Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
News of the State, Nation
and the World
MOST INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
From Everywhere will be found in
this Column. Items that Inter-
est Everybody.

Oriental physicians practiced vaccin-
alton over 1000 years ago.
Two deaths were caused by heat in
Chicago last Saturday, 1t being the hot
test day OF the year.
1t is estimated that the consumption
OF beer in the entire world amounts to
81 ,0SO, ,O00, 900 per annum.
Key West tFla.): On the 18th fifteen
new cases of yellow fever were re-
ported in twenty-four hours and one
death.
Santa Cruz, Cal, is perhaps the only
municipality in which water Is fur
nished free to inhabitants for domes-
tic purposes.
Captain Dreyfus has at least the sat
isfaction of knowing what the world
thinks of the generals who compassed
his condemnation.
If man dislikes ten persons, his
reason for disliking seven Of the ten
is so trivial that he would feel ashamed
to see them In black and white.
About the most expensive luxuries in
Lima are postage stamps. It costs %
cents in native silver to carry an or
dinary letter, which is equivalent to II
cents in gold.
General D. M. Dodge of New York
announces that subscriptions for the
Dewey memorial fund in New York
now amounts to $4,000. The home is
to be erected at Northfield.
Austin (Tex): A suit for nearly a
million dollars has been ordered filed
against the International and Great
Northern Railway for back taxes COW
ering period Of twenty five years.
The Filipino police, numbering $50
men, armed with revolvers and clubs,
became operative at Manila last week.
The force is controlled by the provost
marshal and was reviewed on the Lu-
meta.
Mr.. Vanderbilt left his family pretty
well-to-do. They can afford to ride
down to the store on the cars one way
every day, at any rate, without feeling
that they are encroaching on their
capital.
At Mitchell, S. D., the Union conven-
ton, composing Populists, Democrats
and Free Silver Republicans, have met
to place in nomination three candi-
dates of the State Supreme Court. The
Chicago and st. Louis platforms were
reaffirmed and Bryan's nomination ad-
vocated in 1900.
The Santa Fe passengC department
has been advised that from October 9
tickets will be sold from Kansas City
to Chicago for $3.50 one way, or $3.50
for the round trip, because Of the cere-
monies incidental to the laying of the
corner stone of Chicago's new post
Office, where President Mckinley is to
be the principal attraction.
Queenstown: The Dominion Line
steamer New England, which sailed for
Boston, has among her passengers Jas.
Je1ries, the champion pugilist. Jeffries
was Kissed in Cork the other evening
because he refused to spar with a local
celebrity named O'Connor on the
ground that 1t would be inadvisable to
to do so in view of his approaching
fight with Sharkey.
Congressman John J. Lentz of Ohio
is being urged to go to the Philippines
and make personal investigation Of
conditions there preparatory to leading
the Democrats in Congress in the at
tack on President McKinley's policy
toward the Filipinos. The trip was the
subject of a conference in New York
a few, days ago. The matter has not
been definitely settled.
New York: A dispatch to the World
from London says many volunteers
were permitted to go ashore from the
Tartar. Some of them met man
named Etzel, who it was said had
taught the Filipinos how to use ma
chine guns. There was row, the
Americans threatening Etzel, and he
to the police for protection.
This was accorded him and the soldiers
returned to the ship.