Events of the Month

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

March ISth: The baseball meeting held in Ogden by representatives from Ogden, Short Line and Rio Grande teams of Utah and the Pocatello of Idaho resulted in the permanent organization of the Utah-Idaho State league. A schedule was arranged, consisting of 204 games, divided bebetween the four teams, for the championship of the league. 21st: The gold statue of "The American Girl," to be exhibited at Paris was successfully cast in New York. It weighs 712 pounds and

has a bullion value of $187,000. Miss Maud Adams the actress, is the model, and Mrs. Bessie Potter Vonnah, the sculptor. 22nd: According to the official records, since the American occupation June 1, 1898, to February 17, 1900, the actual mortality in the army in the Philippines was sixty-five officers and 1460 men, a total of 1525, or at the rate of seventy-four deaths a month. 23rd: Amos Woolley of the 9th ward. Salt Lake Bishop Samuel City, died.He was born in Pennsylvania, September 11, 1825, and came to Utah in 1848. * * * Charles A. Towne of the Silver Republicans has called a convention of that party to be held, in Kansas City, July 4. 25th: The total British losses in the South African war, exclusive of the invalids sent home, are 16,418 killed, wounded and missing.

The people of Mafeking are greatly discouraged. * * *

General Otis has imprisoned the editor of a paper in Manila for printing articles inimical to the military government. 26th: Judge Charles Foote, of Nephi, died, age sixty-eight years. * * * The army appropriation bill was discussed in the House: Mr. Hull of Iowa, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs in charge of the measure, made a general statement regarding its contents. The bill carries $111,600,364. The estimates were $127, 712,163. The last appropriation bill carried about $80,000,000 and there was a deficiency of about $47,000,000. 27th: Postmaster J. C. Graham, Provo, retires from the post-office and Reed Smoot takes temporary charge. * * * rpj^g

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Centennial Eureka mine posted a dividend of $100,000. * *

• London advices make appear that Russia and Turkey are it

on the verge of war, 250,000 soldiers having been mobilized in south * * * General Pietrus Jacobus Joubert, Russia. Commander-General of the Transvaal forces, died in Pretoria, aged sixtyeight years. * * * General Roberts began preliminary move in the advance into the Transvaal. 29th: The total purchase price of forty-nine vessels bought by the war department was $8,074,455, and refitting and repairing cost $5,189,093. Hancock, Grant, Logan, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas, each cost over one million dollars. * * * rpi^g House passed the Army Appropriation bill. * * * Ex-Senator Philitus Sawyer, born September 22, 1816, died in Oshkosh, Wis. 30th: Hon. Tom Fitch addresses a large audience in the interest of Republicans, at the Exposition Building, Salt Lake City. * * *

The British and the Boers have an engagement near Bloemfontein at which the English lose one hundred men and seven officers. * * *

Utah mines have paid a dividend for the past three months of $667,300. 31st: Hon. Tom Fitch addressed a large audience in the Opera House, Ogden, where a reception had been held in the afternoon for Hon. J. T. Hammond. * * * Advices from London indicate * rpj^g war between Russia and Japan. * * Boers capture two horse batteries with six guns, and kill many English, twenty miles north from Bloemfontein. April 1st: A fire in the Progress Building, occupied by offices and by the Salt Lake Herald, entails an estimated loss of $35,000. 2nd: The special election for a Congressman resulted in the election of Hon. W. H. King, Democrat, by about 4000 plurality over Hon. J. T. Hammond, Republican. The election was very quiet and only a small vote was cast. * * * <phe Salt Lake Temple workers fittingly celebrated the 86th anniversary of the birth of President Lorenzo Snow, which occurs April 3. 3rd: Four hundred Germania smelter employees demand an advance of thirty cents per day in wages. * * * Tjjg Senate passed

the Porto Rican tariff bill by vote of 40 to 31 —a majority of 9. It im-

poses a tariff upon goods from Porto Rico, and caused a prolonged debate. * * * General Otis reports that since January 1st, in

124 skirmishes, 81 Americans were killed and 164 wounded; insurgents killed, 1426; captured, 1453. * * * Admiral George Dewey announces that he will be a candidate for President. * * *

The battle ship Kearsarge made its final successful test, "as steady as a

560 IMPROVEMENT ERA. * * * rp^g rock in a forty-knot gale," Deseret Telegraph Company lines were turned over to the Western Union Telegraph Com- * * * rpjjg pany. gj.ga,t convention hall in Kansas City is

destroyed by fire. 4th: The resignation of Webster Davis, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, who resigned to assist the Boers took effect. * * Queen Victoria is loyally welcomed by a million people in the streets of Dublin, Ireland. * * *At Brussels, an attempt is made on the life of the Prince of Wales, who was passing through on his way to Copenhagen. The assassin, Sipido, an anarchist, who is sixteen years of age, fired two bullets without effect. 5th: President Snow in the annual meeting of Z. C. M. I. reports sales for the year $3,574,923, and that the institution employed a total of 345 hands. * * * The 7th annual meeting of the Utah Dairymen's Association opened in Salt Lake. * * * Admiral Dewey announces that he is a Democrat. 6th: The 70th annual conference of The Church opened under fav- * * * rpj^g orable auspices in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. Utah Wool Growers Association met in annual convention, electing Jesse M. Smith, Layton, president. * * * Jq ^^g Kentucky case, the Court of Appeals decided in favor of the Democrats and against * * * rpj^g Governor Taylor. Boers capture five companies of British troops near Reddersburg. 8th: Reed Smoot was sustained a member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, and the general annual conference adjourned. *

• • A rain and snow storm extended over the whole state. * * * Floods in Texas have done damage amounting to three million dollars. 10th: The U. S. Navy department has arranged to purchase ten thousand tons of Castle Gate, Utah, coal for Mare Island, California. * * The Senate committee unanimously declare Senator * * * W. A. Clark of Montana not entitled to his seat. At a battle south of Brandfort, 600 British troops were reported killed and 800 taken prisoners. * * * General Gatacre is recalled. 11th: By a vote of 161 to 153 the House concurred in all the Senate * * rpj^g amendments of the Porto Rican tariff bill. -x-

British losses in the African war aggregate over 22,000 officers and men up to April 7, including 211 officers and 1960 men killed in action. 12th: James 0. Herron was killed by the fall of a rock in a Mercur mine. * * * xhe president signed the Porto Rican tariff bill. The tariff section goes into immediate effect, and the act for civil government is effective May 1, 1900.