Mesa free press., 1900-05-18
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

lOuSly, at Chicago, by the collapse OF
a two-story double frame house.
Lazard Freres of New York shipped
heimer & Co., $500,OOO to Europe.
Reports received at Calcutta from
the tea districts show the prospects
are generally unfavorable. Hail and
transforms have done much damage to
the crops.
A dispatch from Orange, Texas, says
the government engineers have discon-
tinued work at Sabine Pass. They say
| the government appropriation has been
| exhausted
The Prince of Wales has acknowl-
| edged in a letter the sympathy and
| congratulations from all parts of the
world on his recent escape from assas-
sination.
The report at Chicago Of the investi-
| cation of DR.. H. c. Jennings, publish
| ing agent of the western branch of
| the Methodist Book Concern, resulted
in his acquittal.
Louis Klopsch, publisher of the
Christian Herald of New York, left
London yesterday for India in order to
| investigate the famine and distribute
the American relief.
The Pretoria correspondent of the
London Daily News says that on Mon
day Erastus de Klock was sentenced
to two years at hard labor for guiding
the British to Bloemfontein.
A Free Town Sierra Leone cablegram
says serious rising among the Youn-
les in the Ronietta district is reported,
and detachment of the West African
Regiment has been sent to Rotofunk
to Quell it.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel and the
Madison square theater building at
New York were sold in one parcel at
chaser being w. P. Emo, son of the
original owner.
Louis Mayer, one of the best-known
Jewish residents of Chicago, died
Tuesday of old age. He was IS years
of age and was born in Germany. Mr..
Mayer was one of the founders Of the
Sinai Temple.
A Kingston, (Jamaica) cablegram;
says DR.. Ricardo Beccerera, an aged
linguist Of Colombia, resident at Car
acas, has been expelled from Vene-
zuela by order of President Castro,
for press writing. =,
A Madrid dispatch says a CONNER
cial house has received a dispatch
from Cuba saying that Jesus Rabi,
the Cuban leader, has headed an Gin
surrectionary" movement in the pro-
vince of Santiago.
The newspapers Of London. announce
that a syndicate of northern capitalists
with unlimited wealth is about to erect
on the banks of the river Tees the
largest armor plate works in the
United Kingdom.
The Gramatan Inn at Bronxville,
suburb of New York, was destroyed
by fire. The guests got out in safety,
and saved many of their personal
effects. The loss is estimated at $780,
900, and is partly covered by insurance.
Forest fires are burning between
Nestoria and Saxon, Wisconsin, along
the line of the South Shore Railway,
the most numerous being between Sid
nav and Lake Gogebic, where trains
oP s;o af kha flo
The Columbus, Ohio, plant Of the
National Stel Company has been closed.
under orders from the general offices,
the reason assigned being to make ex-.
tensive repairs. Between three and
four hundred men are thrown out of
work.
The vault of Massanuten Bank at
Strasburg, Va, was blown open by
burglars and $4,000 taken Negotiable
papers anr securities amounting = to
$4,000 were untouched. The burglars
escaped on a handcar on the Southern
Railway. -; r.
The citizens of Olympia, Washington
are planning the establishment of a
large university !, which will have a
special department of travel" Or
ganized to combine observation with
textbook work n
The jury in the divorce case ofsJames
King Clarke, son Of the late Charles
J. Clarke, millionaire and philanthro-
pist, against Esther Bartlett Clarke
of Washington, diagreed at Pittsburg,
after being out twenty-four hours, and
was discharged.
Railroad traffic is again badly inter-
rupted around Dallas, Texas, by wash
outs. The Brazos river is rising and
crops in the lowlands are in a deplor-
able condition. Heavy wind and hail
storms have done much damage at
various points.
At a Cabinet Council at Copenhagen
King Christian accepted the resigna-
tion of the Horring Cabinet and ap-
q oaw PjUhtict yoipictrv r>l,o