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Show NEWS SUMMARY vawvwvsv vwvva GUNS OPEN ON ILOILO. TEMPLE AND TABERNAGIE. The trial revision hill has finally on adopted by the French chamber PART OP DEWEY'S FLEET BEof deputies. GINS DROPPING SHELLS. Great Britain, It Is reported In Lima, . has nfftniil to purchase the Chilean and Argentine warships. General O U 1lea b to Keep the Iniur-geai- e In Manila and Hollo on Central Otis reports that he has the Kun If 1uMibla. mounted several trtNtjM ofcavalay on the little native ponies, with good results. The plague has broken out in southWashington, Feb. 12. Iloilo la now ern honuosa. There have been several being bombarded by a portion of Addeaths in the city of Tainan, where it miral Dewey's fleet unless the natives have surrendered on the demand made is spreading fast by General Miller, who la In command To keep up speedy communication there. between the American outposts and General Otis advised Secretary Alger the base at Manila, General Otis has he bad sent the First Tennessee that purchased 600 horses. to reinforce General Miller infantry President Alonzo, during the recent and the commanding officer of that siege of La laz, llolivia, the nominal organization carried instructions to capital, shot five of the leading feder- him to demand the evacuation of Iloilo alists, or insurgsnts. by 9 o'clock Friday morning. been have If this demand was not complied reports received of horrible deeds committed with immediately the instructions were by the Indians in the country between to begin the bombardment of Iloilo Coroeoro and Oruro, llolivia. and eontinue it until the rebels ran up The peach and apricot crops of Ver- the white flag.. The navy will, of course, non and Cedar counties, in Missouri, are reported dead. The loss is esti- with the army, whieh will simplify to a considerable degree the work now mated at more than 8100,000. Tom Sharkey and Charlie Mitchell laid out for the two branches of the bave been matched to meet in a twenty-roun- d service and it will cover the landing bout at the liolingbroke elub, of the troops. The Boston, Baltimore and Petrel Loudon, for a purse of 811,000, on May now at Iloilo and if the rebels ate are 20. Indiscreet enough to refuse to lay The Rome correspondent of the Daily down their arms the heavy guns of Chronicle Bays he learns from a good those will be turned on them and ships source that Don Carlos has instructed followed np by the troops who have his agents in Spain to stop the agita- been lying in the harbor for sometime - ed tion in his behalf. The insurgent officers who have been parading around Havana in full uniform have taken the hint at Gomez's displeasure over their course and now appear without regalia. Judge Hazen of the Topeka, Kan. district court has handed down an opinion Jin which (he sustained the legality of the special session of the legislature in every particular. The empress of China proposes to surround Pekin with a quarter of a d million troops, who are to oppose any invasion from Manchuria or the Gulf of Fochill. The Nebraska house has adopted a resolution indorsing the votes of Senators Allen and Thurston on the peace treaty, and declaring McKinley the greatest president since Lincoln. Frozen water pipes caused a fatal .explosion in the kitchen of the female department of the Home of the Friendless, Baltimore. Two persons were killed and a third seriouly injured. Italy and France, says the Rome correspondent of the London Mail, 4 have agreed to share possession of Cape Dumeira on the Raheita coast, at the southern extremity of the Red sea. In both Szcchuun and Shansi provinces, Formosa, the Yumentze rebels have offered a reward of 120 taels for the head of every male foreigner cvho is killed, and 100 taels for every woman or child. It is stated in New York financial circles that the government iu remitting 820,000,000 indemnity to Spain for the Philippine islands wUl do so by shipping the gold direct from the treasury. The North and East rivers. New York, are blockaded with ice, the former being frozen solidly across at the upper part of the city. The Harlem river is frozen solidly north from the Harlem bridge. The report that the sultan of Oman has oonceded a coaling station to France and the rumors of the existence schemes to destroy of Franeo-Russia- u in British influence thejsultan'a dominconfirmed. ions lias been It has been decided by the war department to strengthen the signal corps now in the Philippine inlands by the addition of one company of sixty men recruited from the volunteers in the forces now stationed there. The Paris correspondent of the LonA more don Daily News says: ridiculous attempt at justification lot foreign-equippe- a coup detat cannot be found in the annals of the nineteenth century than " M. de Beaurepaire's charges. The Vienna correspondent of the London standard, referring to the re- ports that France is seeking a Spanish alliance, recalls the fact that in 18Jl Austria proposed that England and Spain should join the dreibund, and that the proposal was acquiesced in by Germany and Italy. It is reported that after the raiding at Kuelf, North China, while several hundreds of children, under the care of the Roman Catholics, were on their way down river, they were seized and and his drowned by Yu-Mant- I J IN THE ODD CORNER. twwwwwviwvvwivwiw Elder W. L. Worscncroft, of layson, has succeeded Elder E. J. Wood as president of the Sauiuan mission. The members of the Y. M. M. 1. A. of Grantsville lire getting up a dramatic entertaimneul to replenish their treasury. At the commencement of the present ciders uud five year there were sisters from ion laboring iu Samos, and 39 elders in New Zealand. Elder Hirina Whaanga. the New Zealand chief who is now on a mission to his native country will probably return to Zion in theearly summer. Elders F. S. Humphries and Lewis Fayter, who have been laboring in the Bristol conference of the British mis3-- , sion, left Glasgow for home on February 9. Elder Alonzo I Kesler, of the eastern states mission, who has been visit- ing Great Britian, returned to New York by the steamship Anchoria, whieh QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS AND EVENTS. Moaa . wa-thin- k I anti-Morm- on , ' . RE-ENLI- ST. st hs dis-tln-at 1 'RC . Qatar Witokas During tbe recent watchmakers' eon vention at Berlin, Germany, there was Tbs Crlara af Harder la Being Rndnced an interesting collection of rare end curious watches exhibited, where the to a ITlne Art" A Ullpatlaa i'lne progress of tbe art of watchmaking A Strang Trea Some Ueeer Watch could be studied from its first beginChina Ceremon j. nings in the fifteenth century to this day. Comparison between the earliest and the latest products of art brings Uroken Resolution. out the enormous progress made in Songs have been sung to the rose that as in every other industry. this, fade. To th girls that weve known and th Alongside of each other were exhibited vow that ev made. the first known specimen of a watch To tha thing that weve done la tha constructed by the young Nuremberg un and tha shade, locksmith, Peter Henleln, called, for And the indiscreet words wa have spoken. short, Hele, and the smallest watch But never a song, not so much as a ever made, recently completed In a word, Has any poor mortal wevs met ever Swiss factory. Hele was the first to heard employ a spring in a watch, all the That touched In tha slightest or even re- parts of which he made of steel or ferred Iron. His watch weighed a couple of To the fine resolutions weve broken. pounds. The smallest watch's face la As each of ns drifts toward the clone of six mlllmeters, or about a quarter of tha year an Inch In diameter, and it would take Were possessed by a feeling uncommonabout 600 of these watches to weigh a ly queer A sort of a kind of a yearning right pound. Yet its price Is in no proportion to the amount of material emhere; You know the sort of a yearning. In Its construction, for It cost Wa muse and and wa ponder ployed 12,000. This price merely represents and sigh As we dream of tha days that have soft- the cost of making this one watch, for ly gone by; in Its production entirely new maThen we sudly determine improvement to chinery and tools had to be used, and try, And a new leaf we find ourselves turninvented. In part, which are useless for ing! any other purpose. , left Glasgow on January 20. Elder Arnold H. Schulthess, of Salt Lake City, has succeeded Bishop Peter Loutensock, of Eureka, as president of the German mission. Brother Loutensock is expected home towards the Were really angelic, perhaps, for a latter part of the present month. week; President E. J. Wood, of the Samoan With bliss beatlflo our friends say we mission left Apia, on January 21, for Bo reek, saintly we grow that we feel like a New Zealand, which mission he infreak And really begin to get restive. tends to visit before he returns home. we meet some old sinner whos out He was accompanied by Elders Joseph Then for a time Quinary jr., of Logan and William And we deem Just one tipple no very crime. Jeppson, of Brigham City, who have And great ah, whata the uae of prolonging been laboring iu Samoa. the rhyme? past We get home In a state rather fesIn view of the success which attendThe mail from Great Britian brings tive. ed the action of the American forces at fuller particulars of the And that la what cornea of our leaf turnManila last Saturday and' Sunday, riots at Bristol, first reported in the ed anew, General Otis desired to reduce Iloilo at regular press dispatches. It appears Having broken It once we feel free to once and have the nupleasant duty that no damage was done at the Sun- The pursue same old routine that our callow over. day meetings, (Jan. 15,) the members days knew, Army officers here say ha is pursu- of the Though our consciences give ue a rakleague confirming ing the proper course in following np themselves to interrupting the elders. If theing.question's in order I'd like to Inhis victory at the beginning of the The riot occurred on the following quire week to keep the insurgents iu Ma- Wednesday and Thursday evenings, Why men will taboo things they really nila and lliolo on the run and in this when nearly every pane of glass in Whendesire they know In their hearts they'll he cutting the wire way drive all thoughts of renewing front of the meeting house was smashed And the vows they are making be so that no meeting was held on the conflict from their heads. breaking? Thursday. The missionaries had to TROUBLE IN SAMOA. seek Hie protection of the police. Flee Art of Murder. Among those present from Utah were The newspapers of this country are It Baa, According to WnaUngton Diplo- Nister Inez Kniglit, &f Provo, and Liza recording frequently mysterious cases mat!, Aiaumod a Now Tbaao. of murder in which poison plays a Chipman, of American Fork. Washington, Feb. 12. The Samoan The second of the series of lectures conspicuous part The time was when trouble is assuming a somewhat new on events in the history of the Mormon the revolver, the knife, the hatchet, or phase, according to the views of lead- church was given in the Thirteenth the bludgeon was used to put an end to ing diplomatic authorities, and one ward assembly rooms Salt Lake City, atllllife, and while these weapons are the popular and vulgar means by to an likely bring about adjustment Friday evening. The lectnrer was which murders are committed, it la on lines not heretofore contemplated. Angus M. Cannon, and the subject, evident that criminals of the murderThis is in part foreshadowed in the The Exodus from hauvoo. There ous clasa are perfecting their art by official statement of the parliamentary was a larger audience present than on studying the use of poisons. secretary in the house of commons, to the first lecture of the Beries a week There are today no less than three the effect that further information ago, and much interest was manifested notorious esses of poisoning. There would be awaited before considering in the protray al by Mr. Cannon of the Is the Dunning murder case of DelaHie recognition of Mataafs as king of troubles of the Saints at that momenware, where arsenic was used; the JSamoa. ' tous period of the history of the Bianchlnl rasp of Paris, where atroended an artist's career, Done pine nearly Mataafa is not the claimant who has chnreh. Professor Willard and now comes a case In New York, thus far received the support of the announced that the subject for the where cyanide of potassium killed one British and American authorities, as next meeting would be The Mormon woman and nearly killed a man. In they have upheld Malietoa Tanns, who Battalion. the story of which will the Dunning and Cornish rases the had been declared by Chief Justice lie probably told by one of the sur- deadly drug was put Into candy In one instance and a bottle of bromo seltzer Chambers, an American, as rightfully vivors of the organization. in the other. They were sent as presentitled to the throne. President George Q. Cannon and five ents and accepted in good faith 'I While the announcement in the young missionaries recently returned used with fatal effect. In the Dishouse of commons is open to various from their fields of labor, were the ease the wife Is accused of atten: interpretations, yet it seems to show speakers at the Tabernacle, Sunday, slowly to poison the husband by inquite clearly that, the recognition of February 12. The musical services troducing doses of atropine in his food Mataafa, who was upheld by the Ger- were most pleasing and were enjoyed and medicine, says the Philadelphia mans, may be taken into consider- by the many strangers and members of Inquirer. The care which the murderer takes the legislature present besides the ation. to cover his tracks after the deed is regular attendants. WANT TO Elias Woodruff told of his travels in unnecessary in poisoning cases. The detection are all the southern states, paying a high trib- precautions against to the crime, and after Grigabja Cowboy arc Anxious to Go to ute to the character of the people with taken previous a careful and cool review of the cirTlklllpplnwi. whom he came in contact while away. cumstances the prisoner Is able to Slonx Falls, K. D., Feb. 12. GrigsElders M. C. Stevenson, Frank Freeze, administer the drug in such a manner bys cowboys, otherwise the Third J. R. Barton and Brigham 1erkins, as not to risk his or her neck. ' United States volunteer cavalry, who whose lots had been cast in Gemany The fine art of murder has made a spent so me time in camp at Chicka-maug- a and Switzerland for a couple ot years number of strides since the death of last summer, and who were or more, brought reports from ever the H. H. Holmes of noted memory. disbanded a few months ago. want to ocean encouraging to the chnreh. and go to the Philippines. President Cannon expressed sympaLlllpntlun Flue In , Colonel Grigsby is absent from the city, thy for the yonng elders who had preOne of tbe most remarkable features bnt telegrams are constantly being ceded him, saying that he remembered of Japanese gardening is the way In received for him from his officers re- keenly his return from a foreign mis- which every plant and tree in a famous questing him to get the government to sion and his appearance before a couple garden will be reproduced in miniature reorganize the regiment. The ofiicera of thousand people, when for years he by a system of dwarfing which has assert that to a man the members of had been used to Bpeaking to a few been handed down from many generathe regiment will enlist if wanted for people only, and that in a foreign tions back. Every characteristic of a will be preserved. Tbe service. There is a strong feeling here tongue. lie then explained for the large tree the color and the texture of foliage, that the government will reorganize benefit of strangers and others some of the branches, and yet tbe miniature the regiment. the cardinal points of the doctrine of copy will often be not more than from the church, after which he branched one to three feet high. Professor C. C. Treaty of irar. Signed. off upon the necessity of the Saints Bessey tells of a case In the United Washington, Feb. 12. The treaty of maintaining strict integrity if they States in which nature has eclipsed the peace, us ratified by the senate, was desired to be of service to themselves art of the Japanese. While climbing signed by the president and Secretary and to the church. The necessity of Green Mountain, near Boulder, Col., Professor Bessey found growing from Hay at 5 oclock Friday afternoon in being humble and prayurful, he said, mansion. of executive to the all who have the a crevice in one of the rocka at the the library mnst be apparent summit a small pine tree about five While signing the document, the pres- least knowledge of the doctrine of the inches and three-fourtand ident and secretary of state sat at the chnreh. The virtue of patience was barely a quarter of an inchhigh, in diamround table in the center of the library. also dwelt unon. He clescd his ser- eter. It was unbranched, and bore a The ceremony occupied only a few mon with a strong exhortation to his single terminal tuft of leaves. The to practice that charity which minutes, and at its conclusion Secre- hearers tiny tree bad made a good fight for is so often mid so fully spoken existence amid the inclemencies of Its document in the its replaced Hay tary of in the Bible a virtue that outshines men exposed situation, for when It was crimson velvet case and took it to the many others that It is state department for transmission to and women should possess if they de- carefully examined, twenty-fiv- e sired to be that which Go iuieitded annual rings were discovered. Madrid. they should be. anti-Morm- Such a case of natural dwarfing Is al" most unprecedented. Horn Llfa la Ferto Rloo, The native early morning meal is a cup of coffee with milk addiction to the habit does not exist on the island and a piece of bread. Breakfast Is served at 11 or 12 o'clock, and Is seldom elaborate, unless guests are in the house. Boiled eggs, bread and coffee satisfy the ordinary man, but the hungry ipan eats his garlicky beefsteak In addition. Dinner la the meal of the day, and Is eaten between 6 and 7 o'clock. This is the native's only full, heavy meal, and this fact may account for bis ability to eat a quantity of food which leaves the average American a victim for indigestion and remorse. The positions of honor at a dinner table are, among the older and residents, in the following order: The head of the table to the most distinguished guest; the rest. In the order of their rank and importance, ranged around to the right, the host occupying the last seat after his guests. The women sit at the left of the table, all together. Among the more cultured classes the host occupies the bead, the hostess the1 foot, the places of honor being the seats to the right and left of the host The evenings fa the home for Instance, of an alcalde, the mayor of a town are spent around the center of tbe marble-toppe- d table, lastly rocking to and fro in the big chairs. The men smoke their clgareta the women never smoke and a flow of small talk, filled with simple Jokes and sallies, constitutes the entire evening's amusement Where they have pianos the daughters exhibit their limited skill on Instruments which are jangled and out of tune. One never sees a book or a magazine in these houses, though In two or three of tbe larger cities there are many literary men. Reading Is not a strong point of the Island populaof Harpers tion. Correspondence Weekly. non-travel- ed Caramon j. A Stran ea Chin Twice a year the Chinese oner up food and prayers at the graves of their dead. They have a large stone platform erected in each of their cemeteries, with two large stone chimneys at the end of each. . Two men place a roast pig, drink, fruit, and several other kinds of food on the platform, while two others are engaged In lighting Urea In the chimneys. After this they kneel and offer a prayer; then, rising, they chant a long, dreary kind of song. By this time the fires are out In the chimneys. They then leave the food on me platform while they drive home. It is the Chinese belief that Satan comes down in the night to steal away the bodies of their dead friends; but If, on arriving Bt the graves, be finds a meal laid out for him, he la so pleased that he sits dowu and eats, and then flies away afterwards so satisfied that he either forgets to take the bodies or else repents of having Intended doing so, tbeir relatives being so obliging. A Dlmlnntlve rony. What is claimed to be the smallest recorded specimen of the equine race has been ou view in Milan. Italy. It is the property of the Marchese n a horse fancier of whose of ShetLombardy, land ponies has been the admiration of his fellow citizens for some years pas( Tbe creature which the Marchese h succeeded in rearing Is said to stand only six hands, or twenty-fou- r inches, high. The smallest Shetlands are seldom under eight bands. But this pony is no less remarkable for Its perfect symmetry than for its minute proportions. Tbe proprietor has a great liking for miniature horses, contending that they do more work for their size than an ordinary horse, and consume d much less food. Ills only eosts him a trifle over 12 centa a day Car-can- o, well-know- four-in-ha- nd four-in-han- |