Mesa free press., 1898-03-04
EASTERN NEWS ITEnS.

Pittsburgh's municipal election went
Republican.
Frances e. Willard, president of the
W.C.T.U., died at New York of the
grip.
The sentence of ex-Banker Spalding
of Chicago has been approved by The
Supreme Court.
At Philadelphia Peter Maher knocked
out "Thunderbolt" Smith, the colored
heavyweight, in the third round.
The United States Court of Appeals
has decided that the cast-iron pipe
trust is an unlawful combination.
Rev. C. o. Brown was formally
dropped from the membership of the
Chicago Congregational Association.
Eighteen bodies have been recov-
cred from the ruins of the Pittsburgh
fire, and thirty-one persons are still
missing.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad was sold
to the Reorganization Committee of
the U. P. for $6,303,000. 1t was the
only bidder.
A mass meeting of his fellow-citizens
or Olatha, Kan, denounced ex-GOv.
st. John, prohibitionist, for signing a
whisky petition.
Prizt fighting will in the future be
prohibited in st. Louis, the authorities
having made decided stand against
sparring matches.
The worlds pistol record was broken
by Richard Powers at Trinidad, Colo.
A. score OF 80 out of possible 100
was made. The record was 95.
Maj. Dick of Ohio is no longer
Congressional candidate, and will feel
good If he remains chairman of the
Republican National Committee.
Twenty or thirty men who were fish
ing through the ice on Lake Erie, near
Buffalo, are believed to have been set
adrift by storm, and rescue party
is in search of them.
Great indignation is aroused at Yale
College by attacks Of the Young Wo-
mems Christian Temperance Union.
which says the great college is degen-
Grating and getting tough.
Rev. Charles r. Bliss, financial
agent Of the Salt Lake College of Utah,
delivered at the Boston Congregational
ministers meeting startling address
in which he said the Mormons mean
war.
The Theosophical Society in Amer
lea is to- hold its annual convention
at the Palmer House, Chicago, ON the
18th and 10Th Of this month. Seven
delegates have been sent from Los
Angeles.
The National Association Of Woman
Suffragists held it's thirtieth annual
convention at Washington this week,
celebrating the organizations semi
centennial and Susan B. Anthonys
seventy y-eighth birthday.
The eastern division of the Kansas Pa
cific Road, 140 miles in length, was
sold under the first mortgage. The
property was bought in by Alvin w.
Krech, on the part of the Reorgani-
zation Committee, for $4,500,0O0.
The advice given by President
Gompers to workers in textile indus
tries is to be accepted. Every cotton
mill in New England will be shut
down and the greatest strike ever
seen in America will be the result.
At the trial of Sheriff Martin, several
witnesses retold the story of the shoot
ing down Of the Latimer strikers. The
only new evidence was that given by
Casper Wishinski, who swore that the
Sheriff fired~the first shot and that the
men whom he fired at fell
The Foraker and Bushnell elements
captured the State convention of the
Ohio Republican League, electing anti
Hanna officers, headed by w. e.
Bundy of Cincinnati. Despite protests
Of Hanna and McKinleyites, resolu-
tions for Cuban independence were
adopted.
At Middlesboro, KY, smallpox has
been declared epidemic. All saloons
and the public schools are closed. No
lettering on the streets is allowed. The
mails are fumigated, and surrounding
towns are closed against Middlesboro.
Gen. Cassius M. Clay has made up
his mind to seek divorce from his
child-wife, Dora. He has at last be-
come convinced that he cannot keep
her with him and has decided to lib
crate her. 1t is his idea to allow her
comfortable support.
The colony of Russian Jews located
in Lyon county, New, three months
ago, is reported to be- in a prosper
GUS condition. Thirteen families were
taken by the Occidental Colonization
Company Harry Bell, the agent, is
arranging to take ten more families
to Nevada. The colony will number
150 persons, who are settled on $500
acres of land.
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