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Show American Fork World By W. K. MM ITU. DTAII NEWS. to the Herald ssys McKinley will not be present at the Jubilee exercises, as he had hoped to be. The Union Pacific has filed articles of incorporation in Utah as a step toward reorganising the system. The state treasury is richer by 92,500. Mrs. Eudora T. Chambers, wife of lion. II. C. Chambers died in San Francisco. Deceased has lieen an invalid for years and the end was not unexpected. Three hundred dollars in rash prises will be offered to wheelmen as an inducement to enter the great bicycle tournament to lie held at Deck's Hot Springs, during Jubilee week. The Oregon Short Line has a force of men at work laying the foundation for the new depot at Farmington. It is to be a structure that will reflect credit on the company. Lynn Dearing aged 13 months, the adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dearing, who live in Sugar House ward. Salt Lake City, swallowed some coir centrated lie and died from the effects. of Hawaii Aiiin-istU- n a lie-lic- with his wife about the amount of yeast necessary to raise a batch of bread. As she persisted in disagreeing with him, liu A Salt Lake man qurreled chastised her. The police justice exacted 920 for the fun, and said next time the raise would lie so great that yeast would be no compurisou. It. B. Adams of Montana passed through Farmington with a carload of buffaloes, which he is taking east to stock a Massachusetts zoological garden. lie will take with him two buffaloes from Antelope island, making ten of those beasts he has on board. They are partially domesticated and seemed to stand the close confinement of the cars very well. Attempted to Kill Ills Duuglilrr. Angeles, July 8. W. 11. Person, formerly employed in the freight department of the Santa Fc railway in tliia city, but lately out of employment, attempted to murder his daughter and then committed suicide. Before the deed, he told the eluld of his plan, and persuaded her that she would lie able to see her mother, who is dead, if she took poison with him. He made her drink carisilic acid and then drank prussic acid himself. He had sent a letter to a friend named Ball, telling of the deed, but the letter wan delivered too late and Mr. Ball hurried to the room of Person to find him gasping tyr his last breath. The girl was taken to the hospital, and although her throat and tongue were burned by the acid, and alie suffered great ngouy, her life wits saved. She told her fattier she did not want to die, but took the rcid bemuse she thought she ought to oey him. IiOH son oi Vance Hillman, the Mamof Thomas and Annie Hillman had lie to death, moth, wu burned been playing with two little friends and daring their absence to dinner he ignited a roman candle from which hli waist caught fire. A lady hearing hit screams rushed out and smothered tb flames. A physician made the little boy comfortable, and gave hopes of hii recovery, but he died about thirty hours after the accident. J. C. Thoreson,of llyrum.Cache has had more business with county, the stale land board than almost any man in the state. He lately filed forty-seveapplications to purchase school e lands In Cache county, amended others and withdrew thirty-ninThese, together with forty-threfiled by him in 1890. makes a total oi 149 cases before the stale board, lie also filed six affidavits proving occupancy uf these lands before the United (States survey, and his amendments covered the same ground. All of these lands were occupied prior to 1890. The Unit In Detroit, Mich., July e 9si.ii-J7.25- . l i!. V. X. 7. tniu, aged 47; Mrs. Wowalski of Portland, Mich.; Miss Catherine Orr, age-90; Mrs. Weber, aged 04; (1. B. Birth 1 whistle, aged 00; Patrick Cummings, aged 01. The other three were young children. SWl.-708.3- luevr Evidence. Raneevert. W. Vtv., July d I 7. Some time ago the wife of E. S. Sliue wu found dead in her home. A coroner'! jury rendered a verdict of death from heart disease. Xeightnirs were not satisfied, however, and the lsvly was r. limned, an. I her neck found to lie broken. Mute wus indicted, convicted and sentenced to the for life. The principal direct witness was that of Mine's mother-in-lawho testified tint her daughter's spirit had cmin- to her at a s, a nee and said Mi ue li.nl killed her by her neck. All other evidence was purely circum- hr.-ukin- stantial. B8ACHUSETT Ihs Uwaioerstl SILVERITE9. State (uiuniltt Is Pjstmi, July 7. The free silver Democrats are now in full possession of the state committee. Chairman Coughlin, elected as a compromise, having given 12 of the 15 places on the executive nninittee to silver men. The chairman uf the committee is IloWrt Treat 1aine, Jr,, a millionaire Bryan man. This action of the chairman, according to Matthews, head of the gold faction, will force his people to act independently and to make no more efforts to control the committee's Action, He admits that a large majority of tiie party now favor silver. In the state, the Williams men have been very active and are sure of controlling the next convention, which will in all probability, nominate Williams for governor and endorse the Chicago platform and Bryan for 1900. Williams and others engaged in the propaganda say tlie party was never Wtter organized, and that there is everywhere a strung increase in desire for silver. ex-Vi- - SENSATION. It Wu Provided fur Royalty by Joseph Chamberlain. London, July 0. The secretary of state for the colonies, Sir. Joseph Chamberlain, provided royalty with a new sensation. Wishing to have an overwhelming social show, Mr. Chamberlain took the late Sir Julian Goldschmidt's big house in Uieesdilly, and invited 8,000 guests to a banquet and reception following it, all of w hom apparently accepted, resulting in the greatest crush I.ondou has experienced. About 800 or 900 carriages crowded into the thoroughfare, causing a jam which the police were unable to control. The l'rince and Urinccss of Wales drove down St. James street, but finding tlie way blocked, tlie prince ordered his coachman to return home. J nside the house the crush was terrible. Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain vainly tried to edge their way to tlie foot of tlie stairs in order to receive the Prince and Princess of Wales. Hundreds were unable to get in at all, and the Duke and Duchess of York were (Srrat Destitution Annina Miner. obliged to make their exit by way of Osage City, Kan., July 8. There Is the kitchen and the rear steps. The grest destitution umnng the miners fiasco is the talk of the town, and and their families in this district. many bitter remarks are circulating in Scores subsist entirely upon the pro- society. Thu old tories are delighted at what duct of their gardens and many have no bread to eat with the vegetables they call Mr. Chamberlain's bad breedthey thus obtain, while meat is entire- ing and want of taste, etc., nd predictions are made that the Prince and ly out of the question. The total pay roll of the Carbon lMncess of Wales will never again accompany (the Santa Fc mines) for 150 cept their invitations. men in May', was 9475, and in June PHYSICIANS PUZZLED. 9350, an average per month per man of 92.75. They had no work this month. A Lunatics Dies From an Oxirmtlou Prr. formed by Himself. The average wages earned per man Stockton, Cal., July 6. Thomas for the past year is less thun 910 per Boltz, an inmate of the state hospital month. for the insane, died fretn the effects of as of families heads and many Many an operation performed liy himself in of the boys as are able are now working in western Kansus harvest Helds, the loft of a barn on tlie grounds. He but this only affords temporary relief labored under the delusion that he had and imposes great suffering upon those too much blond, and sharpened a case so employed, us it is almost impossible for a inan who works underground to knife on a brick, made an incision in work in the hot sun as a harvest hand. his groin und took out twenty-tw- o inches of intestine in two pieces 14 A Street Car IV reek. and 8 inches long. He was discovered rittshurg, July 8. Four people were three hours later, having walked a disfatally injured and eighteen or twenty tance of 300 yards unassisted. The others were mure or less injured in a hospital doctors put the man under street car wreck on the Forties street chloroform and performed the operaline of the Consolidated Traction com- tion of sewing together the ends left pany. The wreck occurred on the by him. but peritonitis had set in and Soho liill at the time when the im- the patient was beyond recovery. The mense crowds which attended the fire- physicians say it Is the most remarkaworks display was returning home. An ble case within tlieir knowledge. Atwood street car had gone about half 'urspsper Correspondent Excluded. way down tlie hillAvhen it jumped the track. Closely following it came an Havana, July 7. Tlie exclnsion of open summer car with a trailer behind, American newspaper correspondents closely packed with people. Before the from the Fourth of July celebrations second train co&ld be Btopped, it over which Consul General Lee presided crashed into the derailed car. Hardly at the United States consulate is comhal the first collision happened before mented upon in local Spanish circles. a third car, heavily laden, came down It is also remarked that no Spanish the l.ill ut full speed, and forced its official was invited to be present, and way into the wreck ahead. It was the the guests included no member of second that did most of the dam- tlie conservative party. Spanish age and the scene was indescribable. A Min inter Krfuxex an (lltlre. c Petition for lsrdon. Oakland, Cal., July 6. The PresbyKansas City, July 7. V. C. Bro- terian ministers of Alameda county asa il ugh has left here to present to the sembled at the Golden Gate church to Minnesota board of pardons a formida- install one of their number as pastor, ble petition asking tlie pardon of Cole but after the installation sermon had and Jim Younger, the bandits. The been preached, the minister refused to names of the petitioners which ere t. e the ofiice awaiting him. The now made public for the first time ii .cv. James Hunter, who was to have elude some of the best known men iu .ecome pastor of the church, refused the country. Among them are six lo give a reason for his action. judges of the supreme court of MissouLong Lost Hon Found. ri, United States Senators George G. Phoenix, Ariz., July 0 At Meza City, Vest, Stephen B. Elkins and D. M. SaDr. I. II. II. Hammond of St. Louis bin; Congressmen Cowherd, Dockery, Clark, ltolib, Dearmond and Benton, found liis long lost son, known there all of Missouri; nearly all the present as Harry Creelinan, whom he had not state officers and Richard C. Kerens, seen for eighteen years. The boy, it is said, was stolen by gypsies, at the Republican national committeeman instigation of a rejected lorer of his for MissourL mother. The v Hanger. Insinuation of llail Faith. London. July 7. All the morning London, July 7. It is asserted thns papers comment editorially upon the official in about to lie correspondence h situnew danger in the submitted to congress which includes ation. The statement of the Marquis of Salisbury in the house of lords is re- a dispatch sent by Secretary Sherman garded as extremely grave, and as a to Embassador Hay, dated May 11, for clear intimation of lliu readiness of submission to Lord Salisbury, insinu(Sreat Britain to join in aOtive coercion ating that England lias liccn guilty of uf the sultan. bad faith in carrying out the terms of tlie Paris seal award. Infantry Awheel. Irrnli-lousFever. Whitman, Neb., July 7. After 11 hours of hard work the Twenty-fift- h San Francisco, July 5. The Pacific infantry bicycle corps arrived at this Mail steamer Aenpulso has arrived place at 8:30 in the evening. They from Panama, flying the yellow flag, started at 5:30 from Ellsworth and and is now in quarantine. During the were in llyanuis by noon, a distance yoyuge up the coast four deaths ocof JS tulles. A ntunlier of the men are curred on iaiard, one cabin passenger, sick from drinking alkali wnter on the one steerage passenger and two of tlie road and this lias caused considerable cause the crew, assigned being "perdelay. nicious fever." ur Greco-Turkis- Acrmnrnl London. July 7. Senator E. 0. Wolcott of the United Stutca monetary eoiiiinissioii lias arrived here from Paris, lie spent the day in making for interviews will. arrangements British ottieiuls to be held after the arFirst Electric Hallway In Mexico. rival of the other two memliers of the Cordoba, state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, commission President StevenIS. The steel rails have arrived July son anil General Charles Paine. The here from l'ittsburg, la., for use on senator said it was manifestly improthe electric railway which is being per to discuss the rcailta- of the mis- constructed from Jalaps to this city, a sion, but it is learned that a tentative distance of miles. This will be fifty sgreement has Wen reached with the first electric railway in Mexico and France, the nature and details of which will lie both a freight and passenger line. ire car 'ully guarded. I. A NEW tht Lo-thru- p, , e. State Treasurer Chipiuan has made the following report of the receipt and disbursements of the treasurer's ofiice for the mouth of .Tunc: June collections, SI 1,781. OS; balance on hand ; total, May 31, 1S97, State warrants paid, general fund account, 930,857.82; balance on hand June 30, 1807, 905, 850.51. balances In fund June 30, 1807: State district school fund account, 90.000.35: general fund account, 93J.000.34; state school fund account, 9033.75; state land fund account, 9'.0,15s.07. John Q. Pnckard, one of the sup poscdly richest men of Utah, before the Salt Lake county Wird oi equalization last week ill response to an order from the board for him to appear and show cause why his personal property assessment should not In raised from nothing, as returned by the assessor, to 950,000, a figure fixed by the board as likely to 1c something near the worth of the Hrsonal holdings in this county. The board put him through an inquisition intending to disclose liia wealth; but Packard and shipped the inwas the outset at by claiming that quiries he ia not a resident of Salt Iike county. That being the sworn statement of rarkard. he was permitted to dispart. Mr. Packard is but one of a number of rich men to whom the board of equalization haa sent similar notices. Salt Lake ia increasing its police force to cope with the crowds wlio will flood there for the Jubilee. On the lightest pretense all humnn shapers will be put where they will bother no one until after the exercises are over. IK-Irn- to Rns-dawho was badly prostrated by the heat, is much easier. The list of persona who died in this eity front sunstroke and lieat prostration it swelled to 13. One boy was killed in a runaway mused by fire works and a little girl was fatally burned. Fifteen others were injured The adults who died by fireworks. from the sunstroke are: Conrad Stei- - fifty-nin- apm-are- tlia te A special from Washington Hon. Ilrilavni London. July M. John V, Foster, the United States seal commissioner, has arrived from St. Petersburg, and haa (.aid a visit to United States AmMessrs. Foster and bassador Hay. in pressing the will Hay bchring waling question upon the British government. To a representative of the Associated l'rcss, Mr. Foster said the details of the arrangement arrived at with ltussia co u lil uot lie revculcd ut present, but when disclosed would tie entirely satisfactory. Mr. Foster had no doubt that Japan is equally ready to with the United States in the protection of seals. Mr. Foster said that he was not going toJapun, but lie had conferred with the Japanese minister at Washington and thought an agreement could be reached directly the two governments. Measures to lie agreed upon, however, would is'.iri, but not lie made effective I hud (ireat Britain showed the same willingness as Russia, they might have been applied this Speaking of Hawaii, Mr. Foster said: "We learned the sentiment of llus-siand Franee during our visit to St. Petersburg and Paris. They won't object to annexation, unil regard it a natural anil inevitable. 1 do not grant Britain will object. The European governments inuy not like it, but they are reconciled to it. The annexation of Hawaii would not presage the annexation of Cuba. The cases of the two islands are entirely dissimilar. Hawaii is settled in lurge part by Americana and the United States haa obligations to fulfill there, whereas Cuba is a colony of a foreign UTAH. AMERICAN FORK, . II M FOSTER'S VIEWS. f " A Michigan Vlllsg lint rayed. Manistee Mich., July 5. Lake Ann, a village of nearly 1,000 inhabitants, has been practically desired by fire. Mrs. Masters, aged 80, was burned to death while trying to rescue goods from her dwelling. Jt is feared that others have perished. The property loss is about 9100,000. Matter. London. July 7. The statements of the Washington correspondent of the corDaily Chronicle to the effect that submitted lie to respondence is about to congress regurding the Behring sea matters which will esnse resentment in Great Britain, charging bad faith in carrying out the terms on the award, etc., are discredited here in diplomatic circles. Previous to the celebrations. United States Ambassador Hay gave the Marquis of Salof the isbury a strong presentation of United the case from the standpoint States, but it is added, throughout the entire correspondence there was nothing to offend Great Britain, end there lias been no communication on the Behring Ken ju-bil- subject since the jubilee. It is understood tlie Canadian premier. Sir Wilfred I.anrier.lias conferred with the British goverment on the seal question. Tlie interests of Canada are opposed to restrictions Wing placed on scaling, and as Great Britain ia now cultivating the good will of her celonies, this policy may render ii more difficult for the United States to secure an agreement on the subject. A Young I.dy Ilmira liy Jap. Vancouver, B. C., July 7 Tlie latest mail advices from Honolulu say that Miss Nellie West, an American lady, was severely beaten by two Japaneso marines from the Japanese warship Xauiwa one evening recently, while trying to assist her brother who had been set upon by a number of iuen-o- f of the Japanese navy. Shi was confined to her bed the next morning and unable to appear against hei assailants lu tlie police court, where they were charged with assault and battery. Feeling rims high over tlie matter. A well known business man knocked down three Naniwa sailers on the street tlie following morning in consequence, while American "liluu jackets went hunting for the ringleaders of the Japanese who made the assault One who was pointed out to them as being guilty, was so severely beaten by them that his life depends on the result of a delicate operation. w&rs-ine- A n Hoys Body Crushed Out of Shape. San Francisco, July 7 Bertram Hill, son of Channeey Ilill, a the Los Angeles architect, was the victim of a sensational balloon accident In company with Miss Olney, daughter ol his guardian, he went to Blair's park near Oakland, to witness a hot air balloon ascension by Charles Con lan oi the Acme Athletic club. When he shot into the air, the child clung to one of the guy ropes, and was carried aloft The a'ronaut heard the shouts of the people not to cut loose his parachute and olieyed, not knowing the reason. When a thousand or more feet in the air, he heard the boyt cries and saw a cap come fluttering down. He called nut to his unseen companion to hold on and made every effort to save him, but in vain, for soon the child's body shot by him anc was crushed out of shape when i struck the earth. Kansu Crops Suffer. Kansas City, Mo., July 7 The worst damage suffered by Kansas crops during the past week from hot winds hai been in the southwest from Great Bend west and south. There is a strif of country through Marion and Dickinson counties where the weather hat been unusually dry and hot and core has been damaged and some good an thorities think severe damage has Wen done everywhere west of Marion. Bill taking the state as a whole, the corn crop is still in condition to yield more than last year, with reasonably favorable weather in the next seven weeks. The wheat yield ncarlj everywhere has exceeded expectations. No Attreeiiieut Kmchnl, Washington, July 7. Senator Allison, in charge of the tariff bill, announced shortly liefore the adjournment of tlie senute that as no agreement had Wen reached for a final vote on the tariff bill, he would ask the senate to remain in session at night, at least uni:, the bill was reported from the committee table to the senate. This promises a test of endurance, the opposition to the bill give way. Mr. Allison s statement wan made after another futile effort to have a time fixed for tlie vote. nn-les- s Four Hundred liulisns Crlrhrnte. Fort Duchesne, Utah, July 6. Tin anniversary of the Fourth of July wai suitably and patriotically celebrated here. There wan a largo attendanci of citizonn from distant points on th reservation. At least 400 Indians ol the I intah and Uncompaligre triWi were participants. No auch attend aneeof Indiana at a patriotic celebnr tion was ever known here. Sports oi numerous kinds were indulged in bj soldiera, citizens und Indians. |