Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-11-19
EASTERN NEWS ITEnS.

Frances E. Willard was reelected
president of the National W. G. T. u.
A strawboard trust, including every
plant in the country, has been organ
lied.
Debt, less cash in the treasury Octo-
Der 80, $1,000, 563, 901-an increase of
50, 444, 18S.
The vote OF Ohio is still in dispute and
the matter will be taken to the courts
for decisionn.
The famous San Marco hotel at st.
Augustine, Fla, was destroyed by in
cendiary fire Sunday.
The new congressional library which
has been in course of construction for
the last six years at Washington was
opened to the public yesterday.
The Union Pacific road was sold on
Monday to the reorganization commit
tee for the sum of $53, 528, 1926. There
was but one bid. 1t is supposed that
the Vanderbilts are the purchasers.
A convention between the United
States, Russia and Japan, looking to
the joint protection of the seals, has
been signed. 1t will require the ratif-
cation OF the Senate to become effective.
It is reported here that Ben Butter.
worth will resign as commissioner of
patents soon. He has told his friends
that the duties are too onerous. The
rumor of rupture with Mckinley is dis
credited.
1t is believed that the yellow fever
epidemic in the south is on the wane.
The cooler weather of the past week had
salutary effect. The total deaths at
New Orleans to October 81 was 1873.
The total cases still under treatment
was 528.
The South Pennsylvania Oil company
closed deal for the purchase of the oil
property of the Devonia, Emery and
Mason oil companies in the Bradford,
Pa, fields The deal includes 10000
ares of land and $50 producing wells.
The consideration was 81, 400, 900 cash.
The people of Mentonville, KY, have
very effective way of keeping their
preachers in orthodox lines or getting
rid of them. A minister of the Christ
ian church at that place recently
preached sermon in which he affirmed
there is no devil. He was promptly
elected from the house and about
twenty pistol shots fired after him as he
departed.
A Chesapeake and Ohio railway train
was wrecked at Shadwell, Va, Novem-
Der 9th, and five persons were killed
and seventeen injured. The wreck was
caused by the breaking of an axle on
the forward truck of the locomotive.
The engine and two coaches rolled down
an elnbankment and one of the coaches
was partially submerged in the Rivanna
river.
The steamship Milwaukee has sailed
from New Orleans for Liverpool with
the largest cargo of cotton, if not the
largest general cargo ever foated. It
consists of %, $50 bales of cotton, 80, 200
bushels of grain, 3S,81S pieces of slaves,
23OO bsraentire cargo being equal
to 26, 900 bales of cotton. It would take
500 freight cars to carry her cargo, and
the train would measure three and one
quarter miles in length.
Van Wyck, the Tammany candidate
for mayor of Greater New York, is
elected by an immense majority Lowe,
Citizens union candidate second; Tracy
Republican third; George fourth. Re-
publicans claim gains in Kansas, Iowa
South Dakota and Massachusetts,. Ken
lucky goes strongly Democratic. Ne
braska cast bigger silver majority
than at the presidential election. The
result in Ohio is doubtful but Hanna
will probably get the senatorship.
Judge Thomas of the United States
court of Indian Territory has handed
down an important and farzreaching de-
cision. Judge Thomas held that the
publication of warning notices to nom
resident defendants in divorce proceed
luSS was nun anu VOIu, anu 6udG dCGudk
service. must be had on such defendants.
The decision, if sustained in the SUI
preme court. to which an appeal has
been taken, will Fset aside hundreds of
marriages contracted by parties who
have obtained 6ecrees of divorce from
courts on the default of nonresident de-
PENDANTS.
The boldest and apparently the most
successful hold-up in the history of the
Santa Fe Pacific railroad occurred Sum
day night at about 9 O'Clock near Grants
station, N. M. The regular passenger
train reached Grants about thirty min
utes late, and consisted of mail, baggage
car. an express car, day coach, chair
car and two sleepers. On going to the
water tank at siding two miles east
of Grants, known as Saints, the train
was taken possession of by the bandits,
the party being supposed to consist of
four men, as no more than that number