Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1900-05-25
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

est Everybody
Three cases of bubonic plague and
one death from the disease are re-
ported at Suakim.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has appointed Emperor William field
acknowledgement of the Austrian army.
The War Department Washington
has decided that the revised Cuban
tariff shall go into operation June Is
next.
A dispatch from Berkum Island, in
the North Sea, to Berlin, says the lay
ing Of the German-American cable
was commenced there at 11:20. o'clock
am.
The Yukon Territory census has
been completed. The total population
is 1880; men, $4,000; women, 1000;
children, 500; British subjects, $500;
Americans, 5000; Indians, $50.
The hearing in the case of John W.
Gates, chairman Of the board of di-
rectors of the American Steel and Wire
Company was continued at New York,
to get new witnesses for the prosecu-
ton.
A rumor is current at Accra, Gold
Coast, that Kumassie has fallen, and
it is believed that the Atkins, Kwahus
and Knoranzas are secretly joining
the insurgents. The wires are down
to Prashu.
A special dispatch to London from
Bombay says cholera is alarmingly
virulent among the natives on the
famine relief works at Virangon,
where there are fifty deaths daily re-
ported from the disease.
A Yokohama cablegram says the
wedding of His Imperial Highness.
Crown Prince Yoshihito, and Princess
saba Ko, daughter of Prince Kujo,
which is to take place May 10, will be
attended with great rejoicings.
The New York Evening Post today
says practical acknowledgment was
obtained yesterday Of the report that
the Pennsylvania had purchased the
Long Island Railroad, though official
dChHo wv leuSIIlcHlS are St1l1 AdChinS.
The Foreign Relations Committee OF
the Senate has authorized a favorable
report to be made on the bill authoriz-
ing the Secretary Of the Treasury to
take up the indebtedness Of Hawaii.
The amount approximates $4,50O,6O0
Seven non-union coal-heavers were
attacked by five union pickets on
an Ashland avenue street car at Chi
cago, and as a result Dennis Hanni-
son, a union picket, was shot and per-
haps fatally wounded, by special po-
liceman.
The Senate has confirmed the fol-
lowing nominations: S. B. Dole, to
be Governor, and Henry E. Cooper, to
be Secretary Of Hawaii; J. M. Dat, to
be postmaster at Honolulu; E. H. Bel
lows of Washington, to be ConsulGen-
eral at Yokohama.
A Lorenzo Marquee cablegram says
the American ship William H. Macy
Capt. Groth, from Vancouver, reported
ashore at Cockburn shoal, and to
Forte has been sent, has been foated
and entered the harbor.
A Pittsburgh dispatch says the en-
ployes of the Braddock plant of the
American Steel and Wire Company
have been notified that work would be
resumed in the nail mill Monday, and
at the wire mill a week later. The
plant employed 800 men.
A dispatch tn the London Daily Mail
from Accra, says the situation in
Ashanti is still very serious. Kumassie
is closely invested. It is reported that,
April 81, fighting occurred between the
Hussars and Ashantis, in which three
white officers were killed or wounded
A report was af1oat in Wall street,
New York, yesterday, that John Gates
will resign the Craftsmanship Of the
directorate Of the American Steel and
Wire Company. According to these
rumors, Mr.. Gates is in poor health,
and intends to make prolonged stay
abroad. Nj
The London Daily Express publishes
series Of kilograms, which illustrate
the alarming spread Of the bubonic
plague, which is ravaging the shores
of the Red Sea. It is rapidly iucreas-
ing at Hongkong, where there have
been sixty-fve cases in twenty days.
and spreading into additional towns in
Australia.
The military authorities at Kingston
Jamaica, have received cable dis
patch from the British War Office, or
dering all the available officers of the
West Indian regiment to proceed i'm
mediately, by the shortest route, to
Cape Coast Castle, to join the expedi-
ton against the Ashantis.
The National Asphalt Company, to
mine and deal in cements, has been
incorporated at Trenton, N. J. The
company has capital Of $4,000, 900.
The incorporators are Wendell E. Rice
James Murray Mitchell, George B.
HanfOrd Percy TT Rrs11ndape and An