Mesa free press., 1899-06-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
News Of the State, Nation
and the World

Cuban taxes under American super
vision have already been reduced one
half
Queen Victoria is the only woman
past thirty who keeps on having birth
days.
During the year ended June 80, 1898,
the mines Of Illinois produced 18,6OO,-
900 tons of coal.
1t is officially announced that the
Buffalo dock strikes are settled. This
announcement holds good until tomor
row.
At Eldorado, Kan, reports received
say that cattle are perishing by hun
dreds as a result of a severe storm
Monday night.
The franchise tax bill passed the
New York state senate by vote of 80
to Is. The Democratic senators voted
with the solid Republican majority.
Albany, N. Y.-The senate passed
unanimously the bill appropriating
$4,000 for the expenses of the celebra-
ton of the return of Admiral Dewey.
: A state sewerage commission has
just been organized in New Jersey.
There are other states in which some
such organization is more OR less
needed. .
China having refused Russia a rail-
road concession, the Gear, in the inter
est of universal peace, has ordered his
surveyors to forthwith survey the line
needed.
1t is to be observed that thus far
in his triumphal march toward the
setting sun, no woman has attempted
to kiss Admiral Schley. Mrs. Schley
is along.
A London husband killed himself
the other day for fear that his wife
would scold him for getting home late.
Girls who nag, please paste this par
agraph in your hats.
General Brooke's answer to
the hesitating Cubans is a very prac-
teal One-no arms, no money. There
is no casuistry or indefiniteness about
it. 1t is easy to understand, and will
no doubt prove effectual.
A dispatch from Peru, Ind, says
Charles Hutchinson was shot and killed
by his wife during a family quarrel
at Arcadia yesterday. The woman
pleads self-defense. She is but &c
years old and Hutchinson was her fifth
husband.
Middlesboro, Ky.-Mrs. D. E. Samp-
son, wife of a shoemaker, was discov-
cred dying in her home, where, Satur-
day last, it is said, her husband struck
her down with hammer and tortured
her by jabbing avis into her face. He
then fled.
Harrisburg, Pa.-The Carnegie COM
pany, which made application to the
state department recently for char
ter, filed a notice of an amendment to
it's title to the Carnegie Steel com
pany. The proposed corporation is
capitalized at 100000, OOO,~ which
amount will be increased to $3.50, 000,-
900.
Minneapolis-A special from Miles
City, Mont, says there are indications
of a Cheyenne uprising. Armed Indians
drove M. Lorain and his children from
home, killing stock belonging to Henry
Bailey, deputy sheriff. Deputy Sheriff
Smith and posse have gone to Lame
Deer and will undertake to arrest the
Indians.
James E. Norton, job printer, was
arrested at Reading, Pa, on the charge
Of printing bogus union labels for ci-
CARS. He was held in $1,000 bail. Over
$4,000 worth of labels were captured,
and eighteen tons of paper on which
they were printed were seized. 1t is
said this counterfeiting has assumed
extensive proportions, and that certain
manufacturers are reaping a handsome
profit.
A New York's Hongkong cablegram
says that when Admiral Dewey reach
es there the British authorities will
have in readiness guard of detectives
to protect him against possible modest
alton. This step is dictated by the
boastfulness of the Filipino junta The
body guard will be established without
who will doubtless be amused at this
precaution for his safety.
st. Paula special from Missoula
says that case of smallpox was dis
covered on board the east-bound pas
senger train of the Northern Pacific
here. The police undertook to detain
every one on board. Every one escaped
except the conductor and brakeman,
who were detained and sent to the
pesthouse. Two coaches of the train
were sidetracked. The train left an
hour and a quarter late with thirty
passengers.
Tacoma-The schooner American
Boy, which has arrived here from Ko-
diak, Alaska, reports that Kodiak has
had an unusually mild winter, with a
small snow fall Catches of furs have
been heavy. The passage of the law
permitting natives to kill offers is
bearing fruit The skins are worth
$500 each. The black fox colonies of
the Alaska Commercial company are
fiourishing, and the killing for pelts
has been large this winter.