slye improvements and 10 establish "a
now center for running aa wen ne har-
ness racora.
The Retail Clerks National Protcc-
tive association, IN annual convention
nt Kansas city, Mo-, has voted to nd-
init girls over sixteen years OF age %
membership. Heretofore the age limit
has been eighteen years The conven-
tlon also adopted "a resolution doclnr-
INK that women giving equivalent acr-
Vices should be- given tho same wages
ns men, The convention decided upon
Bunulo, n. Y, ua the next meeting
place.
The Minneapolis MINI, Times OF to-
day, says; Hardwood lumber has adj
vanccd during the past year al an exc
credingly rapid rate and tho price n
now higher than over before IN the his
tory OF tho trade IN this city Previous
higher In 1899 than nt any other time.
This year, however has lcft 1899 FAR In
the shade. ana tho numerous advances
have put the price ut from 20 per cent
TO 90 per cent higher than those OF 1899.
Charles @. Dawes. comptroller Of the