The Meeker herald., 1900-02-17
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.

Havana. no new cases having been re-
ported for week.
News comes from Brussels that the
Belxiun mint has just turned out
nickel coinage Of 5.OO,OOO rOubles w.
575, COO for the Persian government.
The Belgian address to President NC
Kinley, urging him to offer his services
as mediator between the British ana
the Beers has received the actual sig
natures of 10000 persons.
According to a dispatch from Port
Arthur, n treaty between China and
Korea, prohibiting the Importation OF
opium into Korea, has just been
signed.
The Merchants Association of New
York has sent Il protest to the western
Classification committee Mt Chicago
against the new classification when
has recently been adopted for all rail-
roads west of the Mississippi river.
Henry Walsh, an old and trusted
clerk in charge of the mailing depart
ment of the Chicago postOffice, has
been arrested, charged with robbing
the mails. 1t is calculated that Walsh
has robbed 800 letters during the past
year.
A dramatized version of the Rev.
Charles NJ. Sheldon's novel, In His
Steps," which is SO popular in America,
was produced Mt the Adelphi theater,
London, under the title Of 1.-The Better
Life" but does not seem, according
to the critics, to be n success.
The Baptist ministers conference at
New York has adopted resolutions de-
nouncing the Introduction of the rum
shop into the Philippines and petition
Ing the President Of the United States
to ''use the power vested In him to
ahate and remove this evil from the
islands over which We are guardians"
Twenty-seven manufacturing jewel
ers of Pforzheim. near Baden Baden,
who Cancelled their contracts for
space Mt the Paris Exposition through
indignation because of the condemns
ton of ex-Cnptain Dreyfus. have re-
considered their decision and have re-
entered their exhibits, which will be
collective.
The Shanghai correspondent Of the
Daily Mail says: The changed atti-
tude of the Empress Dowager and her
virtual abandonment of her resolution
to depose the emperor are directly due
to the torrent of public circumstances
against her action. For the first time
in Chinese history, public opinion has
been effective"
Last Monday night fire broke out in
the mercantile house of Valez, Lopez
& Abascal, at Tampa, Mexico, consum-
ing the entire block with the exception
of three houses. The estimated loss Is
between $SOOOOO and $1,OOO,OOO, part
ly covered by insurance.. Eleven re-
tail and one wholesale house, includ-
ing the city meat market, burned.
American commerce with the Islands
and countries of the Pacific shows a
greater gain in the y ear 1899 than that
with any other part of the world. Our
total exports increased $20,OOO,OOO. all
Of which, with the exception of 81 ,O0O,-
600, was with Asia and Oceanica. Our
total imports Increased $164, OOO, 900
and &46, 600, 600 Of this increasee was
from Asia and Oecanica.
The Russian imperial bureau Of
medical affairs has issued memOran-
dunn concerning the famine In the gov
eminent Of Bessarabia, stating that
10000 roubles ($2OO,OOO) has been as
signed for the relief of distress In that
district. Sixty-nine thousand men are
without work, and the committee has
decided to build public roads to give
employment to local paupers.
Between the rival committees max
ing arrangements at Philadelphia for
The National Republican Convention
there is feeling of intense bitterness.
which is likely to have u disastrous ef-
feet on efforts to raise the 100000
guaranty fund. 1t would not surprise
many citizens II the national commit
tee took the convention and gave 1t to
Chicago or some other city.
Nearly 1900 laborers at Santiago,
Cuba, are out on st ike. 1t is worthy
Of note TINT the only reliable labor OBJ
tainable is Spanish. Planters and
miners are employing all the peninsu-
lars they can get. During the last six
months more than 5000 Galicians have
arrived in the island, but the present
stress has reduced the labor supply far
below the demand, causing the employ
ment Of many jamaican negroes.
The Nebraska State Board Of Trans
portation has ordered n reduction of
thirty per cent, of freight rates on
corn, onts, mill and all feed stuffs. This
Is the first reduction in six years. Com
plants have come in from feeders on
the range that they could not afford to
ship corn from the corn-producing sec
lions of the state. 1t Is not believed
the roads will resist the orders. The
roads have made low rates for feeding
cattle shipped to the ranges, and a low
rate on corn to feed these is simply in
the line of business and has been I'M
der consideration by the roads.
1t has just TRANSFERRED that when the
n
Signor Pansa. presented his govern
ment's demand on Monday for the sur
render of the italian girl who had been
detained in Turkish harmon at Brous-
81 (Brusa), he gave the demand, or or
der, the form of an uitimatum. The
Turkish governments reply TO the first
Italian remOnstrance having been un-
satisfactory, the Porte was informed
that the girl must be surrendered with
in forty-eight hours. Just before the
time limit expired the girl, Sylvia Ge-
,,,r x,,oS nnnIuctoI IN fhn italian ON.