Mesa free press., 1898-03-25
EASTERN NEWS ITEnS.


A cablegram says that Spain has Sc
cured loan of $40 1000, 900 from private
sources.
Forty dead bodies were found in the
ruins of the Bowery mission, which
was consumed by fire at New York
last week.
The Kentucky House of Representa-
tives passed bill prohibiting the
manufacture, sale or use of cigarettes
or cigarette material in the State.
The bodies of seven infants have been
found in ashes in the cellar of Mount
Zion Christian Church. The police
are investigating it. 1t is expected cnat
other bodies will be found.
The plan of the larger wire-nail
companies in the country to form a
trust has been abandoned, and instead
Of great combine, several of the firms
which were the leaders in the move
ment to form, a trust have decided to
form combination of their own and
to leave the others on the outside.
George Uhler, president of the Ma
rine Engineers Benevolent Association
of the United States, has gone from
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dent Mckinley the services. of 81, 900
marine engineers in the event of war.
Only such engineers as are American
citizens are members of the benevo-
lent association.
In answer to Inquiries on
the subject it is officially an
nounced that the first payment
of $1,000,00O ON account of the
sale OF the governments interest in
the Kansas Pacific Railroad has been
made The remaining $5,o03,000 will
be made in four equal installments in
thirty, forty, fifty and sixty days from
the date of sale, February 19.
What is stated to be the largest CON
tract made since 1893 for steam rail-
road construction was signed today by
President Almeric Paget of the Chi
huahua and Pacific Railroad Company
with the Nassau sConstruction Com
pany. 1t is for the construction of a
steam railroad in Mexico from the
silver-mining regions of Chihuahua to
the Gulf of California, $50 miles. Under
the terms of the contract 120 miles
will be completed before November l.
John H. Haines Of New York has just
succeeded in producing an artificial
light, somewhat after the nature OF
Dame Nature. The Importance of his
invention, aside from Illumination, is
in it's application to wireless teleg
raphy, and the operation of torpedoes
in warfare. Indeed, it may prove to
be of great value in the threatened war
with Spain, for, according to Haines,
it is possible to send torpedo from
the harbor of New York twenty miles
to sea, directing its movements, from
shore, and have it explode under an
enemy's vessel.
Frank S. Washburn has returned
from Central America, where he went
with party of thirteen to investigate
the feasibility of the Nicaragnan Canal
construction Among the party were
e. L. Cragin of Chicago and l.. e.
Cooley, an. authority on ship canals,
and the chief engineer of the Chicago
drainage canal. Accompanying these
men we're the representatives of nine
contracting firms who have been asked
to make proposition to the syndi-s
cate represented by E. Il. Cragin for
the construction of the Nicaragua
Oducd. Wi. w dSuUuIlI SdlO CuS COlu-
mittee would be ready to report to the
syndicate in about a month.
Chicago capitalists who are identi-
fed with the Northwest transportation
and Trading Company, have launched
a new Yukon enterprise with the pur-
pose of obtaining control of the i'm
mense traffic on the Yukon River be-
tween ST. Michaels and Dawson City.
Seven distinct companies, with an ag-
gregate capital of $33O,0O0, were in
corporated at Springfield today. They
are the Bealy Transportation Company,
the Klomdike, Weare, Cudahy, Power,
Hamilton and Barr transportation COM
panies. The incorporators are Robert
F. PettibOne, George J. Douglass and
Carolyn Bertree. Mr.. Pettibone says
the purpose of the new companies is
to buy the steamboats, and the barges
on the Yukon and to operate them.