The Meeker herald., 1892-12-10
Telegraphlc Brevities.

| 2The National Prison Association met In
Baltimore on the 3rd.
Senator Gibson OF Louisiana is dying al
Hot Springs, Arkansas.
There was very heavy fall of snow on
Long Island on the Both.
The comet is growing larger, but DINNER.
1t Is probably recedlug.
The department of agriculture has found 4
cure for lumpy jaw in cattle.
General Dlaz has been lnaugurated presl-
dent of Mexico for the fourth time.
Russell Harrson's paper, the Helena Jour
| nal, has been sold by the sheriff for debt.
By the wreck of fast freight at Monk,
Connecticut, Engineer Miles was instantly
Billed
A negro murderer was taken from the jail
at Hlawatha, Kansas, on the Goth, and
lynehed.
a New York syndicate has purchased the
street railway system Of New Orleans for $40,
COo,OoO
Anthracite coal has been discovered IN
Hamilton county, Indiana, near the surface
Of the ground
The remains Of Rev. DR., John Scott the
Presidents father-In-law, were buried at
Washington, Pa.
Two men robbed bank at Trenton, New
Jersey, on the .9th but were captured before
they got out Of town.
The big Worlds Fair whaieback steamer
Christopher Columbus was launched at West
Superior on the 9th.
Tclcgraphers on the Rock Island system
have asked for an increase Of wages and will
strike Il It Is not granted.
Chicago is suffering from an epidemic Of
hurglarics. Seven safes in one building were
cracked Ia one Night recently.
There Is great iesttution on the western
coart Of Noyla Scotia on account OF the al
most entire failure OF the fisheries.
It I. reported that Jay Gould has "lrustccd"
O large portion Of his railroad stock. Thi-
viii prevent is being thrown on the market.
Bul Manus, Tennessee tough, killed his
l3-ycar-o!d laughter, who interfered when he
was beating his wife 4 lynchlng Is threat
cucd
The steamer IIaytian Republic struck the
wharf in a storm at Seattle and Ss'o.0lJ worth
Of goods were thrown Into the water aud
lost.
The ministers aud others In Plttsburg have
made such a fuss about the social evil that
the dl-solutc women are being run out OF
town.
The Elm Park Methodist church at scrau-
ton, Pennsylvania, just completed at a cost
Of 100000, was completely guued by lire on
the 3rd.
Cardinal Gibbons has written a letter to
the Worlds Fair Opening Association favor
ins quiet opening Of the exhibition to the
public on sunday.
The Calumet iron and steel works near
Chicago, have been sold to Cleveland parties
FOR 100000, and Will be started up after
lying idle for one year.
The Rev. DR.. John Scott, father-lu.Iaw OF
President Harrison, died at the White House
on the Goth. He was 90 years old. The fun.
eFaI was held at the White House Thursday.
Judge Bum at Chicago has decided that
the employment OF alien sailors in American
vessels on the great lakes is not prohibited.
The decision is defeat for the seamenf.
Union.
Hon. Harvey Meyers. oS-spcaker OF the
Kentucky legislature, has been Indicted for
offering II bride to an alderman to secure the
passage OF street railway ordinance In CiH-
cinnau.
The treasury department has decided that
u Chinese boy may enter the United States
for the purpose Of receiving an education,
provided he has the permission Of his own
government
Chief Brown Of the Department Of Public
Safety Mt Pltt,burs has issued au order closing
all houses Of ill-fame in the city as "a result Of
the movement against the social evil started
recently by the ministers Of that city.
The Hamilton Wooden Company, CONTROL
Ing sixteen mills at Ameshury, Massachusetts,
has increased the wages Of all cmployrs, OK
ecpt spinners, per cent. The sp!nners were
given an increase Of 10 per cent recently.
Tonauin adylces give meagcr details of an
airocious crime by Chinese pirates In Ton
qula. \ band Of these desperadocs pcnncd
up eighty women and children in the caves
at Quaug Huyca and smoked them to death.
The cause OF the act Is not given, but it was
probably because their relatives refused 10
give sufficient rausoms.
Major Hclnrlohs, German officer, ha.
been sentenced by court martial to one year
imprisonment IN fortress for having caused
the death Of seven prlyatcs last summer.
Hcnrichs caused his whole battalion to swim
the Neisse in all their accoutremcnts, Seven
men who had not been drilled to tho work
went under and were drowned.
At Alexander, Ind, what is intended to he
ia, 1arre.t vvIptlotv frlass factory In tho Init