Mesa free press., 1898-04-22
EASTERN NEWS ITEnS.

An engineer corps is mining the en-
trance to Hampton roads.
The United States has purchased all
the available coal in the West Indies.
Indications point strongly to set
tlement of the milk strike at New
Bedford.
The s. P. company has discontinued
its steamship service from New Orleans
to Havana.
A Madrid cable says that Spain is
concerned for the safety of the Philip
pine islands.
New Orleans has been declared
probable base of operations in case of
the invasion of Cuba.
The United States consul and vice.
consul at Carthage, who are both said
to be Spaniards, have resigned.
Jim Corbett has won his suit against
the Kinetescope Exhibition company,
and was given $16,472 damages.
| A Richmond dispatch says one of the
cruiser Brooklyn's quartermasters has
| been found to be Spanish spy.
| The reform element in Chicago elect
ed twenty-five out Of thirty-five candi-
dates in the aldermanic election.
Acquisition of the Danish West
Indies by admitting sugar free would
reduce revenues $2,0O0,0O0 year
Gen. Lew Wallace believes that war
is practically inevitable, and will be
OF much greater length than people
imagine.
| From Chicago comes word that the
National w. G. T. u. has sent 5000 to
Mary Lowe Dickinson for the relief of
the Cubans.
] A large shipment of Schwartzkopf
torpedoes, purchased by the United
| States in Berlin, are on the way to
this country.
The annual convention of the Nat
ional Association of Local Fire Insur-
ance agents will be held at Detroit,
July and 16.
The Lone Star Steamship company
has withdrawn five Of its vessels from
the southern trade, owing to the unset
tied condition Of affairs
| Antonio Varicle, of the French geo.
graphical society has arrived at New
York with balloon, which he intends
to make trip from juneau to the
Klondike.
A consignment of twenty-five Maxim
arrived at the New York navy yard.
They are said to be for the auxiliary
| cruisers.
| A revised list of the dead and mis-
sing at Shawneetown is thirty. All re-
ports have been greatly exaggerated.
the people of Shawneetown telling the
widest Of tales in their terror Mayor
Carney has been inclined to magnify
the list.
All the purchases made by Lieuten-
ant Commander A. p Niblock, the
United States naval attache here, in
Germany and Australia have been
safely shipped. The war materials
consist largely Of Schwartzkopf tor
pedoes.
William Pinkerton of Pinkerton's
Detective Agency, denounced as
grossly malicious and tending to
create an unjustifiable prejudice" the
statements that employees of the agency
were ferreting out the secret defenses
| VI OOA duu the
information to the Spanish He said
the agency had never been employed
for any such purpose.
A dispatch from Wayne, Me-, says:
Hudson Maxim, brother of the in
Iventor of the famous Maxim rapid
fire gun, has just invented a gun that,
in it's awful destructive force, goes far
beyond Hiram Maxim's 1t is called
the Maxim aerial torpedo, and is de-
signed for coast defense and naval
work.
The fleet of the United States oppos-
ed to the feet of Spain, in active en-
gagement for one day. would cost more
money than many of the wars Of the
past. 1t would require an expenditure
of SIS, 200 to fire Sandy Hooks mortars
once. A shot from one of the big rifles
is worth $3.50. In two hours engage
ment five ships could dissipate $780,
000. To supply the present fleet of
warships with needed ammunition
costs $68, 100000.
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