Mesa free press., 1898-11-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
News of the State, Nation
and the World
Also Interesting News Items Of
The War

The guns saved from Cervera's fleet
are said to be worth 100000.
A cash balance in bank exceeding
$5oO,OOO now stands to the credit of
the Transmississippi exposition.
me population of the United States
on october /, 1898, was estimated at
4,925, 900; circulation per capita was
$2424.
The peace jubilee parade was the
greatest ever witnessed in Chicago,
not excepting that of the worlds fair.
The occasion was worth it.
1t is stated that certain express
companies have utterly ignored the
stamp tax on money orders. and that
the Treasury Department is inyesti-
eating the matter.
There are twenty cases of SMALLPOX
at the village of Mclean, New York,
and precautions have been taken to
protect the students of Cornell Uni
versity at Ithaca.
The report that Admiral Dewey
will leave Hong Kong on November
6 for the United States seems un-
founded, as the Navy Department
knows nothing of such a move.
Two directors of the Central Pa
cific railroad will go east shortly to
arrange for blanket mortgage COW
ering the bonded indebtedness of the
road, amounting to nearly $118,OOO,-
000.
Indian Commissioner Jones has tel
egraphed to Washington that all the
Indians but one at Bear Camp will
surrender and help in capturing the
renegade. He believes the trouble is
over.
Admiral Schley was placed in COM
mand of the naval station at San
Juan de Porto Rico, but will be re-
lieved by another officer, who will
maintain a permanent station at this
point.
At the closing session of the Ma
tional Prison Congress at Indianapo-
lis, Rev. McClury of Joliet, ILL.,, was
elected president. w. e. Hale of San
Quentin, CAL, was elected to the di-
rectOry.
Upwards of 1000 coal miners on the
Monongahela river have struck The
strikers are preparing for a long siege
and are establishing camps near the
mines to prevent non-union miners
from working.
General passenger agents of all the
great American railway systems are
attending the forty-third annual con-
vention Of the American Association
of General Passenger and Ticket
Agents at Detroit.
At the Episcopalian Council held
in Washington, the House of Bishops,
by vote of 81 to 80, rejected propo-
sitions bearing on the re-marriage of
divorced persons, and the present
canons remain in force.
The fight between railroad and tick
ct brokers has ben taken into the Chi
cago courts. Seven railroads yester-
day petitioned for an injunction re-
straining the sale by brokers Of jubi-
lee excursion tickets.
At a meeting of striking wire work.
ers at Cleveland last week, the strike
was declared off and Superintendent
Nye of the American Steel and Wire
Company said tnat all strikers who
cared to do so could go to work.
The cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa,
which formerly belonged to Spain, is
expected to sail from Guantanamo
bay for the United States this week.
The vessel has been supplied with a
crew by drafts upon the American
warships.
It was learned that strike of en-
gineers and conductors on the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railroad,
over the question of reinstating three
discharged conductors, has been
averted, the company agreeing to take
back two of the men.
Lieut.-Col Rowan, who reached
New York on the Orizaba, says he
does not believe a single Cuban has
been disarmed. Throughout the inte-
rior of the island he heard only graft
tude for the part the Americans took
in gaining their freedom.
In addition to the weekly cargo of
army stores and supplies sent to the
United States troops in Santiago and
Porto Rico, there are on the trans
pOTL b0Illu, WHICH, udS SdIlGu lTOu
New York for Santiago 100000 rations
for the starving Cubans.
The coinage at all the mints for
nine months ended Septembr 80, was
$72, 1871, 800, compared with $78,100,-
091 for the same time last year. The
total for last year included $48,369,-
$50 in double eagles, or 100000
more than was coined this year.
A Protestant clergyman, Catholic
priest, Jewish rabbi and negro ed
ucator delivered the principal ad-
dresses at the Chicago peace jubilee,
President Mckinley was the
chief attraction. There is but one
standard of American citizenship.
Of an estimated yield of from twen-
ty to thirty million bushels of wheat
in the vicinity of Winnipeg, Man., it
is thought that only about eight mill
ion bushels will be threshed, the bal
ance being ruined by continued rains.
Barley and oats are also damaged.
A returned victim describes the
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