The Meeker herald., 1893-09-02
reIeKraphic Brevities.
The cholera Is spreading In Russia.

The Illinois Steel Company is to close
1own.
ispended.
Josiah Quincy, assistant secretary OF state,
has resigned.
The mayor of Chicago has issued an order
prohibiting any more parade-.
The attendance at the Worlds Fair last
week footed up over a million.
The oath was Illinois day at the Worlds
Fair and 2Gy,05 people attended
The hotels at Long Branch were badly dam
aged by great storm on the 24th.
The Cherokee Strip will be opened to set
Element on the 10th OF September.
Large numbers OF vessels were driven ashore
on the Atlantic coast by the storm OF the 2ith.
The Duke OF SAKE -Coburg died on the 23rd.
He is succeeded by the English duke OF Edln-
burgb
,r of Milwaukee, has failed. Liabilities
100000
The strikes in nearly all the Kansas coal
mines have been settled and the men have re-
turned TO work.
serious charges OF corruption are made
against Mr. Mercer, worlds fair commission
er from Wyoming.
parade of unemployed clashed with the
Chicago police Saturday aud the result was
number Of cracked skulls.
The lower Atlantic coast was swept by a
hurricane Monday and great deal oil pro-
perry and many lives lost.
The cholera is slowly but surely spreading
Iu the great ceuters Of population In Ga!icla
and Hungary, where 1t Is difficult TO eradicate
! cihe and the Western Passenger Association
ads not been settled aud there + liable to be a
Z rate war yet
Unemployed Poles rsided a market house
IN Buffalo n ur,day and helped themselves to
everything tley wanted. A strong force of
| police finally drove them oil.
a sensation has been caused at Chicago by
a sudden wholesale indictment Of gamblers.
| At the instance OF States Attorney Kern
| eighty-scvcn indictments we're found.
The Santa fc management has decided to
close the Topeka ear shops temporarily on
| the first OF September. Only enough employees
! Will be retained TO make the necessary re-
pairs
! The rush of homeseckers to the Cherokee
| strip, which will be opened to settlement Sep.
] TENDER 10. has begun and hundred of men,
women and children are arriving on every
| Santa Fc and Missouri Pacific train.
| NIohlcr Of the Kansas Board OF Agriculture
| has Issued an appeal for seed wheat and mon
! ~ With which 10 bug It for farmers in West
crn Kansas The appeal states That the crop
( IS a total failure In that portion OF the state
StHir Bank commissioner brellentnal oil
Kansas announce, that he viii not consider as
available assets of Kansas banks any money
they mag have on deposit In New York as the
! New York banks refuse To honor drafts with
/ cash
There a great meeting for silver at
Cooper Union, New York on the 24th It
wa attended by 1000 people and speeches
We're delivered by John G Boyd, General
Weaver Congressman Bartlne and Bryan.
Strong resolutions were adapted iayoring free
coinage
Mayor Harrison OF Chicago will take unto
himself bride some time in September. The
lady j. Miss Howard OF New Orleans. She Is
about 80 ycar- old and worth about 5000
coo. Mayor Harrison J., IS years old and thi.
VIII be- his third marriage lie has three
children older than his Intended wife.
The treasury department has begun paying
out gold on all checks presented Redemp-
ton of paper money Is made la the same class
Of money. The reason for this is large eN-
pvndltures have exhausted the paper money.
/, The gold reserve Is now s9t 900, 600, the re-
serve being u.cd In paying debts OF the gov
crnment
There have been serious disturbances In
Milwaukee lately. On "wednesday II large
number of Poles attacked n party of lahorer.
al work on II street contract and demanded
that they dcslst work. \ lively encounter en-
ene.l but 1Q9ql&,w was, ssfl0gIgc IRinrsilu Ghe
persel the mob after making two arrests.
Ten million dollars In gold, packed In can
vass sacks, passed through Kansas City FRI
day morning on the Santa Fc train from San
Francisco The money was guarded by ten
United States deputy marshals armed with
Winchester rifles. The gold Is from the sub
treasury at san Francisco and Is being sent to
the sub treasury at New York.
The popular ferment In Italy arising from
the Aigucs- Morles affair shows no signs of
-uh,idencc. At Milnzzo, on the north coast
Ill Il 81.
streets and acted In n mos, dlsorlerly manner
The rioters attacked the French consulate,
and smashed every window In the building
The c-cutchcon Of France over the doorway
wa torn down and taken possession OF by
som" Of the mob. An attempt was then
made to burn 1t, but the police arrived and
drove the rloter. oil. and the officers recap.
turcd the escutcheon.
The beautiful white buildings of the
Worlds Fair are 10 be sold junk. They
are soon to be advertised and knocked down
to the highest bidder About the only thing
OF future Use In them are the iron and steel
arches and timbcrs. IL is thought that not
more than $1,000, 900 can be realized from the
auction, The most expensive buildings will
probably bring the least money. The manu-
facturcrs' and liberal arts building. which
cost 81 100000, and which has 500. 900 In
arches alone, viii, of necessity, 1t is believed,
bee given TO the man who will tear 1t down
and carry the debris away.
The Democrat, of Iowa have re- nominated
Governor Bulcs for third term. In regard to
silver coinage the platform says: I've hold
To the use of both gold and silver as the
standard money Of the country and the coin
age OF both gold and silver without dl-criml-
mating against either metal or charge for
mintugc, but the dollar unit of coinage Of
both metals must be OF equal Intrinsic and
eNchangeable value, to be adjusted through
international agreement or by such safe
guards OF legislation as shall insure the main
tcnanee OF the parity OF the two metals and
the equal power of every dollar at all times
We demand that all paper currency shall be
kept at par with and redecmable in such
coin
Colorado.
Fire has broken out in the King mine at
Como.