Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1898-06-03
EASTERN NEWS ITEr1S,

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The price of bread has been raised
one cent a loaf by the bakers in New
York.
Capt. M. G. Babe, secret service
agent for Kentucky, dropped dead in
Louisville.
There are 5000 men in Louisiana i'm
mune to yellow fever, who will enlist
for military service in Cuba.
Two Spaniards with performing
bears were mobbed in Jonesville, Va,
and one was seriously hurt.
The large flint mill of the Mining
and Mill company, at East Liverpool,
O., burned. The loss Is 100000.
The schooner Anna Louis Lockwood
which was reported to have been cap
tured by the Spanish passed up the
Delaware bay.
An engine drawing freight train
at Greycourt, N. Y, blew up, killing
the engineer, William Cronck, and
Fireman Ben Ranker.
The Stars Montreal special says
that Polo has secured the use Of the
French Newfoundland port as coal
ing station for the Cadiz fleet.
Rear Admiral L. A. Kimberly, u. s.
N, retired, has received telegraphic
orders to return to active service, and
reserve until further notice as prize
commissioner.
It is reported that 5000 out of 1000
mules recently sent from the United
States to Cuba for the Spanish army
have died on account Of the sudden
change of climate.
The government has again warned
pilots that there is danger from mines
located in New York harbor. It is also
threatened to fire upon vessels
outside Of the channel.
At Tampa, Fla, fifteen Cuban physi-
clans have entered the service Of the
United States. They are regarded as
specialists in Cuban diseases, and will
accompany the invading army.
The government has established a
censorship in the cable offices at New
York. The telegraph companies also
are stopping contraband kilograms, es-
pecially those going to Canada.
The president of Harvard college
doesn't know why this nation is going
to war, and declares that troops are
responding to the country's call from
sense of duty, hence there is no en-
thusiasm.
The New York Assembly has passed
bill, which has been signed by the
Governor, and is now law Of the
state, compelling school districts to
supply schools with flags, which must
be displayed during school hours.
A tornado swept Clinton and Jack
son counties last week, carrying every
thing before it. Many lives were lost,
and thousands of dollars worth of
property was destroyed. The path
varied from forty rods in some parts
of Clinton county to eighty feet in
Jackson, much Of the district being
rich in farming land.
There was an exciting chase after a
dynamiter through the streets Of
Tampa last week. Capt. Mccormick
dynamite hiding in the rear Of the
government store. The fellow was
heavily armed. When discovered he
hurriedly left. Policemen gave chase,
but the fellow escaped to the woods.
Guards over the magazine stores have
been doubled.
It is announced that the Willimantic
Thread company, one of the largest
manufacturers, had been purchased
for the American sewing-cotton COM
bination, and that the purchase Of the
Clarke mills and of smaller concerns
will be completed within a few weeks
The deal has been consummated
through J. & w. Seligman & Co., bank
ers, who have capitalized the trust at
SIS, 600, 900, divided into $4,000, 900 4-per
cent. bonds; $6,000,000 preferred stock
and $6,000,00O stock.
The Normal University Of Indiana
has presented Evelyn B. Baldwin with
a handsome flag. The occasion Of the
presentation was the departure of Prof.
Baldwin for Franz Josef Land to join
the Wellman polar expedition in search
of Andree and the North Pole. Prof.
Baldwin will represent the United
States government as observer in the
weather bureau, and is also one Of the
executive officers Of the expedition.
The expedition will leave from from
soc, Norway, June 20, to be absent
about two years.
The strictest kind of censorship has
been established at Tampa, Fla. Abso-
lutely nothing pertaining to military
movements from that port will be per-
mitted to be sent out. An official bulle-
tin of such news as the army officials
consider advisable has been provided
for. 1t is intimated that this censor
ship will continue until after the final
movement Of troops to Cuba has taken
place, it being the purpose of the gov
eminent to keep the Spanish govern
ndent in ignorance, so far as possible,
d our plans for the invasion of Cuba.
run along the coast of Cuba in the
ighborhood Of Havana attests that