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PAUNCEFOTE THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. 13 DEAD. British Ambassador to ths United States Crosses the Divide. ANDBRW FakltahMi. Lord Pauncefote, British Ambassadoi to the United States died at the emUTAH. SPANISH PORK. bassy in Washington Saturday morning. He having been ill for some time Intermittent attacks of UTAH STATE NEWS. asthmafrom and rheumatism gout. The Reverend Honorable Lord Paun-fot- e, The members of the colored Baptist the first ambassador to the church of Salt Lake will erect a hand United States, and the dean of the some oew edifice. diplomatic corps in Washington, was The Morteosen trial is still dragging born in Munich, Bavaria, seventy-fo- ur along, only ten jurors having been years ago. His governmental service secured Saturday last. began in Hong Kong as attorney genFark City is undergoing a siege of eral in 1865, and after much valuable came be colonial experience, smallpox, about a dozen new cases to minisas first in 1SS9, ! Washington being reported last week. ter, and afterwards as first ambassaThe Salt Lake street railway com dor. pany has increased the wages of its Ilia service here lias been one unemployees 2 cents per hour. broken record of successful diplomacy. Smallpox has broken out at Kimberly The Bering sea negotiations were and as a number have been exposed it Imong his earliest works of importance is feared the disease will become gen- and it was his familiarity with that eral. difficutt subject that led to his selecThe drivers of the sprinkling tion by the foreign office for the post wagons in Salt Lake are on a strike, at Washington Soon after Secretary Hay assumed demanding higher wages and shorter office Lord Pauncefote began the task hours. Over $4,000 was raised in two days which he himself regarded as the last week by the Salt Lake Elks for greatest accomplishment of his busy' tbelr big convention to be held in life, namely, to set at rest forever the questions growing out of the old August. treaty, and he entered Two Salt Lake women one night with energy again upon negotiations, last week captured a burglar who entered their home and turned him over the result of which was the framing of the treaty recently to the police. ratified. For these valuable services 0. Q. Wilson, a' quarryman was the British did Lord Paun-tefot- e nM, Clay-ton-BuI- ote crushed to death beneath a rock in aland slide at the quarry near Salt Lake last week. Eden, Weber county, is to have telephone connections, the people of that town having raised a bonus for extending the connecting line. Jacob Kopp, of Salt Lake, aged 23, while playing base ball, collided with another player and received injuries which resulted in his death. At Frovo $3,500 is to be expended on the driveway to the lake, it being the intention to make it ultimately one of the finest driveways in the west. Better mail service for the people in the southern part of Cache Valley will, it is reported, be established by the department about the first of July. The 1903 meeting of the International Association of Ticket Agents will be held in Salt Lake, when several hundred ticket agents will be in attendance. The unusually large supply of asparagus grown by Utah farmers this year is leading the local canneries to can a great deal of it for next fall and winter's trade. It is now believed that a smelter will be established at pasin. Grand eounty, known as the La Sals mining district. A Chicago company is interested in the project. One of the greatest benefits of the recent storm in Sevier county will be the probable end of the threatened grasshopper plague, the storm dealing death to all the young hoppers. A sheepherder named Foutz accidentally shot himself, at the camp near Frovo, while attempting to scare away mountain lions from bis herd. The wound while painful is not serious. Bardie Lynch, a well known young man of Salt Lake, .has achieved unusual honors and success in the Medical college. lie has won two gold medals and a $500 cash prize. Ralph Hansen of Sprlngville, committed suicide at the Smith ranch near Rawlins, Wyoming, Thursday of last week. Hansen left a note, saying he was tired of life, and did not care to live any longer. The total amount of death claims paid by the life insurance companies to residents of Salt Lake City in 1901 was $310,474. In Utah, outside of Salt Lake City, $03,839 was paid, making a total for the state of $370,303. Alexander Wilkins, a member of the city council of Frovo, was stricken with apoplexy while hoeing In the garden and died in a few moments. Mr. Wilkins came to Utah in 1351, and for fifteen years was a member of the police and sheriffs force in the city of ten-to- n Fbila-delph- ia Provo. A Mr. Moss of Moroni narrowly missed a serious accident last week. He was in a tent and reached out under the flap to get his gun, which was lying near. He pulled it toward him, when, of course, it went off. The charge shattered one finger, which was afterward amputated. James C. Williams, a young married man of Sprlngville, took of an ounce of laudanum with suicidal intent Sunday. His rash act was discovered soon after lie took it and medical assistance was at once summoned and prevented the fatal effect of the drug. Ileapoudenoy on accouut of money matters was the cause of his rash act two-thir- government the honor three times to extend the term of his office at Washington, which would otherwise have ceased when he attained the age of 70 years. MOB LYNCHES WHITE MAN. at Ills Victim's Father and llrothar Assist Execution. Abe Whiterop, the white murderer AT BURNED NEGRO IN A IS TORTURED TO DEATH PAINFUL MANNER. CUBA IS FREE. STAKE. SLOW AND NEWS SUMMARY, Govsrnmont Is Tamed Over to the People and Uncle Barns Representatives Withdraw. COAL Sanor Palma attached hit signature to a document as president of the Cuba Poor Wretch Bsggsd to bo Shot Bat Bis republic after an exchange of congratBequest Wss Not Granted A Numulation in the audience chamber of the ber of Women Witness palace at noon Tuesday, and with tha ths Tragedy. bid veteran. General Gomez, ascended Ha was inA which had been in pro- to the root of the palace. met with a and recognized gress since last Saturday ended In the stantlydemonstration Genwelcome. of burning at the stake of Dudley Mor- greatWood himself attended the haleral Mcgan, colored, who assaulted Mrs. on tha flagstaff and lowered the Kee, wife of a Texas & Pacific section yards colors. As they fluttered American foreman, at Lansing, Texas. When it below saluted tbelr the cavalry down, was learned that the negro bad been flag. captured and was being taken to LanLike an echo of the cheers that sing, the excitement of the people knew arose, came the distant boom of one of no bounds. The prisoner was identified by Mrs. the great guos of Cabanas fortress, McKee and several men who worked across the bay. It was followed by on the section, Mrs. McKee said they another and another in rythmic sucshots had been had the right man and the negro was cession, until forty-fiv- e in the Union. each state for one fired, escorted by about 200 men armed with Winchesters to the place of execution. As the first gun spoke, the flags on As he was chained to the stake he Morro castle and those on the Santa Clara and Punta fortresses were lowmade a statement in which he impliThe jurisdiction of the United ered. cated another negro named Franklin had ended. States was Beard to Beard, saying get part In tha meantime, a Cuban flag bad of the money which was to be stolen. been bent on the halyards of the palace Morgan confessed to having committed and with his own hands flagstaff the crime. After be had been securely chained General Wood raised it as an act of the to the stake, or rail, with his hands United States, General Gomez assisting him. As the flag flew free, the and legs tied, members of the mob bestreets below fairly waved with the to take railroad ties from a fire gan arose. cheer that It was caught up already started and burn out bis eyes. ou roofs and rolled the the by people and burning They then held red-hover the city. timbers to bis neck, and after burning Again the cavalry below saluted, and his clothes off, to other parts of his of the Cubans spoke, body. The negro screamed In agony. again theeguna this time with a national salute of He was tortured In a slow and painful twenty-on- e The bands staguns. manner. With the crowd clamoring for a slow tioned on the plaza, at Cabanas and at crashed out with pride of death, the negro writhing and groan- Malecon, and the revenue cutters and country, ing begged piteously to be shot. Mrs. in the harbor thundered battleships McKee was brought to the scene In a their strength of war. The foreign four othar carriage, accompanied by hoisted the flag of Cuba atj women, and an effort was made to get warships their The ensigns of the carriage close enough for her to end Great Britain had recognized Italy seethe negro. The crowd was so dense, the republic. was this that however, impossible. General Wood and his adjutant-genera- l, Persons held each other on their Col. Scott, with two aides, after a shoulders, taking turns about looking of good wishes, were last exchange at the awful sight. to driven the pier where they entered The negro'a head finally dropped and a launch and were flicked away to the the ties were piled around and over Both ships got under way him. In half an hour only the trunk Brooklyn. as soon as possible and steamed out of of his body remained. As soon as the the harbor. The mao at the taffrail heat would permit, the crowd with of the Brooklyn was kept busy dipping long sticks began a gruesome search the flag In answer to the salutes of the for relics. Parts of his skull and body thousands upon the water front who were gathered up by some aud carried watched her departure. A large floaway. of various water craft escorted tilla Section Foreman McKee, husband of the woman assaulted, applied the the Brooklyn to sea. While this was occurring at Havana, match to the faggots. Many women were present from the surrounding a similar scene was being enacted at where General Whiteside at country, but owing to the great crush Santiago, noon over the authority to his they had very little opportunity to see Cubanturned the negro until the heat forced the two successor and sailed away with troops of the Eighth cavalry. Only crowd to widen the circle and the eight batteries of American artillery flames leaped over him. remained on Cuban soil. A chapter of American history was ended and tha rrodloto Revolt of Ten Million Negroee. first chapter of the republio of Cuba Speaking as a representative man of was begun. the colored race, in Chicago, Ferdinand PLEDGE IS FULFILLED. Barnett, one of the assistant state attorneys, stated that the time was not Promise of rnltvd States to Make Cabans Free Is Redeemed. far distant when the 10,000,000 American negroes would forcibly revolt Secretary nay, according to the plan against lynch law. "There will be no arranged some time ugo, took the final other course left for us. Lynch law step Tuesday of acquainting the na in the south has gradually made the lions of the globe that the United negro feel he is an outlaw. In the last States government has redeemed its fifteen years 2,500 negro men, women solemn pledge to make a free people ia and children have been shot, haoged the island of Cuba. This was done by or burned at the stake without trial. the dispatch by cable to every capital The negro baa, consequently, come to where' there is resident either an ambassador or a minister of the United know that the law affords him no proState of an identical note Informing tection." other governments that the military Boms Startling Statistics. occnpation of Cuba by the United Startling statistics on criminology States has ceased, and that an lode have been presented at the annual con pendent republic has been inaugurated ventlon of the Near York county W. C. there, uuder the presidency of Thomas T. U. One of the delegates read Estrada Ialma. T he embassadors aud statement to the effect that a woman ministers are instructed to convey this of criminal tendencies, whose name information to the to government was not made public for obvious res which they are accredited. sons, died In 1827. "Her descendants People of Fort do Franco Terror Stricken. have been traced, aaid the apesksr. number Seven hundred 800, Tuesday morning at 5:30 o'clock a "They were criminals, having been convicted thick, heavy cloud, lit up by flames of were mur at least once. Thirty-seveUgh tiling sod the rising sun, rose from were and for dcrers executed their Mont Peleo. The 20,000 people of Fort de Franco at once became crimes." en, and in scant attire rushed excitedly The census bureau has issued a rethrough the streets of the town, shriek port on agriculture in Hawaii which ing and praying, Stones from the shows that the 2,273 farms enumer volcano as big as hazel nuts fell in tha ated therein in 1900 were valued at streets. Many of the inhabitants hurriedly $60,029,956, of which 6 per cent was in on the vessels in the harbor, embarked value farm of The implebuildings. and it was with difficulty that they ments and machinery was $11,484,890, were eventually reassured. and of live stock, $2,370,142. EIhtjr-Tw- o Bodies Recovered From SYMPATHY FOR SOLDIERSMlno. to Up midnight Wednesday eighty-tw- o Cuban ((oust Adnla Resolution on Amerbodies had been taken from icana. mine at Coal Creek, Tenn., The house has adopted a resolution, of the catastrophe In which arena the says a dispatch from Havana to the New York World, declaring May 10 225 miners perished. The cause of the disaster has become Decoration day, and a motion express Gas had collected in an abanknown. ing sympathy for American Soldiers doned mine close by, iuto which an killed in Cabs. had been accidently made last ogening on a are harvest reaping Pickpockets week by a work boy In a lateral shaft. the Prado, the principal promenade, An attempt wss made to close the and crooks of various kinds ara doing opening, hut it is believed that a leak a rushing business. A policeman who remalued. attempted to arrest a crook was killed. man-bu- nt ot mast-head- s. killed last pnonth, was taken from the Paris, Mo., jail, marched to the bridge on the north edge of the town and hanged by a mob of more than 100 men, who rode quietly into town at midnight. The man made no resistance, and in reply to questions confessed his guilt. The father aud brother of the victim were in the mob 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 man and the senior Grow adjusted the rope about liia 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 laud the two men were farming together. pf William Grow, who was Woman Willed Property to a Booster. A wealthy woman named Silva recently died at Lisbon, and left her entire property to a rooster. She was a fervid spiritualist, a believer in the transmigration of souls, and imagined that the aoul of her dead husband had entered the rooster. She caused a special fowl bouse to be built, and ordered her eervantt to pay special at- tention 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 pimple expedient of having the wealthy rooster killed, thus becoming himself the next of kin. Bulgarians Fight Battle With Turk. A band of sixty Bulgarian revolutionists. engaged in raiding the neigh borhood of Malesh Planlna, Rocmelia, came Into contact with a detachment pf Turkish troops May 29. Sharp fighting ensued, during which six Bulgarians were killed and seven wounded. The Turks also suffered some casualties. DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN CHICAQO. Prominent Politician Kills hlater Then llliuself, Eels Johnson, a Chicago politician, allot and fatally wounded Mrs. C. J. Gullaksou, his sister-in-lawho, lie asserted, was the cause of he and his wife separating, and then committed aulcide, siiootiug himself in the head. They had bean married nineteen years. Last week Johnson's home was sold by the sheriff and Mrs. Johnson went to live witli her sister, Johnson was intoxicated when the shooting occurred. WILL ARBITRATE. n panic-stric- k Ton-neu- - Chile and Argentina Will Endeavor to Disputes. Sot-tl- o The Chilean minister of foreign affairs, Seoor Volgera, and the Argentine minister to Chile, Joe. Antooio Terry, are completing the details of the agreement which limits Chilean and Argentine armaments and which provides for ths general arbitration of disputes between the two countries. Owing to this favorable situation, securities and bonds are very firm. Gold is failing. Quicksilver, In commercial quantity, Rian Shoots tilrl Who Jilted Him. baa made its appearance in the prop Georgia Five men are searching the hundred rtles of the Sacramento Mining comto Atlanta, Ga., for country adjacent at Murcur, and to put it into company Millard son of a the Lee, mercial form a furnace will be Included who shot and killed furmer, In the new plant with which mines MUs Lila Suttle, aged 19, at Wesley are now being equipped. Chapel, nine miles from this city. Just There were four cases of ptomanie as ttie min Inter had finished the benepoisoning In Irloe Sunday. The worst diction and before any of the worship case being that of Miss Clara Cover of pers had left the church, Lee, who was Vernal. Tommy Foote and two chil- sitting behind Miss Suttle, leaoed fordren of Landlord Smith of the Hotel ward and fired si her. The first bullet her buck, hut no vital Price were also poisoued. All are entered was reached, and Lee fired again,part the now out of danger. second bullet killing the girl Instantly The girl had refused to marry Lee. well-to-d- o Fra-tervl- 11 Guatemala. Information received at the Guate. malan legation in Washington shows that the city was wholly destroyed and that San Marcos and several other towns were partially destroyed. The Guatemalan authorities decided to reconstruct the city of Quezalteuango on a permanent basis on the old site. Reports regarding tiia destruction of lifa are Incomplete, but they Indicate that at least several thousand persons were killed and that the property loss approximated $50,090,090 In ths April Elves In Murdered by Burglar. lle PREPARE FOR A STRUGGLE WITH STRIKERS. OPERATORS Arbitration Between Mine Owners and Strikers Abandoned and tbo Declare They Will Never Surrender. Mine-Owne- rs u. ued. Presidents of the coal carrying railroads in secret session have discussed plans to break the strike of the miners in Pennsylvania. Every railroad operating In the anthracite fields was represented. No surrender, was the slogan of the mine operators and when the meeting adjourned it was said the railroads were prepared for a protracted struggle, in which every resource would be brought to bear upon the strikers. Arbitration between the mine owners and operators has been abandoned intend now to and the Instructions emforce the fighting. bodying the demands of the coal operators will be forwarded to the mine superintendents. It is expected that mine operators intend to send nonunion men to the mines in sufficient numbers to operate the properties one at a time. The meeting was informal, but one of those present admitted it had been agreed that under no circumstances will the National Civic Federation be permitted to act between them and If any settlement is the miners. reached, it is said, it will be with a mine-owne- rs committee of miners. It is declared that J. P. Morgan will not interfere In the matter. CYCLONE IN MANITOBA. Terrific Wind and Downpour ot Bala Cauiei Great Damage. A cyclone has caused great damage In the Carberry district of Manitoba, one of the richest of the wheat belts. Reports received at Vancouver, B. C. that Wednesday a terrific say wind and a downpour of rain caught the farmers in the fields and they had difficulty in reaching their barns. At Plesant Point, eight miles east of Carberry, the devastation was great Houses and barns were wrecked and farming operations will be Interfered with for days. As far as ia known today, no fatalities occurred. Samuel McCurdy, a farmer, was seriously in. jured. tie was thrown off his seeder by the wind and the machine passe over bis body. VOICES FROM THE DEAD. Several Letter Written by Entombed Miner Found by Bodle In Frntervllle Mine. Thirteen bodies were found Wednes. In an entry of the Fraterville Coal Creek mine, making the total dead 226. With the bodies recovered were found several letters written by some of the men before life became extinct. One had been timed 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon, indicating that others of the entombed men lived many hours after the explosion, which occurred at 7:30 o'clock Monday morning, OTHER ISLANDS1N DANCER. Inhabitant of Dominion Alarmed Over Phenomenon Ithas been reported from St. Kitts, in the Leeward Islands, that on Monday night and Tuesday morning noises similar to those heard May 8th were again audible, but louder and with greater distinctness. Some of the houses there were slightly shaken by the concussion. From the British island of Antigua and the French island of Gaudeloupe loud detonations from the southeast are reported. Alfonso at Ball Fight. The royal bull fight, which is the most typically Spanish feature of the festivities in connection with the coming of age of King Alfonso, occurred Wednesday in the presence of the king, the queen mother, the royal famlly the Spanish nobles and the special envoys. The vast amphitheatre where the tight was held was crowded with 15,000 spectators. PEACE IN SOUTH AFRICA. hailstorm in Rogetjj.. Oklahoma, county, destroyed gr0, crops. Reports from the anthracite dlatr.c. ara to the effect that a dead A severe prevails. a windstorm caused damage to property an At Duluth jured six persona. At Neche, N. D., three young crossing a swollen stream were e gulfed and drowned. Of the hundred or more injured the tornado at Goliad, Tex., it is jj' lleved that twenty will die. At the outskirts of St. Paul, Mini Anton Wier was struck by ligbtni;-ankilled, the bolt coming from clear 6ky. A dispatch received from the Unite States Consul at Guatemala says lb earthquake of April 18, alone rutne l t Quezaltenaugo. The cholera record to date in ManiJ Isas follows: Manila, 1146 cases in 619 deaths; the provinces, 3922 cast and 2774 deaths. The Russian minister of finance, behalf of the Russian govern uient, ii hi telegraphed 250,000 francs to tt Martinique relief fund. The government of the British Itj land of Trinidad is prepared to sett refugees from Martinique on crown iJ lands on moderate terms. The order issued a month ago givln; the judges of Cuba life tenure aud mik ing them removable for cause only hi been revoked by General Wood. In Johnstown, O., a score of bnsineu buildings and residences were destroy ed by fire. A rainfall is all that save: the town from total destruction. Rebels in Kwang Si are comroittiii wholesale massscres, killing all whcl would not subscribe to their demandil and swear allegiance to their flag. n. Lloyd Wheaton who ill about to start borne from the Pbilip-- I pines, will be retired July 15 next by operation of law on account of age. The Cuban house has adopted a reso-lntion declaring May 19tli Decoratiotl day and a motion expressing sympathy for American soldiers killed in Cuba. William Zanisle, aged 15 years, I pupil of the Maywood grammar school Chicago, was struck by a baseball ax almost Instantly killed while watch ing a game. A heavy storm passed over Iwani district, Shirlbeshi province, Hokkaidi on the 3rd instant and did a great dei. of damage. A tidal wave waihec Maj.-Ge- over 200 bouses. The gunboat Machlas has sailed from Colon for' Bocas del Toro, when advices to the state department indicate another clash is imminent between the Liberal and government forces. locust in myriad The seventeen-yea- r numbers appeared in Meskor park and Garvin park, at tbe margin of Evans ville, Ind. Their track ia marked by the disappearance of everything grees. A Japanese millionaire, with capital secured from the Goulds, according tc a Japanese paper, has formed a match trust, with a capital of 7,500,000 yen, American machinery will be intro, duced. Pickpockets are reaping harvest M the Prado, the principal promenade o! Uanava, and crooks of various kindi are doing a rushing buisneas. A policeman who attempted to arrest a crook was killed. at Pretoria of the Dally Telegraph, has cabled his friends here that he is about Alex Carr, a farm hand living near Arkansas City, Kan., waa drowned while trying to save cattle from tbe high water. Stephen Warner wu drowned while taking driftwood froa a swoolen creek. to return home. The Telegraph inter, prets this action on ths part of its correspondent as a circuitous intimation that peace has been arranged In South Africa aud that owing to the censorship Mr. Burleigh was unable to com. municate this fact to his paper, Monslgneur Tarnasai, who waa Pap! Nuncio at the Hague at the time of tbe peace congress aud who left the lege tlon as a protest against tiie exclualoe of a representative of the pope fro the congress, is dead. London Telegraph Rellevv Term Boon Arranged. Have Bennett Burleigh, thecorreapondent Fight Coattail. The state Democratic convention at Colombia, S. C., adopted a platform and formed rules to govern the primaries, in accordance with which can didatea for the United States senator-ab- ip and other offices will pledge their support to the successful candidates sod to the platform of the parly. Sen ator Tillman was chairman of the com raittee on platform. A resolution con demnlng the course of Senator Me Laurln wss passed. A. C. Lattlmer Tillman's choice for United States senator In the coming primaries. Bald Bnowilldo Wa a Vlaltatloa ef the Wroth of God. At Denver a court of inquiry hat been appointed to establish the truth Tltlman-MrLaur- le entered the Monogram saloon at Junctou City, Oregon, Tuesday morning, murdered the bartender, Benjamin Tracy, secured $275 and es- or falsity of ths newspaper interview caped. It is suppoaed that Tracy was in which Adjutant-GenerGeorge In the back room closing the door when Gardener wss quoted as having said thu murderer first made his appearance, that in bis opinion tha snowsllde and that the tilt was robbed while tha Tellurlde, resulting in great losa murdered mail was there. Hearing life, was a visitation of tha wrath the warning belt on the cash register, God on tha miners of that district tor he started for the front, when the rob- their conduct during strikes. In eon, ber shot him. The shooting wss heard sequence of this s lleged expression, labor unions have demanded the by several people near by. moval of the adjutant-generaA man Danger of civil war in the Hilt island has disappeared. Two men were billed and aoTertl Jured In a trolley wreck at Easton The present postal relations bet Cuba and this country will be eottl(' al l. of , In Portland, Or., as the result feud between the Chin company sod the Lee company, Lee Hung fired tlire bullets Into Chin Louie while tbe latter was sitting In his store on Second street Chin Loul will probably In an interview In Cincinnati, W. J Bryan stated that the Cubans exhibited superior patriotism during the certnon-ieat Havana. He further said he be lleved the United State would eve" tually give the Flllpluos a govern mm1 of their own. The desertion of many people fro Fort da France has resulted in thi disorganization of many trades. number of bakers have been compel to close their stores, owing to the ffl i hat their employes are among tlx who have fled. In accordance with the expre wishes of President Loubet, and on count of the mourning for theMrt'B Iqu victims, Paris will notbedccort nor will tli city be illuminated honor of the president's return fro bis visit to the Czar of Rossis. s !