Show 1 NEWS OF THE DAY I I Mrs Helen Hunt Jackson the wellknown authoress and contributor to the Atlantic I and Century magazines died last evening in San Francisco of cancer of the stomach i Maxwell the alleged murderer of Prel j ler is a man of comely appearance He wears a full beard has beautiful hair which he parts in the middle and in appearance is 1 thoroughly English iCharles Wright of Wethersfield Conn aged 74 was found dead in his bam night before last Wright was one of the leading I botanists of the country He was employed i by the government in the expeditions to I iWas and Arizona and had also explored Cuba for the Spanish Government The Central Pacific Railroad Land I Office while making a map of its railroad lands in Idaho and Utah made the strange I I discovery that Idaho claimed one boundary 1 line and Utah another and that a strip of I land two and a half miles wide extending across the northern part of Utah was left which by survey does not belong to either I Territory The surveys used are those filed at Salt Lake and Boise City The attention of the Dominion State Department De-partment having been called to the appointment appoint-ment of the Feman ames Whelan Buffalo to the Consulship of the United States at Fort Erie it was announced that nothing could be done in the matter at present as I the Dominion Government has not yet been officially notified of his appointment It is I understood that Whelans exequatur will be refused I I Sir Richard Assheton CrpssBritish Homo Secretary in answer to an inquiry made by I by the Right Honorable George A Bentinck Conservative member for White Haven concerning con-cerning the thirteenyearold daughter of I Mrs Eliza Armstrong alleged to have been decoyed from home by an agent of the Sal vatiou I Army and then held in duress by Mrs Booth for the purpose of exhibiting her as a minor saved by the Army from a wicked life said the government had submitted the evidence I I evi-dence so far as obtained in the case to At tomeyGeneral Webster This statement was cheered I I |