Events of the Month

EVENTS OF THE MONTH, BY THOMAS HULL, SECRETARY OF THE GENERAL BOARD, Y. M. M. I. A.

August 20th: The North Atlantic Squadron under command of Rear- Admiral Sampson arrived at New York City and was royally welcomed by hundreds of thousands of people. 2ist: President McKinley cables to Admiral Dewey and General Merritt, at Manila, his thanks and the nation's for the gallant work of the officers and men in the Manila campaign. 22nd: The Spanish government appoints its military commissioners for Cuba and Porto Rico. 2jrd: The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the American Banker's Association met in Denver, Colo. 2^th: General Shafter leaves Santiago for home. 26th: Secretary of State Day announces the selection of four of the five peace commissioners; they are: Secretary Day, Senators Davis and Frye and Mr. Whitelaw Reid. * * * a dispatch from Manila announces the fatal shooting in Cavite of Geo. H. Hudson of Battery B, Utah Artillery, by natives. Corporal William Q. Anderson was also wounded. 2'/th: President McKinley promotes Captains R. W. Young and F. A. Grant to be Brevet-Majors of Volunteers. 28th: The Czar of Russia issues an invitation to the Powers to take part in an mternational conference to consider propositions for the maintenance of general peace and the reduction of the excessive armaments of the great nations. joth: The sessions of the Utah Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church closed in Manti, Utah. Before adjourning a set of resolutions was passed replete with garbled statements and absolute falsehoods concerning the "Mormon" Church. * * * General Merritt sailed from Manila for Paris, France, to act as one of the peace commissioners. jist: Colonel Henry of the French army and one of the principal witnesses for the government in the great Dreyfus case, was arrested on the charge of having forged the letter on which the government chiefly depended for the conviction of Dreyfus. Colonel Henry confessed the forgery and shortly after committed suicide. Sefteynber ist: The National Irrigation Congress opened in Cheyenne, * * * General Shafter arrives in New York. * Wyoming.

• *     A dispatch received in London, England, from Nazey Island in
  

the river Nile, Africa, reports that the Anglo-Egyptian army were advancing on Khartoum, had encountered the advanced guard of the Dervishes on August 30th, and a slight skirmish ensued. A great battle is expected shortly. 2nd: President Wilford Woodruff died in San Francisco, California, at 6:40 a. m. * * * It is announced that a treaty of alliance

has been agreed upon between Great Britain and Germany. It embraces an offensive and defensive alliance in certain eventualities, but it is chiefly commercial in its character. * * * j^ desperate battle is fought at Omdurman, opposite Khartoum, on the Nile, between the Anglo-Egyptian army under Gen. Sir Herbert Kitchener and the Dervishes, only about 300 of the British soldiers were killed, while nearly 11,000 of the Dervishes were left dead upon the field. 3rd: Fifty people die and one hundred are prostrated by the excessive heat in New York City. * * * -pj^g ^^^ department having decided to muster out many of the volunteer regiments, Adjutant-General Corbin designates the regiments to go. 4th: The funeral train bearing the remains of President Woodruff arrives in Salt Lake City. ^th: Spanish Cortes assembled, Senor Sagasta read a decree authorizing the government to present to the Chamber a draft of law empowering the ministers to renounce sovereignty over the colonies * * * "Wilhelmina, the young queen of the Netherlands, was enthroned, with great pomp, at Amsterdam. 6th: A Mussulman uprising occurs on the island of Crete, in the Mediterranean and riots take place in Candia and many houses are burned. Bloody fighting between the Mussulmans and the British troops. Twenty people were killed and fifty wounded. 8th: The funeral services over the remains of the beloved President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Wilford Woodruff, were held in the Tabernacle at Salt Lake City. All of the Twelve Apostles were present and addresses were made by Presidents Joseph F. Smith, Lorenzo Snow and George Q Cannon, and Apostle Franklin D. Richards. gth: The Utah Republicans hold their State convention and nominate Alma Eldredge, of Summit county for representative in Congress, and Charles S. Zane for the Supreme Bench. * * » President McKinley appoints Senator George Gray of Delaware the fifth member of the Peace Commission. loth: President McKinley addresses a message to several prominent men requesting them to accept appointments as a committee "to examine into the conduct of the commissary, quartermaster and medical bureaus of the war department during the war." * * * Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated in Geneva, Switzerland, by an Italian anarchist. nth: The town of Jerome, a mining camp near Prescott, Arizona, is almost entirely destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of over $1 000,000. Thirty lives are supposed to be lost; eleven bodies have been recovered. * * * A disastrous fire occurs in New Westminster, British Columbia Property loss estimated at $2,500,000 and hundreds are rendered homeless. jjth: At a meeting of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Lorenzo Snow is chosen as President of the Church and he selects George Q Cannon and Joseph Y Smith as his.

counselors. * * * General Gomez resigns command of the Cuban army. 14th: The Democratic party of Utah in State Convention nominates B. H. Roberts for Congress and R. N. Baskin for the Supreme Bench.

• • • The annual convocation of the Episcopal Church of Utah and Nevada convenes at Salt Lake City. * * * a terrific hurricane passes over the Windward group of the Lesser Antilles, West India Islands. Hundreds of lives are lost and many thousands are rendered homeless. Kingstown, the capital of St Vincent island is almost totally destroyed.
• • • The Spanish Cortes passes the government bill accepting the terms of the peace protocol * * * Senor Sagasta reads the queen's decree in the Spanish Cortes proroguing the chambers. j^th: The Populist party of Utah in convention at Salt Lake City nominate Warren Foster for Congress and J. M. Bowman for the Supreme Bench.