The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1894-07-28

/ Ing active again. q slALl1A AUlHN '--
bed q few nights ago.
The strike OF the employees OF the Nationa!
Tube Works at Mckeesport Penney wanna
a Republic was proclaimed In the Hawaii
Islands on July 4, with sanford b, Dole Is
the provisional president.
The Pullman Palace Car Company has de-
| clared their regular quarterly dly.dcnd Of :
per cent, payable August Is.
II Is reported that tho rebels and loyal
! troops 10 Brazil DO not hesitate To- murder the
| prisoners that fan Into their hands
Congressman Breckenridge Of Arkansas has
been appointed minister to Russia. lie failed
TO receive denomination 10 Congress.
| The Senate sugar trust Investigating COM
| mittee has decided TO investigate TIE new
charges OF sugar speculation bg scuators.
Archbishop Saiolil has endorsed the action
| OF Bishop Wattcr-un 10 forolllns Catholic
societies from eleet,ns liquor dealers as tlclr
officers.
Extreme caution is -tlIl TO be used 10 ruu-
| ming trains In California, a, several attempts
to wreck engines and trains have bceu Dis
covered.
Mgr saioll has rendered q decision con
demnlng the liquor traffic aEI approving Tho
expulsion Of liquor dru.ers from Catholic so-
cletles
The elections ia New South Wales Lave re-
| suited 80 the defeat OF the government 4ui
the return OF . free trade, 80 protection oti
| Is labor members.
Governor Altgcld and Mayor Hopkins en-
deayOre1 To have General Milc- Withdraw the
regulars Tuesday, but the latter did not to-
lieye the time had ccIe yet
John Howurth and Engineer Martha Kelly
were found guilty Of contempt of court hg
Judge Ru-- nj Los Angeles and each tfa-
fenced to eight months la jail,
y passenger train was wrecked az Rattle
Greek, Michigan, on the 10th. resulting lu
the death Of the fireman and injuries TO
othcrs. II was caused b. the removal Of
spikes
4The official, OF the Union Pacific road haze
decided TO keep the shops In Wyoming and
Idaho closed for some tine, as they are mot
needed. This will throw 500 men out OF enc
ploymcnL
L. Il. Leonard, who was postmaster Of
Boise City, Idaho, for four months past. and
who disappeared mysteriOusly june - IS
known to be defaultcr In the sum Of $500.
Hs had bpcn ia tsVuulc OF 81 siulii'u hiud DO
fore.
\ cablegram received at the marine hos
pltal bureau from Surgeon Fairfax lralu, Ia
Berlin, says that the cholera situation IN -.
Petersburg Is serious On Monday there
appeared sluce July !.
4 resolution iudorsiug the action OF Debs
In the Pullman strike, aud inviting hlm 10 20
TO Indiana and become a candidate for gov
ernor, gss passed by three majority AT the
session OF iNt independent lCutfAlloN OF
Trades Labor unions.
1.-The engagement Is announced OF the eldest
daughter Of the late RI Hon. Arthur We'll
lesley Peel, at one time speaker OF thu House
Of Commons, 10 Ferdiaaud i. de Roth child,
member OF Parliament for the MArtbury
division Of Bucldnghamshlre
BY an explosion Of 200 sticks Of dynamite
in the Stockton collicry near nalclton, Penn
sy.vania, on the 18th, dozen miners were
blown In piece-. The explosion took place
while the dynamite was being distributed to
the miners, but how It was caused Is not
known.
Charles ". Bartlett, coniect.oner, who was
prosecuted under the Sunday law at Cam
bridge Massachusetts, for delivering Ice
cream on sunday, ha- been acquitted, the
court ruling that the ordinance under which
the complaint WIS made Is Illegal aud inOpcr-
alive.
The federal troops moved out Of Chicago
on the 18Th. The Ninth regiment, from Madl-
son barracks, Sackctts harbOr New York, left
on a special train over the Lake shore. NJ
of the other troops marched to Fort Sheridan.
The troops going to Fort Sheridan include the
Fifteenth regiment and the details from Forts
Riley, Brady, Lcayenworih and NIobrura.
Refugees arriving at Panama from Port
Limon report reign OF terror on The Mos
quito coast since the Nicaraguans took charge
of affair there. The settlers, both Ameri-
cans and British, nte said to be encouraging
the Indians 10 urlNe our the Nlcasass uAus ana
the trouble is not over yet
The Kansas Pacilc bCndhoders committee,
of which Silas p. butcher is chairman, has
entered suit in the United States circuit court
for New York in the name OF John Quincy
Adams against Russell Sage and the estate Of
Jay Gould to recover LOCO goo, being the
proceeds OF securities alleged TO have been
| taken from the trust.
Eugene V. Dchs, George W Howard, /.
w. Rogers and sylvester Kclher, the officers
Of the American Railway Union, were com
mitted to jail Tuesday by Judge Seaman in
the United States court for alleged violation
OF the injunction Issued by Judges Wood and
Grosscup. The four leaders OF the strike in
reality went to jail in default of ball, for the
court offered them their liberty until next
Monday, when they will have a hearing on
the charge OF contempt. Their bail was fixed
at 5000 each, but the men refused to give II,
end the court committed them.
A caisson of Battery F, Second Artillery,
U. 5. A, exploded with terrible force Mon
day afternoon at Grand and lakewood Boue-
wards, Chicago, Two artillcrymen and one
trooper were Instantly killed Nearly a score
of other persons-troopers, residents In the
vicinity and passers-by -were injured, some
of them fatally. The explosion occurred MS
the troop were out exercising. 1t was proba-
bly, caused by leakage OF powder which WAS
exploded by jolting. Two OF the men were
blown to pieces. All the windows In the
vicinity were broken. The houses were pep
pered with balls Eight horses were killed.
The members OF the A. r. L. at Sacramento
declared the strike oil on the 2lst. This ac-
ton was brought about by the mediation OF
business men who showed the strikers that
their cause was hopeless. The Southern Pa
cfc company announces that 1t will employ
such individuals as are acceptable. Those
desiring employment must sign an affidavit
declaring that the aliiant has resigned his
membership in the American Railway Union
and promising that lie will never again join
that organization; second, that lie viii not
join any union or brotherhood for the term
OF five years; third that lie will not become a
member of any labor organization during the
time he Is employed 10y the southern Pacific
company.
Yale was defeated by Oxford in the athletic
contests at London, The seore was five and
one-haH to three and one-hah