Mesa free press., 1901-02-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
Covering Every County and Many De-
partment Subjects
FOR INTERESTED READERS
Who Enjoy their Information in a Con.
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Busy to Read Long and Useless Re-
rorts OF Space Writers.


Young Mems Christian Association.
The secretary to Mr.. Kruger tele-
graphs that the report about Mr.. Krug-
er being sick is invention. The presi-
dents health, he adds, Is very salts
factory.
The estate of the late Philip D. Ar
mour, according to a petition for let
ters testamentary filed in probate
court, is valued at $15,000,000. OF this
$14 100000 is realty.
Miss Pauline Astor, daughter of Will
liam Waldorf Astor, has been engaged
to the Duke of Roxburghe. Miss AS
tor is but eighteen, and an only daugh-
ter. The Duke is twenty-five years
old.
1t is now rumored that the Morgan
| Hartman Vanderbilt railroad syndi-
cate is planning to buy out the Pull
man car company and absorb, SO far
as possible, all the private car COM
panies
The Armour institute is not inclu-
ded among the legatees of the bene-
factors will. but it is said Mr.. Ar
mour made provisions for the future of
the institute by transferring property
before his death.
The coinage statement of January
shows the total coinage executed at
the mints of the United States during
the month was SIS 5,523,6 $50, as follows:
Gold, $12, ,657, 200; silver, $2,713, 900;
minor coins, $153, ,480.
The output of United States postage
stamps at the bureau of engraving and
printing during January was the lar
gest in the history of the government,
the total number being 504,676,615, of
which 9,564,84O we're put up in the lit
tie book form.
Representative Jones of Washing
ton has introduced in the House a bill
providing that after Jan. l. 1903. no
foreign vessel should enter any port
Of the United States carrying prod
ucts other than the products of the
country whose flag she flies.
The Peru government has granted
monopoly of the pearl fishery on the
coast of the state of Piura, between
Point Moro and Huacana inlet. The
government for three years is to re-
ceive tenth Of the gross output OF
the fisheries, and afterward is to re-
ceive a fifth.
Charles Duncan, representing Pres
ident Mitchell, made beginning in
settling the coal strike at the mass
meeting in Louisville. The miners
ratified the contract with the inde-
pendent companies on the basis of a
1O-cents-a-ton, increase recommended
by the committee.
The severe weather continues
throughout Germany. The damage
seems to have been greatest in the
east Frisian districts. Lear and En-
den, where ice foes have wrought
enormous injury, although there has
been little loss of life. The new har-
Dor at Lear has been destroyed.
Announcement that formidable
filibustering expedition is soon to
leave Santiago, Cuba, for Venezuela
has been made at San Juan by the
Venezuelan consul. He declares it
will be led in person by Ignacio An
drade, formerly president, who was
overthrown by General Castro in the
last revolution.
After searching six months for the
oldest persons in the world, the COM
mittee on vital statistics of the Hun
dred Year Club of New York has pre-
pared a report which shows that the
oldest man is Izae Rodofsty Of Mos
COW, Russia, who is in his 136th year,
and the oldset woman is Mrs. Nancy
Hollifield of Battle Greek, Mich, who
is 1T.
The report of the legislative COM
mittee of the State Of Indiana. which
has visited the State institutions, has
been filed with the Governor. The
report charges that Mrs. Sarah Keeley,
superintendent of the Indian school,
has been guilty of stripping girls naked
and 1ogging them with machine
lashes on their bare backs. The re-
port also charges cruel treatment in
other ways.
After the passage of the army re-
organization bill Secretary Root will
cable permission to Maj.-Gen. Mac
Arthur to organize ten regiments Of
Filipino Infantry and cavalry. This
action will be taken upon the recon-
mendation of the Taft commission. The
commission says that while the Amer
ican saldiers are unsurpassed in war,
they don't make the best policemen in
the Philippines. Native troops in the
main, the commission believes, should
be differed by Americans.
Walter McAllister, William A. Death
and Andrew J. Campbell, who were
found guilty of murder in the second
degree for the killing of Jennie Bois-
chieter on October 1S, 1900. by the ad-
ministration of choral. and of subse-
quent rape, were sentenced by the
court as follows: McAlister, Camp
bell and Death were each sentenced
to thirty years Imprisonment at hard
labor and Kerr to fifteen years i'm
prisonment at hard labor. The SEN
tences are the full terms of imprison-
ment which the law provides.
New Concentrating Plant.
The big building that is to cover
IL II.