The Meeker herald., 1893-02-25
Telegraphic Brevities.


| A very severe blizzard swept across Iowa
| and adjoining states on the 9th.
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 $50, GOO.
By an explosion of two boilers near Vicks-
| burg on the End. two men were killed.
Mrs. W. e. Whitney died At New York on
| the 5th. She had been Ill for some time.
| The pope has appointed the arch bishop Of
Lepanto an apostolic delegate to the United
| States.
The new First Methodist Church at Duluth,
costing 100000 WAS dedicated Sunday, Tree
| from debt.
Professor Wooster of the Union Theological
Seminary dropped dead at Lakewood, New
| Jersey.
Anna Dickinson has sued the people for
| damage. who put her In the insane asylum.
She wants $l250oo.
| Eighteen miners were killed by an eNplo-
| sion OF fire damp In coal mine In Westphalla,
, Germany, on the lst-
The financial scandal in Italy Is assuming
| seriou. proportions and the prime minister
| Giolittl Is compromised.
James Mitchell, his wife and child we're
frozen TO death in their house near Topeka,
Kansas, few days ago.
| The Nebraska Republicans have nominated
j. II. Thurston for Senator, but haven't
| enough votes TO elect him.
| company has been incorporated at Chica-
| go to manufacture new telephone. They
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 PopuIlst. and Democrats in the
North Dakota legislature voted for Mrs. Nc
| Cormick for United States senator.
The roofs of several Of the Worlds Fair
Buildings arc leaking very badly. II they
1 Al In lnN ttna
The northwest was swept by terrible biz
| zard on the Both 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 at
tack party Of narauding Indians who had
| stolen lot OF plumber and horses.
| The Pacific steamer. City of Pekin, which
| was two weeks overdue, reached san Fran
| 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 OK
| aggeration OF an unimportant incident.
The Indiana Supreme Court has decided
| test case for the collection Of taxes from rail-
roads, against the railroads The result will
be the payment Of 81, 50O,00 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 10 build q
| canal from Lake Michigan to the Wabash
| eighty miles and the estimated cost about
| tlO0O0,O00.
Stromboli, the northeasternmost OF the
| i.ipari Islands In the Mediterranean. oii the
north coast of Sicily, was visited by severe
| earthquake Monday. The volcano on the
Island became active.
| A train ran down q party OF men in the
suburbs OF Syracuse, New York, Saturday,
killing four and badly injurlng two others. \
heavy snow storm was raging and they did
| not hear the locomotive.
The Pacific mail steamer City of Picking
| from Yokohama 10 San Francisco is overdue
about two weeks, and the owners are anxious
| for her. Another steamer has been sent from
| San Francisco to look for her.
! A dispatch from St. Thomas says that the
| Hottentots recently attacked Mossamedes in
| Lower Guinea. The Portuguese drove them
back after a stubborn fight, in which the
| Hottentots lost their chief and fifty men.
The Westminster Gazette, the new Liberal
organ which appeared on the 3lst, says re-
| cent purchaser OF the Pail Mall Gazette, for
%sry ses,, organ s % William sGn snP WsSo4
| Astor.
Reports have been received at Washington
| from Minister Stevens At Honolulu He says
| that he Is very much surprised by the rcvolu-
ton, rs he had been of on cruise on the
Boston until four days before the revolution
broke out.
The will of the late General Butler has
| been filed in the MiddleseI Probate at East
| Cambridge. 1t bears the date of 1854, with
codicil made in 1862. His estates, real and
| personal, arc left to relatives, including
wife and mother since deceased.
| It is learned on excellent authority that the
| British government has not instructed Sir
| Julian Pauncc!otc TO protest against Amcri-
| can interference In Hawaii, as the British
government does not expect the United States
. to take any step TO which Great Britain would
| be likely to object.
| A meeting OF the leaders OF the stalwart
| wing of the Democratic party of Kansas has
| been held and 1t was decided TO continue the
| fight against the regular state organization,
| which still fAvors fusion with the Peoples
Party. A call Wa, Issued for state conven-
tion 10 be held in Topeka. February IS.
| The Rev Thomas II. Killecn read the de-
| cision Of Mgr Satolli on the charges preferred
against Bishop Wigger by him from his pull
| pit In New York during the services las, Sun
| day. Father killcen told his congregation
| that the decision wiped out Cahensleyism and
| decided that there ehall be no German or
| French or Irish Catholic Church IN America
| but only the American Catholic Church.
Governor Hogg OF Texa. has issued in-trnc-
| tions to the sheriff OF Lamar county 10 arrest
| every person connected with the burning of
| the Negro Smith at Paris. Governor Hogg
| says that he docs not intend TO let such n dis
| play OF barbarism pass unpublished In Texas:
| that he sympathizes deeply with the bercavcd
| parents, but he As governor OF Texas. proposes
| to enforce the laws.
| Circus men arc taking steps to form trust
| or combination of circus interests as
| they are pleased to style H.. The circus men
say they are In many parts OF the country i'm
posed upon. and they propose an ironclnd
| 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, is
| 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 rocks
| of the sllurian epoch, is found In living spec-
mems In the valleys Whereabouts. The only
| change In the creature IL In the size, other
wise the prehistoric and modern creatures are
| identical.
Advices from Alaska state that the citizens
| Of that territory are earnestly working for
| home rule. A convention will meet in Juneau
this month TO elect delegate who will carry
| to Washington petition asking the following
| legislation: delegate In Congress, home
rule, modification Of the present prohibitory
| liquor law, and 4 law by which the public
lands may be taken by actual settlers.
| Governor L. Bradford Prince, president OF
!