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Show Bede Saw's IdtWrtww Xsgwt , nt'rt faaaas This Tbs,statement of ibe publte debt ito UTAH. aned Monday showa that at the close of the fiscal year,' June 34, 1901, the debt, teas cash In the treasury a moan to 11.044 ,739,134, a decrease during UTAH STATE NEWS. Jone of 117,737,374. This decrease ia Tkt total UMMiMit of the Ut f or accounted for In the main by an in crease In the cash on hand. Tbe debt 1900 will approximate 1112,420,563, aa , COALVILLE. t--ed laereaa of 87,195,993 over 190a Three hundred sod Iftjf gallons of lak haa been ordered for im ta 8U Lake City's pabiie schools next year. Major Richard W. Young baa to bia bait Lake home, having resigned bl position aa supreme Jody ' file to Provo of lha po 4.Tba receipt bare already paaaed tha 110,000 mark la Manila. and a free delivery service la bow aa tared for that plaof. la recapitulated; Interest-bearin- g 9 987.141.048 debt-,.- . Debt oa which enterest hss ceased since malur- - N East of Tatostoars MastorsJ aal a graaatsaa Moadaf. Sunday afternoon the Forty-fou- r and Tfc.if Forty-etgbt- k Forty-aint- h, AGAIwBT UNITED STATES. " eighth volunteer regiiuenta were tered oat at tha Presidio. The lug oat of tha foor regiueata requpd r tha services of eight paymaster. 91,000,000 waa disbursed. . Tba mu7 to was taken from the Presidio la eight Doherty wagon, to1 under tha charge of a paymaalef d artillrB-monhla elerk. Forty-fivled and' armed, escorted M treasure and pay corps to tba reaci mF aub-lreasn- e . lty..MJt. t.113,4.5 Debt bearing oa IntereaL 81,013,384 Total,,". i, 371,578, 844 This amount, however, does not inclods 9741,354,689 la certificates and treaauiy notes outstanding which are offset by an unequal a mo ant of cash ea heed held for their redemption. Tbs cash In the treasury Is classified aa follows; t Gold reserve fund.., 9 130,000,000 Trust funds 771,754,489 Genera) fund,..,..,,..,, 138,487,449 Ja national hank depositories . 101,414,973 , foar-year-o- ld 8855,-033,88- aS FhU-Ijipl- ra, thjvauing ng h er half-bree- g-.- four-year-o- ld -- - - tloa. A bait Lake physician baa aoder bla charge a vary mysterious and periling baa many of tha , akin diaeam which ebaractertatlea of leproay, The temperature registered aa low aa 41 drgreea la bait Lake Tuesday of laat week. The lowest point reached la Jane of laat yaar waa tl degrees, eon of Prank Whit The ..91,181,848,011 Total..;,,.. Against which there are demand liaaier of 8priogville act fire to bia fathere 4, hay abed while playing with matches, bilities ontatand I ng amou n ting to which leaves a eaab balance the abed and one load of bay being oa bead of 9324,833, 184. horned. who maa d. Golding, the young Porto Blew Will Sosa he a Territory. sustained a broken back in a Wyoming C So far asenjoying all the advantages tnonel accident. Is lying la a bait Lake of free trede with the United States le City hospital with but littls hope of concerned, Porto Rleo will he a full- f recovery. Hedged territory within tbe next few Oa account of the prolonged cold said an attache of thelsao-l- ar ninths," spring weather the hay crop will be division of the war department lighter thaa usual In Sanpete county, Saturday. Whether or not that will and only two eropa of alfalfa will be be advantageous to the people of the J harvested, Island remains to be demonstrated. For the first six months of 1901 the The people of Porto Rico havo existed tax on doge In Salt Lake City amounted without land taxes each as we undertot' 00. In 1899 the dog tax revenues stand them la this eonntry al nee the amouetedJo 11,413, while for last year island first became a colony of Spain, -All revennea for the maintenance of they fell to 1029.50. FUb end Game Werden Sharp baa the public wbrke of the Island have been drawn from customs charges and just finished an examination of Fish from metbodaof taxation entirely for a obtained lot and and Panguttch lakes of trout eggs to' be transplanted la sign to American ideas 7 other parte of ti elate. . paalsh Prtasta Will be la William Nlelyon, a Richfield pioneer, According to Vatican eirciea, one of waa fatally Injured by being struck ia the jaw by a clip flying off a single tbe principal subjects of the recent It conferences between Cardinal Gibbons, tree, fhe blor on Archbishop Cbappelte and Cardinal brain. tfuTtiaeoftbe at rupture Rato polls waa how to devise means for State Treasurer Dixon and hi family the Spanish sympathies came near meeting death tn a runaway counteracting of the priests In Cuba and the Philip accident last week, though the entire pines. Ilia said that the United States, party were fortunate enough to escape through Cardinal Gibbons, requested with a few bruises and a severs fright. that the necessary measures be taken Ilyruna Thomas, aged 18, of Salt to secure immigration of Dutch, BelLake, placed a pound of powder In a gian, French and American clergymen to Cuba and the Philippine In order to eau and Touched It off, the ean-flytprinup and striking, him la the face, In. gradually dilute the Hiding severe but not aerloua injuries ciples of the priesthood. It la added that the suggestion was favorably re . Norman Weston, a young fellow in celved at tbe vat lean. chain-ganhis made the Salt Lake Ltuls Whirlwind a V tm Maa. escape Thursday by leaping from a Little Whirlwind, wagon Into a crowd of school children, the Northern where the guards dared not ehoot at Cheyenne Indian servings life sentence . him. In the Mootana penitentiary for muriTbe jnry returned a verdict of guilty der, was discharged Monday, the slate of voluntary manslaughter, with a rec- board of pardons having approved the ommendation for mercy, ta the oaae of governor's action la granting a pardon. Ajhlon K. Faria York, charged with Little Whirlwind's case was an nauau killing Ed. Johnson at Santaquln on dly noted one, the Indian Rights association and many prominent people all July IT, 1899. . over the country becoming Interested Lhl waa visited by a severe wind and urging the governor, aa an act of Storm oa the 83lh, fences, haystacks Tbe Injustice, to issue the pardon. and shade and fruit trees being blown dian waa eonvicted sheep-herdof a killing down, while James Brook had the roof several years ago, but aiuee his of his new brick house blown off and conviction an Indian named Stanley, part Of the walla blown in. also convicted, made a deathbed non-- f vision that be and not Whirlwind did Bert Morgan, whoila wanted In San e Jnan county for grand larceny, and for tbe killing. . whose capture a reward of 1350 has bears Dying from II ml Is lha Bask been offered, baa been arrested In Arb The hot weather continued unabated d la Mexican a McClure sons in tbe east Monday, la New York and la aeid to be a bad man.' Pittsburg, Baltimore and Philadelphia The valley west and south of Salt there were 831 case of prostration Lake City baa suffered the Invasion of from heat and 133 deaths New York aa army of grasshoppers, Taylorsville led with 183 eases of prostration and 87 Pleasant Green and Granger being the deaths Philadelphia had 100 prostragreatest sufferers, there being danger tion and fourteen deaths Only two that the potato crop will be raised, July day la thirty years have been 4 While playing In the Rio Grande hotter ia New York than Monday. Western yards In Salt Lake, jumping They were Julv 9, 1874, aad July 3, of which occasions tha on and off moving trams George 1898, on both mercury reached 99 degrees one dehie had d IS, leg caught gree higher than the present hot spell, Chandler, between two couplers and was badly but the death list waa not so large pinched, It being a narrow eeeape from then ta now. five IlnitUr Canute rfvltrrs A frosted Laat death. , i Imp. Aa ordinance Is Io be introduced in Tha annual report of Chief Wilkie of the Salt Lake Cite council for the eon the secret aerviee division, submitted atrnctlon of bicycle paths throughout to stated that daring Gags Secretary to Intention the elty, it being the pines the twelve month ending June 10, a special tax on the wheels to help pay 1901, there were placed in circulation the cost of building and maintaining but four new counterfeit notes against an average of about ten for each year the paths the preceding ten years Only during state made the The assessment by one of these new notes was dangerous board of equalization of railroad, street the other being the product of unThe arrest for ear, telephone, telegraph and ear com- skilled workmanship. twelve months show a total of 394. Of mines of and net the proceeds panies these, 410 were for making, paasiog for the year 1901 la 118,808,070, aa com and having in possession counterfeit pared with 113,937,084 for 1900, an In- coin. crease of 12, 861, O' 4. Columbia Defeats Mvw Cup Dofeadsv. A number of cattlemen of Gunnison The Conatitutloa was defeated by and Mayfield have combined and pur Columbia Monday by tha small the . chased a large area of state lauds for of 48 seconds in the first real margin gracing purposes, this move being com- race In which the new Ilerreshoff yacht pulsory aa a means of protection, aa has Although the coneattle have no show whatever where test participated. from start to finish Was close nod the abeep have ranged. at time exciting in the opinion of n son of John Pin The majority of yachtsman In Newport, gree of Ogden waa playing with a box the Constitution lost through misforof matches when be Ignited hit doth, tune. However, tbe result is far from leg. bis screams attracting the house, conclusive, and there la allil much to hold, but not before be waa fatally be decided n to the relative merits of burned, bia legs, body and arms being the two racers . literally roasted. 1 rtUCOPE TO DOM61NE VOLUNTEER ARMY COES OUT OF EXISTEf-- BILLION DOLLAR DEBT. COALVILLE TJJIES, nxu muia w-- j, Io order to protect the soldiers10 the grounds from graftary with, tlr swindling devices, 100 man of troopL fifteenth cavalry, ware atatioed around tbe reservation. Two of 9 mustered tbe Toff out, regiments eighth and Fortyaiath, w era eolori and tha mea had between three ad , foar months pay due them. Aa soon aa tha volunteer had ,( mnatarod out they rushed to tho abroad tieket offices for transport to their eastern homes Both 9 Santa Fa and Southern Pacific gonsal ticket office pot on an extra foreaff elarke Tbe ticket offieea were erctofid till late ia tha night with dtachlryd volunteers buying tickets. Nearly btr thousand tickets wart Issued, ' 1 x Tha Forty-thirpd Forty-flrwere mustered out Moldy which witnessed the passing into to ' tory of the volunteer army. d, Forty-teeenU- et MOB COMES TO GRIEF.- - r Attempt to Moh a Msgre Emits la Ixah f Tea Promtosst Mss. ' The attempt of a mob to lyacts negro at Jager, West Virginia, Fridy. resulted ia tba killing of two of ia would-b- e lynchers The negro, tcsr Price, waa accused of insulting a wkte woman. 11a waa pursued by a crowd of am and nought refuge in a email room in tho rear of a saloon. Tba mob kits red down tha door, and as thejn-tere- d the room Price threw hlmeetfat them with tha ferocity of a tiger, Hdb a knife ia each hand. Ia catting bin way oat ha iftd George 1 looks and F, M, McUraa ad seriously out Charles Davis Aa I rise struck down theae men, the others kit back, nod the negro made his esape through an open window. Price w pursued and captured by officers, me hurriedly sent him to the jail at Weld. Hooka and McOran were both w2 ' ' known citizens ' Glgaatto CnanvW Ww FfsOtoesd BattoO Ototos TrMMij OOtotok Frank A. Ynnderllp, formerly assist- ant secretary of tba treasury, who baa returned to Washington from a long f ' ' trip abroad, nays: "I think It ia not onty possible but highly probable that Europe can and wilt agree to'btading terms of trade combination against n within tbe next few yearn, nod that tbe result will be the most gigantic and stubborn commercial war la the history of the world. As most of our commercial treaties expire ia 1903, 1 look for the real beginning of the war then in a refusal of moat of tha continental nationa to resaw those conventions "At the present moment Austria, which never did like ns in lending in the movement- - against the United States and I found Golnchowakl, head of tha ministry of that eonntry, out bitterest and most outspoken foe. Obviously the Other ministers of the Old World, Inelndiogcvcn that of England, are artfully encouraging Golnchowakl in hi eonrse of opposition, with a view of drawing one fire before they opealy declare themselves For tbs immediate futnre ouiLtrade prospects were never brighter la Europe. Thera baa bean almost s total crop failure In Germany. Tba agricultural outlook ia oaly a little brighter in Franee thaa in Germany,' and even in England the crop yield in not very promising. But at noon an tho continent recovers from its present agricultural depression I confidently believe the tocsin of war will be sounded. In Ruasin there are loud professions of friendship for tho United States and one bears many expressions of admiration of our commercial development and methods The Russian are mod cling their tariff system after ours, and in q few year will try to apply it with vigor and severity against al) nations alike, but particularly against - tha United Bs4l Wealth the Called MatoeTaah . Oat ef toe Oreee le I The Engineeringand Mining Journal la estimating the mineral oatput for the United State in 1900 shows that the total vain at plica of production of the output won 91,345,408,583, na compared with 91,818,215,637 la 1899, a gain of 9147,393,945 for the year. Of these east sums, which are without precedent io the history of the mineral industry, ores nod minerals eon tribe ted 9673,090,416 in 1900, and 9587,848.798 in 1899; metala, 9584.433,-(3- 3 In' and 1900 9496,057,630 la Aa Italian and three Mojave Indiana were drowned In the Colorado river sV ' The Needle Sunday. la Shanghai It ia reported that bandits bave seized four walled eities near j Mukden, Manchuria. Twelve eases of bubonic plague and four deaths from that disease have occurred at Oporto, Portugal, . -- 1 Failures for the past week numbered 804 In the United States, against 207 last year, and 83 in Canada, against 2L laat year, Joseph Ladue, the founder of Dawson City, in the Klondike,' ia dead at hia home in Schuyler Falla, N. Y., of consumption. The Netherlands cabinet haa resigned in consequence of the recent elections, by which tbe government supporters lost thirteen seats. Edwin Ruthven, a negro, wan 1899; secondary produets, 978,720,695 in 1900 and 944,414,979 lu 1899, while tho value of the metala. smelted or refined from foreign material waa 994,964,939 la 1900 and 970,471,940 In 1899. Tbe chief item of our great mineral production, in quantity, value and economic import oca, waa coal, with the production in 1900 of 263,315,431 short toon, an increase of 16,210,044 tone, or 6 per cent over 1899. Pig Iron waa second in order of values; na well ns In economic importance. Thi total in 1900 was 13,533,245 long tons, with an approximate value of alec-troeu- ted at the Ohio state penitentiary Friday, the electrocution being nueoeaa-f- nl la every detail. ' 9273,110,333. A British transport having on board produeta eosi and th first shipload-eit is theaa-tw- o Boer prisoners iron which we produce more abundDarrell's and Tnckera on quartered antly and more cheaply than any other Islands has arrived In Bermuda waters. country in the world, that are giving President L. C. Crenshaw of the Geortha United Slates the economic leaderrailroad commission waa stabbed ship in the world, and will enabln tha gia and seriously Injured by J. H. Kirk- - . nation to hold that place. Ia point of value copper come third land, a Pullman conductor, ia analter- -. cation. In the lint. Its production laat year beA dispatch from Cbee Foo re porta the of value with a 400,932,505 pounds, ing 994,755,449, Jh Increase pver 1899 waa entirVfprovince of Sbeog King in revolt The rebel are said to be overcomparatively small. Gold holds only the fifth place, with running the country, pillaging and a total value of 978,150,647 leea than burning. of tbe value of coal, or In Ea Clair, TYis., lightning atruck that of pig iron.. It was nearl the animal tent of the Wallace eireus, approached in value by petroleum, killing no elephant and stunning the with a total of 974,346,588, and was ex- entire menagerie, Many persons wer ceeded by the elay produeta, with a severely shocked. total of 978,704,763. Few people would At Caaael, Franee, the two lenders a oppose that the varied clay produeta automobile race came into collision, brick, tile, pipe and the like ex- their machines then dashing Into a. ceeded la their total values that of oar crowd of spectators, one ehild being large output of gold, hut such ia tha seriously Injured. fact. , The production of silver had a Word baa been received In Pekin of market value of only 936,756,900. Buildthe arrival of Duke Lan and Prince last waa atone rated at 931,400,500 ing Tuan at Ulumski, Turkestan, In whjch yaar. place of banishment they have been . LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION sentenced to reside. F1QHT INSPECTION LAW. Herr Exner, director of the Leipziger Colorada Statute te b Coutoatod la Hlk L la-th- lw4 Mods foe Os Chlfsgo. Final arrangemeaU have been made for the fifth annua) convention of the American Live Stock association and the second annual live stock exposition, which will be held la Chicago December 3rd to 6th, inclusive. John set Coat ta. Judge Hnllett of the United States district court Friday granted a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Edward 1L Reid, a cattle ah ip per of Omaha, who waa eonvicted in the district court of Arapahoe county of having violated' the Colorado statutes by shipping eommand an aUendsnc of 850,000 peo- eattle Into Colorado from Texas withYc have arranged for some of out having a signed bill ef klh4cw ple. tbe ablest talker ia this country and in eattle inspector, and was sentenced abroad to discuss topics of interest to ta klx month imprisonment ia the stock raiser. The session! county jail. s will be held from 9.30 a. in. to 1:30 p. Reid refused to pay a stqto inspecm. each day, tbe adjournmenta being tion fee after having received a clear taken early because of the splendid ex- bill of health from the federal inapeo hibition at the Union atockyarda oi tor, In order to enable. the National the finest aggregation of horses, eat- Live Btock association to teat the vatle and sheep and hogs ever brought lidity of the Colorado law requiring-thtogether In this country or any other, inspection of cattle shipped through One day of the convention will be the state. Me ear a Talbot and Denison, on bedevoted to matter affecting legislation. Five or six bill will be submitted to half of the association, made tbe applithe delegates before being presented cation to the United 8tates district There are numerous court for a writ of babaes corpus for to congress. Post appeared questions la which tbe live stock In- Reid. Attorney-Generwrit waa Tbe an demand state. the Interested on is that behalf p( dustry immediate solution and our associa- made returnable on Saturday at 10 oclock. Should the United States tion must consider ita welfare." "district court sualaia the decision of Blaekmsltor Bars Woman to Death. the state court, the National Live intense in and Block association will appeal the ease burned dying Horribly agony waa tbe fata of Mr. W. C. (.'av- to tb United Slates supreme Court. In ion, wife of a Cowley county, Kansas, an interview John W. Springer, presifarmer, because ber husband refpqed dent of the National Live Stock assoto deposit 95,000 In a place named by ciation, declared It wan the intention of hln'organizstion to teat the constnnknown blackmailer, Mr, Carlson, received an anonymous itutionality of the Colorado state law note requesting him to bury 9500 at, the which requires state inspection of live foot of a certain telephone pole nnder stock, notwithstanding- - a clean bill of penalty of having hit house burned lieaUh bad been granted by tbe FederThe nuggeatloa wan ignored. On week al authorities. later another anonymous note waa r China A yrses to Psy dors Tba Powers He Baaed. celved, stating that if 93,000 win not A eurioua discrepancy concerning th deposited within a week his house would be barued and he would be amount of tbe Chinese Indemnities baa killed. developed, by which it appears that , No attention wan paid to tbe second China haa agreed to pay about 35,000,-00- 0 taela or 924,500,000 more than the communication, and on Saturday night whit Mr. Carlson waa en rout to Med- united demands of all the powers. Just ford for mall the home was fired. Mrs. how this occurred ia not clear to offCarlson was found about ten feet from icials, but it appears to have been an the ruins by Mrs. Dunn, a neighbor, error of calculation at Peking, in the Inhorribly burned and insensible. Sb first plae by those making np the where Mr. in Chinese the borne and later Dana, taken waa by by demnities, she rallied enough before dying Sun- their hasty- acceptance of the total. An day to relate her knowledge of the finally made up, this total waa 450,000,-00- 0 transaction. taels, but the present calculation, She rushed outside when she discov- after taking in all of tbe demands that ered the fire, but remembered some are known, makes tbe total only 415, valuable papers and a treasured old 000,000 tael. In the meantime Chinn violin, aod tried to save them. From has agreed to pay the larger amount, that moment her mind was a blank so that th question now arises what until she awoke la tbe home of Mr, will become of the excess of 35,000,000 taels. Dunn, prlnger, president of tbe association, has leased tbe Studebaker theater for the session. Discussing the prospects for . the convention and exposition he aid: . This will be the moat notable convention in tha history of our the exposition, will TV, r organl-zatlonand.w- ith Bo West her Chaw Pittsburg BMi Saturday was the hottest day qftke year for lltlsburg, tbe ihermosetsr registering 94 at the govesuneot weather bureau shortly afterlp-m- . Francis Mills and Mary Dermw died from exhaustion, and many yostra lion are reported. The mills ltd factories lost many men during tie day because they could not eontinui work in tbe iatena heat Tbe Soto and Elisa furnaces both bad to awpend operations, and if tha warm wav continue, other plants will be forced to " ,J close down. , Hlastoe Deaths from Hmk The relief from the killing heat in New York of laat week which wan promised Sunday did not materialise. Iuatead the temperature leer seed, there waa less breeze then Ih day before, and what little air did stir waa surcharged with heat There was aa Increase In tha fatalities reported over Saturday, though the Dumber of simple prostrations waa not o large. Up to mldalght nineteen death had been recorded and twenty prostrations Tho government thermometer reached 97. A Mtalatar Cjeloo a Daavee lajorm Klghtoea Psopls. miniature' cyclone struck the roof at Overland park betting-rin- g at Denver Saturday afternoon, and, lifting it froiu ta support crashed it down upon tbe crowd below, injuring eighteen people. It waa thought at first that aeveral had been killed, and efforts ware begun at once to clear away the wreckage, but itwaa soon A over the learned that though aeveral had been severely hurt, none were in a dangerous v condition. lies Worker as a Stride. President T. J. 8ha(Ter of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, Monday issued an order calling out all union employees of the various mills of the American Stel Hoop company, known aa the noop trust," It i estimated that 13,000 men will be aunject to tha call, which, in connection with tbe big strike of the American Sheet Steel company, ordered by President Shaffer on Saturday will affect 50,000 men, . . e - - NUltoaalr TorttrW by Robbers. ' y,tln. op--L- , (Germapy) bank, which suspended payment June 85, has been arrested. Tbe publie prosecutor is investigating the affairs of the bank. James Manning waa arrested a few day ago at. Ei Reno, Oklahoma, and placed in jail and the text morning he waa found dead ip his cell. No reasoi la assigned for hia death. Tliabody bf John' Campbell, a mloeV"'"' who waa carried away in a anowalida near Ouray, Colo., last January, has just been recovered. Tbe body waa In a perfect state of preservation. ' General Maximo Gomes haa arrived lnrNew York from Havana. General Gomes said he waa especially delighted to once more set foot on American soil, aa he felt that he was among friends. Charlea Garrison waa drowned In the Washita river, Oklahoma, while setting a seine. He stepped Into a deep hole, became entangled la the net and was drowned before help could reach him. , al Sntk Cavollaa WtU TmI Tai Early Friday morning nix masked The State of South Carolina, acting men entered th summer residence of White at Brother Station, through the governor and attorney-genera- l, Jscab L. Weal Virginia, just over the Pennsylhaa Instituted prtweedloga bebound and fore the commissioner of internal rev- vania Hue, overpowered, of the seven the occupant enue to test the question whether tbe gagged secured raossckcd.lL and They house state caab legally required to take out in money and na much jewelry. special tax stamp a a wholesale am) 91,000 and hla aged wif and their White Mr. retail liquor, dealer under the tUj were tortured by having daughter laws and "made dehas dispensary a matches applied to their mand upon the commissioner for a re- l'jrliied hod tee and their akin Uewtad by fund of all such taxes hitherto needles White la a million. oil amounting to to-b- ono-thir-d one-four- th EXPOSITION. 4nsszMli ta Senator Gorman of Maryland haa announced hla candidacy for -- States LIVE STOCK NEWS SUMMARY.. MINERAL OUTPUT LAST YEAR- - f. Eateries Meat All KlgbL In view of tb temporary prohibition of American noieat for military purpose in South Africa by the British Stowe at government, Capetown haa been making investigations with regard to the cause of ihe restriction, and haa submitted the result to the state department. Tb British enlisted men, when questioned, pronounced the American article very satisfactory and their officers stated that ia many cases the men. preferred the tinned meat to the poorer fresh article. Improper ear caused soma ol the meat to spoil. Consul-Gener- al A census of the consumptives In New York state is to be begun in about a week by Dr. Daniel Lewis, commits-ione- r of the state board of health. It will be the first census of the kind ever undertaken by that state." Pending the settlement of the Chinese indemnity, another question bar arisen in reference to who shall pay iot the maintenance of the legation gnarda after the several conn tries have withdrawn their main forces. Lord Milner has improved In health since his return to England In spite of th conataat pressure of business with tbe colonial office and unceasing social invitations. He takes a broad view of the aituatlon la South Africa. A large fore of Boers, commanded by Mnlna "and 8 in it, nttackedRich-mond- . Cape Colony, at daybreak, Jnne 85. Th fighting lasted until dusk, when the Boers retired upon tbe approach of British reinforcements. In the second trial of Jack Roberts, charged with manslaughter In causing the death of Billy Smith of Philadelphia, aa the result of a boxing contest in London, April 82, Roberta and all the other defendants in tbe case were " . acquitted. - The situation in the Thacker, W. V., poal fields is very quiet so far as any breach between the mine guards and the strikers la concerned, but Sheriff Hatfield and other county official fear that a feud may break out in t&at district at any time. A movement baa beea started among tha New York and district assemblies of the Knights of Labor in New York and vicinity, having for Its object the raising of the order to the standing it occupied in this country some twelve or fifteen yearn ago. Murderer George O'Brien, who killed Lynn Keif, Fred Clayton and Lawrence Oleson oa the frozen Yukon river trail ia December, 1899, has . been, fjnd guilty of murder in tbe first degree and haa been sentenced to' be hanged la Dawson, August 23. J . 1 |