The Meeker herald., 1900-07-28
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The smallpox Is spreading In AaskA
There are 833, 249 ScaRdinavians In
the United States.
Japan has appropriated $5o'Oo'OOOto
carry on the war with China.
Every department of the Philippine
islands has asked for more soldierA
Iowa gives promise of finishing the
century with the banner corn crop oil
its history.
The President has returned to Wash
ineton on account Of the critical sitna-
tion in China.
The business section Of Prescott,
Arizona, has been wiped out ~ TIRE.
Loss, about 100000.
Christian Endeavor Sunday in Lon
don brought crowds to 200 churches
where delegates to the International
convention preached or were part OF
the audience.
J. NJ. Green Of Trenton, New Jersey,
has been chosen president OF me Ma
tional Educational Association. the
next place Of meeting was left to the
executive committee.
While $500 persons were waiting at
the Pennsylvania station at Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, to go with an excursion,
a fast train ran into the crowd, injur-
ing five persons, one Of whom viii die.
A terrific explosion wrecked Depew's
store at NayIOr, Georgia. Wednesday
night. Fragments Of a man's body
were found In the ruins, and 1t Is be-
lieved a safe blower was killed while
at work.
Lord Curxon of Keddleston, viccroy
of India, has cabled to the secretnry
Of state for India, Lord George Hamil-
ton, that an excellent rain has fallen In
the northwestern provinces and In
parts of central India. and that useful
showers have occurred In RatpOotann
and Deccan.
The State Board of Horticulture for
California reports the acreage Of april
cot orchards at about 80, 500 acres,
and 1t In roughly estimated that some
"a, 800, 600 is Invested In apricot Or
chards, the drying houses and all the
appurtenances to growing the fruit and
getting 1t ready for market.
Last week was a hard one for the
old men Of the KiOwa, Comanche and
Apache tribes of Indians. They had to
give up all of their wives but one.
Some of the medicine chiefs had rs
many az ten women whom they called
wives. All but the favOrite one are
now living away from the old bucks
tepee.
The foreigners at Tien Tsin are cred
tied with having died at their posts
u it'll tragic haroism. They were now
ed down by the Infatuated Boxers un-
til their strength was withered and
thair ammunition gone and they ODly
gave up the fight after shooting their
own women and children, to save them
from outrage and torture at the hands
of the Chinese.
Anoka, Mimi, July 1.-THE investl.
CATION into the recent mysterious
shooting Of William Wise and his wife
at Anoka, Minnesota, has been solved
by the confession Of Eliza Wise, the
younger OF the Wise girls, that the de-
PENDANTS, James Hardy and Elmer NIL
ler, committed the murder and prac-
tically admitted that the plot 70 ahoot
her parents was formed with the
knowledgs Of herself and her sister.
The mother had $500 in the bank
which was to 60 to her daughters in
case Of her death, and the girls had
said they would divide with their suit
ors when Mrs. Wise was dead. The
father had forbidden the boys to call
on his daughters, and SO he was In
cluded in the plot. Eliza testified that
she saw the boys and their guns out
side the house before the shooting. The
girls story made profound sensation,
as the defendants had established
tentative alibi and 1t was the general
belief that they were innocent.