The Meeker herald., 1894-08-04

dlcted and arrested at Chicago
Price county, Wisconsin, IS bolng s,ept By
forest fires. Several towns are in danger
The coke strikers at ScOttdale, Pcnnay!-
van!a, have surrendered their firearms to the
sheriff.
The annual Convention OF the Baptist
Young Peoples Union was held at Toronto
last week.
An effort is to be made to cut down the
wages Of Santa Fee employees and big strike
| may result.
Eight hundred Union Pacific employees in
| Wyoming have lost their Jobs rs Il result Oh
| the late strike,
A party OF Hawaiian royallsts il on It's way
| to Washington with some important com
| munieatlon from the ex-queen.
| Carl Browne and seventy commemorative
have left Washington for New York. They
| will Interview the Wall Street magnates-
| The executors Of the late President Carnot
| find that he had very little property and that
| Mrs. Carnors income will be only $1,000 per
| year.
| The stables of the Knox Transfer Company
| at Washington were burned on the 18th. Six
iircmen lost thelr lives, being crushed by .
falling wall.
| Debs and his fellow prisoners have given
bail and been released from jail. They we're
| led 10 do Ibis by the fact that their trial has
been postponed until September 9Th.
IBIS So % Bee98Bsfass Tor aY il bays
| 10 the West. They state that their leaders
Co1ey, Kelly and Frye had deserted them
The Senate committee on territories has
ordered favorable reports on the bills adj
| hitting New Mexico and Arizona 10 state
| hood. These bills have passed tue House.
I An attempt was made after midnight Fri
| day night to wreck a burlington engine "
| exploding a dynamite bomb under the IS heels
o. the locomotive Two ihcn were seriously
| Injured.
Dispatches from Nagasaki, Japan, on the
/ 2ith stated that Curcan troops had attacked
| japanese fort and had been rcpulrrd.
japanese cruiser had also sunk a Chinese
| transport.
Eight hundred and twenty men went 10
| work In the shops at Sacramento Mon4ay aud
| LOCO applications were received. lbc boiler
and moulder shops were opened for the hrsl
| time rince the strike
The king ok.Corca i prisoner in his pal
| ace at Seoul where he Is guarded by Japancs'
| soldiers Reports OF lights ut sea have been
| received. Both China and Japou arc making
| hasty preparations for war
\ Kentucky man who has just returned
| from Japan says that "liOuvsi Dick Tate.
| the Ascending state treasurer, T. living To
/ Japan He Is 10 bad health. His shortage
has been paid by his bondsmen.
Bsring. Magoun * Co. shipped 10 Europe
| s5CO,OJu 10 gold last Monday. This. with NE
| 81, to- ODO taken from the gold Teseryc lHsI
| rl4Iy REDUCES u 10 lLe lNNfni point 4A 4f
| history, something over 500 100000.
The troubles at Enid and Pond Greek,
| Oklahoma, are now probably over as TIE
| Rock Island road has at last con cuiCd iuI
build dcpots there aud give traln service
| which for 90 long they have denied tbs peo
| pie.
Mrs Warren Springer the wife OF The
| Chicago millionaire, hHs been held to the
| grand jury in bonds o! s. eco on q chas'e oil
| jury briblug. Mrs. Springer j. accused oi a.
| tempting TO bribc two Jurors, through ihcii
| families, In a condemnation su!t Ia which
her husband was interested.
Internal revenue officers have seized au a
legged Illicit dlstlllery a. No-. 800 AMI lg'
| East slxty-third Street, New York. The bus
| ines o-tensibly conducted wa the mauulac-
turc of yeast and vinegar, and was Owned by
| n company calling Itself the New ORR Com.
pressed Yeast Company. The capacity OF
| the rtlll was ! $50 gallons day
| The A r. L. OF West Oakland, California,
| have declared the strike OIL 4 rcso utlun To
| that end passed on the -1fh after q logg
| and heated debate, the vote standing ~
for and li6 against The meeting lasted I'M
| I'll midnight aud was Nery stormy lu eharac-
| ter Both side battl.d with energy ard de
| termination, and as a result rome ~ feeling
| was aroused.
The trouble with mutinous conylcts AT
| Tracey City, Tennessee. GUIDED 10y the con
| yicts surrendering aud coming out OF the
| mines. They were conducted tu tie stuakade
! where all the conylct- are nov safely guarded.
/ The free miners did rot interfere ia any Way
in the affair. Pete Hamilton, tic .ouglci
| who was killed Friday, planned the mutiuy,
| as well as one a year ago. When be was shot
the backbone OF the mutiny was broken.
Debs aud the other officer, OF the American
Railway Union met decided reverse ln their
fight against the prosecution for contempt In
the United States court The court decided
that the answer filed by the defendants j. not
and the motion OF their attorneys that they
be discharged was oyorruleI. The court will
now hear the evidence Of the government e
sustain the contempt charge aut! Tie defend
ants will be given the opportunity to produce
evidence in their defense.
Dispatches received on the 29ih state thai
on the Chinese transport that was sunk uy q
japanese cruiser there were 1000 thluu1e
soldiers. Nearly all OF thCm were drowned.
The Japanese have also captured Chlncsg
war vessel The army and navy rrsuryts OF
Japan have been called out FOR service. Chi
uese are leaving Japan. A large body OF
Chinese troops crossed the boundary Into
| Corea on the 18th. Corea IS said 10 be lu
condition bordering on anarchy. China il
buying war materials as rapidly as possible.
A prominent steamship agent says "thc ey-
odus to Europe which began IN the carry
spring still continues and Increases, SutEing
like 1t has been known before. h Is not con-
fined to steerage passengers. The increase
In cabin passage is IN fGll proportion to Tic
storage business Every line will be taxed
to it- utmost during the present summer.
| When you come To telling how many people
are going abroad, II ia not easy to 10 20. For
a rough calculation would sag there were
10 lines. each carrying 500 sjceragc pa-scn-
gers. From thai at mere guess | would SHy
hat there were 10000 or 5000 Storage pas
,engers leaving this country every month
AS to the character OF these passenger, tacy
are the beat class Of mechanics and working
people"
The President has appointed John D. krr.
nan of New York and Nicholas Z. WOrthiuy
ton of Peoria, Illinois, to act With Labor
Commissioner Carroll d. Wright in the pres
identinl commission to Investigate the Chica-
go strike. Mr. Herman is a eeii-known law
yer in Utica, New York aud son Of ex-Unitcd
States Senator Herman. He has been par
tleular and thorough student of labor qucs-
tions and has written several important con-
tributions 10 the literature on this subject
He WAS chosen because of his undouhtcd