The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1901-03-30
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fencing and bicycle riding.
Patrick X. Donahue. publisher Of
the Boston Pilot, died March 18th at
the age Of ninety.
The British government will not land
any more troops at Capetown until the
bubonic plague subsidies.
The President has appointed Fred
erich F. Coyne, now collector at Chi
cagO, postmaster Of that city.
The Pennsylvania Salt Company IL
contemplating the erection Of 10000
600 plant at Wyandotte, Michigan.
A Hague dispatch says that Henri
RochefOrt Is organizing \ big lottery
throughout Europe in aid Of the Beers.
The military authorities at Capetown
have approved the invention of Max.
I'm gun mounted on o motor car for
immediate service.
The Maine House of Representatives
has refused to xe-submit to the people
the prohibitory amendment to the con-
stitution.
ly destroyed by fire March 18th. Only
ten houses remained and scores Of
families are homeless. Loss, $20O,OOO.
Andrew Carnegie has offered $1,000
to Kewanee, Illinois. for library
building, q site to DO furnished and
5000 year for maintenance guaran-
teed
Professor Frank A. Fetter of the
economic department of Stanford uni
versity, has resigned. He was not in
sympathy with the removal Of DIR.
Ross.
A colony of 100 negroes recently left
Knoxville, Tennessee. for Hawaii un-
der a three-year contract to the Ha-
waiian Commercial and Sugar Com
pany.
Andrew Carnegie has offered L.
brary funds as follows, Inject to the
usual terms: Montclair, New Jersey,
$4,000: Charlotte, North Carolina,
10000.
The House Of the Texas Legislature
has adopted resolution inviting
President Mckinley to visit Austin
and address the Legislature on his
southern tour.
Ex-President Cleveland celebrated
his slxty-fourth birthday on the 18th
Instant, at Paterson, New Jersey. with
his wife and children, and entertained
many callers.
f. E. johnson. secretary of the law
department of the University of Mich
igan, will accept the judgeship In the
Philippines recently rendered him by
The President.
The expense in connection with
Queen Victoria's funeral amounted to
$4,000. Of which $57, 600 was expend-
ed In the housing and entertainment of
foreign guests.
Among Andrew Carnegie's recent L.
brary fund donations are the follow
ing: Hempsted, Long Island. $25.OO0;
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, $4,000;
Canton, Ohio, $4,000.
On the night Of March 18th, IRE de-
vtroyed all Of the buildings In the
block bounded by Fifth and Sixth ave-
cues in the Armourdale district Of
Kansas City. Kansas.
Nothing il known in any quarter Of
Constnntinople Of the report, circulated
In the United States by a news agency,
Of the alleged massacre OF 600 Mace
domains by Turkish soldiers.
The governor of Idaho has appointed
ex-State Treasurer L. G. Rice rs COM
missioner to the Pan-American Expo
sition at Buffalo. IdahO's appropria-
ton for an exhibit is $4,000.
Emperor William made a formal de-
position In the Schloss before a repre-
sentative of Bremen criminal court
regarding the recent attack upon him
In Bremen by Dietrich Woland.
United States Ambassador Choatc
ters to Great Britain presented their
Cr 10 Etnry 1vayo vsd ot hort-
borough house on the 18th instant.
Mr.. Carnegie has given an additionAl
10000 to the Atlanta library bearing
his name. This makes Mr.. Carnegle's
total appropriation $145,OOO. The IL
brary will be dedicated early in May.
John Henderson, the negro who out
ragged and murdered Mrs. Younger at
Corsicana, Texas, was burned at the
stake on the 18th instant, in the pres
ence Of mob of more than 5000 per-
SONS.
George Cadbury. the chocolate manu-
facturer, has presented to the city Of
Birmingham, England, an estate of 416
acres, valued at 100000, upon which
to build houses for the working
classes.
The Cattle Raisers' Association of
Texas adop1d n resolution earnestly
recommending that Congress provide
an assistant to the secretary Of agri-
culture TO have charge of the livestock
interests OF the country.
Nothing since the Worlds Fair ut
Chicago In 1893 has elected the wide
spread interest that is manifest in the
Pan-American Exposition. which is to
be held in Buffalo, from May to No
vember /, 1901.
The famous Algodones land grant,
embracing $4,000 acres of rich land,
near Tucson, Arizona, was thrown
open to settlement March 18th. There
was a considerable crowd In line at the
land office and several hundred loca-
tons were made.
The bill appropriating $1,O0o.O 100 for