Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
GENERAL NEWSlTEMS
News of the State, Nation
and the World

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son of Iowa is Northeastsouthwest
erner.
An Ohio man has found an old can
containing $4,000. An Ohio man for
luck, "a poor man for children, and
niger for dogs"
Yesterdays official list of dead from
heat at New York City numbered 26,
and Tuesdays seven, making a total
OF 81 deaths recorded.
NEW YORK-The National City
Bank will ship $1,OOO,OOO gold to Eu-
rope on steamers sailing Saturday. The
total amount shipped by this institu-
ton is $3,5O0,00O.
"The Fighting Thirteenth" patri-
otic song and march. by Miss Rena N.
Sangster Of Buffalo, N. Y. The theme
and its treatment are a credit to her
head and heart, and the song will be
a welcome addition to current patriot
ic verse.
AUGUSTA, (Me )-Secretary of
State Byron H. Boyd and Private Sec
rotary Smith say that Governor Pow
ers has positively not received any no.
LITIGATION from Hon. Thomas B. Reed
of the latter's resignation as congress
man from Maine
WASHINGTON-Jo J. Lalor,
translator in the office of the direct
or of the mint, lost his balance and fell
from the second floor in the Treasury
Department down the shaft which the
stairway surrounds, to the basement,
probably receiving fatal injuries. Lalor
is a well-known writer on political
economy and is the author of an ency-
clopedia on that subject.
CHICAGO-A special to the Record
from Victoria, B. c., says: The Nam
moth Cave of Kentucky, which has
held the record heretofore as the
worlds greatest cave, must hereafter,
it is believed, give precedence to
cave in New Zealand, discovered on
April II by Horace tombstone near
Port validate, and but ten or twelve
miles from the city of Wellington.
tombstone explored the cave for miles,
but found no end.
CHICAGO-The Baxter investigating
committee took up alleged confidence
games on local excursion steamers, and
the alleged theft of slot machines by
constables. Gus Chaplin, a steamboat
man, told of a Klondike miner who
was fieeced out of $500 by means of
shell game on an excursion boat run
ming out of Chicago, and also told of a
Kansas City bank clerk who lost $500
in the same manner on that boat.
VANCOUVER, (B. C.)-The burial
of Bishop Durien, who for Is years
worked among the natives of British
Columbia, was the occasion of a re-
markable scene. Surrounding the bier
were 5000 Indians, chanting a death
song in the native tongue, swaying
their bodies in unison to measured
strains of music. while on an elevation.
in the rear of the catafalque, the cru
cifixion of Christ was being enacted, a
lay figure representing the Saviour be-
ing lowered from the cross by Indians
dressed in biblical years.
HAVANA-(By West Indian Cable.)
Col. George M. Randall paid 1913 Cuban
soldiers at Jaruco and rejected forty
four others. This makes 1437 Cubans
paid by Col. Randall SO far. 1t was
ing fraudulent certificates of service
in the Cuban army, charging 81 each
for them. This so enraged several
soldiers who had legitimate discharges
that they badly beat the sellers of bo-
gus certificates. Three of the four men
escaped on train bound for Havana,
but the fourth was arrested.
HUNTSVILLE, (Ala)-Will Hill,
brother of Alex Hill, the negro who
killed Mrs. Hester Hubbard near
Eoline, Monday, was captured near
McCulley's mill, taken near to the
scene of his crime and killed His
head was shot into a shapeless mass.
He confessed that he was with Alexan-
der Hill at the time Mrs. Hubbard was
killed, and that he and Alexander went
to Hubbard's for the purpose of killing
Mrs. Hubbard. They had heard that
her husband was absent and that she
had large sum of money in the house.
The crowd hanged him to Limb, then
cut him down and tied the limbs and
fired at him. A second posse is hunting
Alexander Hill.