The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1901-06-07
NEWS SUMMARY.

In cape Colony, near Colesberg,
Beers are reported to have captured
500 horses
Havana merchants seen confident
that the United States will make
reciprocity treaty with Cuba.
The Chilean Government has granted
an exequatur TO Robert L. Mansfield,
the new American Consul at lquiguc.
The prosecution against d. NJ. Car
man. Senior Carraiza and others, ac-
cused Of trading with the insurgents,
has heen abandoned.
Arbuclle Bros. have reduced tho
price on all grades Of refined sugar Is
points The American Sugar Refining
company made no changes.
As result Of the advices from the
Marseilles police, two anarchists have
been arrested In Madrid, one Spani-
ard and the other an Italian.
The London Daily Mail says that
King Edward has decided to reduce his
ecclesiastical establishment from
thirty-six paid chaplains to twelve.
The resignation is guzetted OF tho
Marquis OF Ilcadfort as a Lieutenant
In the First Life guards presumably
because no married Rosy Roote, the
actress.
The international Miners conference
In session la London, IL attended by
many continental delegates, passed n
resolution In favor OF a universal eight
hour day.
The balances from the French banks
Indicate that the Russian loan was
ovcrsubscrbcd ten times. English
critics predict another Russian loan
within six months.
Postmaster Lowry and son Of Carter,
washita county. okla. were shot and
killed by a man named Fowler last
Thursday The shooting was the re-
suit OF an old fcud.
Eight hundred Porto Ricnns were
embarked ON board the steamship Colon
at Port Los Angeles sunday morning.
They are destined to work ON the sugar
plantations Of Hawaii.
The monument erected by the State
Of South Carolina on the battlefield Of
Chicl,amauga was dedicated last week.
Gov, McSweeney OF South Carolina
made an eloquent speech.
NJ. A. Hanna & Co. have secured OPP
lions on almost the entire Massillion
| (o.) coal district. The output OF the
properties included In the deal
amounts to over 100000 tons per
year.
Rear-Admiral Remy was recently au-
thorized to enlist 500 Filipinos, and
Commander Tilley OF the Tutuila naval
station reports that he has enlisted
sixty natives OF Tutuila for service as
policemen.
In Philadelphia the end OF the frst
week OF the machinists' strike shows
that sixty.seven firms have agreed TO
the nine-hour workday, with eompensa
ton for ten hours. Two thousand men
are still out
The treasury statement OF the bal
onees in the general fund, June /, ex-
elusive of the $3.50, 900, 900 gold reserve
In the division OF redemption, shows;
Available cash balance, sl63, 765. 500;
gold, so3,oi0, i4O.
The progress OF the bubonic plague
in Hongkong, is becoming serious. The
death rate is over thirty daily. The
epidemic is the worst known since
1895. The colony requires drastic
sanitary legislation.
Negotiations have been In progress
for some time for the abrogation Of
two treaties between the United States
and Tunis The negotiations are based
upon the fact that Tunis is now n
dependency OF France.
] The state department has been
advised that the German Government
regards the present time as opportune
for tho withdrawal OF Field Marshal
Won waldersee, commander OF the
international forces In China.
Fifteen years ago whole cargoes OF
Bosnian pruues were shipped to New
York. This export now not only has
been rsddced to almost nothing, but
California prunes actually compete
with the Bosnian product in Europe.
II has been ascertained that the two
anarchists, one n Spaniard and the
other an Italian, who were arrested in
Madrid ON suspicion OF being impli-
Gated In regeide plot, arrived there
as steorage passengers from America,
May II.
The negotiations OF the Vickers
Sons & Maxim company OF England,
for the purchase OF the Bethlehem
Steel company, have been abandoned,
and according to one OF the New
York bankers interested will never be
resumed.
John ID. Rockefeller has placed nt