The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-10
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tion tn Germany during 1850 show
SOS, 3OO tons, Is against 7,4US,t1f
tons In 1898.
The British steamer Expedient has
run down and sunk hafbOr steamer,
near Altoona, Germany. Thirty work
men were drowned.
Missouri Is suing Nebraska to estab-
lish its right to strip OF land that has
been cut OF by change In the bed OF
thu Missouri river.
Thirty thousand cases Of influenza
have been reported by the physicians
: of Rome. The disease for the most
part, however, appears in a mild form,
but the authorities have the closing Of
the schools under consideration.
There liz a rum0r in Paris that re-
bellion has occurred among the Sou
danese troops in khartoum. There are
only 100 white British soldiers there
under command of a major. The SOU
danese force consists of two battallons
with total Of 1,5OO men.
While the United States gunboat
Wheeling, now In Hongkong harbor,
was saIuting in honor Of the German
emperors birthday, q gun burst, kill
ing Gunners Campbell and Nelson and
seriously wounding Lieutenant Beatty
and Gunners Conroy and Bite.
E. W, Howe, editor Of the Atchison
Globe, has accepted an invitation to
write for the Topeka State Journal
during the week that the Rev. @. NJ.
Sheldon edits the Capital as Chris
tan daily lay sermon each day on
how ministers should preach the Cos
pei.
Il il stated that the cowboys and
miners In southern Arizona have or
ganized and are preparing to invade
Sonora and ayenge the murder Of the
six prospectors. They will fight against
the Mexican troops for the indepen-
dence of the Sonora and the faqui ma
ton.
Belgian yessel-owners are petitioning
the government to withdraw the law
imposing Belgian captains on Belgian
ships. Belgian masters, the owners
say, are Incompetent, and they much
prefer Americans, Englishmen, Ger
mans or Scandinayians The petition
has aroused intense indignation among
Belgian mariners.
Sig. Pans, Italian ambassador to the
porte, Is protesting most vigorously
against the seizure of an Italian girl
for a Turkish harem mt Broussa. The
Turkish government refuses to deliver
the girl, on the pretext that she has
adopted the religion of Islam. ltnl-
ian-Turkish relations are greatly
strained In consequence
Marcus DAILY. president Of the Amnl-
gamated Copper Company. has retired
from the personal and active manage
ment of the big corporations proper
ties in Montana, and has been succeed
ed by q. NJ. Hymns, who for n number
of years has been general manager Of
the Boston and Montana Mining Com
pany, one of the concerns taken by the
Amalgamated.
A representative of the American
coal trust who has been in Bremen
during the last week has been overrun
with orders, owing to the scarcity
which the Austrian .xtrlkcs have Pro-'
duced.. The American producers,
however, are unable to supply half Of
the quantity demanded, because trans
portation facilities are lacking, and the
American coal syndicate declines to
furnish such facilities.
There Is now being presented to the
Burlington employees Il proposition for
n pension system similar to that re-
Gently put into effect with the Penn
sylvanin lines. 1t Ia figured that with
the $1,000 men to start with, all with
an average age younger than that Of
the Pennsylvania, the system should
be installed more easily from a finan-
cial point of view, and would have
many beneficent results.
The election of ninety-nIne senators
in France on the 2Sth resulted in
practical rout for the Nationalists, only
three out of their thirty candidates be-
ing elected. OF these. Generals Afer-
cier and Lambert alone succeeded,
both commanding large majOrities.
General MERCER was the principal Ma
tIonallst candidate. The result Is as
follows: Republicans 81, Liberal Re-
publicans 9, Radicals 10. Socialists z,
Monnrchists 4, Nationalists 3.
A lead pencil. the value of which L.
about 5 cents, but which was an old
heirloom, il the cause Of a law suit in
Michigan. Horace Blood was showing
the pencil to DIR. George NJ. Dunn,
when Dunn put it In his pocket. Blood
asked him to bring 1t back, and fin
ally notified him that unless 1t was re.
turned suit would be commenced. In
turned over to the justice, but the suit
costs.
Until she reached San Francisco,
Mrs. Lawton knew nothing Of the eff
fort of the American people to provide
In n measure for the loss of the bread
winner. When told of the fund
amounting to almost 100000 that had
been raised for the LawtOn family the
widow was overcome with gratitude
and could only sob forth her thanks.
To know that the children would be
provided with a home was source of
much comfort to the mother after
many trials she had endured.
An extraordinary exodus of Amcrl-
cans towards Europe is in progress. nc
cording to the figures Of the passport
bureau of the State Department. Up
to date the number of passports issued
during January was 1883. and 1875
more will be sent out before the end