Mesa free press., 1898-11-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
News of the State, Nation
and the World
Also Interesting News Items OF
The War

A san Antonio, CTex.,) dispatch saws
the large department store of J. F.
Stewart was destroyed by fire. the
loss being $150,000, and insurance $40
900.
France has concluded not to go ia
war with England, which fact suggests
that, after all, the lessons of the Span
ish-American war were not entirely
lost.
The London Mail urges the Ameri-
cans to hold the Philippines in order
to prevent scramble for coaling sta
tions that will endanger the peace of
the world.
The degree of LII. D. has been con-
ferred upon the President, but it is al
together unlikely that Mr.. Hanna will
call him Dock" the Baltimore Amer
ican thinks.
The wholesale spice house of M. N.
Packard & Co., occupying the six-story
brick and stone building at III Duane
street, New York, sustained $4,000
loss by fire last week.
Fire, kindled by incendiaries, made
the people of Emporia, Kan, fear the
town would be destroyed, as the wind
was blowing a gale. The loss, however,
was only about $4,000.
Postmaster General Smith has is
sued an order admitting private mail
ing cards at one cent each for Canada
and Mexico, and 2 cents each for all
other Postal Union countries.
The behavior of the officers and men
who manned the Maria Teresa in the
gale of November 1, was characteris-
tic of the American navy. Not all the
heroes of war gain their renown in
battle.
Whether or not the battleship Wis
consin is baptized with beer, the Mil
waukee brewers are not slow in getting
some free advertising out of the propo-
sition. They evidently understand their
business.
The Mergenthaler Linotype Com
pany reports for the year ended Octo-.
ber that 100000 has been paid in
cash dividends, making the total div
idend payment since August, 1894,
$5,365, 900.
A special to the Beacon from Earls-
boro, Oklahoma, says forest and prai-
rie fires are raging all over the Semi
mole nation. Emahaka Mission and
property valued at $15O,00O have been
destroyed.
Inquiry at the Navy Department
fails to confirm the report from San
Francisco that the cruiser Philadel-
phia has been ordered to Samoa. 1t is
said that no naval vessel is now under
orders for that place.
Judge Grosscup of the United States
Circuit Court at Chicago has rendered
a decision upholding the constitution
ality Of the war revenue act and de-
cided that transactions on the Stock
yards Exchange are subject to the tax.
Jutaro Kormora, the newly-ap appoint
ed Minister from Japan, to the United
States, who has arrived at San Fran
cisco, with his suite, en- route to Wash
ington, says that Japan is satisfied
with the steps this country is taking
in the Philippines.
Matamore, colonel in the Cuban in
surgent army, and formerly a bandit,
has grown tired of peace and returned
to robbery and hold-ups. General Wood
has sent detachment of mounted and
armed men to capture Matamore and
his followers, dead or alive.
Nebraska's University football elev-
en-, the hitherto unbeaten champions
of the intercollegiate series, suffered
defeat last week at Kansas City by the
very bad score of "a to 0, at the hands
of the strong team of the University
Medical College of Kansas City.
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last week over the graves Of the Hay
market anarchists who were hanged
eleven years ago. Several hundred peo-
pie visited Waldheim cemetery, sang
songs and decorated with flowers the
graves of Spies, Fischer, Parsons,
Lingg and Engel.
Franklin Ransom of Cleveland, O.,
has returned from TERRA del Fuego
with nearly $4,000 in gold. He says he
has endured hardships, but will return
to South America in the spring. All
gold there is obtained from placer
mines or is washed from black sand
thrown within reach by storms.
Negotiations are in progress for the
formation of a corporation capitalized
at about $20,O00,000 that will take in
all the local breweries at Pittsburg.
The intention of the promoters is to
merge the interests of the sixteen
breweries in Allegheny county and
operate them as one great company.
The will of o. D. Hadsell, an eccen-
trio bachelor who died recently in Chi
cago, divides among 100 little girl
waits every year for SO years the in
terest on $4,000. It is said his will will
be contested by two women, and his
brother, William Hadsell, of Califor-
MIA is awaiting probation of the will
The United States Attorney-General
has appointed w. H. Meyer examiner
of the, Department of Justice, as the
representative of that department in
the investigation of published allega-
tons regarding the conduct of the
United States deputy marshals in the
Chippewa Indian trouble in Mime
sofa.
The Board of Ordnance and Fortif-
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