The Meeker herald., 1895-09-14
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on the 9th.
Extensive transfers OF troops are be
ing made In the West.
Mr.. Bland is speaking at various
points In Kansas and Oklahoma.
Six men were injured In the smash
ing up of a Wild West show train In
Arkansas, Friday.
A jury has been secured to try the
Durrant case at San Francisco and the
trial opened on the Bird.
Governor Altgeld Of Illinois has been
subpoenaed to testify before the grand
Jury at Springfield OF legislative corrup
tion.
A commission Of Cubans has been
sent to Peru to induce the latter coun-
try to recognize the insurgent govern
ment.
Pillsbury. the American, has won the
international chess tournament at Hast
ings, England. over all the crack play
ers of the world.
There have recently been several pet
ty quarrels between the rival parties
OF Snmoans and there Is danger of Il
most serious outbreak. Business IN
the capital. Apia, is almost entirely sus
pended.
Judge Bellinger at Portland. Oregon
has sentenced ex-Collector OF Custom.
James Lotan, convicted Of conspirine
to Illegally land Chinese. to pay fine
Of 5000. Seid Back, the Chinese mcr
chant. who was convicted with Lotan
was fined $1,000.
Electric locomotive No. H. on Tho
Baltimore & Ohio railroad attained d
speed OF sixty-one miles an hour in the
Baltimore tunnel Friday. The bursl
of speed was made on the heavy grad,
Of the tunnel and the engineers said II
was equivalent to seventy-five miles III
hour on level track.
The Spanish government has yielded
to the representations of the United
States In the matter of the place ol
payment Of the money in satisfaction
OF the Mora claim and will pay 1t IL
Washington on the date agreed on, the
18th instant. Forty per cent. of thu
81 100000 will go to the lawyers.
Another supposed .Iack-the- Ripe
murder was discovered in London, a
Kensal Green: The victim was an un
fortunate woman of the outcast class
and her throat was cut from ear to ea
and her head fearfully battered with
stone. No trace has been discovered o
the murderer.
At Fayetteville, Tennessee. Thursda!
night, Doc King, cOlored. arrested oil
the charge of attempting to criminal.
assault Mrs. Charles Jones. near Fay
etteville, was taken from jail by ;
mob Of 200 men and hanged. Kin.
protested his innocence, but he wa
identified by Mrs. Jones and her siste
as the guilty man.
BY the decision of Judge Gilbert, con
Cured in by Judge Hanford, Receivers
Oakes, Payne and Rouse must appea
in the United States court for tn,
Northern District OF Washington, il
Seattle, October ., and defend them
selves against the charges of malad
ministration brought by Brayton Ives
president Of the Northern Pacific.
The French minister of the interior
intimidated by the violence of the POI
ulation of Southern France, has mad
compromise on the question of allow
ing the bull lights and has issued OF
ders to permit the bull fights in Prt
Yepcn- hut on condition that the bull
The steamship Tacoma arrived at Ta
coma from the Orient. bringing $50
tons of cargo. including 5000 tons o
tea and 1000 bales of silk. Her officer
say that the cholera scare from Japal
Is greatly exaggerated. aud that til
scare there has not assumed the pre-
portions indicated by some of the rc
ports.
In the municipal court at Boston
Judge Ely. in the O'Brien- Walcott case
held both men in $1,000 bond for tn
Superior court on the charge of prize
fighting. In his decision the Judge de
clared that although the men did no
meet to contest for prize, they wer
fighting for Il part of the gate receipts
the contest took place according TO
previous arrangement, and each MAJ
endeavored TO knock out the other.
The $4,000 damage suit which Ber
nard Murray of Colorado brouyh
against eX-congressman W. A. Harri
of Linwood, Kansas, for alternating tn
affections of the formers wife, ha
been settled by the payment To Mr.
Murray of $1,000 and the asstImptio,
by Mr.. Harris OF all attorneys fees
Mr.. Harris was very attentive to Mrs
Murray,and when his wife died a yea
ago. he married Mrs. Murray. the latte
having secured Il divorce in the mean
time.
A call for non-politicaI state con
vention to take action to further til,
cause OF free silver and honest election,
to meet in Birmingham. Alabama. No
vember IS. next. has been issued
Speakers of national reputation are t,
be present. but the action of the con
i vention will be binding to no one. Tn,
call is signed by Rev. Samuel Adams
state chairman OF the Peoples party
Captain II. +. Kolb. late Populist can
didatc for governor; Col. ID. s. Troy
| OF Montgomery. and Il number of otllel
prominent Populist and silver leaders
Emporia. Kansas. and vicinity wa.
visited by tornado about 8 p. m. Sun
day. The worst damage was done a
the State normal school grounds. Tb,
new east wing of the main building wa,
reduced to a mass OF ruins. This win.
was recently built nj a cost of 500, ,OO,l
and was but lately dedicated. Th,
north gable end gave WAY before IN,