Show COET famine in india MADRAS august 6 though the monsoon set get in some time ago age in some soma parts of india dispelling all fears fean of failure of crops in that r part A of the country where rains had fallen aed there has baa been no rainfall in the Ching leput and north alcot districts in this presidency and all hopes of averting a famine have been abandoned the heat is unprecedented standing grain and other crops have succumbed to the long drought and all are withered and burned already the effects of a scarcity of food are being elt and there is great suffering among the inhabitants of the distri districts ets many deaths from starvation have been re reported ported it is impossible to get food tor for the cattle horses cows donkeys and other live stock which are dying in large numbers everywhere every where in the districts the commissions orders following to is the text of the order issued by the utah commission regarding the right of a certain class of people to vote to the judges of election and registration officers As heretofore announced by the commission under the de cislon of hon C S zane chief chief justice of the united states courts for utah territory delivered october 1889 in the he case of W P bonnett bennett the utah commission is of the opinion that a person otherwise qualified who has heretofore been living in the polygamous relation but blit has ha 8 dissolved that relation in some effectual manner is entitled to register and vote the commission desires to call attention of election officers to its circular of july 1890 which provides among other things that whenever it appears that the name of a voter has been stricken off or omitted from the registry list without fault on the part of the said voter and said voter is not dis franchised by any act of congress that the name oi of such voter should of right be reinstated by the deputy registrar on the registration books of the proper precinct and he be permitted to vote at the ensuing election 0 L GODFREY chairman returned elder elder L A kelech who has been engaged in missionary labors in the united unita states and europe since march ath 1888 on which date he left this city has returned home and called at our office the first elret year of his absence was devoted to preaching and teaching the gospel in the states of nebraska wisconsin and minnesota respectively in those stai states bis his efforts were rewarded with gratifying success in march 1889 elder kelsch kelech was appointed to labor in the turkish mission and at once set sail for europe he experienced some difficulty in sec securing luring a turkish passport and consequently decided to remain in london where he be labored for the promulgation of truth until Sept september embee I 1 jtb when he was appointed to succeed elder S A blair as president of the bristol conference which po position he held until january 18 1890 an when he was released and appointed to the swiss and german mission where he remained until june of the present year when he was released to return home in europe too elder kelsch met with the most satisfying results and returns to his mountain home in the best of health and spirits progress in dublan on the alt we were visited by apostle teasdale who remained with us five days holding eight meetings and giving us a ward organization with winslow farr as bishop fredric G williams Wf lliams and philip H hurst as cou counselors ne elors and willard carroll as clerk and recorder he also organized a relief belief society with ida idaj J no AS president lydia K young and charlotte carroll as counselors phoebe I 1 allred as secretary nancy A williams as treasurer and josepha wright as aVais assistant tant secretary the sabbath school young mens benj arid and young ladies associations and primary association were already organized and in running order we were named the dublan ard of the mexican mission of the church of jesus christ ot of latter day saints we have in the ward fifty three families eighteen high priests sixteen seventies fifteen elders seven priests four teachers seventeen deacons members children under eight years and three children over eight not baptised baptized sed making souls in the ward there have been this year fifteen baptisms six children blest one death and nineteen removed returned to utah we are located sixty miles south of diaz sixteen miles east and a little north of juarez six miles north of the mexican town of casas grandes grandee WIZARD CARROLL DUBLAN july destructive flood sax SAM francisco august 6 auck au land advices advises by steamer alameda are to the effect that a great flood and something like a tidal wave prevailed at melbourne july the waters in the harbor rose above the level of the surrounding towns and several small vessels were wrecked the floods were the most severe since 1862 and the course of the yarra river presented a scene of desolation for miles in south richmond another suburb 41 of melbourne whole streets were submerged and two thousand people rendered homeless business Busin tse was almost suspended in the city and efforts were made to relieve the wants of the suffer erp erf the loss of life it is believed did not exceed ten A schooner name unknown disappeared off is believed to have been lost with all hands banda on the plateau of the range an aa avalanche of earth fifty acres in extent swept down the che mountain side engulfing the residences there the inmates escaped railroads were partly washed out for twenty miles A great number of sheep were drowned the estimated total loss lose will reach half a million pounds at last advices advises the murray was rising and floods in albury district were feared much sickness is prevalent at melbourne attributable to exposure and the deposits of slime left by the floods the jews LONDON august 7 A berlin dispatch says that a secret understanding has been arranged between the powers of the alliance to stem as far as possible the tide of jewish emigration from russia and to force the jews back into russia the fhe motive is supposed to be that the jews are an ele ment of weakness in russia and that it is not desirable to have them foisted on other nations especially the members of the alliance italy and austria as if by common understanding are taking steps to drive the immigrant rant jews back from their borders in Nall Oali cla els both the government and the populace are strongly appo opposed sed to the exiles and a hundred have been compelled to the russian frontier on the german frontier of russia the authorities have been ordered to make a rigid examination into the condition of all jewish emigrants and if a jew is not in possession of a passport railway ticket and enough money to guarantee bis passage to and acceptance in america be is sent back to russia by t the germ german n officials many ha have ve been turned back in this way and one ode unfortunate stabbed himself rather than again submit to the russian Ilus sian yoke the italian government has expelled ex a nu number aber of f russian jews from genoa and forced them to return to marseilles Marseil iee the russian government on the other hand is relaxing the difficulties that X surround the jews who desire to leave the country the charge for passports is abolished and the jews are no longer required to go back to where they were originally enrolled before procuring pm euring a passport this latter provision was a chief weapon of blackmail on the part of russian officials and rendered it necessary for the fugi tive jew to bribe every officer whom he encountered the chilean trouble 4 washington august 8 the post this morning prints an interview with aquilla J daughterty Laught erty united states state consul at callao peru who has just rp returned turned from that country in which he says the recent war in chile is the most ridiculous revolution he ever knew or heart heard of the revolutionists are stationed at iquique aquique several hundred miles from santiago where balmaceda has his headquarters balmaceda has a force of armed men at his bis command and the insurgents have between the two capitals of the opposing forces lies a mountain range that simply is impassable by any armed force there is if absolutely nothing upon the barren range of rugged mountains to sustain an army and it is impossible to carry across it that chach is necessary to support an army the insurgents have no ships with which to carry their men by sea and if they had they would soon be destroyed for balmaceda has the whole coast protected by torpedo boats balmaceda is well supported with the sinews of war and goes on with the government ignoring to a great extent the efforts of the insurgents the idea of a party of revolutionists tiou lats being miles away from the people against whom they revolted and totally unable to come nearer to them strikes an american as baldg very far removed from what we would call an insurrection or rebellion in the meantime while the party in power the insurgents are living well and seem to be pro prosper prospera sperl g they occupy the rich district of tara paca with boundless quantities of nitrates the territory which caille a few years ago wrested from peru from the large revenues they draw dian from these nitrates they are enabled to feed themselves and live comfortably merchant vessels put in at iq no and trade in the products as they did before the rebellion and the moneys thus brought to them is the chief income of the insurgent death of sister merrill the following is an extract from a letter to the first presidency dated bagali Fa gali galil samoa july 1891 writ ten by rider W 0 lee president 0 the samoan mission we have very bad news to report this month and our hearts are filled with sympathy for all those who will be affected by the same in reporting sister merrills Merril Ps condition last month we thought she was recovering but she had a billious bill lous attack and could not keep beep any food on her stomach As a result she became very weak and a premature birth was the consequence this happened on the of june the child died next day an hour after the death of the child the mother sister lee to her bedside and after thanking her for waiting on her during her sickness said that she abe was going to die that she could not stay because I 1 they had come for her 12 she then talked with laer her husband kissed him goodbye and all was over the sad event has left a cloud of sorrow behind that nothing but time and the spirit of god can dispel the funeral was held the next day the mother and baby boy were buried in one coffle by permission from the manager of the german plantation we buried them on the brow of a hill about yards SE from the mission nitta sion houf houfe e they were buried in a dry elevated place so that when brother merrill merrilla Pe a mission is ended he be can take the bodies home with him we re rem the sympathy of nf our white friends friend ft here and also many offers of assistance we can say all that is good about our dear departed sister sinter she bile was good and pure had a great desire to fulfil fulfill her mission and d do 09 all U the good in her power sister katie eliza hale merrill wag waa born dec 10 1871 at grantsville Grants ville tooele thoele utah and was the daughter of alma H and sarah A dark clark hale she left home in company with her husband elder Elde joseph rJoseph harris merrill of smithfield last february and had haa been an active worker in the sunday school and Y L M 1 I A she is the first sister who has died while on a mission city school property the clerk of the board of education of this city has prepared the following list of valuation of school property for the county superintendent as provided for in the school law FIRST pret precinct grounds buildings Buit dins first ward 1500 second nard duard 50 I 1 hird bird ward i eighth ward 1000 na rd 4 tenth ward 7 s totals 1375 NO SECOND PRECINCT grounds buildings fourth ward 1 1203 1 03 fifth ward 2500 ron sixth ward none NOB el seventh ward NW fourteenth ward 1 fifteenth ward 2500 none nona totals THIRD PRECINCT reported in gross at for grounds and 1800 for buildings last year the reports of 1 I the trustees in the third precinct were as fol lows 4 grounds buildings Building 8 sixteenth ward buoo seventeenth ward 2500 8 1 nineteenth ward 5 k totals 20 the large increase reported this year mainly in estimated increase of values 0 nothing has been added save in the way of pay ing indebtedness V FOURTH PRECINCT grounds buildings 1 twentieth ward 2 2000 no a twenty first ward 1000 2103 2100 totals FIFTH PRECINCT T grounds buildings t eleventh ward 8 twelfth wad 6 M thirteenth ward si 35 totals ji ao 00 0 J f |