The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1893-10-28
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Prairie fires are causing great
South Dakota
Marshal MacMahon, the great French sol
dler died on the 18th.
Mrs. Lucy Stone, an original woman Sun
frage advocate, is dead
Mrs. Lease and some of the other han4a.
woman suffragists are having a quarrel Oh
some magnitude.
W. c. Rippey, the man who attem pteu 10
XIII j. W. Mackay, has been found suii'y Vi
assault to murder.
The extensive wall paper house oil MllliaiLi
Campbell * Co in New York City burned on
the 18th involving loss Of four million DOL
lars 49,.
The main building OF the South Dakota
state University burned sunday morning, en-
failing loss of 100000 or more without III
surance.
The twenty.ffth anniversary of the promo
,t,, ~ Cardinal Gibbons to the episcopacy
was celebrated at Baltimore with great pomp
this week.
Last Saturday WAS Manhattan Day AZ the
Fair and II is estimated that 1000 New
Workers we're on the grounds. Inc totai
paid attendance was little short OF 5oV'VoV'
The people OF Paris seem to have gone
crazy over the officers OF the Russian feet nov
the guests OF that city, In the excess OF tneIr
demonstrations they are making themselves
ridiculous.
{ Long Point in Lake Superior, and out OF her
{ crew of sixteen people three are saved and
thirteen drowned. II was caught In the great
storm Of the 18th.
The attendance at the Columbian E1posi-
ton on the 9th-Chicago Day-was 75l, 026
which beats the records OF all Worlds fairs
The crush OF people was dreadful and hum
drcds were injured in various ways.
Information comes from Valparaiso, Chill,
of the marriage Of Mis-. Amelia Rokas TO
Francis Z. Egan. The groom is the eldest
son Of Hon Patrick Egan, formerly United
States minister 10 Chill The BRIDES family
are very wealthy.
\ terrific storm ragged over the eastern part
of the country on the 18th. Great damage
was done 10 shipping on the Atlantic coast
and the great lakes. Along the South Allan
tic coast towns suffered and wire. all through
the East were blown down.
Secretary Lamont hA. received the annual
report of Brigadler General X. Brookes com
mandug the department OF the Platte.
Speaking Of the Indian as a soldier Brooke.
say- the greatest difficulty seems 10 be the
Indians do not speak English.
Secretary Gresham has received the follow
ing cable from Minister Young TO Gustemala:
The president of Guatemala this day de
clared himself dictator, dissolved the extra
session Of congress, assumed control OF the
government and ordered a new election"
At the National W C. T. U. convention
the following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Frances T. Willard, Illinois; sec
Rotary, Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, Ohio; re-
cortling secretary, Mrs. l.. y. Stevens, Michi-
gan. treasurer, Mrs. II. VI. Barker, North
Dakota.
! There wa. stu further reduction in the ma
/ tional reserve OF the treasury on the 9TH. the
amount being $50, l52 ,25S. about half mil
] lion lower than It was In June last, when 1t
| touched the lowest point In Its history 10 that
I time. The currency balance, however, showed
an increase and stood at tl6,23l, AZ.
The American Express Company hAs lost
$50, 600 Intrusted TO II By n New York bank
! for transmission TO New Orleans Was Louis.
I The money was placed in a strong box In New
York with Special Guard kor.endorfer in
charge Just where 1t flew the track not even
the detectives at work upon the case seem
able to learn.
The battle with the outlaws, which took
place on the llth inst. near Fifty-Two Spring,
Indian Territory, terminated more fatally
ana Joe .-Ui-6- -Hsc,..ed - -. y o,i ..-
prairie next day. The officers knew mat the
outlaws were wounded but their wounds were
not considered serious.
The Senate has passed Congressman Bells
house bill suspending during 1893 the opera
tons OF the mining laws requiring 800 worth
Of work to be annually performed on mining
claims, with an amendment submitted by
Senator Pettigrew restricting the same TO ac-
tual residents and citizens. The bill now
goes back to the House for concurrence in the
amsnnment.
A dispatch has been received in Berlin from
Or. Peters, the great German explorer Of AZ
rlcR, who recently visiting the United
States and Canada, in which the doctor say.
he has been enioyin greatly what he has
seen in America, he adds, however: "stn
# IS not Europe. America keeps in culture
and NtNIl Hon ata. h.. H..
Africa and Europe
The cattle killing record Of the world ha.
been broken At Armour's packing house in
Kansas City, where 3, lis cattle we're slaught-
cred in eleven hours. The slaughter began at
: O'Clock, WAS interrupted a half hour at noon
and ended at $3.50 o'clock. The average wa,
five steers slaughtered every minute. No
packing house In the world has ever killed
the same number OF cattle in the same time.
The Indian agent at Puyallup, Washington.
has submitted his report to the interior de
partmcnt, He says intorication Ia the pre-
dominant evil among the Indians. The evil
VIII grow, he thinks, because OF the decision
OF the courts that an indian holding a patent
to land Is a citizen. He recommends on ac-
count Of this that law be passed holdlug
that when patent is given 1t shall not CON
fer citizenship upon the Indian.
By the premature explosion OF dynamite at
Emington, Illinois, on the 10Th five persons
were killed and five injured, two OF whom
cannot live. Wylle Bros of Emington, well
diggers, were sinking we'll for the city OF
Emington. AT depth Of 305 feet their drill
broke and they were unable to 20 any further:
hence they engaged Eyer Brothers OF Dwight,
Illinois, TO use dynamite in order TO further
their work. The latter had filed piece of
piping with dynamite and were Gaping II
when the tube exploded. The killed and in
jured were thrown over fifty feet by the
shock. They were dead and mangled so
badly that Identification was almos, impossi-
BILE.
A dispatch from Guthrie, Oklahoma, saws:
Every town in the territory Is filling up with
people from 'he Cherokee Strip, who come n
hungry, cold and without a cent of money.
they are all willing to work, but the crowd is
so great there Is no work for them, and those
who will not work are suffering from hunger. |
At Perry, Oscar kestler of Columbus, Ohio. |
was found nearly dead from hunger and ex- |
posture, and was sent to his home, while A |
number OF other men who are sick and pcnni- |
less are being cared for by charitable institu-
lions. Every day brings news of the death of |
one mr. more ~ the unfortunate ..t,i.r.