Mesa free press., 1900-04-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
The News of the State, Nation
and the World
MOST INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
From Everywhere will be found In
this Column. Items that inter-
est Everybody

Crown Princess Stephanie and Count
Lonyay were Married the other day
in the chapel of Miramar Castle at
Vienna, the court chaplain officiat-
ing.
The Navy Department has issued or
ders for the repair Of the cruiser Bos-
ton, now at the Mare Island navy
yard, the cost of which will be about
100000.
! One Of the elevators in the seven
story factory building at No. 247
Center street, New York, broke it's
cable and fell seven stories. Several
Of the occupants sustained internal
injuries.
At the general court Of the Bank of
England at London the governor, Sam
uel Stewart Gladstone, announced that
the profits for the six months ending
February % were a73614 and a divi-
dend of per cent. was declared.
The Singapore correspondent of the
London Telegraph says that Kang Yu
Wei, the Chinese reformer, who was
reported a month ago to have sailed
] for London, returned secretly in a pilot
boat, and has lived in Singapore ever
since. The discovery has greatly ex-
cited the local Chinese.
A student of Columbia University,
who. was taken sick a week ago with
what was supposed to be measles, is
suffering with the smallpox. AS a con-
sequence, 300 students were vaccinated
yesterday by officials of the Health De-
partment. The name of the sick stu
dent is withheld for the present.
PHILADELPHIA Red Star
line steamer Switzerland, which arrived
here from Antwerp, brought nearly two
hundred Firms, who are said to be the
first of many thousands fleeing from
| the cruelty of the government Of the
Czar Of Russia. The party will locate
in Minnesota, Iowa and Montana.
New York, March 23.-Justice Furs-
man, in the criminal branch Of the
supreme court, today set the trial OF
Miss Nethersole and the other parties
mentioned in the grand jury's indict-
ment yesterday, for April 8. The post
ponement of the trial was due to the
representation Of counsel that Miss
Nethersole was too i'll to appear in
court.
Sarah Bernhardt says that the high
hat of the theatre must go. She says
that no woman wearing a high hat
will be permitted to occupy an orches-
ira seat in her new theater, where she
is now producing Rostand's "L'Aignon."
Several women who attempted to set
the rule at defiance have been stopped
at the door and refused admittance un-
til they removed the Objectionable
hats.
A statement has been issued by D.
Appleton & Co. They say: "The pre-
sent situation is owing not to undue
business risk nor to trade losses, but
merely to the fact that, though the
extension of our business on the in
stallment contract basis (Which con-
tracts amount to fully 100000, now
outstanding and in due course collect
able), our capital has become made
quate to meet our maturities."
The Carnegie Steel Company, Limited
becomes a stock company, with a CAPT.
tai variously estimated at from $780, |
100000 to $250,OO0, ,O0O the famous IRON
clad agreement is wiped out, all liti-
cation between the partners in the
Carnegie company is dropped, and H.
C. Frick, the former president of the
company, virtually secures all he has
contended for. These facts are en-
bodied in an authorized statement is
sued by the Carnegie Steel Company,
Limited.
r. J. Mcfarland, Chief of the Kansas
ity (Kan.,) police department, has
hung up bounty for the bodies of all
highway robbers killed in the city while
in the act Of committing robbery, or di-
rectly thereafter. The price that the
Chief promises to give for the body of
each highwayman-the money is to be
paid out Of his salary-is $25. The re-
ward is open to members Of the force
as we'll as any citizen. There have re-
Gently been many highway robberies on
the Kansas side Of the river.
At Albany, N. Y, the senate killed
the Mortgage Tax Bill yesterday, thir-
ty-three members voting against it and
but sixteen for it. The bill was killed
haoonco of CONFLICT xyitbi, Dan,,h