The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1899-07-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

The Dreyfus courtmartial VIII not
begin It's sittings until August 10th.
The total output for the season in
Klondike is estimated at $40, 100000
The lack Of the usual fall Of rain In
Cuba is delaying the maturing OF the
sugar crop.
The war department has chartered
the steamer Siam to carry 300 cavalry
horses to Manila.
There Ia no confirmation OF the re-
port that Chief Justice Chambers OF
Samoa will resign.
The volksraOd at Pretoria, in secret
session. has adopted the seven years
franchise proposition.
Christian A. Geoffrion. member OF
the Canadian cabinet and a distin-
guished lawyer, is dead.
News OF the Arctic whaling feet is
that so far II has been bad year, AS
very few whales have been seen.
The Federal government has sent
agents to several points In Texas TO
secure horses for service In Cuba.
Tremendous storms have destroyed
bridges and Frustrated telegraph wires
In Chile, interrupting communication.
The new tug Fearless, recently
built for the Speckels brothers, San
Francisco, has been chartered by the
government
Abe Rothschild, "a notorious diamond
thief and crook, has been sentenced to
ervo three years In the Texas peniten-
tary for forgery.
United States Consul Jenkins has
cabled the state department that San
Salvador is In a state OF siege as re-
suit OF revolutionary plotting.
The past week closed the period OF
two years prescribed by the Ding
ley tariff law within which recipros-
ity treaties may be negotiated.
An English syndicate has paid s2i5,-
900 for the Iowa aud Yellow jacket
groups In Boise Basin, Idaho. They
Join the famous Gold Hin group.
Governor Bradley OF Kentucky has
declined to call a special session OF the
legislature or send troops to Clay
county where feudal war is in pro-
Rress.
The Mark Lane Express says that
the British wheat promises full aver
age yield, and barley an average, aud
that the oat crop Is distinctly de-
Acient.
A reciprocity treaty, under the pro-
visions Of the Dingley law. has been
negotiated between Portugal and the
United States, and went into effect
the goth inst
Americans built the first street rail-
way constructed In Korea. IL Is an
overhead electric trolley road, six
miles In length, and runs through
Seoul, the capital.
The Argentine minister OF finance
proposes TO reduce the taxes on for
eiRn Insurance companies from 10 to 5
per cent, raising those on Argentine
corporations from to per cent
From John Sherman's closest friend
and former law partner, Henry G.
Hedges. II is learned that the venera-
BILE statesman Is improving slowly from
his recent illness and hopes to be about
again soon.
The triple murder OF an American
named Ward and two japanese women
at Yokohama, the supposed cause be-
ing Jealousy, brings an American sailor
named Miller under the Japanese law
AS the suspected murderer.
The agricultural departments for
elgn crop report for July states that
commercial authorities estimate the
shortage In the Russian wheat crop at
from $4,000, 900 to l2O,OO0,O0O bushels,
as compared with last year.
The United States district attorney
at Jacksonville, Fla, has been warned
from Washington 10 beware OF dlli-
clustering expeditions from the Flori-
da coast to Honduras, Nicaragua and
other Central American countries.
The removal OF tresspassers-
settlers-from the Leech Lake Indian
reservation, has been postponed until
August 20, by order OF Assistant Sec
rotary OF the Interior Hitchcock.
The settlers are vigorously opposing
removal.
st. Vincent, Cape Verde islands, re-
ports the Italian steamer Centre
America from Montevideo June 80, for
Genoa with geo passengers, has been
towed there for distance OF 800 miles,
having been disabled by the loss of her
propeller.
Work has begun on the construction
Of passage from the cell OF Capt,
Dreyfus to the hall In which the court
martial before which he is to be tried
I will sit This will enable the prisoner