The Meeker herald., 1893-08-05

The Chinese registration will soon be taken
before the Supreme Court ngain.
lmporiatlun- of gold continue to Increase.
The slamese government has accepted the
full terms Of the French ultmatum.
The Pacific Express Company's delivery
wagon az Wichita was robbed OF 1900 last
saturday.
A mail pouch containing $4,000 In securl-
ties left salt Lake July sth and has not been
heard of since.
Abram Pardon, cashier Of bank at Pa,ter-
son, New Jersey, has been arrested for steal
ing $4,000 from the bank.
The Worlds Fair is now half over and the
total paid attendance for the first three
months numbered 100000 persons.
BY the aid of the speetroscope at Lick OBJ
-cryatory some important discoveries have
been made concerning the new comet.
The great Amoskeag mills at Manchester,
New Hampshire, closed down on the 3lst for
at least month. The mills employed 5000
operatives.
Large numbers OF the mills in the East arc
closing down. They include cotton and other
factories This is due TO the uncertainties OF
future tariff legislation. Other factories still
run but on short time.
The New York delegation TO the B-Mctallic
Convention have declared that Secretary Car
Isle should be impcached for the course he
has pursued In refusing 10 buy the full
monthly quota OF silver.
For the first time since the passage of the
sherman silver law, the treasury last month
failed to buy the full quota Of i,5o0,O0O
ounces of silver. The total purchase for the
month was =, 3-i, 900 ounces, leaving shortage
OF :, 10000 ounces.
The Nid-winter fair managers OF San Fran
cisco have been notified by the Transcontl-
mental Freight committee that the concessions
desired for the carriage OF exhibits from
Chicago TO San Francisco have been granted.
Full charges Will be made on shipments west,
but exhibits Will be returned free.
The last weekly New York bank statement
shows the following changes Reserve, de-
crease So 03i ,225: loans decrease, 81, 105, 800;
specie, decrease, 81. 22l, 400, legal tender, de-
crease s3,s9s,5O0; deposits, decrease 81 ,259,-
] 100; circulation, increase $4,000. The banks
are now S4,03l ,G15 below the requirements of
the p per cent rule.
Advices from Hong Kong give details OF a
terrific powder explosion at the government
powder magazine at Canton on June "a,
which killed 80, injured over 300 people and
l wrecked four hundred houses in the sam Unli
district, in which the magazine stands. The
| total number of houses destroyed is estimated
at 100,
Notwithstanding the official denials of the
Italian government of the reports that chol-
era had appeared in Italy, 1t ia known that
the disease is prevailing in Alessandria, capi-
tai of the province of that name in Piedmont
MANY cholera cases have been reported there
and new cases are OF daily occurrence. The
disease Is not confined to Alessandria. Cases
are reported in number of places.
By the derailment of a Worlds Fair excur-
sion train near Akron, Ohio, on the 25th
twcnty-one persons were injured. three OF
l them fatally. The party was from Washing
ton If reports are true the accident was due
to the negligence on the part of those whose
business It is TO keep the track In repair. The
| train WAS going around sharp curve when
the accident occurred The accident was due
to defective ties at this point.
/ The guards at shaft No, a, Wicr City, Kas.,
had pitched battle with a mob of strikers at
10 80 O'Clock Monday night. The mob APP
preached the mine quietly and fired into the
shaft Deputy Sheriff Grant, who was on
patrol guard, returned tue fire, and, calling
the other guards, defended the mine against
the mob. Over 100 shots were fired, but none
Of the guards were injured When the mob
saw that the guards we're standing their
ground they fed. It is not known how many,
II any, OF the mob were shot