The Meeker herald., 1895-12-07
TrLEoRAPHlc BREv,r,Es.

year.
The employees at Ellis Island ara
charged with immoral conduct TOWARD
the immigrants.
Japan is reported to have bought one
Of the transatlantic liners to be convert
ed into . cruiser.
The report that Harry Hayward had
confessed that he killed Catharine Ging
Is pronounced false.
David b. Hill of New York has aban-
doned his lecture tour In the northwest
as his audiences were too small.
The strike of printers at Guthrie, Okla
homa, was declared of after twenty four
hours. an agreement having been
| reached.
A test of the Chicago fire department
the other day showed that the water
could be forced to the top Of the Masonic
Temple-323 feet.
L. c. Benedict a close personal friend
OF Mr.. Cleveland, says the president Will
soon make statement declining to run
for president again.
1t is reported that the 5000 Knights
Of Labor In Canada intend to secede
from the general assembly and form
purely Canadian order.
| Margaret Mather, who three years ago
married the son Of Pabst, the millionaire
brewer. has agreed to divorce, and Will
receive 100000 alimony.
The New York police board urge par
ents in the lower districts, whose chill
dren run upon the streets good deal.
to put address tags upon them.
The case OF Zella Nicolaus against
George ]. Gould for $4,000 check has
been compromised, she getting $4,000
with which to pay her lawyers.
An investigation at Washington dis.
closes the fact that the signatures of
many great men have been cut out OF
public documents by autograph fiends.
The Northern Pacific Steamship COM
pany has not yet received any tidlngs
from the missing steamer Strathnev.s,
now forty-eight days out from Tacoma.
1t is reported that all questions be-
tween Argentine and Chile have been
settled and that the two countries will
sign an agreement to restrict their arma-
ments.
The foreign missionary society has re-
ceived cable from the Island OF NADIA
gascar saying that two OF the missionar-
les at Antananarivo have been murdered
there during riot.
Instructions, 1t is announced, have
been sent to the British minister at Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, to submit the Ques-
ton of the ownership OF the Island OF
Trinidad to arbitration.
The proposition to have big celebra-
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versary OF the admission Of Wisconsin to
statehood has been received with general
favor all over the state.
The Spanish colony at Brownsville,
Texas. headed by Simon Celaya, consn-
lar representative of Spain, has raised
over $1,000 to be sent to the mother
country to aid in quelling the Cuban in.
Two ranchmen named Adams and
Anderson while driving home from
CerIllos. were attacked by negro with
an AK and Adams will probably die. The
negro was after money. but failed to
get It. He was captured the next day.
J. NJ. Robb. the conductor Of train No.
35, which collided with the Santa Fe
limited near Shoemaker, died at the
company's hospital in Las Vegas at II
have been badly scalded, and death re-
suited from this cause and inhalation OF
steam.
Owing to locusts the sugar crop In
Zambesi will be almost total failure
| this year, according to the report OF U. =.
Consul Hollis, Mozambique. The pea
| nut crop Ia yer., short from the same
cause and great distress exists among
the natives, who are emigrating to other
| sections.
Judge William R. Kelly has been Of
ficially appointed general solicitor Of the
Union Pacific Railway company. to sue
ceed John NJ Thurston. who resigned in
order to take his seat in the United
States Senate Judge Kelly has been
assistant general soncitor for the Union
Pacific for number Of years.
Five miles north of Childress. Texas.
Friday evening train No. 2, north bound.
on the Fort Worth & Denver. was held
up by two men. The robbers got moth
ing as the messenger could not open the
safe. 1t is stated that the two men
have been located and officers are close
to them. No one on the train was hurt.
Since the arrest Of Assistant Cashier
Stone of the Bank of Commerce, at Sher-
ldan. Wyoming. on the charge Of steal
ing the funds of the bank, 1t has become
known that Stone also tried to burn the
books Of the Institution In order to cover
up the evidence of his thefts. Stone has
practically confessed to the whole mat.
! ter.
A bill has passed both houses Of the
Cherokee Legislature repeating the In
ter-marriage law relative to Cherokecs
and whites. Whites who have hitherto
married into the tribe will. however, re-
tain their citizenship. but no rights in
the nation can hereafter be acquired BY
whites intermarrying. provided the CHIEF
signs the bill.
News has been received of the safety
Of William willard Howard, who waa
supposed to have been murdered by thu
Kurds while on a mission Of mercy Ii
Armenia Mr.. Howard was sent to Var
several months ago by the Christian Her
AID of New York, to distribute 4 relief