The Meeker herald., 1893-12-23

Signor Crisp has been asked to form a
cabinet for Italy.
The bill admitting Arizona TO statehood has
passed the House.
There was $500, 900 fire at New York on
the 18th. A big furniture house was destroy
ed
The thirteenth annual convention of TIE
America Federation OF Labor began in Chi
cago on the 18th.
Evidence submitted by the defense At the
Prendergast trial at Chicago seems to prove
that he IS crazy.
The firm of c. Aultman Il Co.. manufac-
turers Of machinery at Canton, Ohio, has as
signed. Assets S2,700,OO0, liabilities $1,000
coo
There were destructive fires at Buffalo and
Troy, New York, on the night of the 18th.
The loss at Troy was $4,000 and S1oO,OO0 at
Buffalo.
Chris Evans, the noted California outlaw,
was found guilty Of murder in the first de-
gree and the penalty was fixed at imprlson-
ment for life
II is now known definitely that the House
committee on banking and currency Will re-
port the bill to repeal the 10 per cent tax on
state banks.
The October statement Of the Union Pacific
railroad shows gross decrease of 81 ,O66, i33;
net decrease, S555, ZIG. The net decrease for
Ten months was S3,956,9i7.
\ train on the International road was held
up near Austin. Texas, on Sunday night The
robbers cleaned out the express car and then
relieved all the passengers OF their valuables.
The postal authorities have decided to stop
all rcmittances through the malls sent to
about fifty different bond investment com
panies, it being held that they arc fraudulent
concerns.
Bank clearlngs continue to show very
heavy decrease compared with the cor
responding time last year. In both New YORK
and Chicago the decrease last week was over
IS per cent.
The state department has received adyices
from Minister Willis via the Oceanic 1t ia
understood, however, the advlces contained
no Information OF Importance other than al
ready published.
The French minister of the interior and
the minister of justice have conferred regard
Ing the application OF the new press law. All
indictments 10 commit dynamite outrages
and all Qualifications of crime will be rigor-
ously prosecuted.
The span OF the new bridge being built
across the Ohio river between Louisville and
Jacksonville gave way Friday precipltatins
forty men into the torrent below. Twenty
one workmen were killed outright and large
number injured, some of them fatally.
The National Farmers Congress opened at
Savannah on the 18th with an attendance OF
about 800 delegates, mainly representatives
OF the Southern and Western states, these
having been appointed BY the governors of
congress.
The coming winter has been selected by
Russia for series of extensive army
maneGvers In the deeply show-clad portions
of Moscow. The military evolutions In the
snow will only be suspended when eight de-
grecs below zero are registered by the ther-
momcter
4 circular has been issued to Boston land
lords by the association for the employment
of the unemployed, asserting that 5000
workmen, having as many more persons de-
pendent upon them, are unable to find work,
and asking that no rent be required oil such
until they are employed.
General Cowen, general counsel for the
government in the Union Pacific receiver
ship says that the application for sls,OOo
salary each for the receivers Will never conc
up again. The court will see how much ac-
tual work falls to each of the five receivers
and will in due time fix the respective pay.
The Grand Island, Nebraska, sugar factory
has closed for this year, having made l.s35,-
900 pounds OF sugar, and having In the ware
a5gg q f 5SHaii S 81 hiFA ayEHP 2 nnd has
$4,000 pounds OF sugar The Norfolk fac
tory is still running, and to date has made
| $500, 900 pounds of sugar.
Serious rioiing took place In the commune
of Giardlnello. Italy, on the 18th. Troops
were hastily summoned from Montelepre, and
upon arriving at Giardincllo the soldiers
were attacked by the mob and severe con-
fici followed. Finally the soldiers mlstaking
an order, fired upon the rioters, killing eight
and woundiug ten others.
II Is stated thac the japanese government
| has sent protest TO the British government
| insisting that the Inland Sea is within Japan
| csc territorial waters. A bitter feeling
| against foreigners Is growing. An arch
deacon and an Engllshman named Shaw were
| attacked by rowdes in Toxic recently and
maitreated. The police watched the attack
| without interfering.
Rev. j. J. Moore, d. D.. senior bishop of
the African Methodist Episcopal church, died
| at Greensboro, North Carolina, on the 9th
| He was the oldest bishop of any denomna-
| tiou in America, being ninety years old He
has been minister more than sixty years and
| has held the office OF bishop nearly twenty
| Fix years In 1879 he spent several months In
| Great Britain, where he preached in many OF
| the leading churches.
At the conference between Receiver Trum-
bull of Union Pacific, Denver Il Gulf, and
| Receiver Anderson and General Manager
Dickinson of the Union Pacific the Union
| Pacific granted the use of the Gulf
tracks between Julcsburg and La Sale, the
cutoff between Omaha and Denver, and the
Gulf secured the use OF the Union Pacific de-
| pot at Cheyenne. The question OF the owner
ship OF the shops at Denver is still under dis
| cussion.
Friday night wreck occurred on the New
| York II Pennsylvania, six miles north Of Dun
| kirk, New Jersey. 1t resulted in the loss of
eight lives. Others were injured. The west
bound passenger train that leaves Buffalo at
| $50 p. m. went through trestlc near Sheri-
| dan Crossing. which had been weakened By
| floods incident 10 the heavy rains, preclpltat-
Ing the tender, baggage and smoking car
| into the creek. Two of the crew were killed.
| The bodies Of six passengers have been taken
| out of the wreck.
At meeting Of the locked-out employees in
| the wooden mill district of Providence Friday
| evening, 1t was resolved that they should
| march TO the headquarters Of the operators of
| the mill and make formal demand for the
| settlement, rs the strike has reached that
point where the operatives therein must be
supplied with food. The Catholic clergy who
have charge of the parishes in Olneyville and
vicinity have ndertaken to try and bring
about some a;oon by which the deadlock be-
tween the manufacturers and the strikers
may be broken.
\ corpse boycotted by the Undertakers'
Union This is the situation Mr.. Brewster a
young attorney of Louisville, Kentucky, finds
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