The Meeker herald., 1894-06-09
Teieyraphic BrevltieN
Cholera has broken outin Germany.

The price Of anthracite coal has gone up in
the east
The total amount paid for pensions by this
government since 1850 amounts TO 81, 60e, ,209,-
Ga.
The Presbyterian assembly, by vote of
394 to 81, condemned Professor Smith, OF
Cincinnati, Of heresy.
Judge Botkin, who was notorious in
Western Kansas at the time Of the Stevens
county war, has taken the Keeley cure and
commenced lecturlng on temperance.
The business men OF Leavenworth, Kansas,
have organized TO protect such coal miners as
wish to work In the shafts near the city. They
will use force, II necessary, 10 resist the Mis-
souri, miners
Miss Frances Willard announces that owing
| to the financial stress in the United States
she returns to the National Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union her last TWO years
salary, which she has received as president oi
that organization.
There are signs of renewed activity from
the anarchist element in New York, and as a
result instructions have been Issued to the
police TO keep close watch on the leaders.
Johan Most is making nightly speeches iE
different parts of the city.
Treasurer L. f. Starr of the Cherokee ma
tion has commenced the disbursement of So,
900 TO "a 300 Indians per capita This
large amount is the proceeds of the sale OF
the Cherokee Strip to the United states gov
erumeEt last year, and will be the largest
amount of money ever paid out to as few peo
pie in the United States.
The Board OF Delegates of the Nationa.
| Municipal league, in session at New York
| adopted this resolution: I'VE believe that
| whenever 1t is practicable the nomination
and election Of municipal officers upon mu-
| nicpal Issues alone and without regard TO the
national party is the best method OF securing
| permanent good government for our cities.
II. Sternburg while prospecting around
| Castle Rock, in Cove county, Kansas, ncar
| the Sandy Hill river, has unearthed the cutirr
| form of a petriiled elephant, together with
| numerous parts of Hons, canels and other AM,
mails. biologists say there are evidences Of
petritied fish Of all varieties, and that in many
| of the caverns may be seen scales which mus
have come from fish OF monstrous proportions
The London Times says that the exhibition
| at the Alhambra theater of Doves ballet
proof coat was most interesting and ssti-flc
| tory. Dove himself wore the cuirass. \ Lee
Milford rifle and Cordite cartridges wcr,
used. Two shots were fired at n distance OF
fifteen yards. The only apparent result wa
a slight movement of the back and upper
part of Dowe's body. His feet and legs re
mained perfectly steady.
A dispatch from Terrc Hautc, Indiana, OF
the eth, said All trains on the Evansyil,
" Terre ilaute railroad were held up at Shcl
| burn, south of this city, and examined by the
strikers. When coal was found the train
| were slde-tracked. On the Big -Four tin
trains were also held up and examined. The
miners wiye. stlll in charge Of the Big
| Four coal chutes and refuse 10 let the com
pany put fuel on It's engines.
young girl in the church OF San Ildcfou.
so, Madrid, screamed during the service on
the 3ist: Save yourselves Here IS a Domb
| that will explode The congregation wns
panic stricken. All started for the door
Many were trampled and left unconscious on
the floor Three persons are considered
| fatally hurt. After the church had becr
| pm nDllgp fOuuh hDmh lg Ir
then confessed that the alarm was 4 hoax.
A collision in the Standing Rock tunnel, on
| the Newport News * Mississippi Valley rail
road, twelve miles east OF Princeton, Ken.
lucky, on the 18th, killed seven men outright
| The wreck was between an extra freight train
west bound, and the bridge train. IN,
| freight engine crashed into the boarding ear
in which there were six doomed iucn. Ih'
car was smashed into splInters md the en-
| glnc ploved almost through 1t, choking up thC
| tunnel with debris.
Kim Wing, OF Merida, Mexico. has reachc!
| Mobile, Alabama, en- route TO Hong Kong
| China, where lie goes TO get 100000 OF hi
| countrymen to settle in Mexico. Wing j.
wealthy merchant of Merida and Is highly
| educated man. 1t has been with great diili-
| Guilty that he has persuaded the Mexican gov
| crnment to permit him TO bring in 20 large 81
number of his countrymen at one time. They
are TO be employed on coffee and hemp plum
tatlons which are TO be opened by Wing.
/
fought near Lake Nyanza between the British
forces and tie slavcrs Maknjirn, chief OF lhc
| slavcrs, attacked a British post, Fort Mcguire.
at the head OF 1000 warriors, Major Ed.
wards, in command OF 2OO troops, defended
| the fort The natives sustained a crushing
defeat and fled They were pursued by
| portion of the British force, and the latter
| found l03 slavers dead, in addition to larSo
number of wounded Makajira then surren-
dered
NJ. Dupuy has succeeded In forming a cahi.
| net. Ii is constituted follows: Premier.
| minister of the interior and minister of wof-
ship, NJ Dupuy; minister OF foreign Affairs.
| NJ HonotaneauN; minister oil public works,
| NJ. Barthou; minister of education and Hris-
| NJ Leyuues; minister of commerce, VI. Lour,
tiess, minister of husbandry, VI. Viger; min.
| lister of the colonies. NJ. DeClass; minister %!
| Justice, NJ. Querin; minister OF war, General
| Mercier minister of marine, VI. Faure; min
lister of finance, NJ. Poincarre.
In addition to the loss Of 200 lives by The
bursting of dam formed by a landslide 10
| Charcupria and the destruction OF houses anu
live stock which accompanied 1t, dlsaSirour
floods have wrought much damage in NnFlh
Cachar. Whole villages have been destroyed
| In number OF sections Of the noOd-risitcd
country. The flood is pronounced 10 be the
most severe In many years. dispatch u"
| the Times from Calcutta describing the burHi-
ing of the dam at Charlluprla says that The
water swept onward like forty-foot wall,
| sweeping away several villages. among thetr
one having eighty houses.
Judge Bradley has overruled the motion
made by counsel for Colonel W. c. r. Brcck-
inridge TO file bill of exceptions by virtue al
which the suit of Miss Madeline Pollarl
| against him might be carried to higher
court on appeal. This action was taken be
cause OF the objection made by counsel Tor
Miss Pollard that Mr.. Breckenridge had no.
complied with the law requiring that the hil
| of exceptions be furnished to them within
| three days before the expiration of the ilmr
within which the motion to file had beer
made. Therefore this will prevent an appeal
| being taken.
a Paris paper announces that the noior''
ous Turpin, whose name some time ago came
prominently before the public in connection
with the explosive named mclinite, and "Et
was subsequently imprisoned, angerei NJ t'''
refusal of France TO purchase his latest inF"n-
tion, has left the country. and has sol! to ~
powers composing the Dreihund the secret oi
the manufacture of II terrible war maohlur
The latter is said to comprise ar eNpiosiEt
| ,vhiph II Is claimed Ili