Mesa free press., 1899-11-03
News of the State, Nation
and the World
MOST INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
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est Everybody.

pretty thoroughly unQer cOnprOl.
Lawrence Gronlund, the Socialist
writer, is dead, at the age of SO years.
The Pullman Palace Car company
has absorbed the Wagner Palace Car
company.
President Mckinley is back in Wash
ington after two-weeks' trip through
out the middle west.
There appears to be the same gen.
eral dislike in the West Indies to the
reciprocity agreement as there is in
this country.
Gen. Benjamin Harrison was royalty
received by the emperor of Germany
occupying a seat at the table exclusive
ly reserved for the royal family.
At Stann, Leake county, twenty miles
east of here, today, Mrs. ]. H. Gambrell
and four children were burned to death
in fire that destroyed the Gambrell
residence.
Sir Henry Irving and Miss Ellen
Terry are once more in this country.
They have come to brighten up their
faculties as well as to entertain we
Americans
Last year in this country, there were
produced 100000 pounds of aluminium,
worth 33 cents pound. Ten years ago
the output was $4,000 pounds, valued at
1888 a pound.
At the recent session Of the Illinois
grand lodge, Knights of Pythias, meet
ing in East St. Louis, the memorial
calling for the expulsion of dram-shop
keepers was rejected by large ma
jority.
1t is reported that Gen. Frederick
Funston will be candidate for U. S.
senator from Kansas Other candi-
dates might just as well keep off, the
grass if Funston comes into the politi-
cal garden.
The dwelling once occupied by for
mer President Martin Van Buren at
No. 81 East Twenty seventh street, has
| just been sold, and it is announced that
the property will be converted into
business block.
Mrs. w. S. Jackson, wife of the CASH
ier of the Ell Paso County Bank of this
city, has committed suicide by shoot
ling. She was niece of Jackson's first
wife, Helen Hunt Jackson, who was
we'll known as III. H." by her poems,
novels and literary sketches.
While addressing Socialist women's
meeting in Second avenue hall Sum-
day night, Mrs. Florence Cantins Lang
was stricken with apoplexy and died
in few minutes Mrs. Lang came from
Berlin, Germany, seven years ago and
was prominent as a Socialist agitator.
Rankin G. Hood, the young high
school cadet who is promoting the
scheme to build and name one of the
first-class battleships "The American
Boy, "has enlisted several congressman
to advance the proposition, and it
looks now as if "The American Boy"
will be seen as we'll as heard.
A storm of unusual violence, partic-
ularly for this time of the year, visited
the country in the vicinity of Hardy,
Neb., last week. A large amount of
damage was done to small buildings,
and several large ones were unroofed
The damage will amount to many thou
sands of dollars.
Arrangements of affairs between the
various powers regarding the future
policy in Samoa is about complete, and
! the work of the joint commission has
been thoroughly and well done. It has
accomplished the restoration of peace
in the islands and removed all ill feel
ing between Berlin, London and Wash
ington
! Advices from the New York Heralds
correspondent in Bogota state that out
RACES being practiced against Colon
bian citizens in Ecuador threaten to en-
danger the relations with that republic.
The Ecuadorean minister, General Cas-
tro, although we'll disposed seems un-
able to influence his government to act
with justice.
twenty-five carloads of mules for the
Transvaal, purchased in Kansas and
Missouri by the English government
within the past ten days, have started
for New Orleans. Another trainload
will follow for the same point within
few days. An estimate on 500 tons
of hay for use in the South African
campaign has been made.
The designer of the Shamrock may
cherish the feeling of saticfaction that
comes from knowing that he made the
American yachtsmen have more bad
quarters of an hour than any previous
yacht from across the pond has given
them. He came SO deucedly near to
producing boat that could win that
there was nothing at all funny in the
tuation.-Express.
One more victim must be counted in
the long list growing out of the Drey-
fus case. Col. Schneider, the Austrian
attache who fought duel with Capt.
Cuignet for testimony given by the lat
ter at the court-martial has succumbed
to his wounds. There ought by this
time to be superstitious fear in the
hearts of all connected with this ter
rible case.-Express.
Judge Lacomb, in the United States
circuit court, has handed down a deci-
sion dismissing the writ of habeas cor
pus in the case Of former Capt Oberlin
M. Carter, who is under sentence of
five years imprisonment for conspiracy
to defraud the government on con-
tracts. The decision was given in a
lengthy opinion which upholds the
findings of the courtmartial
The Union Steel comnanv with a