The Meeker herald., 1897-11-13
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% the nth.
Presideat Mckinley wsat hsane 70
Canton to vote.
E1-Pressdeat Cleveland has . soa.
born on the 18th.
Kansas City Il 70 have nsW 11.O00.-
900 passenger depot
Norway will send an expeditlea -
look for PrUfessor And1ee.
The London Spectator looks for war
between the United States and Spain.
A hundred thousand peopls attended
the funeral Of Henry George in New
York.
senator Wolcort sailed from. liver
pool with General Paine, saturday. for
home.
One Steamship took 500 carloads Of
cotton from New Orleans for England
on the LIST.
The National Woman's Christian
in Buffalo.
The sale Of the Kansas branch Of the
Union Pacific has been postponed un-
til December IS.
Henry George. Democratic candidate
for mayor Of New York. died suddenly
of apoplexy ON the 29th.
The Tennessee Centennial Exposition
closed on the 31st. The total attend
ance amounted to 1.6JO,OOO.
DR.. Barr Of the City of Mexico saved
a man whose carotid artery had been
cut by wonderful operation
Ex-Congressman Mondell of Wyom-
ing has been appointed assistant COM
missioner of the general land office.
The President has appointed James
LOngstreet Of Georgia commissioner OF
railroads vice Wade Hampton, re-
signed.
Kuhut &Deissler of Berlin. Germany.
have invented a perfect smoke eonsum.
er which saves 20 per cent. In fuei ana
costs $50.
The governor of Minnesota has or
dered an investigation of charges OF
brutality to convicts In the saltwater
penitentiary.
Waller II. Houghton. a postal clerk
running west from Cheyenne. has con-
fcssed to rObbIng the mails OF *l5,-
OOo package.
The governor of Washington protests
against putting troops in Alaska to sup
port the Weare and Alaska CONNER
cial Company monopoly
An engine colli<ied with train at
Eilenberg on the Ha.lo-kOttbor line,
fifteen miles from Leipsic. Twenty
nine persons were injured and Of this
number six may die.
The Ottoman government has noti-
fied the powers that 1t objects to the
appointment Of Colonel Schaeffer as
provisional commissioner Of the powers
for the island Of Crete.
DR.. ]. C. Spencer, bacteriologiSt Of
the board of health, reports that he has
discovered the bacilB of tuberculosis in
a Chinese-made cigar which he exam
ined at San Francisco.
The American Public Health Associa-
ton indorses the use OF individual cups
At communion services and recon-
mends the establishment OF govern
ment department OF public health.
fhe new Miils hotel in New YORK,
nine stories high and provided with an
modern improvements, has been opened
in the poor quarter Of the city. It viii
giye 4 bed and bath for 20 cents peR
night.
Briradier General james F. Wade Of
st. Paul, comanding the Department Of
Dakota, recommends the abandonment
Of Forts Custer and Assinaboine, Mon
tana. He says that they are unsuited
for use.
President Bashford Of Ohio Wesleyan
university has announced that the late
Stephen Watson Of London, Ohio, had
left beQuest Of So. 900 to the univer-
sity for the purpose Of endowing new
,professorship.
A telegram was received at the War
department from Captain Ray. dated
at Fort Yukon. Alaska, September II,
saving he had landed 900 tons Of pro-
visions there to be freighted by dogs
10. Circle City and Dawson when the
liver closes. Circle City has no sup
blies, but the situation may be improved
by spring.
I A movement is on foot among st.
Louis manufacturers and other large
consumers of coal to operate mines and
get the product at first hands. As re-
suit Of the strike among Illinois coal
miners, the pits from which the sup
lply of coal for st. Louis IL dug are
closed, and there Is great scarcity Of
the bituminous article there.
A profound sensation has been caused
at Athens by naval scandal Of for
midable dimensions. 1t has Just been
ascertained that all the cartridges fitted
TO the torpedo guns during the wnr be
tween Greece and Turkey were not pro-
vided with percussion caps and fur
minating mercury. Hence. II the tor
pedoes had been wanted. they would
have been perfectly harmless.
General A. 8. Weissert of Milwaukee;
wisconsin. and General Paul Wander
yoort Of Omaha, Nebraska, each an ex-
grand commander Of Minneapolis, have
int secured 22.OOO acres Of land In the
coast region Of Texas. This purchase =
made for locating thereon veterans
Of the late war, 800 families Of whom
are said to be en- route for settlement
~, tho land The location aeIerfa6 II