Events of the Month

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

Local — June 18— Wm. Yates, born Bath, England, October 2 1830, died in Lehi 19 — The commencement exercises of the University of Utah were held; there were 84 graduates from the Nor- mal, and 11 from the other departments 20 A. W. Mc-— Cune secures control of the Salt Lake Rapid Transit line — 21 The Sons and Daughters of Utah Pioneers held a grand union at Springville; Apostle Reed Smoot, master of ceremonies 22 The noted Danish actor, Elith Reumert, visits Salt Lake — 23 S. P. Teasdel, a prominent merchant and citizen of Salt Lake, died, aged 70 years. He came from England to Utah in 1853 Two thousand Scandinavians hold a conference at Provo, presided over by Apostle A. H. Lund 24 — The veterans of the Nauvoo Legion, with the survivors of the Mormon Battalion and the Utah Indian wars held their first annual reunion at Saltair. Bishop 0. F. Whitney read the history of the Legion. A committee was appointed to try and secure a government appropriation for the Legion — 26 C. L. Rood was elected president of the Salt Lake City Railroad company The old folks of Provo and Lehi were royally entertained at the latter place — 27 The assessment for Utah is stated as about $112,420,593, an increase of over seven million, which will bring an approximate revenue to the state of about $562,000 29 The product of Utah mines for the past six months was $12,537,305. Ore and bullion settlements in June: $2,261,065; stock sales in June, 2,547,770 shares for $2,680,707.08 Captain P. A. Grant, quartermaster in the regular army, is assigned to duty in Manila 30—Judge Richard W. Young arrives home from Manila. July — The Provo 1 was advanced from third postoffice second to class 2 — Over 1,650 70 years and old folks, from Salt over, Lake, Davis and Weber counties, went to Saltair. President Snow ad- dressed the company David H. Christensen was chosen superintendent of the Salt Lake City schools at a salary of $2,800 The bank clearings in Salt Lake surpassed any previous record, being $2,394,455. John G. Davies, aged 74, died in Payson

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Under assignment of troops, Fort Douglas will have a garrison of 1,600, the new garrison consisting of about 530 officers and men — 5 John T. Axton was retained as secretary Y. M. C. A J. C. Stubbs, of the Harriman railroads, was in Salt Lake Henry L. Southworth, a native of Boston, 75 years old, an early settler in Utah and a resident of Provo, died

— 8 Prime Evans, of Lehi, dies from lockjaw A very de- structive windstorm visits the northeast part of Salt Lake City — 10 E. B. CritchloRT was elected president of the Salt Lake Rapid Tran- sit company 11 —William McQueen, born New York, May 14, 1842, a well-known mining man, and sheriff of Salt Lake county in 1892, died Judge Hall decides that Mrs. Hilton was not the wife of Dr. John R. Park, and hence the litter's estate, valued at $40,000, will go to the University of Utah 12— Mrs. May Wright Sewall, president of the International Council of Women, visits Salt Lake — 13 About 5,000 Epworth League visitors reach Utah, and 20,000 will pass through to California in the next two days A Merchants' Street Fair will be held in Salt Lake about the 24th, and Ethelyn May Markham was chosen queen for the occasion — 14 The 20,000 League visitors attended Salt- air and the churches; 3,000 went to the Tabernacle where Dr. J. E. Talmage and May Wright Sewall spoke. At the Theater a mass meet- ing was held at night — 17 A fire in Murray causes great alarm and destroys property valued at $16,000 Hon. John Henry Smith was chosen president of the Trans-Mississippi Congress, which opened at Cripple Creek, Colo Collector Callister makes formal application for transfer of his office from Helena to Salt Lake. — Domestic June 21 — By order of President McKinley, it was de- clared that on and after July 4, Judge Taft, President of the Philippine Commission, will take charge of the affairs of the islands as civil gov- ernor — 23 Adelbert S. Hay, former Consul to Pretoria, and son of secretary of state, John Hay, by accident fell from the third story of a hotel at New Haven, Conn., and was killed One hundred lives are lost in a storm and cloudburst which destroyed several towns and millions of property in Pocahontas Co., West Virginia — 24 The Filipino General Cailles, with his command of 650 insurgents, swear allegiance to the United States — 26 J. Pierpont Mor- gan presents one million dollars to Harvard — 27 The Seventh National Bank, New York, in which Perry Heath is largely interested, suspends — 28 Henry Marquand & Co., brokers, New York, to whom the Seventh National loaned $1,600,000, suspend 30 —

800 IMPROVEMENT ERA. hot wave passes over the East and many die and are prostrated in New York and other cities The last of the volunteer army passed into history today. — July 1 The heat still continues, east of the Rocky Mountains 100 degrees is reached in many eastern cities, resulting in many deaths; in Chi- cago eleven persons were killed in one place by lightning A big steel strike was inaugurated in Pennsylvania —4 The hot wave is broken somewhat in the east by storms — 5 Elizabeth Dickenson, former secretary of the Young People's Society Christian Endeavor in the Bronx was baptized in New York Harbor, into the "Mor- mon" Church The annual conference of the American Rabbis is being held in Philadelphia — 6 The Christian Endeavorers meet in annual convention in Cincinnati President and Mrs. McKinley arrive at their old home in Canton, Ohio Constitu- tion, the new cup defender, wins a victory over Columbia, the old cham- pion, at Newport, R. I The Telluride, Colo., mine strike, which has. lasted four days, was settled today, in favor of the miners 7 —Pierre Lorillard, son of the founder of the Lorillard fortune, died in New York, having arrived July 4 The President's proclama- tion, opening to settlement, August 6, the Wichita lands in Oklahoma, was made public — 8 The National Educational Association began its convention in Detroit — 9 Minister Wu filed a claim for a half million dollars indemnity, against the U. S. on account of alleged outrages against Chinese in Butte, Mont — 10 The state department received $95,000, from the sultan of Turkey, indemnity for losses suffered by the American missionary and educational institu- tions, in Turkey, a decade ago The 20th international conven- tion of Christian Endeavorers, held in Cincinnati, closed 12 The thermometer ranges over 110 in Kansas, a hot wind blowing. The crops will fail — 15 The great strike between the steel manu- facturers and workers in Pennsylvania is begun, and 75,000 men quit work — 16 The drought and heat in Kansas is partly allayed by generous local rains 18—The Epworth League opened its convention in San Francisco. — — Foreign June 18 A fourth daughter was born to the Czar and Czarina of Russia, and she is named Anastasia — 21 Hoshi Torre, formerly Japanese minister to the United States, was assassinated in Yokohama — 28 A royal proclamation announcing that the coronation of King Edward VII is to take place in June next, was read at St. James Palace amid quaint medieval scenes. — July 4 The Boers still have 13,000 men in the field, and unless the war is ended in the next three months, it is likely to continue for an- other year Prince Von Holenlohe, formerly general im- perial chancellor, died at Ragatz, Switzerland — 14 The an- niversary of the fall of the bastile was celebrated in France with great merry-making Broadwood's brigade surprised Reitz, captur- ing Stein's brother and the so-called Orange River government and its papers — 16 A deadlock between the powers over negotia- tions in Pekin, is reported, arising over proposed increase of customs duties.