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Show . a 5 r . el -JLJ f r 4 S n ' C 7 r A pi it UTAH NEWS. The demand for cottages in Salt Lake City for summer use is far In ex- Havana, July 4.-La Lucba pub-cess pub-cess of the supply. j jfehes a statement regarding matters Ilaying has commenced in the Green which its conductors say they have River valley, aad a large tonnage will be handled this year. The Salt Palace buildings are being rapidly pushed to completion, a large force of men being engaged in their construction. The State Board of Loan Commissioners Commis-sioners are making arrangements to borrow about 875,(Ko to put the state on a cash basis. Prof. M. E. Jones considers the lake as having reached its lowest point.and that it is now rising. It will continue so for a series of years. Abe Majors will not be executed on the day appointed by the trial judge, the matter having- been brought before be-fore the supreme court. The Utah Sugar company has commenced com-menced laying the pipe-line that will connect the auxiliary plant at Spring-ville Spring-ville with the plant at Lehi. The last company of the Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth infantry left Fort Douglas Thursday of last week, and the state of Utah is now garrisoned by two troops of colored cavalry. John Sharp, state fish commissioner, has deposited 12,000 youcg grayling fish in East Canyon creek and Silver lake, and fisherman will keep an eye on these places in the future. The foundations for the new sugar factory at Springville are nearly all in and bricklaying has been commenced. The scale house has been built, and work will soon be in full blast. Thirty - three street sprinklers are kept busy in Salt Lake City, a total of l,lG,i'00 galons of water, in 1,310 loads, being taken out daily, covering 709 blocks, and yet the citizens complain of dust. The swor dwhich is to be presented to Lieutenant Pearson, Utah's representative repre-sentative in the battle of Manila bay, is a handsome one and cost about 8-00, which sum was raised by popular subscription. sub-scription. Utah mining men will have a gold statue of Maud Adams.the aetress.made j iove Gf jier country at heart. Any un-for un-for exhibition at the Paris exhibition. J popularity which may exist toward The statue will be life-size and will cost j ner is due entirely to the fact that she i)00,ono, the material to be used ing from Utah mines. It is reported that Captain A. A. Cabaniss of company K, Twenty-fourth infantry, well-known in Utah, is to as" , sume command of the post at Spokane' Instead of going to the Philippines with his regiment. He has been stationed at Fort Assinniboine for a - time. Near Good Hope, in San Juan county, coun-ty, on the Colorado river, a Cliff Dwellers' village has been discovered by Charles V. Clinton, of Salt Lake City. A number of mummies have been discovered, and an expedition is to be organized to further investigate the find. The 22-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Braby of Mt. Pleasi ant was drowned on the 25th by falling fall-ing into the creek. Although there were witnesses to the accident, the little one was dead before assistance arrived, the body becoming caught under a foot-bridge among a lot of driftwood. The Mt. Nebo branch of the Sanpete Valley railroad is nearing completion, and the line will be in full operation next week. The company has been hampered in its work by delay in receiving re-ceiving ties and bridge timbers, otherwise other-wise the line would have been com-piele com-piele jbefore now. A girt was badly hurt in a merry-go-round 'at Mt. Pleasant, one evening last week. A support for a horse she was riding gave way and threw her, but as her clothing caught in falling, she was dragged twice around the machine ma-chine before it could be stopped. She was bruised and cut, but no bones were broken. Miss Libbie Bromley of Springville, who was one of the excursionists to Saltair on the 29th, had a narrow escape es-cape from drowning while bathing. As she was sinking for the third time a gentleman, name unknown, rescued her. O. E. Emory, the Utah long distance champion, defeated Oscar Julius, the Swediah champion, in a fifty-mile match race at Salt Lake last week. Emory won a 8250 purse besides break-ing.all break-ing.all state records from two miles up to fifty. John M. Wilson of Provo is displaying display-ing with much pride five large bear skins taken from bears killed in Utah. One is 6aid to be the largest ever seen in the state. Three of them are silver-tipped silver-tipped grizzlies, one a brown and the other a black. Three fishermen came into Provo last week with sixty pounds of trout, which they claimed had been caught with hook and line, and commenced peddling their catch. They were arrested for illegally catching fish and fined 810 each. It is practically an assured fact that the tabernacle choir will make a tour of the, principal cities of the west next fall. Frank D. Uigbee of New York, who has promoted numerous enterprises enter-prises of a similar character, is ready to back the project. Governor Wells has been advised by the adjutant general at Washington that Major Young of the Utah batteries, bat-teries, will be mustered out at Manila and will retain his civil position. Major Ma-jor Young is chief justice of the supreme su-preme court at Manila. A railroad man makes the statement that the reports for the fiscal year ending end-ing Friday last will show about 812,- 300,000 as gross earning for the Utah lines and the Oregon Short Line. The latter is included, as all its monies are handled in Salt Lake City. The Manti Messenger has the following fol-lowing item: "Xo deaths in Manti during dur-ing the month of May, and none so far this month. In lookihg over the records the sexton informed us that such good fortune Us our citizens had not happened in twenty years past aad gone," ' . Utah will be represented at the national meeting h the reformers of this country, whichVconvenes at Buffalo, Buf-falo, N. Y., June 27, by Mrs. Kate Hiiliard of Ogden, who will attend as representative of the industrial com mittee of the Woman'sS Federation of Utah. MONARCHY FOB CUBA. Promoter an Ex-General With Whom the Authorities H Had Much Trouble been investigating and carefully j guarding for several weeks, owing to the reticence of those concerned and the desire of the latter to avoid a pre- mature disclosure, leading to a possible possi-ble failure of their plans. The paper says: "Cuba during the last few months has been a land of many surprises. ine latest is the establishment of a royalist party. The new organization is unimportant at present, probably numbering fewer than fifty members, but a well known Cuban general, who claims to be a descendent of Charlemagne, Charle-magne, is reported to be the head of the party, and the meeting place is usually us-ually the Inglaterra cafe. The Cuban general in question is said to be dissatisfied dis-satisfied with American rule. He thinks that what Cuha needs is not a republic, but a strong hand at the helm like his own. He is of the opinion opin-ion that the people of the Latin race prefer royalty and the possible honors hon-ors accruing under a monarchial regime." re-gime." The Cuban general referred to is understood un-derstood to deny that he is the head of the party, but there is considerable evidence that such a movement is on foot. He is the officer who was recently re-cently reported to General Brooke for collecting 30 centimes from a Spanish merchant on the ground that it was an assessment for a fund devoted to driving out the intervenors. PLEASED WITH QUEEN REGENT. Chinese Milliliter Says Spain's Kuler la a Good Woman. Washington, July 4. Minister Wu Ting Fang of China has returned to the city from a three months' European trip, which he made to present his credentials as minister to Spain as well as the United States. Concerning the queen regent and her spn, he said: '"The queen regent is a good woman whom I admire very much. She has many gracious qualities and has the is a foreigner by birth. The boy king, whose birthday anniversary I attended while in Madrid, is a bright and sensible sen-sible lad, who speaks several languages, lan-guages, though he appears to be somewhat some-what delicate in health. FLOOD IN TEXAS. ft is Estimated That the Monetary Loss Will Exceed 84,000,000. Austin, Tex., July 4. Reports from the Brazos bottoms reveal a deplorable condition. The waters are still very high, but are slowly receding, and it is believed that the worst is over in that particular section of the state. The estimated damage of 84,000,000 to the country tributary to the Brazos valley is none to high, as reports received re-ceived merely confirm the tale of loss and suffering reported. It is not be lieved that the loss of life will be any where as large as reported and will be principally among the negroes. UTAH TROOPS COMING HOME. Will go by Way of Japan and be a Month on the Kuad. Manila, July 4. The transport Hancock, Han-cock, which left Saturday with the First Nebraska infantry and batteries A and B of the Utah light artillery, and the transport Senator, which carries the Pennsylvaia troops, will remain re-main several days at Nagasaki andYo-kohoma, andYo-kohoma, Japan. According to the latest reports from the province of Cavite, the insurgent leaders there are quareling. Aguinal-do's Aguinal-do's cousin, Baldomero Aguipaldo, has been killed or imprisoned by General Mariano Trias, commander of the insurgents in-surgents in the southern department of Luzon, and most of his men have deserted de-serted to Trias, who is now at San Francisco de la Mallibon. Yellow Fever Spreading. Santiago de Cuba, July 4. Ten new cases of yellow fever were reported Saturday and five Sunday. This raises the total number of cases to seventy-four. seventy-four. No deaths are reportedltoday. The United States troops have all been removed from the infected camp, but the doctors seem unable to check the progress of the disease among them. The camp, which is on the road to El Moro, and in a hilly country, was chosen because of its known salubrity sa-lubrity and perfect sanitary conditions. condi-tions. Soldiers Start for Home. Washington, July 4. The following dispatch from General Otis has been re" ceived at the war department: Manila. July 2. Transports Hancock and Senatoi, vith Nebraska, Utah and Pennsylvania troops, left for San Francisco Fran-cisco yesterday. Nebraska, forty-two officers, 812 enlisted men; Pennsylvania thirty-four officers, 712 enlisted men; Utah, nine officers, 258 enlisted men. Nebraska left in Manila one sick, thirty ditcharged; Pennsylvania, seven discharged; dis-charged; Utah, twenty-nine discharged. Driren From Their Home. New York, July 4.-An incendiary fire at Summit, N. J., did 3150,000 damage. The fire was discovered about 2 o'clock In the morning in a barn in the rear of a house owned by V. Vicari, on Union avenue. A high wind prevailed at the time. The fire communicated to a frame building some distance away and then destroyed about ten similar buildings adjoining, which were occupied occu-pied as stores and dwelling houses. About 100 persons who lived in the apartments over the stores were driven to the street and saved practically nothing. Portland Wheat Shipments. Portland, Ore., July 4. Wheat shipments ship-ments from Portland for the season of 1898-99 amounted to 15,984,282 bushels From Tacoma and Seattle 9,855,958 bushels were shipped during the season, sea-son, making a total for the states of Oregon and Washington of 25,828,240 bushels. It is estimated that in the two states 5,850,000 bushels are still on hand and that local i consumption and seeding required neaVly 8,000,000 bushels bush-els more making the( total crop of 1898 in the two states 3iA"? 4 bushels. BATTLE IMMINENT. COLLISION OF ARMIES AT SAN FERNANDO EXPECTED. American Soldiers Sleep In Their Clothei and Breakfast at 4 O'clock In the Morning So as to be Beady For an Assault. Manila. July 2. A collision between the two armies at San Fernando seems inevitable soon. The insurgents are active all around the town, and can be seen working in the trenches to strengthen their position. Day and night forces are at work. It is estimated that 3,000 men were seen marching in the road north of town recently. The Americans turned out and manned the defenses, expecting an attack. at-tack. The soldiers sleep in theii clothes and breakfast at 4 o'clock in the morning so as to be ready for an as sault. FLOODS IN TEXAS. Number of Lives Lost and a vast Amount of Property Rained. I Houston, Tex., July 2. The remark able heavy rains of the past four days in Texas have done damage which will amount to hundreds of thousands o dollars. Railroad traffic is suspended in southern Texas because of the num erous washouts and many bridges are gone. The Big and Little Brazos rivers have joined at Navasota, where they are ordinarily three miles apart, and the whole country between, mostly cotton and corn lands, is ruined. It is reliably stated that one family of six persons perished. The loss in cotton and corn alone will reach 81,000,000, wnne another million win not cover the loss to railroads and other prop erty. NO ONE BUT LAVINIA. King George of Tonga Islands Weds the Girl of His Choice. San Francisco, July 2. From Hono lulu comes the news of the marriage of King George of the Tonga island group to Princess Lavinia. The ceremony took place June 1. The majority of the people of the islands wished him to marry Princess of Nina, and several meetings of dig' nitaries were held with a view of try ing to induce King George to change his mind, but to every communication the king replied that Lavinia was his choice and that if he coulLnot marry her he would not marry a all. The people reluctantly consented and as stated above, the wedding took place June 1. MILE A MINUTE. Remarkable Time Made by an Eastern Cy clist. New York, July 2. Charles M. Mur phy, of the Kings County Wheelmen, rode a mile on a bicycle today paced by a locomotive, in 57 4-5 seconds. His course was a two-mile board track on a siding of the Long Island railway. Murphy followed an engine and a day coach, the latter being provided pro-vided with a hood, which acted as a wind shield for the rider. The board track was laid near May wood, L. I., and extended from the station two miles east, and was as nearly perfect as skill could make it. Fully 3000 people peo-ple saw Murphy make his daring ride. STAMPEDE TO CAPE NOME. One Thousand Men from Dawson Start for Behrlng Sea. Seattle, Wash., July 2. The Cape Nome mining fever has reached Daw-ssn, Daw-ssn, and has caused a veritable stampede. stam-pede. The news reached Dawson J une 12th, and in two days over 1000 of Dawson's idle population had started down the river in the hope of finding on the desolate shore of Behring sea the fortune they had failed to pick up in Klondike. Rampart City, on the lower Yukon, is also said to have suf fered a loss of population through the reported strike at Cape Nome. TWENTY DEPUTIES INJURED. Italian Chamber Transformed Into Veritable Verit-able Battlefield. London, July 2. The Rome correspondent corres-pondent of the Daily Mail says: The chamber of deputies today (Friday) was transformed into a veritable battlefield. bat-tlefield. The tumult was terrific. More than twenty deputies were injured in the struggle, including Baron Sonnino, who was seriously hurt. Baron Sonnino Son-nino is the leader of the majority and the probable future premier. The chamber cham-ber will not be closed until November. Dreyfus Reaches France. , Rennes, France, July 2. Captain Dreyfus landed at Quiboron and was conveyed by train to Bruz, twelve kilometers kil-ometers from Rennes. There he entered en-tered a landau accompanied by chief of detectives and the perfect of the department de-partment and was driven to Rennes, where twenty-five gens 'darmes waited wait-ed his entrance into the town. The party arrived at the prison without incident. in-cident. A large crowd assembled and witnessed the arrival in silence and without manifestation. Mo Colored Regiments. Washington, July 2. No colored reg" iments will be organized for service in the Philippines. Any colored men enlisted en-listed will be assigned to vacancies in the present colored regiments of the regular army. The experiment of the war department with colored volunteers volun-teers during the Spanish war was not a happy one, and in spite of report which come from the Philippines tc the effect that the colored man is greatly feared by the Filipinos, the authorities are averse to running the risk of a repetition of the troubles oi last year. The Outlook In Hawaii. San Francisco, July 2. Hon. Lorin A. Thurston, former minister from Hawaii Ha-waii to this country, was among tbs arrivals on the steamer Mariposa. Mr. Thurston is accompanied by Mrs. Thurston. Speaking of conditions ia the islands, Mr. Thurston said the out' look is very promising. "The sugai crop will undoubtedly be the largest ever handled," said he. "Reports from the plantations show that the sugai cane is growing splendidly, and a larg crop will result. IN NO HURRY. War Department Not In any Rash to Send Troops to Philippines. Washington, July 1. The first volunteers vol-unteers to be raised for service in th e Philippines will be those for the skeleton skel-eton regiments now being formed by Gen. Otis. It is not believed there will be the least difficulty in obtaining these men. It is probable that some time will elapse before the troo -s of the pro visional army are sent to Manila, bat meanwhile they will he drilled and taught marksmanship in camp. It is estimated that three months are re quired to make soldiers of recruits. The officers of the War department think that a number of volunteers now coming home will desire to return to the Philippines for a short service after they have an opportunity to see home and friends. They are regarded as the most desirable for the regiments being organized by General Otis. It is learned at the war department that there is no rush to get the volunteers volun-teers to General Otis at the present time. The rainy season having set in, it is now believed these troops will not be needed for service except to relieve those who have been on active duty. The transport service is said to be sufficient, though ships may be char tered temporarily if needed. The an nouncement that a portion of the provisional pro-visional army was to be raised has caused a swarm of politicians to be sent to the war department by those who are seeking commissions in the new regiments. SUPPLIES FOR PHILIPPINES. Business Men of California Allege 95 Per Cent are I'nflt for Use. San Francisco, July 1. The Manu facturers and Producers' association of California, representing over 500 business busi-ness houses of San Francisco, has ad dressed a communication to quarter master-general of the United States army at Washington calling attention to and urging the correction of some recent methods of furnishing supplies forwarded to our army in the Philippines. Philip-pines. The letter states that large shipments ship-ments of stores for the use of the army have reached here from the east so badly damaged that 95 per cent of them were unfit for use. It is asked that such goods as are liable to damage on the rail be purchased here. HEALTH AT MANILA. Returned California Soldier Says the Facts are Concealed. Vancouver, B. C, July 1. Among the passengers who arrived by the steamer Tartar from the Orient was J. Bresnau, a discharged member of battery bat-tery A of the First California artillery. He says now that the rainy season has commenced, it will go hard with the American troops. When he left, late in May, many were down with dysentery dysen-tery and malarial fevers. He says the numbers are never given: in fact, that everything relating to the health of the troops is suppressed. There are a number of our correspondents there, but none are allowed to send anything that the censor considers detrimental to the service. He says the campaign will be a long drawn out one. WILL COME WEST. President Has Not Abondoned His Trip to the Coast. Washington, July 1. Senator Warren War-ren of Wyoming called upon the presi. dent with reference to his western trip. The president contradicted the published reports that he had abandoned aban-doned the idea of going west this summer. He still intends to go uuless circumstances should intervene to prevent, pre-vent, but he has been unable as yet to consider details, and the time and extent ex-tent of his trips are matters for fnture determination. Was a Wholesale Murder. Seattle, Wash., July 1. United States Marshal Shoup of Alaska will investigate the death of the crew and passengers of the steamer Jessie, who either perished in the wreck of their vessel or were massacred by Alaska Al-aska Indians one year ago on the Kus-kokwim Kus-kokwim river. There were eighteen people on board the Jessie, and it was thought at first that they had met death by drowning, but subsequent developments suggested a possibility that they reached shore and were murdered mur-dered by Indians. Another Andree Story. Wrangel, Alaska, July 1. Information Informa-tion received here several days ago confirms the story that Andree, the Arctic explorer, is dead. A Norwegian, Norwe-gian, who was a passenger on the Hosalie, a Seattle boat bound for Skagua, showed a letter supposed to have been written by Andree. The letter in a sealed bottle had been washed ashore off the Norwegian coast, and was dated May 4th. The latitude was given as 74 north and the balloon was somewhere in the vicinity of Iceland. Death In the Prize Ring. Parkersburg, W. Va., July 1. Kid Wankow of Washington, Pa., and Fe lix Carr, of Huntington, W. Va., engaged, en-gaged, in a prize fight at Frie's park Friday night. Wankow knocked Carr out in thefourth round. Carr did not recover promptly after the knockout, and was brought to the Commercial hotel in this city, where doctors work ed with him until 1 a. m., when he died without having fully regained consciousness, tie was ii years old. Wankow was arrested. Loyalists Stand by Mllner. Capetown, June 30. A meeting of 4,000 Loyalists under the presidency of the mayor of Capetown, was held here yesterday and adopted, with the greatest enthusiasm, resolutions sup porting Sir Alfred Milner, srovernor- general of the colony and British high commissioner in South Africa, in his recent negotiations with President Kruger and thanking the Canadians and Australians for their offer of as sistance. An immense overflow meeting meet-ing was also held. VOLUNTEERS GOING. Fifteen Thonsand to be Hurried from New York and San Francisco. Washington, June 30. The preparations prepara-tions for the new campaigne against the Filipinos are under full headway today. There are scenes of unusual activity at the war department. A conference of Alger, Corbin and Long was held Wednesday and arrangements arrange-ments are being made to raise immediately immedi-ately three brigades of fifteen thousand thous-and enlisted men, carry them as vol unteers and rush them to Manila from both San Francisco and New York. B. ANTHOXT. DISSOLUTION V D1C,P. 53 CENTURY'S.MOST CABLE WOMAN. One Report Has It Thit-aiM Be Restored to Power, Wh?" Recently Believe There Will Be a New Ruler Chosen. Victoria, B. C, June : 30. It is reported re-ported at Pekin, according to news received re-ceived by the Empress of China, that the emperor will resume power next month. Another report says that about June 20 a new emperor would be proclaimed. pro-claimed. One authority believes the new ruler will be a grandson of the late Prince Kung; another asserts that a grandson of the fifth prince (Prince Tun) has been chosen to succeed Kuang Hsu. The empress dowager is said to be altogether "out of sorts," full of anxiety, anxi-ety, and much given to weeping. The palace is far from enjoying a state of harmony. The cabinet is little better. Wang Wen Shao pleads age and infirmity, and then relapses into silence. Kang-Yi Kang-Yi is jealous of the immense power now wi'elded by Jung Lu and despises him for his inexperience in important government business; but both hold together for the maintenance of the empress dowager and the enrichment of th.Manchus, whose present watchword watch-word is, "It is going, grab as much as possible while the chance lasts." TRIED TO CUT HIS THROAT. How a Californian Avoided Hearing His Death Sentence. Sacramento, June 30. George Putnam, Put-nam, who murdered John Showers in Folsorn prison, while being shaved yesterday preparatory to being taken into court to hear the death sentence, siezed the razor from the man who was shaving him, sprang to his ftet and then deliberately walked to a mirror mir-ror and drew the razor across his th roat. The cut, while very severe, did not sever the jugular vein, and Putnam will recover. The passing of sentence was continued until Saturday. Putnam killed Showers as the result a long-standing feud, Showers having aided in the convittion of Abe Majors, father of Abe Majors who is sentenced to hang in Utah for the murder of Officer Of-ficer Brown of Ogden in April last while resisting arrest. Archie Majors, Ma-jors, Abe's brother, was killed by the posse of which the Ogden officer was a member, when the latter was killed. The elder Majors was hanged in California Cali-fornia for murder-twenty years ago. FRENCH LINE MUST PAY. Heavy Verdict Against Company For Life Lost on La Bourgoyne. Paris, June 30. The action for damages dam-ages brought by Mme. Resal as a result re-sult of the loss of her husband by the sinking of the French line steamer La Bourgoyne, in collision with the British Brit-ish ship Cromartyshire, June 4, 1898, off Sable Island, Nova Scotia, has resulted re-sulted in a verdict against the company com-pany of 100,000 francs, the plaintiff at the same time being debarred from claiming any money lost with M. Resal which may hereafter be recovered. The court found the company respon. sible for the acts of the captain, who was declared to be at fault in not bringing bring-ing his ship to a standstill after the collision, in losing time in launching the boat and in not furnishing the passengers pas-sengers with lifeboats. HUNTINGTON'S LATEST. Will Establish a Home For Young Colored Criminals. New York, June 30. Collis P. Hunt, ington has bought a tract of land of 1,350 acres in Hanover county. Virginia, where, at his expense, a well-equipped building, with latest modern improve ments, is to be erected for the confinement confine-ment of juvenile offenders of the negro race. There are now 3,000 colored boys and girls confined in the prisons of Vir ginia and compelled to associate with the vilest and most- degraded adults. Governor J. Hoge Tyler has promised that he will transfer the young prison ers to the reformatory as soon as it is built. INDIA'S EMPRESS. Former Miss Letter of Chicago Insists en Proper Ceremonial Forms. London, June 30. The Chronicle relates a story of the executive etiquette et-iquette instituted at Simla by Lady Curzon, the wife of the Viceroy of India, In-dia, formerly Miss Leiter of Chicago. Lady Curzon has decided that at even the smallest function everyone shall stand until she herself is seated, and it is said she has exacted a similar homage from her sister in her own apartment. How a Maiden Wou a Husband. Chattanooga, Tenn., June 29. This mcrning Hubert Marony, the young farmer who last week shot and killed William Stoner after a church entertainment, enter-tainment, was discharged upon his preliminary hearing. He was cleared by the testimony of his sweetheart, Miss Mollie Moore, who witnessed the killing. Stoner had threatened to kill Marony of whom he was jealous. Before Be-fore leaving the courthouse the couple were married by the justice who tried Maroney. No Action Against Schley. Washington, June 30. Secretary Long has reiterated that the navy department de-partment contemplated taking no further action in the Sampson-Schley controversy and the incident is closed. "In fact," said the secretary, "so far as the department is concerned, the controversy does not exist. If any officer should request a court of inquiry in-quiry it will probably be granted. There is no truth in the charges that the department intends to take action reflecting upon Admiral Schley. Transvaal Trouble WIU be Settled. Pretoria, June 30. The conference between President Kroger and Fischer, a member of the executive council of the Orange Free State, who was the bearer of compromise suggestions from ; the Free State in the matter of the disputes between the Transvaal and Great Britain, have been coneladed. The general impression Is that Fischer's mission has been snoceaafui. He afterwards after-wards conferred with Mr. Cony log-ham log-ham Green, the British diplomat ffat kers. uuie ue a recipient OTjsJg. have been held out so long by I authorities that Parisians hatt oi left off COUntlna- on fh.i- r but at . . resident last the Intermix f uiiuersiooa to be nearly Z , itv th h, urtstnlent of volun work ti'years for service in th LeiipiTiaes. It is proposed to arm and equip at once three brigades or aboutlO.OOO and continue the work until the whole 35,-000 35,-000 men authorized by the law are secured. There will be no call upon the states. The regiments will be organized as United States volunteers. Officers will be appointed by the president and assigned as-signed to regiments without regard tc state lines. The maximum of the regular regu-lar army of 65,000 men has been secured se-cured and now enlistment will be for the provisional army to make up the total strength of 100,000 men. General Otis has 29,300 men on the ground oi under orders and volunteers will be rushed to him until he has an effective force of 50,000. In the enlistments of the United States volunteers, veterans of the late war, including those who did not get beyond the home camps, but were seasoned, sea-soned, will be given the preference and the same will be true of the officers. BURN TROLLEY CARS. Mob in Seoul, Korea, Destroy Railway Property. Vancouver, B. C, June 29. Oriental advices by the Empress of China are to the effect that the export of rice from Wuhu has been suddenly interdicted inter-dicted by the Viceroy of Nanking, acting act-ing upon instructions from Pekin, on the ground that China is on the eve of war. Another reason given is that the requirements of the people within the Yang-tse region do not permit any export of grain. Since the introduction of the trolley into Korea, several children have been run over and killed in Seoul. The people, to the number of several hundred hun-dred burned one car and smashed another. The Japanese and European engineers narrowly escaped death. The ignorant people attribute the drought which has continued for some time to the construction of the electric railways. KENTUCKY DEMOCRATS. William Goebel Receives the Nomination for Governor. Louisville, Ky., June 28. William Goebel. who with an iron grasp has ruled the Democratic state convention since it assembled nearly a week ago, was last night nominated for governor on the twenty-sixth ballot, after a contest unparralleled in the state for bitterness and determination on the part of the winner, or for skillful manipulation. The end of the long exhausting fight brought a reasonable degree of harmony to the factions which throughout the night battled for every inch of ground. Nearly everybody joined, heartily in a demonstration demon-stration when their canaidate appeared ap-peared for the first time before the convention to accept the nomination, and return his thanks. DEATH DEALING EXPLOSIVE. New Invention to be Tried on Filipinos This Fall. Washington, June 29. A shell of terriffic explosive power, with a capacity capa-city to annihilate by bursting fragments frag-ments and a shock as effective as a streak of lighting will be the feature of the fall campaign in the Philippine islands. Tests of the charge of this terrible engine of war are being made at Sandy Hook, the government guarding guard-ing closely its secret of manufacture. A shell of this nature, charged with an explosive equal to melinite or dynamite, dyna-mite, falling near a battalion of the enemy, would kill or cripple a very large percentage of the battalion. The chances of escape from this tremendous machine will be decreased 100 times, experts say. as compared with shrapnel shrap-nel discharged at the same objects. MINERS PERISH FROM COLD. Twenty-five Prospectors from California Die in Siberia. Nevada City, Cal., June 22. Word has been received here that Harry Douglass of this city, along with twenty-five other picked miners from various counties of California who left on June 2nd of last year for Siberia under the leadership of John T. Mc-Call, Mc-Call, who was a gravel mining superintendent super-intendent here, have perished from privation and cold. Peace Delegates Take a Rest. The Hague, June 29. For the next few days the members of the special drafting committees who are preparing prepar-ing a record of the work already accepted, ac-cepted, will be the only peace confer-ference confer-ference delegates occupied. The question of a permanent arbitration board and Germany's relations thereto the German delegates, it is said, have received instructions to accept the principle of a permanent tribunal of arbitration as outlined in the Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon plans will be discussed Monday. Mon-day. Thurston Tired of Politics. Washington, June 29. Senator Thurston of Nebraska is quoted as aying: "Having noted several suggestions sug-gestions in the Western press that I might be a candidate for vice-president I desire to state once for all that 1 shall not be. My only ambition is tc retire to the practice of my profession at the end of my present term. I would gladly resign now from the senate sen-ate for that purpose if my place could be filled by a Republican successor. 1 csnnot entertain the thought of evei holding another public office." Londoners Fear Clan ne Gael. London, June 29. The St. James Uazette, which has been remarkable for its "jingoism" on the subject of the Transvaal, capped the climax yesterday yester-day by earnestly appealing to the British admiralty to "take immediate steps to counteract the plans of the rrpresentatives of the Clan ne Gael from the United States, who are now at Pretoria with a view of obtaining authority to start a fleet of privateers under the Transvaal with a view' of looting the Cape liners." To Choose Bland's Suceessor. St. Louis, June 29. Governor Stephens Steph-ens will call a special election in the Eighth Congressional District of Missouri about the first of Septem ber to fill the vacancy caused by the . death of Richard P. Bland. The con between Democrats in the Eighth Congressional district to succeed the late Congressman Bland, is receiving a food deal of attention from the gov-ernor. gov-ernor. He is a resident of that district dis-trict and three or four of the candidates candi-dates are bis personal friends. , MMARY J ' -V ) About 1,000 men have left Dawson for the Cape Nome diggings. The Tod Slsan assault case has been finally settled by the payment of SI, 000 to the waiter. The treaty confirming the agreement of Marianne islands, Germany, has been signed in Madrid. The search for the murderers cf Martin Mar-tin Meier, the wealthy Swiss recluse of Chicago, has been given up. The Frich chamber of deputies have adopted a resolution authorizing duly qualified women to practice at the bar. Arthur F. Carey has reached Lynn. Mass., after a tour around the world on a wheel. He left Lynn July 1, 1S95. In a battle with high-binders in Chinatown, San Jose, Deputy Sheriff V. L. Bache was shot in the side and badly wounded. Fifty students from Uruguay will be sent by their government to attend agricultural and industrial schools in the United States. Almost every article of trade into which iron and steel enters to any considerable degree will be higher in price after the coming month. According to advices brought from the Orient by the steamship Glenoble, China still continues in a state of uncertainty un-certainty which borders on revolution. revolu-tion. William Jennings or "Bill" Ryan, one of the convicted Mocomb train robbers, rob-bers, has made a written confession of the crime of which he has been found guilty. In consequence of his daily exertions during the religious ceremonies, the pope is now suffering great prostration, prostra-tion, together with a slight attack of fever. The French consul at Mcng Tseu, province of Yun Yan, China, where anti-foreign disturbances recently occurred, oc-curred, reports that the situation is unchanged. un-changed. There were incorporated with the secretary of state of New Jersey during dur-ing June 205 companies, making a total of 1,179 companies for the six months of the year. In East Waco, Texas, the water from Brazos river has flooded the city. Main street is six feet deep, the business houses are under water and all merchandise mer-chandise is ruined. A. Altmann, a clerk in aleading.dry goods store at Racine, Wis., a week ago received a silver dollar in payment for goods that brought him 1,000. The coin is dated 1804 and is very valuable. valua-ble. The merchants of Buenos Ay res are beginning a crusade against unpopular laws on taxes and duties of that country, coun-try, which are very exacting, especially espe-cially on foreigners doing business there . A semi-official note has been issued in Paris declaring that there is no foundation for the rumors of a disagreement dis-agreement between the British and French squadrons in Newfoundland waters. Mayor James Balbirnie of Muskegon, Mich., was assassinated by J. V Tayer, a disappointed office-seeker. Tayer shot Mayor Balbirnie while the latter was standing in the doorway of I his store. A German, whose name is not given, stole 53,000 in gold dust from a miner's cabin at Cape Nome. He was arrested by a committee of miners to whom he confessed the robbery. The committee hanged him. The confederation of artisans of Lima, Li-ma, Peru, has decided to take criminal action against the chief of police, who is charged with torturing prisoners, among whom were some members of that organization. Important tests with thorite, a new high explosive, are being conducted by the board of ordinance and fortifications fortifi-cations at the Sandy Hook proving grounds. It is the invention of an Oregon professor. The attorney-general of Peru has brought action against two priests who are charged with illegally treating treat-ing a child suffering from a disease. The priests have fled. The child was attending a church school. The Chicago Packing and Provision company has shut down, announcing that they would not attempt to operate oper-ate their packing houses vntil the strike was over. Practieally all the other packing houses were in the mar ket. Captain P. S. Bomus, in charge of the United States recruiting station at Chicago, has asked permission - to enlist en-list colored recruits, and to restore the lenient physical examinations which were in vogue during the war with Spain. The San Francisco Call says that under the name of Virginia Drew and unknown to her husband, Mrs. Tres-cott, Tres-cott, wife of Charles B. Trescott, the millionaire fish packer of Portland, Or., made her debut on Monday evening even-ing at the Alcazar theatre. Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth, the authoress, is dead, at the age of 79. She had lived for many years a retired life in a picturesque mansion of the old-fashioned type, located on a hill in West Washington, overlooking the Potomac and the hills of Virginia. Secretary Gage expressed the opinion to his colleagues at a cabinet meeting that the deficit for this fiscal year would fall below 890,000,000.' William P. Wilkes, a farmer living near Mount Vernon, Mo., cut his wife's throat and then his own. Both are dead. Wilkes was 65 years of age, while his wife's age was 55. It can be said on good authority that the agricultural implements works and perhaps manufactories in general will not be interrupted this year by any protracted period of idleness.' The American Edible Nut company, to control the peanut trade, is to be incorporated in New Jersey. The capital capi-tal stock, it is stated, will be $5,000,000. Chicago detectives are watching every incoming train for Leroy McEl-roy, McEl-roy, said to have stolen diamonds valued at $5,000 from guests of the Richelieu hctel, San Francisco. At the Hertford assizes, Mary Ann Ansell was found guilty of murdering her sister, an inmate of an asylum for the insane, by sending her poison cake by post. She was sentenced to death. NORTHWEST NOTES. Swan Nelson, a miner, was killed in the No. 9 mine at Rock Springs, Wyo., on the 20th ult. He was struck by mna.vjy empty cars. It is stated that German capitalists intend to soon build a great smelter in Shasta county, Cal. The new smelter will double the copper output of Shasta count'. Vincent Ryan, a prominent newspaper newspa-per man of the Pacific coast and editor of the Tacoma News, dropped dead Thursday morning in a Tacocna restaurant. restau-rant. Paul Reuther, a stone mason, committed com-mitted suicide at Spokane by jumping into the river. He had acted queerlw for several days, and it is supposed he became insane over financial difficulties. difficul-ties. The Bimetallic smelters at LeadvilTe have resumed operations, employing about eighty men. The Arkansas Valley Val-ley and Union smelters, employing $00 men, have made no effort as yet to resume. re-sume. Clarence T. Johnson of Cheyeniip, has been appointed an assistant in irrigation, ir-rigation, agricultural department, tie $1,500 per annum. The appointiner t was made through the civil service eommission. The company of the Twenty -fourth infantry which has been stationed at Fort Russell has departed for the Philippines. Phil-ippines. A troop of the First United States cavalry has taken their places at Fort Russell. Soldiers of companies L and M, Twenty-fourth infantry, raided a saloon at Winnemucca, New. while their train was passing through there en route for the Philippines, stole what liquor there was in sight and shot the bartender, bar-tender, inflicting a painful wound. The train was searched, but the culprits cul-prits were not identified. The sum of $4,903,095.07. or 32.2 per cent is the gain in net receipts at the United States branch mint in Denver, for the fiscal year ending June 30, over that of 1S9S. For the last twelve months the gold received and paid for at this mint was 521,144,247, as against $16,240,441.93 for the year ending June 30, 1898. About 97 per cent of the bullion bul-lion received at the mint is credited to Colorado mines. The manager of the Fountain hotel, Yellowstone park, says that on the 26th inst, and continuing until 10:50 without intermission, there was an eruption from a crater about fifty feet north of the Fountain gej'ser, which has always been considered to be nothing noth-ing more than a pool. The size of the opening is about the same as the famous Fountain geyser. The eruption erup-tion played from 200 to 250 feet high. The San Francisco coroner's jury which investigated the killing of Charles Kopp by his wife, found that the shooting was a ease of justifiable homicide. Kopp was attentive to another an-other woman, to whom he had deeded most of his property. The wife, who is a consumptive, was goaded to her murderous act by Kopp defiantly telling tell-ing her that she no longer had a place in his affections and admitting her accusations ac-cusations against him. The Colorado Paris exposition commission com-mission has made a contract with F. D. Higbee, representative of the largest statue-casting firm in the country, for a solid gold statue for exhibition ex-hibition at the Paris exposition. The design represents an "up-to-date" girl, the figure of life-size being cast in solid gold, 18 karats fine, the cast with its base being six feet four inches in height. It is estimated that a million mil-lion dollars' worth of gold will be used. A party of recruits from Cleveland, O., en route to the Philippines, started a riot in the railroad yards at Denver, on the 30th ult.. bv assaulting a car repairer with a razor. In the fight which ensued, a large number of railroad rail-road men took a hand and one soldier had three ribs broken and several others received severe wounds. Two of the soldiers, named J. J. Posey and J. H. Masterson, were arrested by the police and held for disturbance. David Doty, a ranchman of L'inta cqunty, Wyoming, had an encounter with bears last week that came near costing him his life. The old man, who is 62 years old, ran up against three bears. He shot one. the second fought him to a finish and the third ran away. Bear No. 2 got on top of him after shooting bear No. 1 before he could reload his ritle. and there was a lively hugging match. Doty came out victorious, but he will stay in the hospital awhile. A Union Pacific fireman named Emil Anderson, fell from the running-board of his engine coming down Sherman hill, in Wyoming, and was run over by the entire train of fifty cars, his body-being body-being terribly mangled. The deceased was a single man. Liightning struck a house in Spokane, turning everything in the house upside up-side down, and breaking a bedstead into a thousand pieces on which a woman and her child were sleeping, but strange to say neither the mother or child were hurt in the least. The Eilers smelter, one of the trust plants at Pueblo, has resumed operations oper-ations with about half regular force. The wages paid are about what the company originally offered, and the men are guaranteed protection if they choose to violate the eight-hour law. At Laramie, Wyo., Joe Guthrie shot and instantly killed William Daley of Fort Collins, Colo. The murder was cold-blooded and unprovoked. Guthrie made a desperate attempt to escape, but was captured and is in jail. A number of new settlers are coming into the White River valley, in Nevada. The total population of the three towns of Lund, Preston and Georgetown George-town is now said to be 320 souls, and there are more to follow. These people peo-ple are nearly all from Utah, and have come as permanent residents.' Hali Adali, the Turkish wrestler, threw three men twice each in fifty-eight fifty-eight minutes at Cripple Creek, Colo., last week. His contract was to do the job in ninety minutes. ; Herman Wille was killed at the Sherman gravel pits, in Wyoming, last Week. ? Wille was under a car fixing the brake, the car being jacked up. A string of flat cars in charge of a brake-man brake-man were let down on the same track. They ran into the car under which Wille was at work and passed entirely over him, - - ' J I v." s "V |
