The Meeker herald., 1895-06-22
rELEoRAPHic RREv;r,Es.

been killed -'"S
Mr.: and Mrs. Gladstone Will attend
the kiel celebration.
Large numbers of Spanish soldiers
are pelng landed in Cuba.
The Illinois Legislature has passed a
Dill taxing the estates of deceased per.
sons.
MT. Thurber says that the statement
mat President Cleveland went fishing
last Sunday, Is false false
preacher at Battle Creek, Michigan,
was arrested few days ago for kissing
woman of his congregation.
The Illinois Supreme court has con-
hrmed the decision of the lower courts,
winch dissolves the whisky trust
President Cleveland has issued
warning against filibusters organizing
CUBAN expeditions in the United States.
Ihree patients escaped from the To-
peka insane asylum the other night, and
one of them har"ed himself to tree.
Six students of Albion college, Michi-
gan, have been suspended for having
taken part last Monday in the ducking
Oh two students who persisted in roast
ing the athletic teams of the college.
The Japanese have made a peaceful
occupation of Tamsui and Taipehefu, on
the Island of Formosa. They are adj
ministering the customs, and trade is re-
sumed. No further trouble is ex-
pected.
Mrs. Marian Reid, mother of the Hon
| Whitelaw Reid, died at her home near
Cedarville, Ohio, aged ninety-one years.
She had lived seventy years on the
same farm and was for thirty years a
widow.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
1t Is stated that the sultans health has
suffered on account of his anxiety over
the Armenian question and other diff
culties, and that symptoms of paralysis
have appeared.
1t is announced that Miss Ida b.
| Wells the leader of the so-called anti
| lynching crusade" will on June 81 be-
come the bride of Ferdinand L. Barnett.
| The groom is well known colored at
torney of Chicago.
Commander Oscar +. Heyermann,
United States navy, has been found
| physically incapable for further service
by medical board and has been recon-
mended for retirement. He recently suf-
fered from paralytic stroke.
The Indications are that the trouble
between the book binders mt the govern
ment printing office, and the foremen,
will be amicably settled and the threat
ened strike of the 600 bookbinders in
the government employ averted
The employees of the Howard Harrison
Iron company at Bessemer, Alabama,
the largest iron pipe manufactory in the
South, have been given notice that on
the 18th inst, an advance to ten per
cent. In wages would be made. More
than 200 are affected.
The Chinese loan is quoted at ~ per
cent. premium on the Paris Bourse. 1t
is taken by four Russian banks. From
political point of view the loan forms
a dangerous precedent, as it gives Rus
sia a financial hold over China which it
will be difficult to break off.
Jesse Cornell and j. Ii. Parr, two
young farmers near Monticello, Illinois,
were suffocated by fire damp while dig
gng well on the Doty farm, eight
miles southwest of town. Cornell was
first overcome by the deadly gas and
Parr lost his life while trying to rescue
his comrade.
Forty Denver Sunday Schools with
5000 scholars have accepted the invita-.
ton of the Daughters of the Revolution
and the ArapohOe County Sunday
School association to participate in the
( celebration of Flag day at the City Park
| on June II. Governor Mclntire Will be
the orator of the day.
After the election of NJ. Zaimls, the
candidate of the Delyannis party, to
the presidency of the Greek Chamber,
by vote of 146 TO Al. the members of
the Cabinet telephoned their resigna-
tons to the king. King George there
upon summoned N. Nicholas Delyannis
and requested him to form new Cab
met.
A. S. Moore, a former employe Of In
man, Swan & Co., cotton brokers of
New York City, is in custody for forg-
| ing the name of that corporation and
individual members of the firm to paper
of the East River Silk company, of
which he was formerly treasurer. Fully
100000 of the paper has been so far
traced.
From fifty to sixty settlers on the gov
ernment land in Gregory county, South
Dakota, have been dispossessed of their
| claims by the recent survey between the
Indian reservation and Gregory county.
Many of the farmers have been living
on their claims for more than three
wears and In some cases have Improve
ments valued at $1,000.
The Spanish Senate has adopted
bill to authorize the government TO raise
in case of need loan Of 60O,OOO,oO0
pesetas on account Of the Island of
| Cuba. The minister of war Is actively
engaged in organizing reinforcements,
and 1000 men will be ready to start for
| Cuba in August. Ten thousand soldiers
leave next week. The government has
| decided on energetic action at all COSTS.
The statue to Martin Luther was un-
| yelled mt Newmarket, Germany, Oh the
| l1th The houses in the vicinity were
/ decorated, and the local authorities,
clergy and students took part in the pro.
cesslon. The weather was beautiful ana
there was n large assemblage at tne
ceremony. Prince Frederick Leopoiu
sneech nj the unwilling of the statue.