Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-07-28
GENERAL NEWSITEMS
News of the State, Nation
and the World

England'S pOstOffice savings bank
has seven million depositors and six
hundred million dollars Of funds.
The pendulum has swung the other
way in France and it is likely to
reach a point where Dreyfus will be a
bigger man than Loubet.
Washington-The president has ap-
pointed Col. Alfred E. Bates, paymas-
ter general of the army, to succeed
Gen. Asa B. Carey, retired.
A squad of twenty-five armed deputy
sheriffs is on guard at the Jail. They
have orders from Sheriff Treu to shoot
to kill if another attempt is made to
lynch Williams.
A French astronomer asserts that
on the 18th of September next the
earth will come in contact with the
comet of 1866, and be destroyed. If
you don't believe it, just wait and see.
An order of the War Department
permits the immediate family of a reg
ular volunteer soldier, who is absent
abroad, to purchase at cost prices fuel
and subsistence stores which are for
the immediate use of the family.
New York-Pedro Orizar, IA years
old, who was cabin boy and bugler
on the Spanish cruiser Viscaya, has
enlisted in the United States navy at
the Brooklyn navy yard. He will be
sent to the training school at New
port.
Washington-The War Department
announces that the customs receipts
at the port of Havana for June was
$1,O12,899. The total receipts for six
months of 1899 are, to be exact, $5,-
146,830. The monthly average for six
months is $857,805.
Southampton-It has transpired that
a new boom, even larger than the pres
ent one, is being made for the cup
challenger Shamrock, in the belief that
the lighter air in America will enable
her to carry greater eXpanse of sail
than during her trial race with the
Britannia.
Omaha-Judge Baxter, in. the Dis
trict Court, has held that the city or
dinance taxing and regulating the bus
mess of railroad ticket scalpers was
valid. The ordinance provides that
the brokers all furnish bond to the
city as a protection to parties who
purchase tickets through them.
Newport, R. Mrs. Potter Palmer
is authority for the statement that it
has been decided that the marriage of
her niece, Miss Julia Dent Grant, and
Prince Cantacuzene will be solmenized
in Newport in September. The exact
date has not been fixed. This will be
settled upon after the arrival of the
prince early in September.
Chicago-A special to the Times
Herald from Topeka, Kas., says:
doc" Williams, who was hanged to
a telephone pole in Alma and after six
minutes was rescued by the city mar
shall. is still alive, and physicians at
Alma say he may survive. Williams
neck was not broken because he was
released slowly and did not receive
fall.
Spaniards formerly in business in
Havana and other Cuban cities are
now arriving at the City of Mexico
looking for investments, and say that
by October fully $3.50, 100000 of Spanish
capital will have been drawn from the
island, for Spaniards of wealth do not
wish to risk long period of political
unrest and the possible coming into
power of professional Cuban politi-
clans.
Chicago-The fight against the col
lection of the inheritance tax by the
heirs of George M. Pullman and AL
bert M. Billings has been lost, as far
as the lower courts are concerned, and
the collection of the taxes in question,
amounting to about 100000, will be
made, unless the Supreme Court inter-
poses. The Pullman heirs are taxed
on the net value Of the estate in Illi-
nos, amounting to $8,122,014. The net
value of the Billings estate in Illinois
is $7,412,OOO.
The officers of the American Tin
Plate company and the wage commit
tee of the Amalgamated Association
Of Iron and Steel Workers, who have
been in daily conference for the past
OF the tin workers employed by the
American Tin Plate company, agreed
on scale. The scale, which was
signed by the tin-plate officials and the
Amalgamated Association committee,
grants straight increase of Is per
cent. The increase takes effect July 1,
and will benefit over 10000 tin-plate
workers.
A statement of the earnings of the
Southern Pacific for the fiscal year
ending June 80 has been issued. 1t is
complete with the exception of the
June receipts, which have not yet been
made up. For the eleven months
there was decrease of 1854, 429 in net
earnings over the same period of the
year before, in spite of the fact that
gross receipts increased $2,617,65
The total gross earnings amounted to
ISL, 149,774, and the operating expenses
were 5000, 1852. The latter represent
an increase of $3,372,OSS over the first
eleven months of the preceding year,
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