The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1893-01-21
Teierr.phic Brevities.

| The Sigma Phi fraternity house at Williams
I college burned: loss, $4,000.
/ Two negro murdercrs were hanged at
| Brinkley, Arkansas, an the llth.
A severe earthquake shock was felt at JEFF
| fersouyille, Indiana, Wednesday night
! The Michigan legislature has appropriated
/ $50, 600 additional for q Worlds Fair exhibit.
! Senator Kenna OF West Virginia died in
| Washington on the llth after u long illness.
| The state Of Tabaseo. Mexico, shipped 500
| 600 lizard skins 10 the United states last
year.
The American Field" cup was destroyed
In the Jaceard fire At Kansas City, Friday
night.
There was a million dollar fire IN Boston on
the 10Th. Hecht Brothers were the principal
| losers.
syndicate of Alaska cannerles Will be
| formed al San Francisco with capital OF CO.
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Two negroes were lynehed at CASTOR, Ken,
lucky, Wednesday, for the murder Of an old
! farmer.
| The Popullst House In the Kansas legisla-
! ture has been recognized by the governor and
) the Senate.
Threatened trouble between the Big -Four
| and It's operators has been ayerted by mutual
| concessions.
| Postmaster Jacob NJ. Morris, at Lincoln,
| Illinois, has been deposed for Il shortage OF
| 81 400 in his cash.
/ The weather in New York and the East on
| the 18th was the coolest in years. 1t was IL
! degrees below zero.
II is generally understood that John &.
! Carlisle Of Kentucky will be the next secre-
| tary of the treasury.
| By the bursting Of fly wheel in a wire mill
| at Pittsburg one man WAS Killed aud several
| olhrrs were badly hurt.
Senator Brlce has ordered 100 tons Of coal
and 100 barrels Of Aour distributed among the
| poor Of Lima, Ohio.
| The deadlock in the Nebraska legislature
| has been broken so a. to allow the Inaugural
| ton of Governor Crounse.
| Mr. Cleveland has removed to his country
| seat at Lakewood, New Jersey, where he Will
/ reside until March ith next.
| The remains of jefferson Davis will proba-
| bly, be removed from New Orleans TO Rich
moud, Virginia. in the spring.
Decatur, Illinois, and vicinity is in the
| midst OF a coal famine. At Gasner the resi-
] dents are burning cobs for fuel.
The proposed exhibition OF public school
methods OF Brooklyn, New York, at the
! Worlds Fair has been abandoned,
| William siegler, real estate man, is trying
| to secure a controlling interest 10 the Brook
| Ign EIgt>, which IS valued at s3,oOO.OO.
I The enterprislug policemen Of Chicago
/ have formed Protective Association" and
| Will strike II their salaries are not increased.
| The German coal miners whose recent
/ -tglke was put down so violently, are getting
even with the mine owners by the use of dyn-
Amitc,
Sixteen people we're injured by the wreck
| Of n wood train on the Portland Il willamette
| Valley railroad, near oswego, Oregon, on the
I 10th.
! The Worlds Fair committee OF the national
! House Of Representatives are hearing arEu-
/ mcnt, on the question OF Sunday opening Of
I the Fair
| \ report Is out at New York that the Amer
7 lean Express Company, which has lost many
! packages recently, is being Systematically
! robbed.
Pennsylvania coal masnates are said to have
purchased the coal fields of Nova Scotia.
Z Seventeen million dollars will be invested In
I the project
! The Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided
| that eX-state treasurcrs must pay TO the state
/ the interest received by them on state funds.
| Il VIII make a large sum.
At Wichita members OF the Brotherhood Of
stationmcn employed by the Santa fe were
given the alternative OF quitting the union or
\ inc road. ihcy stuch to tho road.
Great damage has been done To vessels and
coal bargcs on the Ohio River In the neigh
borbood OF Cincinnati by the forming and
| breaking Of tremendous fee gorges.
Eli. Murphy, Jr., received an almost unani-
nous nomination for senator by the Demo
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The executive committee of the Coal Club
Of Boston and vicinity has recommended an
auFAuee On All KINDS OF anthracite coal oil
twenty-five cents per ton' 10 take eject at
| once
II seems probable that there will be a com
| promise Of some kind in the squabble for the
| control OF the Kansas House of Repre- seuta-
tlves- Both sides have appointed CO mmit
Tee TO discuss terms.
The Rev. Edward Clark. ID u who has for
the past twenty wear. been pastor Of Tho
Church OF the Pirlians. New York. hss nuh
| llcly renowned nj. allnriance Ia tho Prsshv-
terrain General Assembly
Governor Broyn of MARYLAND has conru,.
ra the death sentence of fomr nf ,ba ej,,b,
younsr ne.rrnes Who were convicted Of ,nnr,iers
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