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Show I HE SDfl-WEEE- H. RATIOS. Y . BTOS, BOERS MAY NOT AGREE ON TEKMS DF PEACE. TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE FALL Minority of tli Delegates Who Favoi onllnnstlon or War May Itafuae to t'ontlnua Negotiation!. ARE PRECIPITATED FROM THE SIDEWALK A PvbllahMW ( LOOAN. UTAH UTAH STATE NEWS. The memliers of the colored Baptiat church of Salt Lake will erect a baud-aonew edifice. The Mortensen trial ia still dragging along, only ten jurors having bean secured Saturday last. Park City ia undergoing a siege of smallpox, about a dozen new caaea being reported last week. The Salt Lake street railway com pany has increased the wages of its employees 3 cents per hour. Smallpox haa broken outat Kimberly and aa a number have been exposed it ia feared the disease will become genme eral. The drivers of the sprinkling wagons in Salt Lake are on a strike, demanding higher wages and shorter hours. INTO The prevalence throughout South Africa of the optimistic feeling in regard to the peace negotiations la hardly bnsed on solid facts. The protraction of the conference at Veerinig-in- g ia not necessarily a hopeful sign. The delegates to the conference, although they have abandoned their hope of securing independence, still have many points of difference with the government, while an obstinate minority continues to regard the resumption of hostilities as the best outcome of the present situation, and at any moment these points of difference may be accentuated into a refusal to continue the negotiations. It ia most unlikely that those who ere in favor of peace will throw up the sponge so long as a decent minority is desirous of continuing the struggle, and all these disconsonant elements must be taken into account before it is possible to give any sort of prediction as to the issue of the present ne- VTa WltnsMlug a rrod Wbn tbs Accident Huppeeod One Mau Killed Outright cd Over One Hundred Injured. Elvin L. Collidge, circulation manager of the New York Commercial, was almost instantly killed and about 100 othara injured by the breaking down of a temporary sidewalk at Fifth avenue and Eighteenth street, New York City. Some of those injured may die. Those who fell were part of the crowd gathered to watch the parade of militia in honor of the visit of the French Rocbambeau commission. Two thousand persons were on the sidewalk d when it gave way. They were an into excavation feet twenty for a new building and fell on piles of Crowd preci-pate- building material. Considering the nature of the accident and the number of per loot in it, the hospital surgeons express surprise at the few who received serioua hurts. Many were able to go directly home after having their injuries treated by the ambulance surgeons. Early in the afternoon the police became suspicious of the strength of the sidewalk and a detail for hours kept the people from crowding on it. When the time for the procession drew near the crowds became unmanageable and m spite of the force of police crowded on the forbidde sidewalk and there stayed until the breaking of the support landed thenin the excavation. gotiations. Over 14,000 was raised in two daya PUEBLO VISITED BY FLOOD. last week by the Salt Lake Elks for their big convention to be held in River Overflow It Honk and a Number f People Have Narrow Kceapa From Death. August. Two Salt Lake women one night last week captured a burglar who entered their home and turned him over AN EXCAVATION. Pueblo, Colo., has been visited by a the high water in the Fountain river tearing out the Colorado A Southto the police. of the CL O. Wilson, a' quarryman was ern railroad, flooding the cellar damand other Pueblo hospital doing ten-ton crushed to death beneath a down flood came The shortly after rock in a land slide at the quarry near age. in a breast of water, great roaring Lake week. last Salt loose everything in its way. tearing Eden, Weber county, is to have tele- At DROUTH IN AUSTRALIA. Buttes station, on the Rio Grande phone connections, the people of that road, the section house and other propHeavy Lot of Stork Occasioned by town having raised a bonus for extendwere destroyed. From there to erty of Water. ing the connecting line. Pueblo not much of value could be A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W Jacob Kopp, of Salt Lake, aged 3.1, reached by the wave, and ample warngives an account of the terrible drouth while playing base ball, collided with ing had been sent ahead. from which, aa a climax to seven dry another player and received injuries Iiut a number of tent dwellers dis- years. Australis is now suffering. The which resulted in his death. regarded it and had a narrow escape. dispatch saya that the losses in stock At Provo $3,500 is to be expended on Two women were compelled to cling in Australia since 1800 amount to over the driveway to the lake, it being the to a tree several hours ainid the noisy 15,000,000. Unemployed men are driftIntention to make it ultimately one of waves. Several small houses and tents ing into the cities by thousands and the finest driveways in the west. were carried off. Three large steel there the state governments are proBetter mail service for the people in bridges were washed away. viding them with relief. the southern part of Cache Valley will, Sheep are dying by the million, and Rtuileul' Prank Kmult In a Tnidy. It is reported, be established by the deeven the rabbits are starving. Animals beexisted The feeling which has partment about the first of July. tween the freshmen and sophomore have stripped the bark from the tree The 1903 meeting of the Internaclusses of the University of Vermont for food. A common method of treatof Association tional Ticket Agents culminated at Plattsburg, N. Y., Mon- ing exhausted horses is to slit the will be held in Sslt Lake, whan several day, in the drowning of Kelson Pease animal's palate .with a knife; the horse hundred ticket agents will be in at- Bond, Iff years old, of Burlington, VL, is revived by swallowing his own blood.n" Numbers of sundowners' and swag-metendance. treasurer of the freshman class. The have been found dead by the The unusually large supply of as- freshmen had arranged to have their wayside. The governments are doing to alleviate these paragus grown by Utah farmers this annual banquet at the Cumberland everything poagie but' conditions, meteorologists despair of la local eanneriea to House, and Bond, with four others year leading the of any change in the weather concan a great deal of it for next fall and the freshmen, cam over on the morn- ditions. winter's trade. ing boat from Burlington to make Boxers Canning Mors Trouble. Bond left liia ia It now believed that a smelter final arrangements. A special from Shanghai says the will be established at Basin, Grand companions in the afternoon for a southern rebellion is in full activity, county, known as the La Sals mining stroll, and. it ia alleged, was set npon and that a severe battle has been district. A Chicago company is interby two of five sophomores, who had in Shu Lull Sien in which the come over from Burlington earlier in fought ested in the project. defeated by the governwere rebels One of the greatest benefits of the the day, presumably for the purpose of ment forces; that the losses amounted recent storm in Sevier county will be kidnaping him and keeping him from to 1,500 men killed or wounded. The the probable eud of the threatened the banquet lie fled from his pur- government troops pursued the rebels suers until he reached Wilcoxi dock, grasshopper plague, the storm dealing to their entrenched villages and cut an out of the way place on the north off their death to all the young hoppers. The insurgents, supplies. lake front. The pursuers declare he who include boys and women, made A sheepherder named Foutz accijumped into the lake in all effort to desperate sorties from the villages and dentally shot himself, at the camp near forced the government troops to reThey endeavescape by swimming. The rebel leader, Thing Ting treat Provo, while attempting to scare away ored to rescue him by a boat, but could Tin, was killed. The rebels are inmountain lions from his iierd. The 'find no oars, and lie sank before they creasing In strength anil lioxers are wound while painful is not serious. could reach him. gathering in large numbers in Shan llardie Lyuch, a well known young Tung province. man of Salt Lake, has achieved unIlattalion of Turkish Troop Annlhllatrd PELEE AGAIN ACTIVE. by Rebel. usual honors and success in the PhilaA dispatch to the Loudon Daily ExInhabitant of Fort d Frunrn Fear a Kalu delphia Medical coliege. lie has won of Ahe and Htonr. two gold medals and a $."00 cash prize. press from Cairo, Egypt, says a report batI'elee is again in eruption. Mont whole a reached lias there that Balph Hansen of Springville, comanclouds are rolling black lias been of Turkish talion Huge inky troops mitted suicide at t lie Smith ranch near of over Fort de France in great masses, the rebels near nihilated by seaport Bawlina, Wyoming, Thursday of last week. Hansen left a note, saying he Mocha, in the Turkish Vilayet of in which there are peculiar lightning The inhabitants are now wastiredof life, and did not care to Yemen, in the southwestern part of flashes. is Arabia. The governor of Mocha flocking into the great square of tbs live any longer. town. If the demonstration increases, the been carried away by said to have The total amount of death claims a are rebels aa The a rebels panic is imminent. hostage. paid by the life insurance companies numbers of 'iurkish MANY DIE IN MANILA. to residents of Salt Lake City in 1001 being joined by who are deserting. troops was $310,474. In I'lah, outside of Sslt Several Cholera Raging In Philippine American Citizen Among the Dead Lake City, Sii.",8S9 was paid, making a F.tgbt Meat Death In a I'ycloo In Houtli A dispatch from Manila says: total for the state of S:i?l,3ii3. Cap( arolina. of Russell the tain Charles Alexander Wilkins, a member of the Eighth allow b. from C., that Uuion, Specials city council of Provo, was stricken report of the tornado which passed infantry is dead. He waa the first ofwith apoplexy while hoeing in the over that portion of the state Monday ficer to die of cholera. There have cases of cholera and garden and died in a few moments. Mr. were not exaggerat'd. Eight people, Wen twenty-fiv- e Wilkins came to Utah in WM, and for as far as known, were killed, three be- twenty deaths among the Americans, fifteen years wasu member of the und thirteen cases and ten deaths ing negroeB. The section between police and sheriffs force in the city of Jonesville the European population. The among and Santuc suffered most, Provo. cholera totals to date are: Manila, fifty houses and eahios being wrecked A Mr. Moss of Morurii , l (,' cases and V33 deaths; provinces, narrowly in that district. cuses and 3,878 deaths. 5,10)1 missed a serious Hccidcut last week, lie was in a tent and reached out unWlilt Flag Not Respected by Filipino. Bail Munev Found In a Con I t'nr. der the Hap to get his gun, which was While Second Lieutenant Robert C. e counterfeit dollar piece' Twenty-fivlying near. He pulled it inward him, from the same mould as those of the Tenth infantry and lumber it unit off. The when, of rour.-n-it week at in large numbers Sergeant Warkingof the same regiment ('lieyrniie Charge shattered one linger, which were walking about six miles from at turned Grand was afterward amputated. have up ago, n found buried in were1 eli. Camp Vickers, in Mindanuo, they perJames C. Will, urns, u young married They t he ei.ne am. a single Mnro carrying a flag of ceived from coal of ear man of Spriiigviile, took shipped nf truce. When the native hail apbeen have to secreb,d are supposed an ouiiee of laudanum with suicidal I lit- - crooks n n: close to the Americans, ho when proached at h Intent Siiuda i. Il;.s Cheyenne act was disthat the police were on their t c:i !. suddenly drew his erecse and slashed covered soon after he took it and medHut two of the seven ini'll :ine-t- d Warking, cutting bis arm ical assistance was at nui'e summoned off. Lieutenant Humber completely and yrc veil ted the fatal effect of Cheyenne, l.'awl'cs and Laramie til tempted to shoot the Moro. but bis of account held teen to the Tilled revolver missed fire, ami the native have Despondency (in money uiattci's wus the cause of his Stairs court. escaped iu the tall grass. rush act. flood, 1 pii-h- , cd two-thir- ! ra-- ! Si-gran- t tin-dru- I f'AUNULFOTE IE DEAD.. I'lie lirill.li AmlmMuulor to tb ItaiMd Male I'niMN tli Divide. Lord Iauneefote, British Ambassador to the I oiled States died at the embassy in Washiiig',n Saturday morning. lie having Wen ill for some time from intermittent attacks of nstluna and rheumatism gout. Paun-fotThe Reverend Honorable tlie first ambassador to the ITnited Slates, and the dean of the diplomatic corps in Washington, was born in Munich, Bavaria, seventy-fo- ur years ago. His governmental service Wgan in Hong Kong as attorney general in 1805, and after much valuable came he colouial experience. to Washington in 1889, first aa minister, and afterwards as first ambassador. His service here has Wen one unbroken record of successful diplomacy. were TIiS Bering sea negotiations among his earliest works of importance and it waa his familiarity with that difficult subject that lrd to hia selection by the foreign office for the post at Washington. Soon after Secretary Ilsy assumed office Lord Pauucefote Wgan the task which he himself regarded aa tne greatest accomplishment of hia busy life, namely, to set at rest forever the questions growing out of the old treaty, and he entered with energy again upon negotiations, the result of which was the framing of the treaty recently ratified. For these valuable services e the British government did Lord the honor three limes to extend the term of hia office at Washington, which would otherwise have ceased when he attained the age of TO years. e, Clay-ton-Bul- wer Hay-Pauncef- ote Paun-cefot- MOB LYNCHES WHITE MAN. Ula Victim' Father anil Brother Execution. Alt at WEEK IN CONGRESS. MAY ti. House -- The house resumed discussion of the Immigration bill. Almost the entire day was taken up with the amendment offered by Mr. (Jnderwuod of Alatiama. requiring an edu- -. rational test fur immigrants to this country It waa adopted. The bill then went over until next week . Semite Mr. lloar of Massachusetts spoke for two hour and a half on the Philippine question. He denounced the attitude of the government in the Philippines as one of the most wicked sad foolish chapter in American history. lie urged that the United (tale should withdraw from the Philippine and per mlt the people there to erect their own government aahad been done In Cuba. He sharply arraigned General Funston fur the method he pursued In the capture of Agulnuldo and intimated strongly that had the senate been aware of the fact Funston might not have been confirmed In hi recent promotion. He hoped a the Irrevocable step had not been taken by the United State, belter counsel would yet prevail and that thla government would leave the Philippine. May 83. Hour The house devoted the day to private pension hills und to a few other minor measure. Mr. Loud of California criticised the special pension legislation us a disgrace, and drew emphatic responses from Messrs. Sulloway of New Hampshire, Sulr.er of New York and Mycr of Indiana. In uli 105 private pension bills were passed. The house adjourned until Monday in order to participate In the Rocbambeau exercises. Senate. a temperate and carefully prepared speech was delivered In the senate on the Philippine bill by Mr. Dubois of Idaho. Jlo ronflned himself almost entirely to a discussion of the commercial and industrial aspects of the Philippine question, hi purpose being to show that It would be a disadvantage to the people of thla country to retain the islunds. lie held that their retention would result disastrously to American labor, lie reviewed ut length the agricultural resources of Jupun and China, with a view to showing that with their advantages of cheap labor they would he able to control tbe market of the Orient, Including tlie Philippines. He maintained tliut the United flutes by Its policy simply was u rousing the sleeping dragon of China, which, In tbe eud, would devour tbe world. AW Whiterop, the white murderer of William Grow, who was killed last May 86. month, was taken from the Paris, Mo., House. The house devoted the day to busijail, marched to the bridge on the north ness connected with the District of Columbia, edge of the town and hanged by a mob and took a reccsii until lla. m. tomorrow, In of more than 100 men, who rode quiet- order tociiiuplcto the bill In order to amend the district code. ly into town at midnighL Mr. Patterson of one The man made no resistance, and iu reply to questions confessed his guilt. The father and brother of the victim were in the inob and assisted in escorting the man to the bridge, a quarter of a mile away. At the bridge Witherop's feet were tied by the brother of the murdered mau and the senior Grow the rope about hia neck and pushed him off the structure. Witherop, before his death, made a full confession. He said the killing, which took place about four weeks ago, was the result of a quarrel over a piece of land the two men were farming toad-lust- ed gether. Woman Willed Property to n Rooster. A wealthy woman named Silva re- cently died at Lisbon, and left her entire property to a rooster. She wus a fervid spiritualist, a believer in the transmigration of souls, and imagined that the soul of tier dead husband had She caused a entered the rooster. W fowl to house built, and orspecial dered her servantt to pay special attention to their "master's'' wants. The disgust of her relatives over the will caused the story to become public, and a lawsuit might have followed, had not one of the heirs adopted the simple expedient of having the wealthy rooster killed, thus becoming himself the next of kin. Bulgarian Flglit Baltl With Turk. band of sixty Bulgarian revolutionists. engaged in raiding the neigh borbood of Malesli Plauina, Rocmelia, came into contact with a detachment of Turkish troops May 3ff. Sharp fighting ensued, during which six Bulgarians were killed and seven wounded. The Turks also suffered some casualties. A Senate. Colorado. of the minority nu uiliers of the Philippine committee of the senate, occupied the floor most of the day In a discussion ol tin; Philippine question. Mr. (iullingcr offered a providing that the Judiciary committee of tlie senate should mu Ice an Investigation Into the subject of lynching with u view of ascertaining whether there Is any remedy for them. Sixty-tw- o private pension bill were passed. May 87. House. The house passed the Shaftuc immigration bill. The feature of the day was a lively debate on the question of prohibiting the sale of intoxlcutlng liquors at Immigrant stations- It was precipitated by an amendment offered by Mr. Howersock of Kansas to prohibit such sale, which was carried, 83 to 18. Mr. Landis of Indiana followed this victory with an umendment to prohibit the sale of intoxicants in the capital, and It prevailed by a still larger majority, 108 to lit Senate. A fruitless effort was made just before adjournment of the senate to secure an agreement on a time for u vote on the Philippine bill. The discussion iudlcuted that some day next week eventually would tie ugreed upon, lint no time was fixed Mr. Burrow, of cuiiimillee on privileges and elections, reported that tho majority of tbe committee wus opposed to the house resolution providing for tho election of senator by the people. The first effects of the strike of the teamsters at tlie stockyards, Chicago, ivns felt Monday. One of the largest hotels was short of hams, bacon and eggs at breakfast and several other hotels felt tlie absence of sonic particular cut of meat. By a collision between two cars of the Portland City and Oregon Electric railroad, about three miles south of Oregon City, a motorman had one leg badly crushed, necessitating amputation, and three passengers were hurt, but not severely. Willard Dec, who shot and instantly DDUBLE TRAGEDY IN CHICAGO. Miss Lillie Sutiess in a church killed Prominent Politician Kill at Benhill, da., was captured near Tlien Illmaalf. Nels Johnson, a Chicago politician, Austcl, da., and placed in tlie Atlanta shot and fatally wounded Mrs. CL .1. jail. He says lie killed Miss Sutlesa Gullakson, his sister-in-lawho, he because his love vvns unrequited and asserted, was the cause of he and his he wished to end tlie susiense. After eight days of searching, the wife separating, and then committed in the head. hotly of Kathleen Flanugan, 4 years suicide, shooting himself had been married niueteeu They years. old, lias been found in Hie Hudson Last week Johnson's home was aolil by river. New York. It was thought tbe the sheriff and Mrs. Johnson went to child had been kidnaped and a large live with her sister. Johnson was in- reward hail been offered for her return. toxicated when the shooting occurred. Tlie body was found by a fisherman. In Iiea veil worth, Ivan., il is reported WILL ARBITRATE. that paper are being prepared in e Chile anil Argentine Will Kuilnavor to Topeka fur tin1 eivil prosecution of Dlnpnlr. Peter C. Ileniing, who was reThe Chilean minister of foreign afreleased from the federal cently fairs, Ncnor Yolgera, and the Argenu dei ision of the tine minister to Chile, Jos. Antonio penitentiary by court. supreme Terry, arc funiplcting the details of In Philadelphia, Pa , .lolm L. Semple, the agreement whieli limits Chilrnn the Camden lawyer who has been on and Argentine in inaments Hnd vvliieli for a week pasl in the Pniled trial provides for the general arbitration of Slates district court for alleged dispute between the two countries. in the iiiiinnrurlnre of enunler-fei- t favoi able situation, Owing to tills S'.u silver eerl ilicatea, wus found securities and bond are very firm. Gold is fulling. not guilty. Sister-In-La- w, Sat-li- uin enm-plieit- y |