Mesa free press., 1899-06-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
News Of the State, Nation
and the World


are more transparent that any that
have yet been found.
There's one good thing about this
spoiled beef inquiry; it is ended and
we can all take rest.
New York-The United States assay
office has shipped to the Philadelphia
mint $1O,000,000 in gold bars.
The rise to fame of Colonel Funston
has thrown his Nebraska neighbor,
Buffalo Bill of the Wild West fame,
very much into the shade.
Admiral Dewey should attend that
$4,000 banquet in order to separate
the millionaires from that much of
their money, if for no other reason.
Cubans dearly love cock-fighting, and
one of the hardest lessons they are now
struggling to learn, is that decree
prohibiting the sport means what it
says.
D. L. Moody is going to Glasgow to
hold revival meetings next October. 1t
is remarkable how far from home a
Chicago man has to go to find sinners
to save.
Out Of the 100000 attempts at suicide
in Prussia, only 6497 were successful.
The Prussians must be worse shots
than those devilish, but feet-footed,
Filipinos.
Russell Sage has given $50, 900 to the
Woman's Hospital which is about to
erect $500, 900 building in New York.
Mr.. Sage has long been interested in
the hospital.
Missouri legislators are now work
ing for 81 per day and boarding them
selves, and the people of that state
think this is even>$1.50 per day more
than they are worth.
Topeka, Kan.-Ex-Senator w. A.
PETER, one of the founders of the Popu-
list party, and who was for years con-
sidered as chief exponent of Populism,
has returned to the Republican fold.
While the good housewife may COM
plain bitterly when it becomes neces-
sary to move instead Of paying rent,
it may be consoling to feel sometimes
that it is cheaper to move than clean
house.
City of Mexico-The organs of the
Spanish colony predict that the United
States is on the eve of long and cost
ly war in Cuba, as well as in the Phil
pines, basing their predictions on sup
posed information from Cuba.
]. C. Fraser of Pinkerton's detective
agency, who recently tracked Sam L.
Findlay, defaulting Tax Collector of
San Luis Obispo to Lima, Peru, will
leave Callao with Findlay on the
steamer Santiago, due to leave Panama
May, 20, and expects to arrive in San
Francisco on or about June 10.
Arthur S. Colyar, Jr., the lawyer
from Nashville pleaded guilty in gen.
eral sessions to an attempt to kidnap
Nicholas A. Hickman, witness in the
Molineaux case, and was sent to the
penitentiary for sixty days, says a New
York dispatch. He went out of court
laughing and waving his hands.
Fair bury, Neb.-At Hollenburg,
Kan. town on the state line, eighteen
miles east, Sheriff Ed Coleman of
Washington county, Kan, was shot
whom he was attempting to arrest. In
the encounter Hoxie was fatally shot
through the bowels. HOxie was wanted
on the charge of robbery.
Mail advices from Manila contain a
thrilling account of the daring expedi-
ton under taken by George Harlan of
CO. Y, First Washington volunteers.
Harlan undertook to carry message to
General Law ton through a country in
tested with insurgents. Thirty miles up
tho river he padded in bark canoe,
at times pursued by rebels, and mar
rowly escaping capture.
Washington-Charle Farris, Co. H,
Third United States volunteers engi-
neers, was found guilty by a court
martial in Santiago and was sentenced
to be shot. The case was sent to the
President for review, and the death
sentence has been committed to life
Imprisonment and dishonorable dis
charge from the army. The President
directs that the prisoner be confined at
ort LeavenWorth, Kan.
A Rich Countrywide final payment
of 100000 of the $20,0O0,00O Spanish
indemnity, was paid over in New York.
In financing the payment of this whole
sum American credits in Europe have
been used, and not one dollar in spe-
Gle has crossed the ocean. Many such
incidents call to mind the new condi-
tons in business so far as America is
concerned, which prevail in these clos
ing years of the century.
New York--John H. Englis, former
president of the Wallaboun bank, was
stabbed in the neck by CHRISTOPHER
DAILY, Leegar. The wound is Sc
.tro one, dangerously close to the jug
ular vein. Daily had been to Englis
house a few days ago to ask for aims
and was dissatisfied with the food Civ
en-. lie lay in wait and abused En-
glis for ::,is, ending ty stabbing him.
Tie woundtu man is "a years Of age.
!'a!y was arrested.
A Hot Springs, Va, dispatch says it
is the intention of President Mckinley
to be in the western states at the time
of the return of the volunteers, who
have done heroic service in the Phil
ippines. 1t is expected that the neces-
sity for the return of the volunteers in
tho island of MON will NOT nxict muoh