Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-07-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
News of the State, Nation
and the World

LONDONDERRY, Jeffries' manager,
has accepted Mitche4. s terms to fight
Jeffries at tho end of August.
Fort Scott, Kan, has 400 more
women than men. What town for
fellow to spend his vacation in!
Washington-The order for the en-
listment of ten new regiments of in
fantry. has been issued by the secre-
tary of war.
The expenses of the war in the
Philippines is about 100000 per
diem. Aguinaldo comes high, but
we will have to get him..
. The mayor of Hays City, Kan, Is
only % years, the. president of the
council is %, and the oldest man in
the municipal government is 20.
The gold product o. the world will
be 100000, 900 in 1900, according to
the estimate of the director of the
mint. In 1866 it was 202,O0O,000.
An automo is to make the trip
across the continent carrying a man
and his wife. 1t is a perfect shame
to beat Uncle Coils out of those two
fares.
A sweet girl graduate Of Kansas
chose as subject for her essay,
From Fig Leaves to Shirt waists. I"
It was great theme and covered a
lovely territory.
New York-Controller Collier
awarded the entire. issue of $1O,625,-
900 31s per cent gold bonds of New
York City to Farson, Leach & Com
pany, who bid $10,972,863.7
Jefferson City-Governor Stephens
ordered a special election to be held
Tuesday, August 20, to fill the va
cancy in the Eighth Missouri district
caused by the death Of Congressman
Richard P. Bland.
Chicago-A special to. the Tribune
from Madison, Wis, says Amos F..
Wilder, editor of the State Journal,
has received check for $3.50 from
Helen Gould, to be used in the New
Richmond, Wis, Relief fund.
Des Moines, Ia.-William Ludwick
of Rockwell City, who came here to
celebrate the Fourth with his sweet
heart, Miss Bertha Whiteside, shot
and killed her today because she re-
fused to marry him. He then fatally
wounded himself.
Rochester, N. Y.-Big Dan Brothers,
the famous baseball player, has re-
signed from the Rochester team and
retired. He says: 81 can't hit them
square enough. I did once" Brothers
is Mayor of Wappingers Falls, where
he runs hotel.
London-Mrs. May Wright Sewall,
president of the United States Council
of the Women's International Con-
gress, has been elected to succeed the
Countess of Aberdeen as the presi-
dent of the congress which will hold
it's next meeting at Berlin.
1t is doubtful if any one has more
gold and silver than the Pope. 1t is
declared that were he to melt down
all the medals in the Vatican the
amount of gold obtained would make
more coins than the whole of the
present European circulation.
Some doctors believe that a man
has just so many hours to be awake,
and that the more of them he uses up
in day the shorter his life will be,
A man might live to be 200 if he could
sleep most of the time. The proper
way to economic time, therefore, is
to sleep when there Is nothing better
to do.
Washington-President Mckinley
told a delegation of southern con-
gressmen who called upon him that it
was his intention to send General
Wheeler to the Philippines at an early
date. He also said that he did not
think that more than ten thousand
troops already decided upon would
be necessary.
Mortimer G.. Rankin, chairman Of
the Populist National Committee,
was interviewed at Terra Haute, Ind,
with regard to whether the Populists
would form a fusion with the Demo-
Gratis during the coming convention.
Rankin said that they would not, for
the reason that the Populists woul'
hold their convention one month
prior to either the Republican or
Democratic conventions.
New York-The Brooklyn Eagle re-
ceived letter from Governor Roose-
welt, accompanied by check for $25
for the Dewey fund. In his letter
the governor says: 81 enclose you a
check as slight token of my appre-
citation of your effort to give some
memorial and to give recognition in
whatever shape the Admiral himself
deems best services to the country
which have justly rendered him the
man of all since the civil war who
stands highest in popular regard.
Chicago-A special to the Tribune
from Victor, Colo, says: The Fourth
in this camp was celebrated by an ar
tificial explosion. Five tons of dy-
Mantle were fired on the east slope
on Bull Hill in blasts of two hundred
pounds to each charge, the last charge
consisting of 500 pounds Great
flames arose over the mountain and
large volumes of smoke gathered.