The Meeker herald., 1893-02-11
Telexraphic Brevities.

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A very severe blizzard swept across iowa
and adjoining states on the 6th
The Senate has declined TO consider the
bill to repeal the silver bullion law.
The business portion Of Alton, Iowa, has
been destroyed by fire. Loss <So,oOO
BY an explosion of two boilers near Vicks-
burg on the End, two men were killed.
Mrs. W. c. Whitney died at New York on
the 5th She had been i'll for some time
The pope has appointed the arch oishop o,
Lepanto nm apostolic delegate to the United
States.
The new First Methodist Church at Duluth,
costing 800 600, was dedicated Sunday, free
from debt.
Professor Wooster of the Union Theological
Seminary dropped dead at Lakewood, Ne"
Jersey.
Anna Dickinson has sued the people Tor
damages who put her IN Tue Insane "Ssi
She wants sl25, 900.
Eighteen miners were killed by an cxpio-
sion OF fire damp In coal mine In Westphalia
Germany, on the LIST.
The financial scandal In Italy Is assuming
seriou. proportions and the prime minister
Gioltti is compromised.
James Mitchell. his wife and child were
frozen TO death In their house near Topeka,
Kansas, q few days ago
The Nebraska Republicans have nominated
j. NJ Thurston for Senator, but haven't
enough votes TO elect him.
4 company has been incorporated at Chlca-
60 to manufacture new telephone. lhey
have a capital OF $50 100000.
Eleven Seventh Day Adventists are under
arrest at Paris, Tennessee, charged with
laboring on their farms on Sunday.
Thirty PopulIsts and Democrats In the
North Dakota legislature voted for Mrs. Nc
Cormick for United States senator
The roofs of several of the Worlds Fair
Ill he'd
are not fixed the exhibits Will be ruined.
The northwest was swept by terrible biz.
.ard on the goth and 3lst. Wind, snow and
cold all contributed to make the weather e1-
tremely severe.
General Tres has been court martialed and
shot at Guaymas, Mexico, for refusing TO AZ.
tack a party of marauding Indians VINO mao
stolen a lot OF plumber and horses.
The Pacific steamer, City of Pekin, which
was two weeks overdue, reached San iran
cisco on the 9th. She had broken her shaft
and had to come 800 miles under sail.
The foreign office announces that the re-
cent story OF an alleged attack upon the
British legation In Guatemala is gross e1-
aggeration of An unimportant incident.
The Indiana Supreme Court has decided a
test case for the collection Of taxes from rail-
roads, against the railroads The result VIII
be the payment Of 81 500 600 year In taxes.
A telegram from Cattletsburg, Kentucky,
says the grand jury now in session there found
indictments against number OF prominent
society ladies of the town for playing pedro
for prizes.
A proposition is now on foot TO build a
canal from Lake Michigan to the wabash
river at Delhi. Indiana. The distance Is
eighty miles and the estimated cost about
SIC, 600 900.
i.ipari Islands in the Mediterranean, oil the
north coast of Sicily, was visited by severe
| earthquake Monday. The volcano on the
| island became active.
A train ran down party OF men In the
| suburbs of Syracuse, New York, Saturday.
killing four and badly injur!ng two Others. A
heavy snow storm was raging and they did
| not hear the locomotive.
| The Pacific mail steamer City Of Picking
| from Yokohama TO San Francisco is overdue
| about .wo weeks, and the owners arc anxious
| for her. Another steamer has been sent from
| San Francisco to look for her.
| A dispatch from 81. Thomas says that the
| Hottentots recently attacked Mossamedes In
| Lower Guinea The Portuguese drove them
back after 8 stubborn hght, in which the
| Hottentots lost their chief and fifty men.
| The Westminster Gazette the new Liberal
| organ which appeared on the 3lst, Gays re-
cent purchaser OF the Pail Mall Gazette, for
the Conservative. va: Mr. wi,iiaas %ai'ao,f
Aston.
| Reports have been received at Washington
| from Minister Stevens At Honolulu. He says
| that he Is very much surprised by the revolu-
| ton as he had been of on cruise on tho
Boston until four days before the revolution
| broke out.
The will of the late General Butler has
| been filed In the Middlcsex Probate Mt East
| Cambridge 1t bears the date of 1854, with a
codicil made in 1862. His estates, real and
personal. arc left to relatives, including n
| wife and mother since deceased
1t learned on excellent authority that the
British government has not instructed Sir
| Julian Pauncefote to protest against Ameri-
| can interference In Hawaii, as the British
government does not expect the United states
10 take any step to which Great Britain would
be likely to object.
Amecting OF the leaders Of the stalwar,
| wing of the Democratic party of Kansas has
| been held and Il was decided to continue the
fight against the regular state organization.
| which still favor. fusion with the Peoples
Party A call was issued for state conven-
t!on 10 be held In Topeka, February Is.
The Rev. Thomas II. Killeen read the lie
cision of Mgr. Satolli on the charges preferred
against Bishop Wigger by him from his pull
pit In New York during the services last sun
day Father killeen told his congregation.
that the decision wiped out Cahensleyism and
| decided that there shall be no German or
French or Irish Catholic Church in America.
but only the American Catholic Church.
Governor Hogg OF Texas has issued instrnc-
| tons to the sheriff of Lamar county to arrest
| every person connected with the burning of
| the Negro Smith at Paris. Governor Hoyg
| says that he does not intend TO let such dis
play of barbarism pass unpublished In Texas
that he sympathizes deeply with the bereaved
parents, but he As governor ofTexas, proposes
to enforce the laws.
Circus men are taking steps to form trust
or u coordination of circus Interests" as
they are pleased to style II. The circus men
say they are in many parts Of the country i'm
posed upon. and they propose an ironclad
combination for protection. The movement
is among the smaller shows, of which there
are between forty and fifty In the West, South
west and South.
A noted geologist Of Paris, N. Lagrange, II
making scientific researches In the valley Of
the Santa Cruz, Arizona, and has made the
astonishing discovery that biped lizard-stcg
osuaus only known hitherto among the rock,
Of the sIlurian epoch, Is found in living speci
mems in the valleys Whereabouts. The only
change in the creature Ia in the size, other
wise the prehistoric and modern creatures are
Identical.
Advices from Alaska state that the citizen
of that territory are earnestly working fol
home rule A convention will meet In Junea,
| this month TO elect q delegate who will carry
to Washington petition asking the following
legislation; A delegate In Congress, home
rule. modification Of the present prohibition,
liauor law, and law by which the publ,
| Iands may he taken by actual settlers