The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1899-01-11
NEWS SUMMARY.

The trade of Santiago is already
showing a surprising growth under
American administration.
A Porto Rican census is being taken.
II has begun In San Juan and IL will
be made to cover the whole island.
The import of precious stones at the
port of New York the past year were:
Cut stones, ss,o34 ,616; uncut, 81, 900, o9a.
OF the paper issued by two banks in
Porto Rico there is outstanding little
over 81, 900, 900. All the paper will be
retired.
Advices from La Paz, capital Of Boz
livia, say that a combat Is imminent
between the revolutionists and the
government troops.
Reports received from the interior of
the island OF Cuba indicate the will
ingness Of the insurgents TO disband II
left to themselves.
Prince Victor Napoleon, now In
Brussels, Is represented as preparing
assiduously for n coupe, which he is
fully resolved TO execute.
General Ludlow is determined 10
form a rural mounted police OF 900 men
and to patrol the suburbs Of Havana
with Cuban soldiers.
The remaining Spanish troops will
be embarked from Matanzas and Glen
fuegos within a fortnight, and then
Gomez will come TO Havana.
The German government first hopes
TO reach a commercial provisorium with
the United States before a regular
reciprocity treaty is concluded.
Aguinaldo holds as prisoners 1000
Spanish troops, including two gener-
ais, forty staff officers and 400 superior
officers. He has 1000 civilians.
General Brooke has declined pro-
posal to send n special convoy into the
woods to find Gomez and treat with
him as an equal power in the island.
According to Chinese report, a secret
treaty exists between Great Britain
and the United States to prevent any
further alienation of Chinese territory.
A statement of the coinage OF the
United States mint at Philadelphia for
the year 1898 shows that the output
for the year just ended was the largest
since 1890.
In San Francisco CAL, United States
Circuit Judge Morrow has decided that
the stamp tax on telegraph messages
must be paid by the sender and not by
the company.
The payment of troops Is putting
American money in circulation in Ha-
vana, but the complaint Is made that
small change is lacking in all business
transactions.
1t Is announced that the Kynock
company of Birmingham has COM
menced making 10000, 900 cartridges
for the United States at the rate OF one
million weekly.
An American syndicate has obtained
the right to build road in Eucador con-
Meeting the seacoast belt with the rich
interior, heretofore almost cut off from
the outside world.
By an explosion of gasoline the hard.
ware store of Kiel & Son, Pemperville,
o., was badly wrecked and Augustus
KEEL, the junior partner, SO badly in
jured that he died in an hour.
Two bills have been introduced In
the house of the Ncrth Carolina legis-
lature requiring all railroads in the
state to operate separate coaches for
white and colored passengers.
Colonel Biddle says there were Is, 900
Spaniards and 400 Americans in Man
tanzas when the American flag was
raised. There are now 1900 Ameri-
cans there ana everything is quiet.
Charles A. Brewer, ex-postmaster OF
Paulding, o., shot and killed his wife,
after which he placed the revolver to
his own head and blew his brains out.
Domestic incompatibility was the
cause OF the shooting.
General Polavieja, former governor
general of Cuba and the Philippine
islands, and Senior Silvola, the con-
sentative leader, have agreed upon the
formation Of new cabinet and have
been summoned by the queen regent
Bruno Puhan, who murdered Mrs
Nellie Aralin, but escaped the gallows
because the jury did not believe him
mentally bright, has acknowledged in
the Joliet penitentiary that he simply
slammed insanity at the time of his
trial.
Paul Brooks, a member of the bank
ing firm of Brooks & Co., at Santiago,
and late United States Consul at
Guam tanamo, died in Rutland, VT, OF
pneumonia in his sixtieth year. His
wife died week ago Of the same dis
ease.
The Great Western Distillery, de
stroyed by lighting last June, has been
remodeled and enlarged and has re-
sumed with capacity OF $4,000 bush
els of corn daily, which means an out
put of 10000 gallons Of alchohol every
day.
The order requiring all customs col
lections ON the island TO be sent to
Hayana is felt TO be absolutely neces-
sary, the interest OF good government
requiring that there should be but one
responsible head to the customs SER
vice in Cuba.