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

brigham Young Academy al Proyo
Brigham Young College at Logan and
Latter-day Saints College al san
Lake City, recognized as Church schools
by the General Church board bt educa.
ton.
2-Death Of John /. Blair, prominent
as a railway promoter and one OF the
first board of directors Of the Union
Pacific, al BlairstOwn, ~ ].
Lieut.. Col A. A. Brereton, captain
In the Twenty-fourth infantry, former.
ly stationed at Fort Douglas, Utah,
suicided while insane, In the Philip.
pines.
4-Congress met In Washington. Oh.
lection raised to the swearing In Of B.
II. Roberts, represenatlye-elect from
Utah.
Six persons killed and several injured
in a collision on the ID. & r. G. railway
near Salida, Col
Samuel Pulver killed and three others
injured by an explosion In the Dragon
Iron mine. Silver City, Utah,
Many Cape Colony Dutch rise against
Great Britain.
6-Message OF President Mckinley
read in Congress,
House Of Representatives refused 70
permit b. II. Roberts Of Utah to be
sworn as member.
Utah Art Institute opened In salt
Lake City.
Partisan press protests against me
proposed Jeffries- Corbett prize light at
Paris during the exhibition Of 1909
6-Dick Coleman, negro murderer
burned at the stake at Maysylile, KY
Smallpox at Spanish Fork, umh
death OF Apostle Franklin Dewey
Richards. president Of the Twelve
Apostles, died at ogden, Utah.
Oregon Short Line branch railway 10
St. Anthony. Idaho, opened.
b. II. Roberts, congressman'elecI
from Utah, issues an address TO the
American people.
First meeting OF the congressional
committee TO investigate the chaIses
against Congressman-elect b H. hoo'
erts. ~,
S-British win battle outside OF
Ladysmlth, Natal ,,-
Rear guard OF Agulnaldo, the Filipino
insurgent leader defeated, ana zen
Pillar. the commander killed. Aguihai-
do escapes In disguise.
9-Thirty-two men killed by IRE damp
exnlosion in a coal mine at Carbonate
State OF Washington. -, 4.
l0--Sunday school jubilee helu ~
most OF the Latter-day SAINTS suhu"'
schools. ,....,.s
British under Gen. Gatacre deiea'sa
at Stormberg, Cape Colony: - .,
Death OF Prof. George Matthews, ="
the University Of Utah, In California,
ll-Battle Of Msgersfonteln' Orshss
Free State. British army under zen
Methuen defeated In a two days hsls
l2-Funeral OF Apostle f. ID. fcharu'
at ogden, Utah ~. .hs,
Gen. Otis announces from MANIA We.
organized rebellion in northern Lu10"
no longer exists. .s oen.
ls-Earthquake in northern ana cen
trail Utah. - "a osss
Smallpox in Salt Lake City-onf case
Of a mild type. Agitation ior SV'r
pulsory vaccination Of school chliui ,h.
First examination OF witnesses ~ s''
B. III. Roberts case, at Nash'''s'O'
ID. c. -, ,noth
anniversary Of the death OF Ffes'u''
George Washington. prrsr.
l5--Brltish army, under 1el; DO
defeated at Tugela river, NaiaI The
1C-Excitement and depression va
London stock exchange, ...aorsa
Salt Palace In Salt Lake Cl'' " 1'
sold. soovorlng
10 dynamite o. w. Powers ana u, s.,t
Dow, commits suicide IN jail )"
Lake City. c,...,,oss 10
Resolution introduced In Congress ~
recognize the Boer republic as psi.s
erents and condemning some VI
british methods Of warfare. v,,,hv
i5-Death OF Lieut.. 7. II. Bru"yt,,
Admiral Dewey's flag officer 10 wv
battle in Manila bay. ,arA In
Heavy snowstorm does damage !"
Ogden, Utah. latter
Jubilee celebration IN lnaui a,,dins
day Saint Sunday schools 'n1N
Salt Lake county. o.rbollc
1s--George Choules drank ,,is.
acia obtained from drug store W '''
Failure of the Produce ENS lt1,,ss
Trust Company In New io'N'
81, e4s.6 800. -. YORK stock
Excitement III w" - iSs per
market: call money reaches
cent interest. .o,leves the
Secretary Of the treasury rene en oTer
New York money market pg denoslt
of thirty TO forty millions i0'
In various banks. French
= Fighting reported between ordsrs q
and Chinese forces on the O0'S
Tonquin. - c,,v against
Protest In Salt Lake Ci. oynooi chill
compulsory vaccination oil so"O''
dren. ,u,ea nj san
Mateo. Philippines. I'D s,x 9th.
er sf fatally burned in tenement h0'''
fires in New York. -. ,o., down .
Eric scydeman fell ~ fe e.s wv"
shaft al bingham canyon. O'A"'