Mesa free press., 1900-04-27
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

Inc sans SOuc1 opera BLOCK ana the
Shafter building at Balston, N. T.,
were burned: loss $150,000.
1t is announced that Goldman, Sachs
& Co. Of New York have shipped
$5OO.0OO in gold to Buenos Ayres.
The glucose works a portion of the
Edwardsburg Starch Works. Were
completely destroyed by fire. The loss
is $150,O0O.
The citizens of Dogtown, Maiposa
county, have changed the name of
the place to Nuggetville. The town
has not g. woman in it.
Anthony o. Russell, head Of the
United States Printing Company. and
vice-president Of the United States
Playing Card Company, died, aged
"A years.
Ely Coghlan, the actress, sister Of
Rose and Charles Coghlan, died at
Stamford, Conn.,. aged 80 years. Her
death was unexpected although it
was known that she was very ILL
The residence of Payton w. Ruble.
at Daisy Postoffice, w. ". burned.
Mrs. Peyton Ruble and Gordon Davis
boy of years, were burned to
death. Peyton Ruble was probably
fatally injured.
A st. Paul dispatch says Capt
Charles D. sigsbee, U.s.N, arrived
from Fargo and the Red River Valley
and after a quiet day at his hotel in
st. Paul, left for Chicago, enroute for
Washington.
Some three hundred officers and
drafts Of the men for the British Pa
ciflc squadron and for the garrison at
EsQuimalt, arrived at Halifax from
Liverpool. and proceeded at once to
the Pacific coast.
A cablegram was received at Otta-
wa, Ont, from Lord Strathcona asking
for fifty more officers and men be sent
on to South Africa to I'LL any vacan-
cies that may be caused to the
Strathcona Horse through casualties.
That negotiations are pending to a
combination Of the gigantic Carnegie
Frick interests and the Cramp ship
building concern is denied by officials
of the later company. Edwin S.
Cramp said: There is not word of
truth in it."
Cuthbert Jones has filed at the
United States Legation at Lima q
claim against the Peruvian govern
ment for 100000 soles. The claim is
said to grow out of a refusal Of min
ing rights founded upon the express
letter OF the law.
Capitalists of Berlin, through a Chi
cago firm. have made an offer to pur-
chase the Ferris wheel. If the nego-
tiations go through, the wheel. which
was one of the features Of the Worlds
Fair, will be SHIPPED to Berlin. The
wheel weighs 2200 tons.
The Redlands Facts says: 1.-THE
Republican League Club of this city
has nearly five hundred names upon
Its rolls. This is a larger membership
than is enrolled upon the club list at
Stockton, g. city with more than four
times the population Of Redlends.'
At Petersburg, Va, the large leaf to-
bacco factory Of w. G. Huntington &
Co., containing over one million
pounds Of fine tobacco, purchased re-
Gently for the Austrian government,
was, with its contents, destroyed by
fire, The loss is estimated at 100000.
An attempt was made to wreck the
International and Great Northern pas
senger train near Taylor, Tex. A
freight train was ditched instead.
Fireman Lyons was killed, and En-
gineer AekermaaRq and and Brakeman ia
cobs each had leg br9kea. The
Sheriff is after the wreckerg.
The Lemon Grove water consumers
have decided to accept the proposition
Of the san Diego Ftume Company to
furnish water for the coming season
at TX. cents per Thousand gallons.
This is reduction OF 21 cents from
the rate threatened short time since
and the water was needed at once.
The transportation building sn the
Trans Mississippi grounds at Omaha
was destroyed by fire. All the other
large gtructnree have been torn down
by the wrecking company, but this
one had been preserved to house the
workmen employed by the wreckers.
No 9He appears to know how the fire
started.
A cablegram from Accra, God Coast
Colony, West Africa, says Sir Fred
erick Mitchell Hodgson, governor Of
the colony. sends a dispatch from
Kumassie, announcing that his efforts
to effect a peaceful settiamant Of the
difficulty between the British officials
and the Kumassie tribesmen have not
succeeded.
Rugby IRa. stpatsd at Rugby. Tenn.
on the Cumberland plateau, was
burned. Rugby is the English col
ony established at that point in the
eighties and of which Thomas