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

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the balance has gone.
Chicago makes the best of It's bad
climate. The Record says: Celebrating
peace amid the warfare Of elements is
useful test Of patriotism, at least.
Ryan College burned last week. Two
hundred pupils were in the building.
All escaped. 1t was one Of the best
buildings in the Indian territory
The American liner Paris, known
during the war as the auxiliary cruiser
Yale, resumed her place as merchant
steamer when she sailed for South
ampton.
Some OF the cannon captured at San
tlago are now on their way to the
United States. These pieces will be
stored at Governors Island until dis
posed of by Congress.
The louder the international talk for
universal peace the more energetic the
work on new war ships and improved
death-dealing guns goes on, the New
York Press discovers.
Mrs. Richard Cooper, the last sur
viving daughter of James Fenimore
Cooper, the novelist, is dead at her
home in Cooperstown, N. Y.
| We frequently see the statement that
our soldiers in Cuba are "dying like
| flies." That's very satisfactory; who
ever heard of fly dying, anyway !?
asks the Chicago Times-Herald.
| Hobson keeps on bringing up Span
ish ships to the surface of the water.
He is a bright young man who appre-
| Oh h0 ~ hn VII hot
there is always room at the top.
The cruiser Buffalo has left the New
| York navy yard for Manila under
rush orders" She will go by way of
Suez Canal and it is expected she will
arrive at Manila before the Oregon and
Iowa.
It is announced that an excellent ci-
gar can be bought anywhere in Porto
Rico for 2 cents. That settles it, ex-
claims the San Francisco Bulletin.
Well never give that island back to
| Spain.
cit seems natural for Americans to
work all day. the Cubans say, amazed.
The Cubans have yet to learn that
working all day is one of the bless
ings conferred by freedom and pros
perity.
L. z. Letter has given to his daugh-
ter, Lady Curzon of KedlestOn, the
property of No. Carlton House Ter
race, London, a magnificent residence
in an exclusive locality, which cost
| $780,
Japan's new cruiser, the Kasaga, was
| turned over to the Japanese govern
ment by the Cramps last week. She
went at once into commission and
Commander N. Kashievakra ran up
the Mikados flag.
Twenty-one Generals were dropped
from the United States army several
days ago, and as yet no European
country has taken advantage of our
defenseless condition to annihilate us,
says the Denver Republican.
Young Jesse James would not have
formed the habit of train robbery, per-
haps, if the Missouri newspapers had
ceased to tell their readers what a. no.
ble-hearted man his father was, re-
marks the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Cotton buyers of Dallas on foreign
orders say that owing to the threat
ened war between England and France
they have received cables saying:
Cali shipments from this date until
otherwise instructed must be made
subject to war risks !"
Spain has protested against the sail
ing of the Oregon and the Iowa for
Manila The dons are hardly to be
blamed. Their brief meeting with the
ships of Clark and Evans was not of
nature calculated to inspire a wish
for further acquaintance.
The New York clearing house has
just completed the forty-fifth year Of
it's existence. In forty-fve years 1t has
become the vital nerve Of American
commerce. it's transactions since Oc-
tober, 1853. amounting to $1,229,00O,-
100000. The transactions of last year
amount in round numbers to $4,000
100000.
A suit for 900 damages has been
brought against the Pullman Palace
Car Company by J. M Edmonson of
San Antonio. Tex, who claims that
while asleep in berth he was
drenched with water during rain
storm, owing to a hole in the roof of
the car. and that he contracted Sc
we're cold. which resulted in consump
ton.
1t is time the growing practice of
making the public schools huge con-
tribution box for monuments, memori-
ais and testimonials of state, nation
al, international or general flubdub
character should end, declares the
Springfield Republican. The denuncia-
tion of the habit by the New York Su-
perintendent of Instruction fills long
felt want.
1t is reported that the old Virginia
peanut trust is to be revived and ex-
tended SO as to take in all the promi-
nent dealers in the South and West.
Absolute control of the trade is what
is aimed at and to accomplish it the
trusts capitalization will read in big
figures. 1t is said that Ex-Governor
Campbell of Ohio is the promoter of