Mesa free press., 1898-01-28
EASTERN NEWS ITEnS

A plucky Chicago girl, armed with
a hatpin, successfully resisted pair
of street-car robbers.
The Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable
Company has increased it's capital
stock from 100000 to $1,OOO,0OO.
Kid Mccoy has formally challenged
both Fitz and Corbett, and put up
$1,000 as an evidence of good faith.
War is on in Denver between the
department stores and the newspa-
pers over a question of advertising
rates.
Thomas Edison claims to have dis
covered new metal which will do
away with the costly process of MAX
ing malleable iron.
Populists meet in conference at ST.
Louis and organize new party on
Populistic lines, opposing fusion with
anybody for any purpose.
The Oklahoma Indian scare has
been ascertained to be the outgrowth
of whisky and the fears of lynchers;
no murders were committed.
DR.. Salmon, chief of the Government
Bureau of Animal Industry, reports
most satisfactory results from anti
toxine treatment of hog cholera.
The st. Louis and New Orleans An
Choir line of steamers has made an as
signment. The assets are estimated
to be worth $4,000, with liabilities as
yet unknown.
While the United States cruiser
Marblehead was at small arms target
practice near Tampa, Fla, recently,
four of the crew were severely injured
by an explosion.
Maj. Ben Butterworth, United States
Commissioner of Patents, and Gen. G.
G. Anger, a classmate of Grant, go over
to the majority after many years spent
in public service.
The Senatorial fight in Ohio ended
by the election of M. A. Hanna by
majority of one. The legislative COM
mittee is already at work Investigate
Ing the charges of bribery.
During Corbett's play at st. Louis
he announced that he offered
Fitzsimmons $4,000 for finish fight,
the entire sum to go to Fitz if Corbett
fails to put him out in ten rounds.
A cyclone struck Fort Smith, Ark,
and almost wrecked the town. Fifty
people are known to be killed. Fire
added to the horrors of the night, and
the loss is thought to exceed 100000.
A Paducah, KY, telegram says a
perfectly-formed child, but weighing
only IL pounds, has been born to
Mr.. and Mrs. LATE Sullivan of that
city. The child is alive and seems to
be thriving.
In order to secure entire independ-
ence from the Union Pacific system,
the management of tht Union Pacific,
Denver and Gulf Railroad has decided
to relay the track between Fort Col
Inns and Cheyenne.
Mrs. Susan E. Wattles, one of the
oldest settlers in Kansas, is dead. She
was the widow of the late Augustus
Wattles, known in the early times for
his active anti-slavery work, both in
that State and in Indiana, having been
closely associated with John Brown.
The anti-Hanna combine in Ohio is
not yet ready to concede defeat and
will push the bribery charges in hope
of unseating the new Senator for the
long term. The Republicans will at
tempt to reorganize the House and
GUST the officers chosen by the opposi-
tion
The boss of Greater New York is
bigger man in some respects than
many foreign potentate. The esti-
mated yearly expenditure of S33 5000, 900
for salaries, and $50,000,OO0 for public
improvements will place Tammany on
high horse financially, and enable
Croker to establish a campaign fund
that ought to make him potent factor
in the national councils of the Demo-
Gratis. This annual $S3,000,000 expen-
diture surpasses by nearly $4,000 900
the revenue of the kingdom of Portu-
gal last year. The combined budgets
of Norway and Sweden for the same
year were only about $4,000, 900, while
the revenue of the Netherlands was
but $55 100000. Bulgaria and Rou-
mania together have an income OF
not over $4,000 annually, and Bel
GUMS revenue is less than SIS, 900 600
The annual taxes of Greater New York
will exceed the yearly revenue Of three
or four South American republics
taken together.