The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1893-07-29

a. solvent.
Attendance at the Worlds Fair is con-
stantly increasing
A case of genuine leprosy has been diseoV-
cred in North Dakota.
The congress of shorthand writers mas
opened at the Worlds Fair.
Two children were killed near RusselVille,
Kentucky, by lightning, while standing I'M
der q tree.
A flock of homing pigeons flew from Chiea'
70 to Long Island, LOCO miles, In twenty
one hours.
Four hundred men have been laid of ut the
Westinghouse Electric Works In Ne"arh,
New Jersey.
President Cleveland was burned In eihgy
near kingman. Arizona, by the angry hiiAe''
in the silver mines.
A Sunday school excursion train was
wrecked near Buffalo. Wednesday, and
number Of children seriously injured.
The Paris pa ers are getting quite excited
over the Slam affairs. They see In every
move the hand of British intrigue.
The pension department has stopped pay
ing the s72 pension OF Justice Long, oi a.
Michigan Supreme Court. His salary is
5000.
Governor Markham, of California, mas APP
noin,ed Ex-Governor George Z. PERKINS
United States Senator to succeed the iate Le-
land Stanford
Consumprion among the stock at the Chl-
cago cattle yards has increased, and the couh-
ell committee met TO take heroic measures 10
check the disease
The British court martial which Is in'esu-
eating the sinking OF the Victoria mas CON
elusive evidence that It WAS the fault oil VICE
Admiral Tryon who lost his HE.
Nj. J. Bowling, editor of the ReuvIlle, Min
nesbta Star, man with neither legs OF
hands has been arrested by order OF the VII
l,ge council for not working poll tax
Siam has agreed TO a part of the French de-
mands, but this Is not considered satisfactory,
and the French minister at Bangkok mas peeh
ordered To withdraw. A war may ensue
The bulletin of the American Iron and
steel Association says the total production OF
pig iron for the first half of 1898 was 4,5b2,9ls
gross tons, showing decrease, as com,
pared with the first half of lsg2 OF 2oo,'oo
tons.
The total number of pensioners dropped
from the rolls since March t. 1893, il 10, and
the total number of pensioners suspended
since March 4, pending further inVestisa-
tiop OF their cases, Is 5'osU
A San Francisco paper states that Governor
Markham has decided TO appoint Irwin y.
Stump to succeed the late Senator Stanford.
stump wa. chairman of the Republican state
committee during the last campaign
In purchasing silver bullion on the 2lst at
50. 10 per ounce, the treasury department paid
a lower price than II has ever paid for the
eommodlty The highest price paid for silver
bullion under the Sherman law was Sl:O per
ounce.
A special from Topeka says that the santa
Fc management has just upearthed extensive
frauds on that division of the road included
between Topeka and Chicago. The frauds.
It IS sald have resulted in n loss to the road
of g. 600 month
y of q
leprosy has been discovered. The victim Is
@. II. Nelson. 20 years old, who came from
Norway three years ago DIR. Engstad. oil
that city called to Investigate the case ana
pronounced 1t genuine ieprosy.
The great -melter at Chihuahua and the
Santa Eulalie mines, for which IL was recently
built, has shut down to await rise in the
price OF silver. There has been n great de-
crease in the amount OF ores from Mexican
mines to smelters In the United states during
the past few weeks.
Opinion is general here that Siam will pay
In full the indemnity demanded by France
IL is doubtful, however, that the French
claims TO territory VIII be allowed. Much
depends upon the response of Great Britain
TO the effort Siam Is making TO gain her NOR al
or material support
A negro rayisher named Walker was lynchcd
near Memphis the other night. AS n result OF
the lynchlng the Criminal court has rus
pended the sheriff. The grand jury ha,
been called 10 investigate the case. Three
gaahrs and Gsf arrests fa5 fam9 5jf In TIT
The New York Press says Joseph Jefferson
the veteran actor, Is near deaths door. A
cancerous affection of the neck Is the princi-
pal Ailment- Mr.. Jetierson's physicians have
so far been badly baiiled by the disease
which is attributed to an Inherited tendency
and partly to carelessne-s in the treatment OF
a boil some months ago.
The cholera is rampant among the poorer
classes Mt Moscow. Much indignation is fell
in Russia because the director of prisons, up
on learning that there was cholera in the
Moscow prisons ordered majority OF the
prisoners TO he removed 10 four other cities.
There have been no cases go fer in st. Peters
burg In Polodia aud other Infected place.
the death rate has not lessened.
The American line steamship Paris has
broken another record She was reported OF
Fire Island at :23 o'clock this afternoon,
having made the run from southampton In
six days, nine hours and thirty minutes.
This is nearly two hours better than the rec.
ord made by the Hamburg line steamer Fuerst
Bismark, in April, 1892. The Paris also hold.
the record between Queenstown and New
York.
AT Hastings. Nebraska, Thursday evening,
a gang OF seycnty-tivc men took possession OF
q Burlington freight train, and when the con
successfully. When the superintendent was
notified he directed the night yardmaster II,
Lincoln to make up special train OF empty
box cars and accommodate everybody who
cared to ride. The train will be run as far as
the Iowa line. The men claim TO come from
Denver.
On the twcnty-frst the great driving wheel
Of the Memphis electric power house exploded
into hundreds OF pieces, tearing up the build
.ng and killing Engineer McDermott instant
ly. The wheel was four feet across, fifteen
feet In diameter and weighed 200 pounds. 1t
became Wild and eccentric from some un-
known cause revolving at an incredible speed,
and before it could be stopped the explosion
resulted from centrifugal force.
Hugh Harvey and Homer Householder, Gust
for the fun Of the thing" shot through a
window OF Schaefer's powder magazine near
Huntington. Indiana. The shot exploded
Mantle. Harvey and Hansholder were both
killed Houses in the neighborhood were
riddled by flying bricks, aud windows
were broken all over the city. Andrew Her.
stog and John Cooley were badly injured by
flying bricks.
So far as the State department is informed
there are no American citizens residing in
Siam except about score of missionaries. II
special measures for their protection. The
United States has NO diplomatic representa-
tive In Siam. II the welfare of our mission
aries should be threatened, they can secure
protection upon application to the minister of
some other nation. The commercial interest Ia
Of the United States arc Insignificant
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