Mesa free press., 1900-03-09
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-
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In the House of commons the vote
for the addition of 100000 men to the
British army carried by 2OS against 13.
The government and press protest
against reports published in the United
Stltes asserting that new revolution
has broken out in Venezuela.
The principals in the Kentucky i'm
broglio having tacitly agreed to use
the courts instead of Winchesters in
settlement of their controversy.
Henry Dulf Trail, editor of Litera-
ture, and a well-known newspaper
man and author, dieu last week at
London, of heart disease. He was
born in 1912.
The beet sugar interests, represented
by the Oxnards of Nebraska and Cali
fornia, will try to secure the imposition
OF 25 per cent. duty on Hawaiian sugar
as protective measure for the benefit
Of the beet sugar growers of the United
States.
Owing to the scarcity of ships sailing
advanced to hgure which has not
been touched since 1887. The bark AL
lance was chartered today to load for
England at Ais Sd. There are only two
disengaged vessels in port.
The three great French scientists,
Sapelier, Thebault and Broca, who re-
Gently alleged that they had discovered
a serum for the cure of alcoholism,
will shortly make a second communi-
cation to the Academy of Medicine.
The result of their studies regarding the
experiments with anti-othyline serum
are said to be satisfactory.
Honolulu advices show five cases of
plague, which have developed there
since February 2. Among those stricken
were two white men, J. Weir Robert
son, clerk in a hardware store, and
J. H. Hartman, a stableman, who re-
Gently arrived from San Francisco.
According to private letters from
Pretoria inquiry has revealed that al
though Winston Churchill, for honor
able alleges that he escaped single
handed, he was assisted by two girls
belonging to a well-known family in
Pretoria, who will pay dearly for it. =
The American minister to Brazil,
with the Brazilian Foreign Office, pro-
posed to abandon the duty on Brazilian
coffee imported into the United States,
in exchange for reciprocal advantages
for American gooos exported to Brazil.
Captain w. r. Abercrombie, the head
Of the government exploration party in
Alaska, has arrived in Seattle. He says
that it is the intention o. the govern
ment to construct 2400 miles of tele-
graph line in Alaska and to complete
several military roads already COM
menced.
Two men were instantly killed and
5hree frightfully injured by tie explo-
sion Of locomotive boiler in the Santa
Fe roundhouse at Topeka. Kan. The
explosion was &C used by compressed
air which was to be used as the mo-
tive power in the midget locomotive,
small switch engine.
A special from Monterey, Mex, says:
can American syndicate, with a CAPT.
tai of $lo,OoOO0O, will Immediately be-
gin the construction of great steel
plant in this city. The plans for the
mammoth concern have been completed
and the ground purchased for locati1
| the several buildings. An abundance
Of high-grade iron ore and coal is
within easy shipping distance. The
plant will make a speciality of making
steel rails and will be the first industry
Of the kind to be established in Mexico.
1t will give employment to about A.
900 men in the different departments
when they are in operation. Several
American capitalists in Monterey are
heavy stockholders in the enterprise"