The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1893-06-03

ton Russia.
The Six Companies still advise Chinese not
TO register.
Flfty-three garsans hare been sentenced TO
jail an San Antonio.
The Italian ministry is likely TO resign as a
result OF an adverse vote.
1t is proposed to reorganlze and continue
the order of the Iron Hall
The two month,' drought In France has
caused an enormous loss is crops.
The trial OF DR.. Briggs began before the
Presbyterian Assembly on the 9Th.
A swell ball was given at New York, Friday
evening in honor of the lnfanta Eulalie.
Tho remains of jefferson Davis have been
transferred from New Orleans to RlchuSnd.
Recent foods have devastated large districts
In Roumnnia- Whole villages have been sub
merged.
1t Is officially announced that cholera has
appeared at Mines and Cote, In Southern
France,
James Gordon Bennett says that he intends
To take all his employees on the Herald into
partnership.
In the English yacht race at Gravesend on
the 25th the Britannia owned by the Prince
Of Wales, won.
The Santa Fe road has announced perma-
nent rate of s3S 30 for the round trip from
Denver TO Chicago, and sl7.50 from the Mis-
souri, River.
United States Treasurer Nebccker has paid
into the United States treasury 81 ,05j, that
amount having been stolen or lost from the
treasury cash.
Adyices from Roumania say that floods
have destroyed the crops OF over half mill
lion acres and that the damage Is nearly l.
Oo0, coo sterling.
The Prohibltionists OF Cheny, Kansas, aided
three saloons in the place on the 9th. The
liquors were poured into the cutters and the
saloOn-kcepers driven from town.
The creyas.e In the leyec Of the Mississippi
near Lake Providence, Louisiana, is widening
and tremendous amount OF water is mum
dating the plantations at that point.
One thousand telegraph operators on the
Chicago Il Northwestern railroad struck on
the 22nd. This was done on the strength OF
forged order, and II WIS several hours before
the fraud was discovered and the men went
to work
BY vote OF 400 to las the Presbyterian
general assembly has decided to entertain the
appeal in the case of DIR. Briggs, and the as
sembly IS now engaged In trying him for
hercsy.
The Worlds Fair Commissioners on the
23rd by a vote OF 80 to "a agreed to the rule
made by the directors that the exposition be
opened Sunday. The only means OF fru.trat-
Ing their plans Is action by the courts. and 1t
Is probable that they Will be asked TO inter
fcre.
The Baltimore sugar refinery, one of Mary
lands greatc;t manufactures and the best of
the antitrust concerns, located at Curtis bay,
was completely destroyed by fire on the 18th.
It, loss will approximate 81 ,O0c 900 and 400
employees will be thrown out OF work
General Booth has passed over his son,
Lieutenant General Cromwell Booth, and has
nominated his daughter, lie Marechalc Booth
Cllbborn. to succeed him In command OF the
Army, and explains himself by say
Ing that women make the best rulers
The Hon. Charles Foster, who was secrc-
iary Of the treasury under President Harri-
son, assigned on the 26th for the benefit of
bank, Wholesale grocery and several manu-
concerns. The liabilities will
probably reach 500, 600 and the assets arc
about the same,
Owing TO the small amount OF gold bullion
deposited, about 800, 900 per month, and the
heavy expense OF coinage at the United States
mint at Carson CITY. Nevada, Secretary Car
Isle ha, directed the suspension Of coinage
operations at that mint from and after the
first proxlmo. Gold and silver bullion Will,
however, be received for parting and rctin-
Ing.
There Is considerable talk In Nicaragua
about getting the United States to establish a
protectoratc there. 1t Ia argued that the
American people, having great deal at stake
In the ship canal undertaking.. have a" Inter
rst In maintaining oruer IN INA, country.
! here !. strohs uhdercurreht OF ieeilhe IN
'aNof on hhheNa,lon OF p,o.eeVo' i,e, anu ~
: -aiu tnn IN nu""nihi' 'netc - ais" ''us"
annexation sentiment
The southern facihc railway company, al
ter thorough investigation, has decided to
build 5000 hotel In Yuma, Arizona, at
once. 1t will be a modern built house with
all the Improvements OF the day. they CON
template also to build line oil railway 10 the
iulf OF California and to the Cocopa Solca-
1oes, where they propose to put up aeeommo.
iaiion for 5,po guests. AZ hrst line OF
'teamcfs' Hsht anu ias., VIII ue put On 'ne
gun tue hhest resort III tuc "oF'u'
Judge Bradley, In the circuit court FOR the
District of Columbia, In the case OF Pulaski,
discharged letter carrier, rendered an impor-
ant decision In the matter OF the enforcement
II the civil service laws, holding in effect that
m employc of the government appointed I'M
Ter aud subject to such laws cannot he dis
missed from the service without just and suf-
ieient cause, and that the court, have the
right to pass upon the suniiciency OF the
cause
Another and more serious landslide mas oc-
CURED At Nacrdalen, Norway, Just north OF
Trondihem where number OF farms were
recently buried under m avalanche An eh-
tent OF land, five Kilometres by ten, In the
Lcrengcr valley, became dlslodged and siiu
down on the soil below, destroying twenty-five
homcsteads and hfty cottages. vast area
Is Hooded, and many persons are missing, and
1t is feared they have perished'
Attorney General Olney has received tel
egram from New York stating that Judge
Lacomb Of the Circuit Court OF the State OF
New York had decided that section u OF the
Gcary law, though decided TO be constitution
al was still Intellectual because no provision
is made as to how or by whom the order OF