Mesa free press., 1898-10-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
News of the State, Nation
and the World
Also Interesting News Items Of
The War

A delegation headed by Gov Tanner
has succeeded at Washington in hay-
ing the converted yacht Wasp ordered
to Chicago for the use of the Naval
Reserves.
Returns from the Georgia state cleo
ton show the Democrats to have
carried the state by nearly 10000.
The Populists will have not less than
dozen members of the legislature.
Admiral Howell has been relieved
from command of the North Atlantic
squadron, and his flagship, the San
Francisco, ordered. out of commission.
The command devolves upon Commo-
dore Philip.
Two freight trains collided in the
Burlington yards at Indianola, Neb.,
last week, causing three deaths, inju-
ries to four other men. and damage
to property amounting to several
thousand dollars.
Major-General Merriman has or
dered all officers and men fit for duty,
now at Honolulu, to embark on the
Arizona for Manila, under Brig. Gen.
King. Colonel Barber will be left in
charge of Honolulu.
| In the first of series of round-ups
planned by Governor Ogilvie at Daw-
son, the fines imposed upon the sa-
loon keepers, gamblers and fast wom-
en- run in amounted to $4,000, which
will be used to pave the streets.
| At Kalamazoo, Mich, the chief
drawing card of the state fair, now in
progress, is Gen. Shafter, who came
from the East, accompanied by Capt.
Brice and Maj. Noble Of his staff. Sew
eral thousand people gathered to see
him.
The Paris Journal attributes the alb
dication of Prince Victor to the hos
tility of the Empress Eugene and 9TH
er influential Bonapartists, and adds
that the fortunes of the ex-Empress
and Princess Mathilde will be left to
Prince Louis.
One of the most destructive fires in
years occurred at Clarksville, Tenn,
last week, burning the Grange tobac-
co warehouse. the Louisville and Nash
vile depot, Gracey's storage ware
house and five tenement houses. The
loss is over $5OO,OOO.
A special to Columbus, O., from
Portsmouth, O., says corps of gov
ernment engineers has arrived there
to survey Bonanza Bar, the greatest
obstruction to navigation on the Ohio
river, between Cincinnati and Pitts
burg. The government will remove it
If possible.
Contracts for the eighteen-knot bat
tleships Maine and Ohio have been
signed at the navy department by
Charles H. Cramp of Philadelphia and
Henry T. Scott of San Francisco, who
announced that they would at once
begin work on these vessels and ex-
pected to lay the keels about Janu-
ary 1.
| Senator Morgan of the Hawaiian
commission says: eve favor terri
toraial form of government, as that
was plainly the intention of congress,
as shown in the act authorizing the
creation of the commission, but what
particular form of territorial govern
ment we shall recommend cannot be
| stated"
According to Madrid dispatches the
Spaniards are winning brilliant victo-
ries over the insurgents in various
parts Of the Philippines (but not to
any great extent in the vicinity OF
Manila.) The dons love to deceive
themselves, and will continue this
pleasant pastime to the end of the
chapter.
Capt. Shoemaker, chief of the reve-
nue. cutter service, has been instructed
| by the Secretary of the Treasury to
proceed to Cuba and Porto Rico, and
make thorough examination into ex-
listing conditions, with a view of the
establishment of sufficient revenue
service for the patrol of the coasts OF
those islands.
The American Board Of Foreign
Missions, in session at Grand
Rapids, Mich, for the first time in its
history elected woman member
Margaret J. Evans, of Minnesota
The nineteenth annual meeting will
be held at Providence, r. l., and Rev.
G. B. Adams of San Franciso, will de-
liver the annual address.
Maj.-Gen. FitZhugh Lee has received
an order from the war department di-
recting him to move his command
from Jacksonville, Fla, to Sanvan-
nah, Ca, and get it in readiness to
embark for Havana the last Of this
month. Gen. Lee has left for Savan-
nah to make preliminary arrange
ments to carry his orders into effect.
President Mckinley has decided
there has been delay enough in the
negotiations for the evacuation OF
Cuba by the Spanish forces. He has
sent instructions to the military COM
mission to demand the cessation of
dilatory tactics on the part of the
Spaniards, and to reach an agreement
instanter for the occupation of the is
land by American forces.
The Corett-McCoy fight has been de-
clared off. At meeting of men in
terested In the fight, William B. Gray,
manager for Mccoy, showed a letter
he had received from David Nugent,