The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-07

Foreign News in Brief
PARIS, MAY 5.-King Edward who Is
at present in this city. incosnlto, eiudeu
the reporters last night and attended a
music hall performance. The turns
were OF the usual Partisan variety.
HoNGKONG, May 6.-As result OF
| the prohibition OF the Importation OF
opium Into America. a macao firm has
| failed. The government has seized the
! factory and will conduct the monopoly
! Itself.
| MONTE CARLO. May 6.-M. Eorsin-
/ ctti. the military governor ol Monaco,
| died today. Hc was commandant OF the
| Cherche Midjr prison AT the time OF The
I incarceration of Major Dreyfus, but lost
| that position because he gave testimony
favorable 10 Dreyfus,
GUAYAQUlL, Ecuador. May Our
ing April seventy-scven now cases o!
bubonic plague were reported in this city
with twenty three deaths. During the
same period there were scvcnty-tive new
cases OF yellow fever. OF which seventy
two were fatal.
y
Holdsworth Rawson, governor of New
South Wales. granted an audience
with the emperor today. HG was pre-
sentcd at the palace by Sir Claude Max
well Macdonald. the British ambassador
TO Japan.
PANAMA, May 6.--The situation in
Central America appears to bc getting
from the news that comes slowly into
Panama. Travellers say Nicaragua, I'm
spite of the vigilance Of the American
wGrShips, is trying TO invade salvador
by way of Honduras.
MESSINA, Sicily. MAY 6.-Lieutenant
Commander X. r. Bclknap. the American
naval altache AT Rome. has turned over
houses TO bc used to shelter sufferers
from the earthquake OF last December
The attachc expects that 900 houses
will be completed by June Z.
CALCUTTA. May 6.-Sentences were
handed down in the court OF Alipur in
the cases OF the thirty-dve natives who
were arrested here last summer charged
spiracy of May 1909 Two were CON
demned to death. ten to transportation
Tor lte. three TO transportation for ten
years, and three TO transportation for
seven years, while seventeen were ac-
quilted,
BUENos .AYREs. May 6.-Buenos
Ayres is still in the grip of the strike
tnaugunted early this week as pro-
test against the action OF tho authorities
IN hIlng upon crowd of demonstrators
ON May day Business is bad. The GUS
TOMS receipts show great falling of
as the result OF the stoppagc of COM
merce, and various navigation companies
are holding their ships In pcgt, as 1t is
impossible 10 load or discharge cargocs
TEH ERAN. May Sit is rumoreh that
the revolutionists are marching on Tehe-
ran. and u squadron OF Persian cossacks
mas been sent To guard an important
bridge at kherraj, thirty miles west of
leneran. The Russian legation has dis
patched an attache 10 meet the revolu
tionists and warn them To desist in their
attempt. as otherwise Russia might be
forced To take action
BEIRUT, May 6.-The situation at
Suadia. where number of Armenians
have been massncred. has been relieved
as a result OF the presence and exertions
OF the captain of the British battleship
andretta who went down the coast on
board the. Triumph, The two officials
visited Caladoran and l<essab and found
these towns indcscribablc charncl houses.
There are more than 1000 helpless and
destitute women In a village on the sea-
coast near kessab
ST. PETERSBURG, NAV 6.-The ont
come OF the Russian ministerial crisis is
now entirely dependent upon the cmpc-
ror, as Premier Stoypin's exhaustive re-
port. based on the cabinet meeting of
May 4, and submitted To The emperor
To-Day, left no doubt I'm the lattcr's mind
taat the cabinet Is unit in favor of
sanctlon!ns the naval bill The premier
mad long audience with the emperor
at Tsarkoe-Selo and while the primary
demand was for the cmperor's approval
OF the bill creating "a general stan for
the navy, the underlying object was 10
force the emperor to dissociate himself
from the hostile campaign OF the reac-
uonaries and the Courtiers close To him
TOXIC, May 7.-Thc program for the
entertainment of Rear Admiral Giles e
iarbers fleet. the third squadron OF the
Pacific fleet, which arrived at Yokohama
May g. completed today and ap-
proved by the municipal officials Un-
usual attention is being given TO the
reception because of the simultaneous
entertainments OF the Japanese training
squadron commanded by Admiral Iiichi
at san francisco and other Pacific coast
ports. The local papers are devoting
great space TO expressions of apprecia-
ton OF the treatment accorded the Jap
anese sailors, and see in the friendlincss
of the two nations thus manifested prom
ising signs for the future OF the Pacific