Events of the Month

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

August 20th: Serious anarchist riots occur in Paris, France. Mobs gather in the streets and loot churches and restaurants, and 380 persons are injured of whom 360 are taken to the hospitals. Fifty-nine police agents are wounded. 21st: A disastrous fire occurs in Victor, Colorado. The business portion of the town is all destroyed and the loss is estimated at $2,000,000. * * * The Methodist Conference at Salt Lake City closes. A great portion of the last sessions was devoted to "Mor- monism" and the "Mormons" and much falsehood and misrepresentation were indulged in. 26th: Two infernal machines are received in Salt Lake City, one by Judge O. W. Powers and one by Warden George N. Dow, of the State prison. Judge Powers, while in the act of opening the package addressed to him discovers its nature and reports the matter to the express office in time to intercept the one which was on its way to Warden Dow. John Y. Smith, a discharged convict is supposed to be the sender. 27th: A terrible fire occurs at Sparkhill, N. Y. An orphan asylum * * * is destroyed and several children perish in the flames. A conflict occurs at Hankow, China, on the river Yang-Tse-Kiang, be- tween British workmen and Russian cossacks, regarding the ownership of certain lands. Blue jackets are landed from the British gunboat and are now guarding the property. 28th: The San Domingo revolutionists reach the capital and the government surrenders. 31st: President Figuera of the Dominican Republic resigns. The revolution is therefore victorious. September Ath: Arthur Stayner, well know throughout Utah, dies at Salt Lake City. * * * The thirty-third national encamp-

960 IMPROVEMENT ERA. ment of the Grand Army of the Republic begins in Philadelphia. Presi- dent McKinley is in attendance. 9th: Wm. J. Bryan visits Salt Lake City and speaks to a large audience at the Salt Palace. * * * The celebrated trial of Captain Dreyfus, in France, .'comes to an end. The court-martial finds him guilty of treason and sentences him to ten years imprisonment. The majority of the court makes the astounding statement that there were extenuating circumstances. 10th: The United States cruiser Olympia, with Admiral Dewey on board, sails from Gibraltar for New York. * * * The press of the world nearly unanimously denounces the Dreyfus verdict as a crime. 11th: Arthur Pratt is appointed Supervisor of the Census for Utah. * * * The judges of the Dreyfus court-martial unite in asking the President of France not to compel the prisoner to undergo a second humiliation. 12th: Cornelius Vanderbilt the great millionaire and head of the Vanderbilt family dies of apoplexy at his home in New York City. 13th: The Civic Federation conference on the uses and abuses of trusts and combinations begins in Chicago. 16th: The Civic Federation conference on trusts and combines ad- journs sine die. 17th: Serious riots occur between white and negro miners in Carterville, 111. Six negroes are killed. The state militia is called out.