Mesa free press., 1900-06-15
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Rported From All Parts of The World Which
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Reader.

Fire destroyed the Palisades paper
mills in Hoboken, N. Y. Loss, $1OO, 900.
The United States cruiser Albany was
commissioned at Newcastle Tyne
yesterday.
1t was reported at London yesterday
ing weaker. Her right side is par
allied.
The Calumet and Hecla Mining Com
pany at Boston has declared a semi
dividend was Sc.
The steam yacht Oneida has arrived
at New York from Bermuda with her
owner, E. C. Benedict, and ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland on board.
The house committee on military af-
fairs has acted favorably on the bill
establishing branch national soldiers
home near Denver, Colo.
Chairman Jones says applications for
press seats at the democratic conven-
tion at Kansas City should be made
Papers have been filed at Trenton,
N. j., increasing the capital stock of
the Hawaiian Steamship
Company from $750,OOO to $1,500,0OO.
A Brussels cablegram says the gen.
eral elections have resulted in re-
duction of the Catholic majority from
102 to IS. The Socialists are the gain
ers.
The Alabama populists' state con-
vention nominated a full state ticket
and adopted platform indorsing
the nomination of Barker and Don
nelly.
A portion of the embankment of the
Sabermuttee river, on which Ahmeda-
bad, India, is situated, caved in while
many men, women and children were
washing clothing in the river. Thirty
lives were lost
Robert Goelet of New York, who was
badly injured by being thrown by his
horse in the National Hunt Club
steeplechase at the County Club, Bos-
ton, was still unconscious at the hos
pital yesterday.
Lloyd Wilson, in trying to rob a
store at Holdenville, I. T., blew open
the safe with dinamite. The explo-
sion mashed his right hand and injured
the other and he will probably die.
Wilson says he is an old railroader.
A huge military scandal has been re-
vealed by the issuance of an order for
the mobilization of the Servian re-
in the magazines. The accounts Of the
war Office, however, show a large ex-
penditure.
Representative King of Utah in
troduced a joint resolution directing
the president to issue a proclamation
declaring the purpose of the United
States toward Cuba and it's inhabit-
ants, and to leave the government of
Cuba to it's people.
The annual meeting of the New York
Cotton Exchange took place at New
York. The recommendation Of the
board of managers, fixing the annual
dues at $50 and declaring $50 dividend
on membership from the earnings of
the year was adopted.
AS a result of the fusillade fired on
the home of William Wise at Anoke,
Mimi, Sunday, Mrs, Wise died. Wise
is still living, but recovery is i'm
possible. A son will probably recover.
Several men are under suspicion, but
no arrests have yet been made.
Returns received by the canvassing.
board of the International Topographic
cal union indicate that Donnelly is de-
feated by Lynch for president. For
vice-president it will take the official
count to decide the result, so close is
the race between Hays and Hawkes..
A freight train came into collision
tween Tergnier and st. Quentin,
France. The engine driver was killed
and several passengers were badly
bruised. The locomotive of the freight
train was precipitated into the canal
Of St Quentin.
All the section hands on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad between Sayre, Pa,
and Jersey City are out on strike.
They want their wages increased from
$1.20 to $1.50 a day. The strikers num-
ber 1900. The company served notice
that if the men do not return to work
before June 1 new men will be hired.
Mrs. Emil Joseph Poland Of Mary
wood Qll.) was killed while in the act
of rescuing her two-year-old daughter
from in front Of the Chicago and
Northwestern Railways Pacific Coast
limited. The accident took place at the
Melrose Park depot, at the Nineteenth
avenue crossing in West haywood.
The American line steamship New
York, which lost her port propeller and
mart of her shalt ora bar vOua ra tO Nauy