The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1895-05-04

I
At chicken fight at Leon. Mexico.
| the amphitheater collapsed, killing SIX
men.
The noted outlaw, Bill Cook, has
been taken to Albany for imprison-
| ment.
| Colonel Franklin Fairbanks. the
| great scales man is dead at st Johns
burg, VT
! Mrs. Della Parnell, who was at
| tackled on the street Is in a dangerous
condition.
| Evictions of Pullman tenants will be
gin May A. Two hundred notices nave
been served.
| Mgr. Satolli Sunday laid the corner
stone of new school in Pottsyilie'
Pennsylvania.
| General Ballington Booth Of the Sal
| walton army. is going TO become an
| American citizen.
| Stringent license laws are closing sa-
looms and reducing the sales OF cigar
cites In Indiana.
| The hearing of evidence in the car
son mint shortage case continues pc
hind closed doors.
! C. P. Huntington. president oil the
i Southern Pacific railroad has Deeh III
( rested for issuing pass.
! Ex-County Treasurer NJ. w. Stewart
OF Wyandotte county, Missouri, Is saiu
| to be s2s,27j short in his accounts.
| Methodist Episcopal bishops OF the
| whole world are now in session at Car
/ Isle, Pa. Their conferences are secret
| Madeline Pollard. of breckenridge
| Pollard fame. is going to Europe as a
| travelling companion to a wealthy lady-
iris
| ington City. for which Mrs. Phoebe
| Hearst donated $4,000, will begin TO
be erected this summer.
The New Foundland Legislature has
voted It's disapproval of the terms on
which Canada will allow that country
to enter the federation.
| Henry Piper of San Francisco has
been arrested on a charge of stealing
gold and silver from the Carson mint
st Marks church, New York city,
| Sunday celebrated the Tooth annivef-
sary of the laying of the cornerstone.
The doings Of Messiah" George
Jacob Schweinfurth, are being inyesu-
gated by the grand jury at Rockford
Ill.
The attorney general has decided
that nominations of naval cadets made
by Congress after noon Of March 4, are
void.
AT Falls of Schuylliill, Pa, the carpet
and plush mills of James Dobson have
shut down because the employees de-
manded an Increase of wages.
John L. Sullivan distinguished him
self the other day by going 10 the aid
of q woman whose clothes had caught
fire. Notwithstanding his efforts she
was fatally burned.
Secretary Gresham has given an opin-
ion that American merchant ships In
foreign waters cannot afford asylum to
persons against the demands of regular
officers with warrants.
The bill to remove the police magls-
trates of New York city has been
pissed by the Senate, yeas 20, nays II.
The bill now goes TO the Assembly for
concurrence in the amendments.
An explosion of Photographic mate
rails In Washington caused slight
fire in the basement Of the patent office.
A. l.. Flint, an employe, was quite Sc
vereIy burned and had to be taken to
the hospital.
Judge Thomas, the assistant attorney
general for the postofiice department,
says that the new lottery law has been
complete success. and that 1t has
practically exterminated the evil in
this country.
The body recently found in Cuba,
thought to be that of General Maceo,
the insurgent leader, turns out TO have
been that of his brother, a subordinate
officer. The Spanish still claim 1t to be
the general himself.
The Russian government has issued
an ukase forbidding Nine. Modjeska
to appear in the Russian theaters on
| account Of a speech which she deliver
/ ed at the Worlds Fair. attacking the
| government on its attitude toward
I Poland.
/ The Dime Savings bank at Whitman
| tic, Connecticut closed on the Ord.
| The last bank commissioners report Of
| this state shows that the savings bank
| had on October /. PSF depositors,
| 1926. 1871 on deposit and a surplus Of
| about $4,000.
The first bimetallic league has been
| formed in Cincinnati. to be lndcpen-
I dent Of any political party. its princi-
! pal object being to secure the free and
/ unlimited coinage Of gold and silver
\ without waiting for the action Of any
/ other government.
l A dispatch to the Times from Kobe
says that on April - and IA ffty-eight
l transports left JJlnlha Tor fallen Wan
I with 10000 Japanese troops. 1T Is be
| lieved that these troops are destined to
make a descent upon faku and Shan
1 hi-Wah directly the armistice shall ex-
| pire.
| The government Of Japan has issued
\ a statement denying that IT has con
| cIuded an offensive and dc sensive al
/ lance with China and declaring that
] the commercial advantages slrured hv
/ Japan under the terms Of The treaty
! will be enjoyed by the other powers
under the most favored nation"
| treaty.
/ A dispatch from Montreal says: The
/ town of St Jerome, about forty miles
| from this city, Is completely flooded.
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