The Meeker herald., 1896-07-11
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An aeronant named Hiram Il Cole
was killed at Grand Rapids. Michigan
on the 10Th.
Over 100000 spindles arc pledged
to shut down for four weeks In July oil
August in Massachusetts.
Cardinal Gibbons has received from
Rome advance sheets OF the pope'i
encyclical on the re- union Of the Chris
tain church.
Fire In the arsenal near Fort Noselle
France, caused an explosion which
killed several persons and seriously In
jured many.
A lot of strikers had their heads
broken by clubbing from the police at
Cleveland Tuesday. a. . result Of at.
tacks upon workmen.
Manager Donner Of the National Tin
Plate Works. Anderson, Indiana, ha,
discharged 500 men outright The men
and the company could not agree on q
scale Of wages.
The American Society of Civil Engin.
eers is holding its twenty-eighth an.
nual session in San Francisco. Dele
gates are present from nearly svers
state in the union.
The Chamber of Mines and Com.
merce are organizing a mass meeting
at BuIuwayo to petition the British
South Africa company to reinstats Ce-
ell Rhodes, whose resignation was &C.
cepted last week.
Judge Laughlin at Santa Fs has
granted a new trial in the case against
the Rio Grande railway in which the
government got Judgment Of $30D0O
for timber taken Illegally. The dam.
ages were excessive.
The allotment of land in ssveralty
to the Jacarilla Apache Indians In Ari-
zona has been completed and the sched-
ule has been approved by the secretary
of the interior. About 300 names are
on the allotment rolls.
All the money in the New York
banks, securities in safe deposit vaults
and office fixtures belonging to the
Colorado Coal, Iron and Development
company In New York, were attached
yesterday by the trustees of the mort
gage.
The Non-partisan Woman's Chns-
tian Temperance Union of Cleveland b
arranging to go to Canton in q body to
congratulate Ex-Governor McKinlU.
The members will invite all tho lades
of Cleveland and will engage special
trains.
Mr.. Preston, the director Of the mirt,
has adjusted the values at which for
eign coins are to be received BY tie
United States customs officers durilg
the next quarter. The values are b.
creased on a basis Of $O,6S7.60 pr
ounce of silver, as against $O,682.01 ~
April 1. 1895. II
The United States consul at PGt
Stanley, Friendly Islands, IN Q roper
to the State Department says that q
the night of the 14th inst. At eigh
O'Clock, a ship under full sail strucl
the Billy Rocks within 800 yards Of tn
lighthouse and went to pieces. The e.
tire crew was lost.
A special from Neosho. Missouri
says: Four Indians rode into Neol. +,
small town twenty-slx miles south o
here, last evening and robbed th
town. 1t is impossible to ascertain th
amount taken. No lives were lost. tn
marauders started towards Sulphu
Springs, Arkansas, and will probabl,
be arrested.
Rev. James Venable, pastor of q col
ored Baptist church in Rosedale, q sub
urb of Kansas City, during q politieal
wrangle with Ernest Williams, a neert
fireman, shot and fatally wounded ths
latter. venable escaped to the woods
where he was captured this morning
Venable is well known. The men vDrl
presidents of rival political clubs.
Hon. Matias Romero, Mexican nlAis
ter at Washington has sent in q lstte
resigning his post on account Of a n
ticle published In an official jouna
during the pendency of the Gautema
Ian question, and which Minister Re
nero felt to be severe in its 1udgnen
of his views regarding the proper eel
tlement Of that question. It will prob
ably not be accepted.
In the 5000 damage suit of r. n
Lander, cOlored, and wife, against III
receiver of the Ohio Valley Railroa
company. Judge James h. Reathitt q
Kentucky decided the separate coac
law unconstitutional, and the Jury va
given peremptory instructions to in
for the plaintiff. An agreed vefdit
for $125 was then signed by th
twelve men, and the case will 20 to tn
court Of appeals.
Ii Hung Chang submitted to tn
Roentgen ray examination at the Chal
lottenburg Polytechnic Institute, Bel
lin, Saturday. 1t showed the track a