Mesa free press., 1898-04-15
EASTERN NEWS ITErIS.

CTOSS.
EASTERN NEWS ITEr1S.
A contract has been signed in Boise,
idaho, for $4,000 of bonds of the pro-
posed Moscow and Eastern railway.
Fire losses in the United States and
Canada in February amounting to $12,-
629,3 300, as compared with $8,676,750 in
February, 1897.
A London dispatch says that Glad
| involving the bone tissues back Of the
| nasal passages.
The Union Pacific railway has dis
charged 400 of it's employees in shops
and offices at Omaha More are slated
to go this month.
The receivership of the Kansas Pa
cific has been ended, and the property
turned over to President Burt Of the
| Union Pacific, at Omaha.
| The executive council Of the Ameri-
can Bankers Association met in New
York and decided to hold the next con-
vention at Denver, September 1.
Corbett has sued the kaleidoscope
company on note for $4,000, and for
unpaid royalties amounting to $500.
This is over the Corbett-Courtney pic
lures taken in 1894.
The cotton buyers and brokers of
Texas and other cotton states cannot
obtain insurance on exports, as COM
panies refuse to take the risks as long
as rumors of war prevail.
Howard Gould has offered his new
! yacht, Niagara, to the state naval re-
serves of New York in case of war
The offer has been accepted and the
yacht will become the flagship.
| Twenty-one of twenty-six physicians
land surgeons at Bellevue hospital,
New York, have rendered their services
|. to the President, including DR.. Lee, a
Enephew of Consul-G General Lee.
( A dispatch from Guerrero, Mex,
says that the Mexican authorities have
Rarrested the leaders of band of
Spaniards who were preparing to raid
Mexican towns in case of a war. A
courier with evidence was first ar
rested.
/ According to the Denver Post, Char
1otte Smith demands that the Secretary
of War shall enlist 10000 unmarried
women to fight Spain, and that news
paper wants to know why unmarried,
Charlotte? Why not old, experienced
/ Efghters?"
| Apner Cheney Goodal died at Salem,
Mass, aged SO years. He perfected the
first printing press that printed on
both sides in one operation. He also
invented the cracker machine and per-
fected the preparation of copper and
steel plates for use by engravers.
The entire evenly fifth regiment of
infantry has been ordered from the
| department of Dakota to Florida It is
a colored regiment. Headquarters are
at Fort Missoula, Mont. Two COM
panies will go to Dry Tortugas, one to
4 Tampa and the balance to Jackson
/ vile.
The carnival of sports given at Mad
I ison Square Garden at New York. in
| aid of the fund for the erection of a
/ monument to the victims of the bat
I tleship Maine, was brilliant success
\ in every sense of the word, and as a
result several thousand dollars will be
added to the already large total.
A dispatch from Greensboro, N. c.,
where the Boston team has gone for it's
spring practice, says that Pitcher Char
lie Nichols, who was the mainstay of
the club in winning the national league
penant last year, refuses to sign at the
salary offered. Nichols is getting $4,000
now, and he is said to demand $500
more.
The Morgan Engineering company
of Alliance, O., has been advised by
the war department that they were
awarded the building of six 12-inch
disappearing gun carriages and five of
| the 8-inch carriages for coast defense.
The carriages are of the Burlington
Corzier model Of 1896, and will cost
$50O,0O0. They are to be built within
seven months.
Two hundred students of the Uni
versity of Michigan paraded the cam
pus armed with pitchforks, etc., in a
Cuban demonstration. William Day,
son of Judge Day of the state depart
ment, addressed the meeting and tele-
grams approving the United States
stand were sent to Secretary Day and
/ President Mckinley. The boys also,
amid great enthusiasm, burned an
effigy of Spain.
1t is learned that the Westinghouse
Electric Light Plant has been work
ing steadily for the last two weeks on
a secret government order for electri-
cal apparatus designed for use in con-
nection with submarine mines and
torpedoes, etc. The contract is for
$15O,OOO, and the equipments, which
are to be complete in detail, are to be
furnished at the earliest moment.