Mesa free press., 1898-11-18
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
News of the State, Nation
and the World
Also Interesting News Items Of
The War

General McCook of the War Investi-
eating Committee is i'll with malarial
fever at Washington.
The lockout of 400 employees of the
Denver breweries ended, concessions
Delng made by both parties.
Atlanta, Ca, will hold peace ju-
D1lee December IA and Is. President
mckinley has consented to be present.
J. Goldschmidt. the United States
Consul-General at Berlin, died last
| week. He had been in i'll health for
some time.
| The internal revenue collections
during September were $21, 1,713, 1889, a
gam as compared with September,
1897, of $S,S59,SS
| The mother Of General Fitzhugh
Lee died at Richmond last week. She
fell recently and sprained her leg and
sustained internal injuries.
The War Department has issued a.
general order for the movement Of
troops to Cuba. The first troop will
leave on or about November %.
The Navy Department is thinking OF.
modifying the plans for the four new
harbor monitors, enabling them to
carry four 12-inch guns in two turrets.
Princeton and Yale will hold their
debate at New Haven, December 8,
Princeton having the Affirmative of
the question, Resolved, that the Unit
ed States should annex Cuba"
The New York and st. Louis divi-
sion of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
has just received eight new Pullman
palace cars. They are said to be the
finest ever turned out Of the shops
A Madrid newspaper has just un-
earthed the baptismal certificate of
Adelina Patti, and it shows that she is
now 58 years old. That gives her at
least a dozen years more in which 10
give farewell concerts.
The Board of Control of the Joint
Traffic Association has decided to dls-
solve the organization. This was taken
because of the recent decision of the
Supreme Court that the effort Of the
association to control railroad rates
was illegal.
The War Department has decided
to bring the bodies of all soldiers who
died in the Philippines, Cuba and Por-
to Rico, to the United States for
burial Caskets will be sent at once
from Hong Kong to Manila for the
identified dead.
The United States battleship Texas
has arrived at New York from Phila-
delphia. She will go to the navy yard
to be placed in a,dry dock for repairs
to the propeller, which was injured
by contact with a log while proceed
ing up the Delaware.
It has been decided by the Postofice
Department that Hawaiian stamps
shall be good, at their face value, for
all postage payment, whether to the
United States or to foreign countries
The domestic rates for postage have
not yet been extended to the islands
Eyi lenca that the, long-threatened
t"nst among the manufacturers Of an I
veiopes has become fact has reached
the paper stationery trade in me
shape OF t.rulars quoting an advance
averaging o5 pei cent in all grades OF
envelopes. The trust is said to con 20;
80 por cent If the production.
The Postofice Department will. Les
tablish an experimental postal wagon
to travel over a rural route in the vi
cinity of Westminster, Md. Mail boxes
can be placed at points convenient to
farmers, and mail will be collected
therefrom. The wagon will have
money order and register facilities.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pa,ly has placed another order for 2030
cars, making total of 5000 cars or
dered so far during the present year.
Tho cars just ordered are gondoias
The order was distributed among eigh'
firms. I he cars previously ordered
wore 2tCL box cars and 1000 steel coal
cars.
has returned from Santo Domingo,
where he has large railroad interests.
AT the request of President Mckinley
he visited President Herreaux and
made satisfactory adjustment of the
fernando affair. He says thore Is no
truth in the report Of proposed annex
alton.
The collapse of the Dewey Jubilee
Arch has caused a suit for $50,000
damages against the city of Chicago
and the Peace Jubilee Committee on
Decorations. The complainant, John
w. Smith, an attorney, asserts that |
he was standing near the arch when it
fell and sustained numerous serious
injuries.
At reception preceding the sultan's |
banquet to Emperor William, the lat
ter, probably mistaking Mrs. Oscar
Strauss, wife of tho United States Min
ister of Turkey, for the wife of some |
other diplomat, remarked that he |
knew her queen WELL Mrs. Strauss |
set him right, and he was amused by |
his own error.
The Bethlehem, Pa, Iron Company, |
last week tested some armor plate |
made by the Krupp process. Many |
noted engineers, including the Russian
ordnance engineers, were present. |
Shots from an 8-inch gun, with 253-
pound projectiles failed to crack the
plate. Russia has placed big order
for this plate.
Charles A. Scoot of New York. chief |