Mesa free press., 1898-03-11
EASTERN NEWS ITEr1S.

John Jacob Astor has started for
Honduras to enter upon great colon
ization enterprise.
The business men Of Philadelphia
want John Wannamaker to become a
candidate for Governor.
Nat C. Goodwin, the actor, and Miss
Maxine Elliott, the leading lady of
his company, were married in Cleve-
land, o.
A tremendous blizzard stopped traf-
fic in Wisconsin and Michigan Monday
and as core of people were reported
missing.
/ The Canadian Pacific has. staTt4 the
railroad war by reducing by one-half
transcontinental rates to Northern
Pacific points.
A feud has broken out between
wealthy Spanish residents of Albu
querque, N. M.Frank A. Gutierrez WAS
shot by Manuel Gonzales.
At Hamilton, O., Rose Selby was
granted secret divorce yesterday from
Norman Selby, known in the pugilistic
profession as kid" Mccoy.
Miss Ethel Kendall, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Kendall, the English actress,
Has dII1V0Q Ill INCW 1OIh 1O1 InO PuA
pose of going on the stage.
After an idleness of three months,
the Bethlehem Iron Company's steel
mills, giving employment to 1000
hands, started up yesterday.
n Alexander w. Call of Pana, Ill, is
dead. He was SO years of age, but as
he was born February 20, 1928, he has
seen only sixteen birthdays.
The jury in the Adolph Luetgert
murder case rendered verdict of
guilty and recommended that the pun
ishment be life Imprisonment.
| William J. Scanlan, the singer and
Irish character actor, died of paresis.
in Bloomingdale Asylum for the In
sane, New York, aged AZ years.
An order for 100000 Mauser rifle
cartridges charged with antiphrite
powder has been placed with powder
firm in New Jersey by the Spanish gov
ernment.
| Isaac B. Potter was reelected presi-
dent Of the Law. on the first ballot,
! by a vote of PIP to 107. Providence,
r. l.. was chosen for the next annual
meeting.
Thomas V. Cooper, former State Sen
ator and Collector of the Port of Phila-
delphia, has announced his candidacy
for Governor of Pennsylvania on the
Republican ticket.
/ A new feature introduced into the
passenger rate war; the long and short
haul clause suspended so far as it
affects railroads in competition with
Canadian Pacific.
| c%o hot
there came war between the United
States and Spain he would order the
Salvation Army in America to go to
the front as nurses.
Mrs. William G. Whitney, wife Of the
ex-Secretary of the Navy, was knocked
from her horse while following the
hounds in deer hunt near Aiken, S.
c., yesterday and painfully hurt
! Central and Southern New Mexico
are infested with cattle and sheep
thieves and trouble is anticipated, for
the stockmen are organizing and in
tend to rid themselves of the depreda-
tors.
In connection with the cut rates 60
ing into effect, the Southern Pacific
has announced that on February %
rates will be cut further making the
second-class rate nearly half-cent a
mile. This scale Of prices will apply
over the Southern Pacific from Buffalo,
N. Y, and even east of there. to Pu-
get Sound. The first-clas rate today is
$40 and second-class $50 from Buffalo
to Vancouver, via the Southern Pa
cific. From st. Paul to Vancouver
the rates will be SIS and $40 on Feb
ruary 23, with a corresponding cut
from the eastern terminus of the
Southern Pacific.