The Meeker herald., 1896-01-18
TELEcRAPHIc nREvlrlEs.

NahauIan caDlnet Is expected to
resign at any time.
very cold weather has been expert.
enceu IN the Eastern states Of late.
The pension appropriation will be In.
600.
Inc pope Will shortly issue another
encselleal addressed to all Christian
people
Secretary Morton will have chance
to explain the suspension of the dis
triDution of seeds.
IHe shortage in the accounts of eX-
CITY Treasurer Bolin of Omaha has
now reached $1,000.
In san Francisco Judge Morrow has
decided that every Chinese born in the
ohi'eu States Is n citizen.
A test of armor plate furnished by
the carnegie works was unsatisfactory
ara Cl5 tons may be rejected.
IL ts positively announced that Gen
eni Harrison will marry Mrs. Mary
scott D!mmick some time before Lent.
Nearly LOCO chests of tea We're dam
aged on the steamer Afridi in the voy-
age from Yokohama to San Francisco.
Governor Jones of Nevada is now
known 10 be auff ring from a"naa- nf
the stomach, and his recovery is impos-
siblc.
A Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul
train crashed into funeral process
sion Sunday in Chicago, injur!ns five
persons.
Strong achievements of japanese
troops are going to the Island of FOR
noSa in order to assist in pacifyinS that
territory.
Dclagoa bay. to which British and
German warships are being dispatched,
Is pronounced the finest harbor III
South Africa.
Owing to an open switch near Chilli
cothe. Ohio. two trains were wrecked.
Six men were killed and as many scri-
ously injured.
1t now appears that the alleged out
break of Navajo Indians In Arizona
was only Il row over some ponies, ana
no blood was shed.
Isaac Wilson. Democratic member OF
the Kentucky Legislature. is dying. II
Wilson dies the Legislature Will no
longer be tie politically.
Senator Hale yesterday reported
from the committee OIL naval aiialrS
bill authorizing the enlistment of 1000
additional men for the navy.
ID. l.. Snodgrass. chief justice OF the
Supreme court of Tennessee, has Dech
Indicted for carrying concealed wcap-
Dns and for feionious assault.
Governor Upham of Wisconsin VIII
call special session of the legislature
to rcapportion the legislative districts
Of the state according to the last cen
sus.
1t Is reported, in connection with the
tallied-of admission of Arizona and
New Mexico, that Speaker Reed has
81 ID there are enough silver men In the
senate.
,Xillipm Weeks. aged %, of lap-
lenge to all persons over 20 to skate
with him distance of from fifty to
500 miles.
Representative Shnfroth has secured
The promise of the House committee on
public lands to agree to II bill allowing
to locate mines on forest
reserves.
President Clark of the Christian En-
deavor has received n letter from the
English president of the society eX-
pressing earnest hopes of peace be-
tween the two great nations.
In Omaha Mrs. Jeanette Halford
Benedict has secured divorce from
t.t 1,A
ground ofscruelty. She will make her
home with her father, Major Elijah
Halford of Denver.
The statehood convention held at
Oklahoma City for the purpose of dis
cussing the admission of Oklahoma,
came to an iuglorious end as the dele
gates could not agree on the subject Of
admitting the whole Indian Territory
as single state.
Representative Bell of Colorado has
introduced n bill to encourage the
settlement and reclamation of the arid
lands of the West. The bill provides
thte twenty-five cents per acre Of pub
lie agricultural land sold in certain
states and territories shall be expended
In reclaiming arid lands in such locali
ties.
Joseph Garrigus, a resident of Tren-
ton, subscribed $50 to a fund to pay
the Rev. A. II. Barnes, pastor of the
church at that place, but,
owing to dissatisfaction with the pas
tor. he refused to pay up. The pastor
brought suit, and the court decided that
Mr. Garrigus must pay the amount of
his subscription and the costs In the
case.
Sir Hercules Robinson has tele-
graphen to the colonial Office unl.,r
date, Of Pretoria, January Z, ns fol-
lows: The reform committee has re-
solved to rclinquish their arms and TO
comply with the demands of the Trans
vaal government. The Johannesburg
ers have placed themselves unrcsery-
edly In my hands, confident that l will
see justice done.
The three territorial delegates.
Messrs. Flynn of Oklahoma, Murphy of
Arizonn and Catron of New Mexico,
are waging vigorous campaign in
Congress to secure favorable action up
on their bills for the admission of their
territories represented by
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