Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-02

is dead az his hole IN New YORK city
The 81. Louis. Mo-. Poultry and pc
stock show opened yesterday afternoon
with the largest number Of entries OF
record.
II developed yesterday that the Hiber.
| mans Of Toledo have seven thousand
stands Of arms ready for use In cas-,
trouble breaks out In Canada.
1t Is said that John Churchill younger
brother OF Winston Churchill, will ac
company the duke OF Marlborough tC
the seat Of war
The entire production OF the print
cloth mills Of FAN River Mass, for the
year Just ended was 100000 pieces
with sales fully equal TO that amount.
Prominent citizens Of Vapcouver have
decided 70 raise a corps Of one hundred
mounted infantry, providing horses and
defraylng all expenses 10 South Africa.
II IL rumored at Frere camp that the
guns which were captured from Gen.
Butler at Colenso have been mounted In
the hills commanding the drift Of the
Tugela river at Springfield.
Edwin Ray Snow, who murdered
James T. Whlttemore at Yarmouth,
Mass, last october, pleaded guilty yes
terday, and was sentenced TO be exc
'uted March 18th,
Journeymen printers Of ST. Joseph,
Mo. who threatened to strike, have Sc
cured an advance Of 20 per cent in
wages and nine hours instead of ten
as a days work.
Members Of the executive committee
OF the national antitrust conference,
10 be held in Central Music hall. Chi
cago, February LIST, held a short con-
ference yesterday.
Both houses Of the Kentucky leglsla-
ture Will be organized with the Goebel-
ties IN control. At the caucus there
were charges Of bribery against j. II.
Whallen, an anti-Goebel leader.
In Greensboro, n. c., fire last night
caused losses aggregating nearly $780,
OOO partly covered by insurance. The
heaviest losers are w J. Clary and
Hague-McCorkle Dry Goods company.
Fire last night totally destroyed the
Isham building at Elizabeth, n. j.,
causing a loss OF S75. 600. The lower
floor was occupied by five stores and
the upper stories We're used as offices
and a lodgeroom.
In Kansas City Mo, the Western
Philosophical society was organized at
a meeting attended by scholars who
hold chairs Of philosophy, ethics or
other branches in the universities OF
four western States.
The first instance OF a refusal on the
part of a steamship company to de.
port immigrants found by the United
states immigration bureau TO be con-
tract laborers occurred in Galveston,
Tex, yesterday.
Lord Wolseley. replying to a CORE
spondent who had asked for informa-
ton regarding the British artillery,
wrote our field artillery Is at least
as good as any field artillery In
Europe"
The clothing Of two children, one an
infant, of j. c. Blackburn. residing at
l4l1 Olive street st. Joseph, No. caught
fire from a crate and the infant was
fatally burned. The mother and other
child were severely burned in extin-
gushing the flames.
Frank Sheppard Of the American
variety team Of Wood and Sheppard.
died Sunday night in London. from
pneumonia. He had been preparing to
return to the United states after a
two years visit to Europe.
IL Is currently reported that the
speech Of King Carlos I'm the Portugal
Cortes today will refer at some length
to the situation in South Africa. but II
is doubtful whether anything will be
said any more friendly to England than
to the Transvaal.
A British firm, according to the Lon.
don Daily News, after keen competition
with several American firms. has Sc
cured the government contract for the
new sevenspan bridge over the Tugea
river at Colenso. The firm is working
night and day TO complete the order.
Under the new currency laws, which
went into force throughout Austria
hungary yesterday, the form and
NiNHNri uiSdIltdI' ne new unit Is
the krone, equalling half a kreuzer.
After the introduction OF the gold
standard the krone will be worth one
frame five centimes.
As a result Of three DAYS conven.
lion OF the Canadian Manufacturing as
ISOLATION al Stratford, Ontario. a com
nittee Of furniture manufacturers. To
be known as the Brltish-American
Furniture Manufacturing association.
has been organized, with a capital OF
100000
Gen. Buffers difficulties have been
increased by the en-
'orced delay since the last engagement.
lie now has before him a series Of |
vailed and fortified hills. running six |
zen miles along the line Of the Tugela. |
These are swarming with the enemy. |
'osied In positions Of great strength |
md brlstling with guns
EX-Congressman L. y. Osborne died /
n Washington last night. He was a
'eteran OF the Civil war and al ito
lose was appointed judge advocate TO
charges Of cruelty 10 Fed
raj prisoners brought against Cant.
Virtz, Confederate superintendent Of
he Andersonyllle prison, the result OF
'hich was the hanging Of Wrtz.