The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1893-08-26


from Honolulu on the 18th.
The Northern Pacific railroad went into the
hands of a receiver on the 18th.
Rorrett Scott. treasurer of Holt County, |
Nebraska is defaulter In the amount OIL
10000.
Detectives have arrested woman near
Rock Island, Illinois. while she and man
we're placing ties on the track TO wreck q
train.
Word has been received from Miss Frances
f. Willard announcing her entire recovery.
She will leave Lucerne, switzerland, ior noH'e
October /.
| The Edgar Thompson Steel Works OF the
| Carnegie Steel Company at Braddock Will be
shut down for lack of orders Two thousand
men will be thrown cut OF work
There was serious riot at Aigues-Morles.
Frarce on the l1th, between french anu
Italian workmen. Troops finally restored or
der after ten men were killed by the COM
batants.
It is now positively stated that until the
House has finally acted upon the proposition
to repeal the purchasing clause oil the shef-
man act the Senate will do nothing in that
direction.
AT n meeting of the associated banks OF
Little Rock Arkansas; II was decided to place
certified checks in circulation and limit the
amount which any deposition can Withdraw In
one day to so.
aE. NJ. Donaldson, president of national
TANK at Marion, Kansas the Union Trust
Company at Sioux City, Iowa, and n number
of small banks in Iowa, all of which have re-
Gently failed, has fed TO Mexico with <ooo,-
900.
a bill to foreclose a mortgage has been
filed against the company owning the John
Brown fort, which was recently brought to
Chicago for exhibition. The bill alleges that
the exhibition has been failure and re-
ceivcr for the company is demanded
The anarchists at New York are actively
j -. .trr he tupmnlnke1
eiguers and melting them 10 violence. ne
rlo,ous demonstration on Thursday in which
a mob broke into a hall seems to have set the
ball rolling and there is prospect tha' TIE
police Will have plenty 81 work TO do.
One OF the best methods taken by Helena
merchants to let Eastern dealers realize
what free coinage means to Montana, Is the
form in which many orders are now gwen.
The formula Ia giving orders Is ',uoods 70
be shipped October /, 1888, provided there 10
a law In force for the free coinage OF silver
Otherwise this order Is void"
Tuesday night mob OF white men went to
Chinatown In Tulare, California broke INTO
houses and marched about thirty Chinese TO
the depot Shots we're fired TO intimdate the
Chinese, but none of them were injured. All
the men captured were sent north. A dis
patch from Fresno says Chinese laborers there
are being replaced by white men.
The abstract OF the reports made TO the
comptroller of the currency showing the com
dillon Of national banks in the United States
July u last has been made public COM
parison with the statement of March last
shows n decrease In Individual deposits of
$4,000. OOO In loans and discounts OF $l3'.-
UOOOu In specie of s2l 100000, and profits
of SO, 100000.
A crusade against Chinese laborcrs has
been started In Fresno and other places In
the san joaquin valley, California, aud seems
to be spreading over the state owing TO
financial troubles large numbers OF white men
are out OF work. while many Chinese are en-
ployed steadily on ranches and vineyards. II
looks as II the Chinese must be displaced.
Thus far violence has been narrowly ayerted.
Cou-ul-C;cncral Mason, at Frankfort, Ger
many has made report in which he says,
under the new tariff not only Will Germany
cease to draw from Russia the supplies OF rye
every year. amounting to millions, but, owing
to he drought, VIII have certain serious
deficit this year In her own home crop OF
grain which will call for large importation
of breadstuIs from the United States.
At the annual meeting of the Calumet and
Hccla Mining Company's stockholders at Bos-
ton the same directors who have served since
the company started were reelected.
President Aggizes In his report said that large
numbers OF the employees at the mines do not
understand English and it was probable that
the company would refuse hereafter 10 employ
men who do not know or VIII not In n short
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Secretary Gresham Is dissat-ied with the
Behring's Sea tribunal in regard to the rcgu-
lntlons established, and 1t is understood his
views arc shared by other Cabinet officers.
The regulations are interpreted to mean that
the United States will have cntalled on II the
patrolllng Of Behrlng sea without benefit to 1t.
while Russia. and perhaps other nations, reap
u harvest, the regulations being binding only
on Great Britain and this country.
\ fatal accident occurred on the 10th To a
party Of merry makers In Western Ireland
The excursion party left kilkee, In the south.
western part OF County Glare, Intending tc
/ cross the river shannon, which In that vicin-
its is quite wide. forming what IS known rs
] Carrgaholt bay. When the party was u con
siderable distance from the shore the boat
capsizcd and everybody on board of her wa:
thrown Into the water. Seventeen OF them
were drowned before rescuers reached them
Some days ago the state department re-
, cclyel message from Ii Hung Chang, the
Chinese yiceroy, addressed to the President
to the effect that for the present no rctaliatory
measures viii be Initiated as regards the citi
zons of the United States residing In China.
and further that every effort will be made u
, protect them and their interests in peace ant
safety until the assembling OF Congress In
regular session, when, 1t is hoped, that inor,
frcndly legislation will be had.
, A stockholder of the Northern Pacific rail
way, whose name Is Withheld, has employed
, | attorneys to bring suit against Henry Willard
! Edwin II. Abbott, Charles Colby and Colonc
Gat,epril, on the general charge of malfeas
ancc IN office and mlsmanagement OF :he nf
]
, rectors thereof. 1t is alleged that the North
, crn Pacific properties In which they were per
| sonally interested were manipulated. TIL,
road lost heavily. Ten millions of dollars |.
/ the sum named as the amount of the profit
t OF the four directors.
The troops OF United States cavalry which
have been driving out intruders from til,
Cherokee Strip, preparatory TO the opening o
that country to settlement have about com
pleted their work Everyone on the Strip ha
been compelled TO move out. The onl,
trouble encountered by the troops was witt
the hnymakers, who have been accustome,
each yeTr TO gather immense quantities o
prairie nay. They at first declined to NOV
on, but the troops threatened to burn thei
hay and machines as well. and they reluctant
/ ly moved OF. No one is allowed to enter tn,
strip even for the purpose of crossing int
9 Oklahoma.
Attempt to Wreck u Train.
, a desperate attempt to wreck the regula