Mesa free press., 1900-05-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
The News of the State, Nation
and the World
MOST INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
From Everywhere will be found tn
this C01umn. Items that inter-
est Everybody


Eight thousand miners have gone on
strike at Santa Pauline, near Santan-
der, Spain.
The eight-hour law has been re-
pealed by the Manitoba Territorial
Assembly.
A cablegram from Munich says
Heinrich Vogel, the opera singer, is
dead OF apoplexy.
Fire at Atkinson, Mich, destroyed
two sawmills of the Metropolitan
Lumber Company. The loss is between
$80,0OO and 100000.
A cablegram from Sipala, India, says
the distress among the people is
spreading, and 5,5O0,o0o persons are
now receiving relief.
President John H.. Barrows Of Ober-
lin University, Ohio, announced yes
terday that DR.. Alice H. Luce Of We'll
lesley College had accepted her cleo
ton as dean Of Oberlin.
A disastrous fire wiped out every in
only fire protection was a bucket bri-
gade. The loss is $50,OOO, with practi-
cally no insurance.
L. M. Michael, ex-vice-president Of
the American National Bank at Lima,
o., which was robbed two years ago
of $4,000, was indicted by the grand
jury for the robbery.
M. Alphonse Milne Edwards, the dis
tinguished French naturalist and di-
rector of the Museum of Natural His
tory, died suddenly at Paris at 2
o'clock in his sixty-fith year.
The London Daily News has the
following from Lorenza Marquee:
'The ambulance corps returned here
with the flags on the way to New
York, being dissatisfied with it's treat
ment."
A Seoul cablegram states that an
agreement has been concluded between
the Russian and Korean governments,
Korea pledging herself not to ALLEVIATE
Koje Island, at the mouth of Masam-
pho Harbor.
The Rev. Charles Beecher, a brother
of the late Henry Ward Beecher died
Noyes in Georgetown, Mass. He was
"a years old and was the youngest
of the Beecher family.
Rev. ]. G. Platt, aged &c. died at
Piper. E[e came to Kansas in 1887 as
a Baptist missionary. He established
an Indian mission on the present site
of Fort Leavenworth, and later he was
Indian agent at Piper
William Khune, formerly Of Rich
mond, Va, tried to kill himself and
his wife at their home at Philadelphia
He cut his own throat and badly in
jured his wife in trying to kill her.
Both are in serious condition.
The sixth annual session Of the Lib
eral Congress of Religion began at
Boston. The congress is in perpetu-
alton Of the Worlds Congress Of Re-
ligions, which was a feature Of the
Worlds Fair in Chicago in 1893.
A special from Kawkawlin, Mch., to
the Detroit News says the packing
house Of the Ajax Dynamite Mills blew
up, killing three men, William Weaver,
Ed Halligan and William Van Vassel-
Ter. They were blown to atoms.
A report filed with the Indiana State
Auditor by experts charge @. S. An
derson, formerly secretary Of the IN
ion Life Insurance Company, with
shortage of $25,116. The solvency OF
the company is in no way affected
The Emmanuel Holland Reformed
Church at Muskegon, Mich, has
burned. Fireman Nicholas Carey
was killed, and Fireman Ben Peterson
seriously injured by a falling wall.
1t is believed the fire was incendiary
The st. Louis Fair Association an
nounces the following officials for the
season Of 1900: J. A. Murphy and J..
w. Price, judges; w. F. Bruno,
starter, Robert Aull, c. N. Jones, A.
Walsh, stewards.
John H. Allen, a storekeeper at OF
tumwa, Kan, was murdered at his
doorstep, the assassin emptying a load
Of buckshot into his breast J. w.
Harris has been arrested on circum-
stantial evidence. The men had quar-
relied over family affairs.
Frank Nicholi, the acrobat, who
broke his neck while performing at
a New York theatre, is improving at
Bellevue Hospital His temperature
is lower, as is his pulse, and an ope-
GRAFTON will be performed. Nicholi is
| conscious and able to converse.
The Dominion government at Ot-
tawa, Can, has disallowed the re-
cent acts of the British Columbian
Legislature which prevented the en-
ployment of Japanese. The Atlin
placer mining act, which prevented
| aliens holding mining clo inc hos lOr