Mesa free press., 1898-04-08
EASTERN NEWS ITEnS.


Jacob w. Miller of New York was
elected president of the Nicaragua
Canal company.
The Pennsylvania railroad depot in
Jersey City was damaged by fire last
week to the extent Of 100000.
]. Sterling Morton of Nebraska,
was elected president of the National
Sound Money League in Chicago.
A company has been formed in Chi
cago and will within thirty days put
electric cabs on Chicago boulevards.
The president-elect Of Brazil, DR..
Manuel de Campos Salter, is expected
to arrive in this country before long.
Nebraska is about to have a new
paper, called The Dynamo, with ex-
Secretary Morton as the power-house.
A fire in Chicago destroyed the six
story building occupied by the Monroe
catering company. The loss is $780,
600.
Gov. Jones of Arkansas, prohibited
the prize fight which was to have
taken place at Hot Springs between
Mccoy and Burley.
w. ]. Bryan says all interviews al
legged to have been given by him on
Cuba are false. He says it is not
proper for him to speak.
Corbett's latest is that he will leave
the stage and play first base for the
Rochester, N. Y, baseball club, which
Billy Brady has purchased.
James Paxton Voorhees,, son Of the
late Senator Voorhees,, of Indiana, is
to become an actor and will make his
first appearance at one of the theaters
in New York.
Capt. w. N. Jacques, president of
the Holland Torpedo Boat company,
has gone to Europe to seek contracts
for submarine boats from the Europ-
can governments
The coroner's jury which has been
investigating the Wabash avenue fire
in Chicago has censured the owners of
the building, holding the building was
poorly CONSTRUCTED.
The American Steel and Wire COM
pany of Chicago has incorporated with
capital of $24,O0O,000 It is trust,
composed of the principal companies
in the United States.
A head collision between a passen-
ger train and special engine on the
G.. & N. r. r. occurred ten miles south
of Beloit, Wis. Both engineers and
firemen were killed and one conductor.
The Supreme court at Madison, Wis,
has decided that there can be no ex-
tension of street railway lines beyond
the city limits, even though a fran
chise be granted, without the award of
damages where property owners OBJ
ject.
According to letter from H. ].
Stevens of the Lake Superior iron ore
region in the American Manufacturer,
the Edison process for the manufact-
ure of iron ore, of which so much has
been published in the press during the
past year, is not the thorough success
that has been claimed for It,.
Secretary Walter Wardrop Of the
National Board Of Trade of Cycle Man
National Board of Trade of Cycle
Manufacturers, predicts that more
wheels will be made and sold in the
United States this year than in 1896,
when the product was million and a
quarter and the high water mark was
reached.
The Independent Order of Railway
Men has been organized at st. Louis.
The city has been selected as the head
quarters for the Grand Lodge, and j.
S. Hardin of st. Louis has been elected
president. Organizers will be sent out
at once to all parts of the country. It
is announced that the order will have
dealings in politics, ana this in ex-
planned by stating that certain objects
in view cannot be obtained except
through politics, and for that reason
the order has decided on certain po-
litical moves