Mesa free press., 1898-10-14
GENERAL NEWSITEMS
News of the State, Nation
and the World
Also Interesting News Items OF
The War

war
A Yokohama dispatch says new
premier named Sitsuntak has been
appointed in Korea.
Gen. Gomez, realizing the power he
has in Cuba, has no intention of re-
signing his command.
The steamer Cottage City has ar
rived at Victoria from Alaska with 200
passengers and 1000 cases of salmon.
M. J. Gill, glassblower of st. Louis,
was nominated for congress by the
Tenth District Democratic convention.
1ninion prohibition plebiscite was light,
and showed marked public indiffer-
enCe.
Two severe earthquake shocks were
felt last week at Fortuna, sixteen miles
from Murcia, capital of the province of
that name.
British capital is seeking investment
eight of the large cigar factories in
Havana. The consideration was $6,000,-
900.
The Fourth United States Infantry
detachment from the Seventh Army
Corps has been ordered to be placed
in readiness for immediate service in
Cuba.
At the election of officers of the Or
der of the Eastern Star at Washing
ton, Mrs. Madeline B. Conklin of Pine
vile, Ore, was elected Worthy Grand
Conductor.
The French steamer Lafayette, hav-
ing on board Spanish troops from San
tiago, is quarantined at Coruna. An Of
ficer of the ship died of yellow fever
on the voyage.
A dispatch to the Daily London Mail
from Cape Town says Gen. Kitchener
has cabled to Cecil Rhodes that he has
and asks: ''When are you coming
up"
A Boston paper announces that the
Appalachian club of that city is about
to make a pilgrimage to Lake Welo-
luckmaguntic. Lack of space prevents
further description Of this romantic
sheet of water.
| 1t is related that the principal rea-
son of the emperor's downfall is found
in the fact that he one day appeared
in public wearing European clothes.
The empress dowager became alarmed
and deposed her nephew.
The Official Gazette of Havana pub
fishes a decree signed. by Blanco and
bearing date of September 27, granting
pardon to and ordering the release OF
all political prisoners now under con-
finement in the island.
The new Federal Steel company, or
Steel Trust, has a capitalization of
$500, ,OO0,O The fee paid for incor-
porating in New Jersey was $4,000.
The state gets an annual tax of $13,-
750 in taxes from the company.
Sagasta is quoted as saying to Senor
Brunei, who represents the chamber Of
commerce of Catula: "I hope to obtain
commercial advantages from the Unit
ed States which will be embodied in a
definite treaty Of peace maintaining the
status quo"
D. L.. Cobb, counsel for the Red Cross
at New York, arrived from Cuba on the
City of Washington. He has been on
an extended trip through Cuba, espe-
cially Matanzas and Santiago. He
says there was a great amount of suf-
fering among the Cubans.
The navy expenses for the coming
fiscal year, it is reported from Wash
ington, will break all previous records,
footing up over $47,OOO,OOO. Still this
is more than $76,OO0,OOO less than the
expenses incurred in the extraordi-
nary emergency of this year.
Havana advices are to the effect that
the Spanish troops are to be concen-
trated at the ports from which they are
to sail for Spain. This looks as If a
movement from the island is not to be
delayed as long as was previously an
ticipated. Orders for this concentra-
ton have been issued by Blanco.
The United States troops to occupy
Cuba-excepting those now at Santiago
will be set to Manzanillo the latter
part of this week. The Spanish troops
will leave that port October 7, and the
Americans will take immediate possess
sion The town will be cleaned up and
the port opened for relief supplies at
once.
Tho Milwaukee Sentinel says five of
the six Milwaukee flour millers have
given options on their plants to
syndicate represented by Thomas A.
Mcintyre of New York, according to
rumor on change, and the manager of
one of the mills is authority for the
statement that the consolidation will
soon be effected.
A Chippewa Falls, Wis, special to
the st. Paul Pioneer Press says forest
fires are doing enormous damage along
the 500 and Wisconsin Central rail-
roads. Nearly every section of pine
woods in Northern Wisconsin is
ablaze. Telegraph and telephone wires
are down, and many railroad bridges
have been destroyed.
At Wichita, Kan, Ned Larimer, sig
nal boy on the battleship Indiana, and
Sergeant McGhea, signal boy on the
Oregon, met, last week, Both are