Mesa free press., 1900-05-18

New York.
Burglars blew open the vaults of the
Bank of Counterville, ILL.,, with dyna-
mite, secured $4,000, nearly all in cur
rency, and escaped. The robbers are
supposed to be members of the gang
which has ben operating Throughout
Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin during
the last six months.
At Vera Cruz, Mexico, several cases
of yellow fever have occurred among
people recently arriving, and the fever
has broken out at Salina Cruz on the
Pacific Coast. There will be- little
chance of banishing yellow fever until
! the new drainage works and water
supply system are completed.
The Chicago Tribune says a direct
line of steamers from Chicago to Liv-
erpool doubtless will be the outcome
of number of projects on foot. The
promoters of the proposed line esti-
mate that it would take between six
teen and twenty days to make the
trip from Chicago tosLiverpool.
A south-bound ST. Louis, Iron Noun
tain and Southern passenger train was
held up by negro bandit near Hig-
ginson, fifty miles north of Little Rock.
Arkansas. The negro confined his op-
erations to one passenger coach, COM
pelling the passengers to hand over
| their valuables at the point of pistol
He then escaped.
Mrs. Jeanette Adams, who recently
| shot and killed her husband, the local
agent of the Union Pacific Railway, in
the presence of their two children and
her own sister, was acquitted of the
charge of murder at Cincinnati. The
evidence showed that Mrs. Adams had
suffered from cruel treatment and was
acting in self-defense.
Orpheum, Los Angeles, Week COM
mencing Monday, May z. Headliners
of the famous Hopkins, ns-Oceanic
! Company. Digby Bell, the world-re-
nowned Operatic Comedian, Bellan and
Moore, renowned Sketch Artists, Mile.
Proto, celebrated Spectacular Dancer,
Rae and EBrosche, Sketch Artists.
One hundred and fifty job pressmen,
| feeders and assistants, members of a
newly organized local union branch,
went on strike at Cleveland in an
endeavor to unionize all the printing
establishments in Detroit, and secure
a uniform scale Of wages for job press
work. The employing printers decline
to make the wages uniform.
One man was instantly killed and
another seriously injured in an acci-
dent at the new State Capitol at ST.
Paul, Mimi, Friday. Alfred Swanson,
a mold caster, was killed by the break
ing of a scaffold on which he was
working. Frank Thiery, working with
| Swanson, fell and suffered a fracture
of the left leg above the knee.
Frank E. sBundy. ex-City Chamber
| lain, and the defeated candidate for
I Mayor of Elmira, N. Y, on the Demo-
cratic ticket in the spring election, has
! been indicted for grand larceny in the
| first degree, and embeZzlement and
| falsifying the city books. 1t is now
thought that the report of the expert
accountant examing his books will
| show a shortage of about $780, 900.
Thomas Harlan, well-known law
yer, is dead at New York, aged 70
years. In his younger days his intel
| lect and legal acumen were important
factors in the creation of of the Amer
lean system of interRal-revenue law
that originated under the exigencies
of the cival war. He was also the
practical Trainer of our existing patent
law. His son, Henry Harlan of Lon
don,. is a well-known writer.
Secretary Of the Navy Long, when
interviewed at Boston in regard to the
probable action of the Navy Depart
~ment on the case of Capt. Chadwick,
who has been quoted as making state
ments derogatory to Admiral Schley,
in connections with the battle Of San
tiago, stated that if the captains reply
to the departments investigation is a
statements, the case will be carried
further, as the rules designate.
The statement of the French press
that the present visit to Paris of
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cellor, is intended to pave the way for
Emperor Williams visit incognito, is
emphatically denied by the German
Foreign Office. To enable German off,
GERS to see the exposition, the Kaiser
has rescinded the 1886 order Officers
precautions in order to avoid becom-
ing victims Of the French espionage
law. ~~s"s
A crusade is being waged at Toronto,
Can, against American fraternal So
cieties doing business in Canada The
Canadian Fraternal Association, repre-
senting 100000 members and insurance
to the extent of over 81, 900, 600, 900, met
yesterday and considered the question
They desire to prevent their American
competitors from doing business in