Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1898-06-10
EASTERN NEWS ITEr1S.

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Mason of Illinois was burglarized, and
$4,000 worth Of jewelry taken.
The Birmingham, Ala, Paris Expo
sition Club has disbanded because Of
the infriendly attitude Of France.
Clara Barton and the Red Cross ship
State of Texas have arrived at Tampa.
General Blanco Is a member of the
Red Cross Society of Spain.
A militia company rcruited by w. j.
Bryan at Lincoln, Neb., elected H. J..
Whitemore as It's captain. This is re-
garded as snub to Mr.. Bryan.
The society women of st. Joseph,
Mo-, have resolved to buy no more
French goods, on account Of the hostil-
ity of France to the United States.
The new naval cruiser board has
sent to Washington list of forty
yachts which it recommends for pur-
chase. Each b valued at 100000.
| A regiment of 500 mounted rifemen
has been organized at Colorado Springs
and the war department has been asked
If such a regiment would be accepted.
The Society of Friends, at their an
nual meeting in New York, in accord
ance with their old-time ideas, pro-
tested against the war between the
United States and Spain.
A dispatch from Sierra Leone, on the
west coast of Africa, says the bodies of
the American missionaries who were
ed Rotian, have been recovered and
| buried.
| The citizens of Newport, r. T., have
inaugurated a movement for the pur-
pose of having the citizens of Rhode
Island build and equip the fastest tor
pedo boat destroyer afloat, and present
it to the government.
The United States Irish societies of
Chicago, at big mass meeting in
Central Music Hall, presided over by
John M. Smythe, adopted resolutions
emphatically condemning the suggest
ed alliance between the United States
and Great Britain.
Dasey, Selizer and Russell, riding a
triplet, broke the world s record for one
mile at Denver Wheel Club Park. The
quarter was reeled off in 1885, 1909
and 1:46 1-5. The former record was
held by Johnson, Mertens and Kiser,
who made the mile in 1:46 2-5.
The time-honored blue uniform Of
the army is being replaced by the more
sombre gray. The cloth used is light
twilled linen of gray-brown color, Sc
lected after much consideration by the
authorities at Washington as most ap-
propriate for tropical campaigning.
Kearney Speed, known all over the
country as a bridge jumper, dfved
from the Merchants Bridge at ST..
Louis into the Mississippi River, and
escaped unhurt. The distance was 1913
feet, and the fact that the river was
very high, and running with driftwood,
made the feat a perilous one.
Key West is suffering from reign
Of terror. The best citizens feel that
unless the town is promptly put under
martial law state of riot may pre-
vail at any moment. The police force
consists of three men, and with streets
and grog shops infested with turbulent
jackies, negroes and roughs of many
classes, the danger to the respectable
classes is no mean one.
There has recently been formed in
Chicago an organization known as the
National Parcel Post league, the pur-
pose Of which is to promote the ex-
tension of the parcel post system for
the transportation of small articles of
merchandise to foreign countries. by
mail. It is proposed to extend the or
ganization throughout the country,
and to form branches in different
States.
Congress will soon be called upon to
decide the question of building
canal connecting the Atlantic with the
Pacific ocean. Chairman Davis Of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
said: "The need for connection be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific can not
be. questioned. Our interests demand
it. With a canal between the two
oceans we would have nothing to fear
from an attack on our Pacific coast.
AS it is it would take us sixty days to
send our fleet around the Horn to the
Pacific coast cities. With the canal we
could dispatch men of war to San
Francisco from New York in fourteen
days."
That a movement is on foot to form
the greatest ship-building firm in the
world became known last week, when
1t was announced that the Cramps
were to amalgamate with the English
firm of Vickers. The scheme con-
templates doubling the capacity Of the
present Philadelphia yards, and an in
crease of the Cramps capital stock
from 100000 to $1O,OOO.0OO. The adj
ditional capacity Is to be furnished by
the Vickers' company in return for
stock in the enlarged corporation.
Seven hundred acres of unused land
lying adjacent to the Cramps yards is
to be used in extending the plant. The
scheme was preached by the English.
men, and grew out of the increased de-
mand for ships OF war.