Mesa free press., 1898-12-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
News of the State, Nation
and the World
Also interesting News Items Of
The War

The War
1t is to be observed that in his mes
sage to Congress our great President
remembers the Maine.
1t is reported that the Missouri Pa
cific has paid it's floating debt Of
81, 300, 900 to Russell Sage.
The government has increased the
force of inspectors on duty at the Car
negie mills in Homestead, Pa.
The American Tobacco Company
has voted to sell it's plug tobacco bus
mess to the Continental Tobacco Conn
pany
The Philadelphia Ledger says that
the voting machine promises to fbe a
success, but it was not referring to
Tammany Hall.
1t is announced that the potter trust
has completed it's organization under
the laws of New Jersey, with $4,000
900 capital stock. A
The city of Philadelphia claims to
have 145 men each of whom is worth
$1,000,000 or more; twenty are worth
at least $5,000,000 each.
A New York physician declares he
has eaten fifty-five varieties of toad
stools and isn't dead yet. This does
not prove, however, that he ought not
to be dead for thus tempting Provi-
dence.
| Grover Cleveland says that he is ar
IDENTIFY opposed to every feature of the
annexation and expansion policy, as
the public should well know from his
action on the Hawaiian question dur
ing his administration.
The Farragut is the fastest vessel
in our navy. and the hero it 5 named
after was tied to the mast of the
Hartford, the fastest -. But why
pursue a subject so clear to even the
dullest understanding.
A Milwaukee dispatch says that
Judge Seaman upholds the Federal
Bankrupt Law, and declares in an
opinion filed yesterday, that it divests
the state courts entirely Of jurisdic-
tion in insolvency cases.
William A. Burden, class of 1900,
who has played left guard on this elev-
en-, has been elected president of the
Harvard Varsity football team for
next year. He is 81 years old, and son
of I. t. Burden of New York
Former Chief of Police John Nc
| Cullagh, who has left for Havana, to
advise General Greene in regard to the
establishment of 4 police force in the
Cuban capital, will recommend the es-
tablishment of block system.
Secretary Cages maritime policy
causes London papers to feel that En-
glish commercial interests in the, Chi
ma seas will not be materially ad-
vanced and that England is entitled to
some voice in the destiny of those re-
gions.
A special to the Times from Debe-
que, Col, says about $50 hunters have
assembled there to participate in
grand hunt for mountain lions, bears
and other wild beasts that prey upon
the live stock of the ranchers in that
vicinity.
Courtt decisions to the effect that
express companies must pay the war
tax ON shipments by their lines con-
tinue to come along regularly; and
the express companies with the same
regularity, permit the shippers to pay
the tax.
The government, through the Chick.
amauga Park Commission, has secured
the deeds to sixteen acres on Lookout
Point, the highest point in the Chick
amauga region, and overlooking seven
states and all the battlefields adjacent
to the park.
If our commanders in Manila will
but call Aguinaldo up by telephone, af-
| fOys ho t1r0o af io< <1sr
inform him that resistance to theUpit-
ed States means treason, we have an
idea that he will be as meek as
whole flock of lambs.
The Minneapolis new woman who
has made the discovery that the eagle
is hen should be told, by somebady
who is brave enough for. the job, that
even if this be so the bird has never
been heard to scream for the right to
vote and wear bloomers.
The first cargo to arrive from a
the war reached Philadelphia last
week, the Norwegian steamer Kings
wood from Barcelona. Capt. Halverson
says bsuiness' men in Barcelona re-
gard the United States in friendly
light
The Pennsylvania Railway Com
pany is building cars which carry
100000 pounds of load The cars are
built of steel. Railroad people no long
er speak in tons of the carrying capac-
ity of cars. They speak of ms" that is
1000 pounds. 1t is go MS, $50 ms"
or 100 MS"
The Harvard college overseers ap-