Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-05-26
GENERAL NEWSIT ITEMS.
News of the State, Nation
and the World

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The Texas state senate has passed
finally it's antitrust bill.
The beef board referee appears to
have decided it mo contest"
Wouldn't it be awful If Admiral
Dewey concluded to stay at Manila?
In Chicago those who do-not boil
their drinking water are known as
immnnes.
Funston likes to read Kipling, and
he is just the kind of man Kipling
likes to write about.
The senate of Lansing, Mich, passed
an income tax bill, which provides for
tax of one-fourth of 1 per cent on
all incomes of $1,000 and upward.
Some punster should arise and say
that every time the Twentieth Kansas
regiment reaches a river in the philip
pines it doesn't even wait for the or
der, Company, fall I'M"
Elk President Harrison has accepted
the place of honorable president Of the
Conference on Foreign Missions to be
held in New York next year.
At a. meeting of the Commercial club
at Albuquerque, N. M, committee
was appointed to extend an invitation
to the Roosevelt Rough Riders to
hold their first annual reunion in that
city,
Even the churches seem to have
been drawn into the current of COM
bination now sweeping over the world.
1t is queer to hear of church trust,
but that is what is in process Of in
cubation in New York city.
Muscogee, I. T.-The Seminole burn
ing and kidnapping cases, in which
there are thirty defendants for kidnap-
ing and afterward burning at the
stake Lincoln McGelsey and Palmer
Sampson, Seminole Indians, are on
trial here.
Washington-The war department
has issued the usual order providing
for observance by the army OF Me
mortal Day, May 80, at all army posts
and stations, by displaying of flags at
half-mast, national salute and musi-
cal program.
President Michael C. Murphy OF the
Board of Health has begun an active
campaign against all persons whom he
considers to come under the head of
faith cures" and has issued letter
to the chief sanitary superintendent
with regard to these persons.
Lewiston, Me.-The Democrats Of
the Second Congressional District
nominated by acchmation John Scott
of Bath as a candidate for the va
cancy caused by the death Of Nelson
Dingley. Mr.. Scott delivered an adj
dress endorsing Bryan and the Chi
cago platform.
A Havana cabfegram says that more
than seven hundred Cuban stevedores
are out on a strike, and the work on
ships in the harbor is being done by
Chinese under police guard. The steve
dores had been receiving rs cents an
hour, and are striking for an increase
of 10 cents. Many vessels are delayed
by the strike.
Washington-The navy department
has elected successor to Admiral
Dewey to command the Asiatic station.
Orders have been issued detaching
Rear Admiral Watson from command
of the Mare Island navy yard and Or
dering him to report to Admiral Dewey
at Manila to relieve that officer when
he feels that he can be spared
st. Louis-The arrest of tnree men
who admit they handled some of the
alleged fraudulent paper, develops
what appears to be gigantic swindle
in school warrants with the name of
the president and clerk Of School Dis
trict No. 2, St. Clair county, ILL.,, op-
posite st. Louis, were repeatedly
forged. The sum of the alleged fraud
ulent transactions will aggregate at
least 100000, and may reach 100000.
Manila = The First regiment Ne
braska volunteer infantry is. taking the
unusual step of respectfully petition
ing the division commander, Maj
Gen. Macarthur, to temporarily re-
lieve them at the front. The regi-
ment is badly exhausted by the cam
paign, in which it has taken an active
part, and not many more than 300 men
of the organization are at present fit
for duty. On Sunday last 100 men of
this regiment responded to the sick
call