Events of the Month

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

— — Local April 16 At the school election in Salt Lake City, the prop- osition to borrow $30,000 expenses to complete the school year, carried by a vote of 1930 to 317 — 17 The funeral services over the remains of President George Q. Cannon were held in the Salt Lake Taber- nacle, thousands from all parts of The Church being in attendance — 18 Thomas S. Smart, the founder of Franklin, Ida., born England, June 14, 1842, died in Franklin, Ida — 19 J. E. Bamberger is made presi- dent of the Daly-West mine, vice R. C. Chambers, deceased After an absence of thirty years, former commander at Fort Douglas, Colonel John H. Knight, visits Utah 20 —The Short Line track reaches Crestline, Nevada 21 —Elder Moses W. Taylor was sus- tained as president of the Summit stake of Zion, vice Elder W. W. Cluff, retired. A reorganization of the whole stake will take place 22 —A reception by their business associates was given in the banquet room of the L. D. S. college, to Apostles F. M. Lyman and Heber J. Grant. The former leaves on the 24th to preside over the European mission, and the latter will depart in July to open a mission in Japan Henry Long, born England, January 7, 1817, died in Wanship. He came to Utah in 1857 Henry W. Wilson, born Tennessee, May 14, 1831, who settled in Provo, in 1852, died 24—The Salt Lake Board of Education estimate that the school expenses for the coming year will be about $397,420, and fix the local levy at 5 J mills The Yankee Consolidated buys Humbug and Humbug No. 2, for $250,000, and the stock rises to $150 — 25 Hon. George A. Black, form- erly secretary of Utah Territory under Governors Vaughn and Woods, visits Salt Lake City 26 —Serge L. who came to Ballif, Utah in the early 50's, born April 24, 1821, in Switzerland, in his eighty- first year, died in Logan William S tevenson, pioneer settler of Echo, born St. Johns, N. B., 79 years old, died The census bureau report on

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coke manufacture, shows Utah to have manufactured one per cent of that product in the United States for 1899, or 26,881 tons TheOgden hoard of education fix coming year at the school expenses for the $89,900, $59,900 of which will be raised by local levy 28— At the quarterly conference in Logan, the Cache stake was divided into — three Cache, Benson, Hyrum; Joseph Morrell was sustained president of Cache — 29 Minister Edwin H. Conger and party passed through Ogden, east — 30 April dividends in Utah mines amounted to $751,500; ore and bullion settlements, $2,153,880; stock sales, 2,223,664 shares for $1,261,482.68 William C. Parkinson was chosen President of Hyrum stake, and William H. Lewis, of Benson stake. — May 1 W. H. Bagley was chosen president of the sectarian Sunday School Association — 2 Charles Bedford, born England, April 6, 1832, a resident of Kaysville, Davis county, since 1852, died 4 — The Bear River canal was sold to T. R. Cutler for the Utah Sugar Company for $300,000 The continuous rainstorm which began Thursday at 8:20 a. m,, ended at 7:50 a. m., the fall being 4.08, the greatest on record; it equalled ^ the annual fall The Kimball organ Co., completed the reconstructed Tabernacle organ. A concert was given to 2,500 people, with Dr. G. W. Walter, of Washington, D. C, at the organ James Judd a prominent Summit county resi- dent, born England, December 6, 1845, died in Henefer, as a result of an accident 6 —John' E. Dooly buys $40,000 of Weber county, 5 per cent refunding bonds Ralph W. Maxwell, an early set- tler of Peoa, Summit county, died — 7 Richard Hill, 77 years old, and early settler of Ogden, died Mrs. Ellen Benbow Carter,widow of Pioneer William Carter of St. George, died — 8 The new trial of Abe Majors was set for May 27, at Brigham City A portion of the rear end wall of the lean-to of the Salt Lake theatre fell President Lorenzo Snow was elected president of the Brigham Young Academy — 9 At a meeting of the Sunday School Union, Presi- dent Lorenzo Snow was chosen general superintendent to succeed Presi- dent George Q. Cannon, deceased, with Elders George Reynolds and J. M. Tanner assistants. The three are made editors of the Juvenile In- structor The will of President George Q. Cannon was filed — 10 T. R. Cutler, for the Utah Sugar Co., buys 30,750 acres of land under the Bear River canal A fire destroys the American Fork Co-op, loss $65,000 A. P. Lof green, born in Sweden, a settler of Utah in the early 60's, died in Ogden — 12 Mrs. Catherine Sharp Will- iams, wife of Attorney P. L. Williams, age 49, died in Salt Lake City. — 13 George Redsell and A. H. Niles were arrested at Park

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City charged with stealing $15,000 in cement silver from the Marsac Mill Bishop A. H. Raleigh, born New Hampshire November 17, 1818, a resident of Utah since 1848, died in Salt Lake City 14 —City Engineer Kelsey of Salt Lake City resigned. Domestic — April 19 — Aguinaldo an address to in his countrymen, advises and urges peace, declaring "there has been enough blood, enough tears and enough desolation" — 20 A terrific snow and wind storm sweeps over northern Ohio; a tremendous rain storm floods western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and northwestern West Vir- ginia, with a loss of millions in property — 21 A rain and snow storm two hundred miles in diameter, with Pittsburg, Pa., as the center causes a property loss of three million dollars A great flood in the Ohio river inundates cities and towns, causing great damage to property The president and cashier of the Vancouver, Wash., bank which failed for $81,000, yesterday, commit suicide 22 The flood in Ohio is subsiding. The frost and storm have done great damage to fruit and crops in the south — 23 Gen. Leonard A. Wood, governor-general of Cuba, arrived in New York, and will intro- duce to President McKinley the five members of the Cuban constitution- al convention who visit the United States to confer with the President on matters which the convention does not understand Reports from Alaska confirm the death of several miners in a storm in the re- gion of Nome The Ohio river is above the danger line and still rising — 24 The Secretary of War names Gordon N. Kim- ball of Ogden for examination as lieutenant in the regular army under the late reorganization 587 others were named bill; Large numbers of rebels lay down their arms, and 2157 Bolomen surrender at Narvacan, P. I. The islands have 25,000 lepers, and arrangements are be- ing made to isolate them on one island — 25 John Meston, mixed up in the Manila commissary frauds, was dishonorably discharged and sentenced to two years' imprisonment Thousands of fam- ilies are homeless in West Virginia and in the Ohio valley, owing to the flood — 27 The 79th anniversary of General U. S. Grant's birth was fittingly celebrated in all parts of the country, especially in Galena, 111., his old home The Cuban delegates, in their final talk with the President, were told in regard to reciprocal trade relations that po- litical questions must first be disposed of before economic ones would be

considered — 28 James Douglas Reid, born Scotland, March 22, 1809, "the father of telegraph," died at his home in New York The Omaha jury declares James Callahan not guilty of complicity in the Cudahy kidnapping case — 29 President McKinley started on

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his western tour at 10:30 a. m. His reception in Virginia indicates a triumphant trip J. Pierpont Morgan takes steps to form a great shipping combination by uniting the great trans- Atlantic lines 30— W. K. Vanderbilt acquires large holdings in the U. P. Ry., and the stock sells for $130. The N. Y. stock exchange went wild, the transactions exceeding all previous records The surrender of Gen. Tinio and other insurgent leaders indicates the complete col- lapse of the insurgent cause. May 1 —Wednesday—The presidential party reached New Orleans The Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, opened at 8:30 a. m The national financial statement shows a surplus for April of $5,800,000 — 3 A fire in Jacksonville, Fla,, sweeping as clean as a floor over 130 blocks, destroys 1300 buildings and ten mil- lion dollars of property, cremates six persons, and renders ten thousand people homeless 4 —The presidential party arrived in San An-

tonio, being everywhere in Texas received with magnificent welcome. The President delivered an eloquent address at the historic fort Alamo, exploiting the deeds of its defenders, Crocket, Travis and Bowie. Five thousand children in white greeted him and strewed flowers under the wheels of his carriage, in Travis Square Relief trains and boats carry large supplies to the needy and suffering at Jacksonville, Fla 6 —At El Paso, the gateway to the Mexican Republic, President McKinley was greeted with great demonstration. Gen. Her- mandez, personal representative of President Diaz, was present, giving the event an international significance — 7 President McKin- ley and party visit the great Congress gold mine, Arizona 8 — About $13,000 will soon be paid by the U. S. Treasury department to certain Utah corporations that were illegally assessed internal rev- enue on orders, many years ago The presidential party is entertained at Redland, Cal Senator Kearns arrives in New York from Europe There is great excitement in Northern Pacific stock 9 — Great excitement prevailed in Wall Street, at the battle of the financial giants; the effect was a panic in American securities ia London The President reviewed the flower parade in Los Angeles 10 —Peace again reigns Wall Street, and in legitimate business interests are unaffected The Hawaiian legislature resolve to ask President McKinley to remove Governor Dole — 12 A fire in a lumber district near Detroit, destroys $800,- 000 worth of property Mrs. McKinley is taken ill at Mon- terey, and removed to San Francisco — 13 A big boquet of cut flowers, 90 ft. in circumference and 25 ft. high, prepared by the San Jose

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ladies for Mrs. McKinley, was presented to the President in her absence owing to illness 14 —A street car strike places Albany, N. y. in the hands of a riotous mob George Raymond and his

company of brigands operating near Manila are captured The President is received with great ovation in San Francisco 15 — Owing to the serious illness of Mrs. McKinley, the President's further trip in the north-west has been abandoned. Foreign —April 16—The German and French allied troops, 8,000 strong under Gen. Von Gyle, start to attack the Chinese General Liu with 10,000 Chinese who are inside the sphere of operations for the allies, as definedby Count Waldersee Sir Alfred Milner will sail soon from South Africa to England owing to ill health 18 The — chancellor of the English exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, reports a sheet for 1900-1, of £53,207,000. The deficit in the national balance

Boer war, he declared, had brought the country to the verge of ruin, having cost £151,000,000, double the cost of the Crimean war — 22 It is officially announced that ten thousand French troops will be withdrawn from China in May — 25 Two hundred people were killed in an explosion in a chemical works for the manufacture of powder, near Greisheim, Germany 26 —The Empress Dowager of China has appointed six persons, (three cabinet members, and Prince Ching, Viceroy Li and Prince Kung,) a Board of National Administration to re- lieve her of public functions — 28 German soldiers under Gen. Ketteler, had a fierce engagement, April 23 and 24, with Chinese under Gen. Liu. The Latter were defeated, and the Germans had seven killed and thirty-two wounded. May 1 —A national German "Mormon" conference was held in Ber- lin, attended by many music students from Utah Count Waldersee replies to the ministers regarding the evacuation of China 2 — It is reported that the Ministers at Pekin have agreed upon the sum of $273,000,000 as China's indemnity, out of which amount the United States will get $18,000,000 Sir William Vernon Harcourt, and Michael Hicks-Beach discussed the new coal export tax in the House of Commons today, the former against and the latter for 6 The British House of Commons adopts the export coal tax of one shilling per ton, by a vote of 333 to 227 The official report of the number of deaths on the English side in the African war gives the total as 714 officers and 14,264 men. — 9 The first Federal Parlia- ment of Australia opened in Melbourne, the king being represented by the Duke of Cornwall and York; twelve thousand people witnessed the ceremonies.