Mesa free press., 1898-12-16
GENERAL NEWSITEMS
News of the State, Nation
and the World
Also Interesting News Items OF
The War

dered to close at midnight.
Corbett and Sharkey now propose to
fight for charity, probably in the hope
that it will cover a multitude of SINS
1t is reported in Madrid that mar
riage has been arranged between Don
Jaime, son of Don Carlos, and Bava-
rian pricess.
Naval Constructor Hobson has re-
fused an offer of $4,000 from a New
York lecture bureau for stated num-
ber of lectures.
The Merritt Wrecking Company's
representatives say a contract has
been made with the government to
raise the Reina Mercedes and bring
her to Norfolk.
Contracts have been signed between
five middle Western railroads and the
steel trust for over SO, 3,O00,O 900 worth of
steel rails to be used next summer for
extension and repairs.
The official forecast of the wheat
harvest in 1898 in New South Wales
shows 100000 bushels in excess of
that of 1897, with an available surplus
for export of 2,250,000.
Marine underwriters of New York es-
innate that the losses sustained by the
insurance companies as a result of the
recent storm will probably amount to
something more than $1,000,000.
yellow fever may be brought to this
country. His advice in this respect
has been needed and, as stated, the
dead soldiers will not be inferred in
their native soil until some time in the
new year.
The Chicago Inter Ocean thinks
peace is money proposition. 1t
says: king Humbert, who hasn't a
dollar to go to war with, is heartily in
favor of the Cars proposal for gen
eral peace
The subject of forming a general
combination of brewers to include most
of the large cities is again discussed.
So far as progress is made $30,000,000
of capital and 100000 barrels output
are represented.
It is to be sincerely hoped that the
weather the Atlantic coast people are
having is not sample of what they
are going to get all winter. The loss
of life and the destruction of property
have been appalling.
Senator Frye says that though the
treaty with Spain will meet with
strong opposition in the Senate, it will
be ratified. Also that the commission
ers are not authorized to buy the Car
olines, and Germany will probably get
them.
The Spaniards and the European
press have begun to worry over the
great difficulties Uncle Sam will en-
counter in putting a colonial policy into
effect If they were wholly disinterest-
ed they would let Uncle Sam do the
worrying.
A. J. de Mules, known as the "Tur-
quoise King of the Jarillas," was shot
in the back by Mexican while eating
breakfast at his mine near Ell PaSo.
N. NJ The murderer was captured by
American employees and narrowly es
capped lynching.
An organization of women has been
effected in Chicago to endow hospital
bed for disabled football players in or
der, no doubt, that the gridiron braves,
when carried off the field, may still be
able to touch down, remarks the st.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The War Department will ask Con-
gress for authority to pay all vOlun-
teers now in the service sixty days in
advance of the mastering out, in
stead of giving the men a furlough of
sixty days and assembling them for
pay and mastering out.
After all, says the Pittsburg News,
Spain has simply exchanged a few is
lands for a good deal of experience,
and as she didn't know how to man.
age the islands, and may turn the ex
perience to good account, maybe it
wasn't such bad bargain.
George w. ("Pony'O Moore has de-
posted G200 with the Sporting Life
with the intention of arranging
match between his son-in-law, Charley
Mitchell, and Thomas Sharkey, the
American pugilist, for $500 or $1,000
side and the best purse offered.
The Brooklyn Eagle says China's
military cadets will have to pass an ex-
animation in stone singing and arch
cry before they can graduate as officers.
Poor old China! She expects to stop
thirteen-inch shells with pebbles and
arrows, and is going to keep out prog
ress with measures just as forcible.
A call for a National Christian Citi-
zens' convention to meet in Washing
ton December 13 has been issued by
number of officers of reform associa
tions and leading citizens. The con-
vention is called to discuss problems
of government forced upon Congress
by the results of the war with Spain.
The German government, in it's wis
dom, protects it's people from American
meat, but it forgets to furnish them
anything to replace it. It would seem
to the ordinary mind, comments the
New York Journal, as if the beef, pork
and mutton on which 75,00O,000 Ameri-
cans thrive might be better eating than
German horses.
1t is stated that the widow of P. 7.
Barnum is about to be married to a
French nobleman in Paris. The great
showman's widow took for her second
husband Demetrius Callias Bey, a
Greek, who died in September, 1896, in
Con antiDOn1o after a welded life of