Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1898-02-18
EASTERN NEWS ITEnS.

Six people were burned to death at
a hotel fire at Gloversville, N. Y.
Cuban tobacco is now coming into
the United States in large quantities.
First National Bank of Larrimore,
N. D., failed because Of slow collec-
tions.
New Bedford had a blizzard and
snowstorm last week which delayed
trains.
Duluth, Mimi, has reelected Henry
Truelson, Democrat and Populist, as
Mayor.
race war has broken, out in Lo-
noke county, Ark, and many negro
families are leaving
-Four dead and thirty injured is the
result OF wreck on the Maine Central
Railroad at Orono, Me.
The longest stretch of double track
on the Santa Fe is between Emporia,
Kan, and Florence, Colo.
Sheriff Martin and eighty deputies
will be tried this week for firing ON
the striking coal miners at Latimer.
Senator Roger @. Mills Of Texas an
nounces himself as candidate for re-
election to the United States Senate.
The ninth annual New York poultry
show at Madison Square Garden had
$500 entries. Prizes aggregated $1,000.
Mrs. Dan r. Hanna of Cleveland,
suing for divorce, says to reporters
that her marriage was childish mis-
take
Gen. w. H. Gentry of Lexington,
KY, is going into the jack-rabbit
breeding business, to afford himself and
friends the sport of coursing.
Beet-sugar farmers are at war with
sugar manufacturers in Nebraska, ow-
ing to the latter attempting to reduce
prices in event of Hawaiian hnnexa-
ton.
The report current for week past
in financial circles that a consolidation
of interests is to be arranged by the
New York Central and Lake Shore
roads, is confirmed.
DR.. Fridtjof hansen, the Arctic ex-
plOrer has sailed on the Campania for
Liverpool. He denied that he had any
intention of accompanying Lieut..
Peary on his next polar expedition.
The New York World announces the
engagement of Clarence Mackay, son
of John w. Mackay, to Miss Catherine
Duer, granddaughter of William E.
Travers and daughter of Mrs. John G.
Hecksher.
The Ohio law, which says the sum
of $4,000 may be collected from a
county by friends of person lynched
| therein, has been declared unconst1tu-
tional by Judge Duston of the Common
Pleas Court at Urbana.
At Columbus Junction, Iowa, an ex-
plosion Of acetylene gas in the drug
store Of T. p. Hendricks blew out both
ends of the building and did $4,000
| damage. The proprietor and three
other persons we're badly injured.
Mrs. Emma H. Crocker, wife OF
| George Croker, the California mil
lionaire, has filed plans for FIVE
story stone-front dwelling, to be
erected on the plot 3OSx1OO at the
northerly corner of Fifth avenue and
Sixty-fourth street, New York City.
She estimates the cost of the house at
/ 100000.
The Minneapolis Journal sent out a
special train by way of Omaha, Kansas
City and San Antonio, to- the City of
Mexico, thence to Los Angeles and
San Francisco, returning by way of
Salt Lake and Denver. It carries a
party of eighty ladies and gentlemen
from the Northwest, who go under
the escort of the Journal representa-
tives on trip of twenty-nine days.
The event is interesting as piece of
newspaper enterprise. The train is
equipped as a hotel train, with COM
plete living Accommodations for the
party for the entire trip.