The Meeker herald., 1895-05-11
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Mass
Three new steamers will be placed in
service between Hong Kong and Ia
coma.
Theodore Roosevelt has accepted tine
office OF police commissioner In New
York City.
The trial OF Oscar Wilde for heinous
offenses resulted in hung jury, ana
smother trial will ensue.
Mrs. ParnelI Is recovering from tne
effects of the murder0us assault maze
upon her short time since.
The Tennessee Legislature has DC
clared Turney. Democrat. elected gov
ernor. Majority. IS on joint ballot
After cloud-burst yesterday in Win
ona, Minnesota. one and sixty-two one
hundredths of an inch of rain fell
Henry Willard, ex-Northern Pacific
roiroad magnate. bought $4,000 worth
Of property from the Tacoma Lana
company.
A congress Of the women Of the Mis-
sissippi valley was held at st. Louis
last week to discuss various subjects
of interest
President Cleveland has written al
other letter denouncing silver. 1t was
addressed to Governor Stone Of Mis-
sissippi.
Wednesdays statement OF the condi-
ton OF the treasury shows: Available
cash balances. S1S2. AGO. 69S; gold re-
serve, s91. $50. 104.
In the Flat Top coal region, Virginia,
1000 miners have gone out on a strike
on account OF twenty per cent. re-
duction in their wages.
The La Junta Home bank closed
Thursday. Assets $4,000; no liabili-
ties. 1t is n voluntary suspension. ow-
ing to dull business.
Captain Beck has abandoned his In
tention Of evictiug tenants from the
Omaha Indian reservation, until the
courts settle the matter.
Six hundred coal miners employed by
the Laurel Coal association, Kentucky.
struck yesterday for 10 cents ton IN
stead of 80 cents ton.
Two thousand miners In the Yorkville
and Wheeling and Lake Erie mines.
Ohio, struck yesterday. pending the
signing Of a scale Of wages.
Half a dozen persons are dying at
Hiattville, Kansas, from poison put up
on their gums by travelling woman
dentist giving her name as DR. Alberta
Oberlin.
During a severe storm Friday night.
Rudolph Schwerdefeger was killed by
lightning near Sutherland. Iowa. Peter
Stirmer, farmer near Laurens, was
also killed In his house by lightning.
AT Tacoma, Wash, the sale of land in
the Puyallup Indian reservation Was
begun yesterday despite protests from
the Indians, who threaten to make
trouble if any of the purchasers take
possession.
The Chickamauga Park commission
has completed the purchase Of Gener ii
Sherman's battle ground at the north
end OF Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga,
and 1t now becomes a part OF the ma
tlonal military park.
The official report OF the investigation
concerning the alleged forgeries Of
Chinese certificates issued at Boise
City, declares that an organized money
making conspiracy has existed for seT-
eral years.
Norton Reed lies In the morgue at
Hartford as q result OF the "Trilby"
craze, having committed suicide by ar
senlc while harboring the hallucination
that lie was under the hypnotic inhu-
ence OF Svengali, the bad man of Du
Maurier's novel.
4 dispatch to the Standard from Ber-
lin says that Germany has concluded
contracts with leading German ship
ping companies for ten steamers to act
MS cruisers in time OF war. Among the
vessels there are the best line of steam
ers running to New York.
There was contest before Commits
sioncr Seymour Friday as to the owner
ship Of n patent for a cigarette making
machine that Is warranted to make five
miles Of cigarettes per day. The tobac-
Ia In
ted into an endless roll of paper and Is
then cut into the proper lengths.
John Huff. who Is said to have fallen
heir to 81 100000 by the death Of Chas
Easthoff, a wealthy Californian, 10
1888, has died at Matawan. New Jer-
sey. Huff nursed Eastoff twenty
years ago through an attack Of ty-
phoid fever when no one else would
go near him, and the entire estate has
been his reward.
Princeton defeated Yale In their first
joint debate. The question debated
was: "Resolved that under the circum-
stances the income tax Of 1894 was jus
tifiable." Yale took the negative 1t
was decided that X. NJ. McElroy, OF
Princeton. presented the best argument
Of the evening. and that Frank Rail, Of
Yale. made the wittiest speech.
News iias been received from Kodiak
Island, Alaska, On steamer Alki, that
the steamer George K. White Of Sc
| attic was wrecked in gale on April
ID. Seventeen OF the crew were either
drowned or frozen TO death. Eight
reached shore and still survive. The
schooner Kodiak was also wrecked In
| the same gale near the same place but
no lives were lost.
| A dispatch 10 the Times from Pekin
says: No decision has yet been reached
in regard to he ratification OF the treaty
Of peace. Ii Hung Chang, the senior
| Chinese peace envoy, has arrived in
Peldn and been given an audience by
the emperor, but what action was
agreed upon. II any. Is court secret
! No edict has yet been published con