Mesa free press., 1898-12-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
News of the State, Nation
and the World
Also Interesting News Items OF
The War

The Presidents message is complete.
1t contains $4,000 words and is fully
twice the usual size.
The st. Paul Commercial club has
presented a loving cup to Captain Sigs-
bee, in recognition of his service IN
the war.
Max J. Lazer of New York has been
convicted Of smuggling about 100000
worth of diamonds into the country.
The diamonds are forfeited to the gov
ernment.
A man walked into the jewelry store
of s. Tobias of Denver, and with a re-
volver forced the proprietor to give
him thirty-f0ur gold watches, worth
about $500.
Serious forest fires are raging among
the Ozark mountains in Missouri. Men
find it impossible to combat the flames,
and the loss in property and stock will
be enormous.
General Blanco has resigned in order
to avoid the disgrace of surrendering
Cuba to the United States. In the
meantime he has harvested everything
that was not spiked down.
Great numbers of cattle, dipped ac-
cording to the new quarantine regula-
tions, have died during the recent cold
spell in Oklahoma. Out of a herd of
500 dipped, five died in two days.
The steamers Tampa and Arthur Orr
are wrecked on the north shore of Lake
Superior. The two vessels represent
about $45O,00O with their cargoes and
they lie within nine miles Of each
other.
Commodore Crowninshield, chief Of
the bureau of navigation, in his annual
report to the secretary of the navy,
recommends that the naval force be in
creased to 10000 men and $500 appren-
tees.
The Pullman Palace Car Company,
through it's attorneys, takes exceptions
to the legal right of the Board of Rail
road Commissioners to compel 1t to
make annual reports of its operations
in California.
Archbishop Chappell, appointed by
the Pope to represent the church in
Porto Rico and Cuba has arrived in
New York. He says he will aid in the
organization of the islands under
American principles.
Supposing it's true this country
drinks 1,0O0,O0O,000 gallons of beer an
nually, it seems to support the argu-
ment that excessive use of this bever-
age tends to produce large figures,
says the Philadelphia Times.
The National Association of Mana
gers of Newspaper Circulation has been
organized in Detroit, Mich, the
object being the advancement Of the
interests of the circulation department
and interchange of ideas to that end.
With Cuba. Porto Rico and the
Philippines well in hand, and The
Spanish navy at the bottom Of the
ocean, your Uncle Sam can afford to
maintain calm, unruffled demeanor,
no matter how mad the Dons may get.
The locomotive boiler of freight
train blew up on viaduct near Hamil-
ton, O., hurting the engine into the air,
wrecking tWenty-three cars, tearing up
lot of track, killing the fireman and
engineer and injuring two other train
men.
According to the st. Louis Repub-
lie the most densely ignorant people
on earth have been found in the heart
of India. The natives there speak of
Chicago, the Holy City," because they
heard the Congress Of Religions was
held in that town.
Spain would better lop off the re-
mainder of her colonies, sell the United
States one of the Carolines for a coal
ing station, take the $20,000,00 offered
for the Philippines, exile Weyler, Blan-
co and their associated looters, and be-
gin all over again.
Star Pointer, the famous PAGER, with
the. worlds record of 1854, was sold
in New York to w. J. White Of Cleve-
land, O., for $4,000, $500 less than
he was sold for in 1897 to James A.
Murphy of Chicago. Ten thousand peo-
pie were at the sale.
The age requirement of naval ap-
prentices admitted to naval service
has been changed from IA to Is years.
Captain Dickens says that the average
boy of IA years is not sufficiently devel-
oped to pull an oar in heavy weather
and go out on the yardarm.
The electric light plant and the plan
ing mills of the Citizens Water, Light
and Fuel company of Oconto Wis,
burned, at loss of 100000. The insur-
ance on the light plant was only $18,-
900, and it will probably not be rebuilt
This leaves the city in total darkness.
The Kansas bank president who shot
himself because of the collapse of the
institution over which he presided set
something of new fashion, suggests
the San Francisco Bulletin. Generally,
in these little complications, it is the
ruined depositor who commits suicide.
The will of the late Edward Austin,
of Boston, bequeaths 81, 100000 to pub
lie uses. Harvard college will receive
$500,000; the Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology, 100000; Radcliffe College,
$4,000; Roanoke College, 100000, and
the Tuskegee, Ala, Normal and Indus
trial School, $4,000.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. recommends a discount of 1 per
cent to purchasers of 100000 or more
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