The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1892-11-12
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
CONDENSED SUMMARY OF THE oc-
cURRENCES OF THE WEEK.

and Assorted for the Convenience of
1hose Readers Who Are In Hurry
and Have no Time to Waste In Read
ing Long Articles.
Two cases of smallpox are reported In
Tacoma.
Over $4,000 English cotton workers
are out on a strike.
The Brazilian government has passed
bill for the encouragement Of Chinese
immigration.
Six new warships will be placed In
commission IN the United States navy
within three months.
Grapes in Kittitas valley, Wash. are
30 plentiful that they are being fed to
hogs for lack of market.
Ex-Premier Mercier is going to take
| lead in a movement for the annexation
of Canada to the United States.
c. p Huntington has bought the won
derful Iron mountain, near Durango,
Mexico. This is the largest iron deposit
In the world.
The Yaqni Indians are preparing to
depredate Mexican towns. The mas
sacre of the Tomachic Indians has
Rngered them.
The largest st. Bernard dog in the
world, Lord Melrose, died at Melrose,
Mass. He was thirty-fve inches high
and weighed 2l0 pounds.
The corner stone of a monument in
Waldheim cemetery to the Chicago
anarchists who We're hanged for the
Haymarket riots was laid Sunday. Over
1900 people attended the dedication.
A general trades strike is on at New
Orleans. and business is paralyzed in
that city. Nearly all classes of work
men are involved. State troops are i'll
readiness to quell any riots which may
occur. A compromise is looked for.
A street railway company attempted
to lay racks ut Columbus, O., ON Sun
day. Property owners armed them
selves and prevented the men from lay
ing the tracks until the sheriff arrived
with injunction papers. The superin-
tendent of the company was arrested.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved the allotments of lands to the In
dians ON the DEVILS Lake reservation in
North Dakota to the number of 869.
These Indians are therefore citizens of
the United States. and entitled to all the
rights and privileges of such citizens.
BY the recent overflow of the Salso
river, in the state of Paxaca, Mexico,
thousands of acres of coffee ana cane
lands were inundated, and fully 81 N, 900
damage done to those crops. Two
thousand head of cattle belonging to
Pedro Cells were caught in the torrent
and swept into the ocean.
Barney Dunning. wno has been an in
mate of the city poor farm at Pittsburg
for twenty-five years, has fallen heir to
an estate valued at $300,000. The for
tune was bequeathed Dunning by his
brother, who went to California in 1s49
and accumulated large wealth, and who
recently died.
During the recent rainy weather at
Ann Arbor, Mich, many of the college
girls have appeared on the streets in the
Jenness Miller @rainy-day DRESS" The
skirt reaches only halfway from the
knee to the ankle, and to make up for
this gap the girls wear long CATERS, and
can now splash through the mud as well
as the boys.
The Socialist Labor party will immed-
lately begin an enegetic eight hour agi
tation. The leaders of the party state
that they have followers in every trade
union and Knights of Labor assembly
in the country and these men are ex-
pected to work up the largest eight
hour movement that working people
have ever engaged in. Every effort
will be made to bring about tremend-
GUS eight hour strike May 1, 1898.
Another petrifed giant has been un-
earthed. A party of cowboys brought
into Pierre, S. D., what they called
petriied Indian, dug up in the bad
lands" of South Dakota. 1t was found
in region noted for fossils heretofore
unearthed. The discoverers claim that
it was first exposed by portion Of a
river bank caving off, and that it was
imbedded in blue clay, which, if true,
would indicate that the man belonged
to some prehistoric race.
The jnry returned verdict of not
guilty in the case of Charles Mills, who
put railroad iron and ties on the track
neartsEugene, Or The jury was satis-
fed that Mills placed the obstruction on
the track. but Judge Fullerton in
structed them that, as the man, after