The Meeker herald., 1892-09-24

Three persons were drowned In the tahc at
Chicago by the capslzing of a ski.
a national union of s,rcct-car men was
ganIzcd at indianapolis on the 18th.
A sharp frost at Boone, Iowa, wednesday
| morning seriously damaged vegetation.
The Germans Of Kansas have formed an
organization TO fight the prohibition law.
Seven men were killed By the explosion of
boiler near Torrnto, Canada, on the l1th.
J. r. Arson has been appointed postmaster
| OF Burtfofk, sweetHater county, Wyoming.
The Western Union Telegraph company
will Increase It, capital stock 10 5000, 0oo.
The afth annual convention of Republican
Clubs was held In Buffalo on the 10Th and
, l6Jh.
Emln Pasha Is said to he in need OF belag
rescued again. lie IS beleasured by rebellious
Arabs.
Ch!cago's new library building IS to cost
SGl7,G0. and Will be completed January lst,
1891.
The old cruiser Alliance has been ordered
to start within ten days for Honolulu. She
Is now at san Francisco.
Reports from Indian Territory state that
seven men were killed In the Choctaw nation
as result OF political feeling.
~ tho carelcssnc,s Of a train dispatcher
two freight trains colliIed near Marshall,own,
town, Iowa, on the l5th. Four men were
/ killed
4 A report comes from Brussels that the mon
+, ctary conference will be held In that city, In
accordance with the wish of a majority Of the
powers,
| Mayor washburnc of Chicago says that he
! and Major McClHughry art united in their de
termination to stop gambling and horse rae
ing in that city.
Three victims Of gambling at Monte Carlo
committed suicide on the l2lh. One OF them
wrs Miss Jane Armstrong of New York, who
lost $4,000.
| John A Barnes OF Decatur, Illinois, the
new consul to Chemniiz, has been ordered by
the state department to sail Mt once for his
post He DENT want TO so Jus. now and
threats TO resign.
The Chicago Trades Assembly has ofllel-
ally refused to join in the parade on Column
| bus Day. They think that labor.ng men
! have not been treated properly By tho Worlds
Fair authorities.
| AGyyos from Honolulu state that the
! legislature passed q vote Of no confidence in
| the ministry, which thereupon resigned. The
| queen had not nHvncd new cabinet up to the
/ tlmc tie steamer sailed.
| The United States Circuit Court has en-
| tered a decree Of foreclosure on the mortgage
held by the Fidelity Trust and Safety Vaul,
company against the Mobile street railway
system 10 satisfy claims Of s535,i36
The Rev DR. TalmaEc and Louis klopsch,
who visited Russia 10 distribute the cargo Of
the C4sisHa- Lerad relief steamship Leo in
the famine provinces, have sailed for New
! York from Liverpool on the City of Paris.
The great four.uasted ship, Roanoke, which
was built recently in Bath, Maine, arrived at
New York Tuesday. She is the largest
American ship anoat. registering 3,i9O tons,
with carrying capacity of nearly 5000
tons.
1t Limerick a mob OF Federatlonist. At
| tackled the Parncllitc amnesty procession
sunday and a big riot en-ued In which clubs
and knives were used frequently. William
| Redmond had narrow escape from being
killed.
] William Dean IIarfii-, Gator OF
| The roSBioyo i'al from March to June !, has
resigned and the October number comes out
without his name. MIR. Howrls had too
much Of his own work to attend to and could
aot devote enough time to the magazine.
The .rhcoucr Agnes Mcdonald has arrived
nj Victoria. and confirms the report OF fur-
! thcr Russian seizures. She saw the Nancou-
, ycr Belle seized, and her captain says other
! -chponeF- were taken. Not wishing TO run
the risk Of seizure, he called In his boats and
| got away.
! There ha, been q most remarkable outcome
| 10 the McNulty murder case at san Francisco.
| Sheriff Laamcl,ter refused to hang McNulty
on the date set Judge Murphy ordered the
shcr.ns arrest for contempt. Coroner Gar
wood arrested the sheriff and locked him in
bis own jail.
Mrs lIarr.on's condition is still such as to
/ cau-o grave doubt as to the probability Of
| her recovering. II was decided on the 10Th
To remove her to Washington the next DAY,
a, she Is anxious to 20 and there I, little
prospect OF her deriving any benefit from. re-
manning at Loon Lake.
The country elevator men In Dakota and
! Minnesota have decided 10 furnish no more
statements Of the amount OF wheat that they
have In their elevators, on the ground that
home and foreign spectators have always
used the knowledge thus gained to manlpu-
late the market to the disadvantage Of the
farmer, and mill men.
In digging n sewer Ia Phoenix. \. iona,
workmcn haze broken into a burial place Of a
prehistoric race, and the tind Will settle
! many questions heretofore disputed by scicn-
tets. The fact that they crcmatel their
dead {. proven by the finding Of several urns
containing the ashes Of the bodies, together
with the teeth aud pieces OF skull
Justice Glennon of Chicago, discharged the
III prisoners arrested In the Garfield raid.
The Justice held that the cIty's case rested on
the uncon,titutlonallty Of the law OF 1877,
permitting betting on race-trnck enclosures,
and -, he could not undertake TO pass upon
constitutional questions there was no other
course for him to adopt but TO discharge the
prisoners.
Friday morning Mrs. Harrison's condition
wac worse. The morning examination by the
loctors showed an increase In the fluid Of the
chest cavity and the attendant symptoms
were so alarming that 1t was found necessary
to perform another operation TO relieve her
,uIerings. The operation was successfully
! performed and Mrs. Harrison was quite com.
Portable afterit.
Augustus T. Kerr, formerly head book.
keeper of the Kansas City office of the Jer-
vi,-Conklin Mortgage Trust company, head.
quarters for the western business os the