The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1901-05-11
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n, National Congress- Of Nothess
viii meet in Columbus. Ohio. May 21st
10 24A. ~ a.o
Adslbert Hay, son Of the secretary
II state, has resigned ~ United States
sonsul! general At Pretoria.
Cnades Moore. . well-known stock
man and brother Of Mrs. Carrie Ma
ton. ded at Lewisburg. Kansas. April
9Th.
TweAty or more persons are report
cd to have been killed by = snowslide
at suntise City. Alaska.
Venezuela has apoloEised for the ar
rest of United States Consular Agent
Bais and the incident IL closed.
D, b. Thompson. the new editor OF
the Northwestern Christian Advocate
at Chicago, is q layman. He had been
associate editor OF the Advocate for
some time. r,.
The War Department is making eff
forts to have the recognized standing
army fully oflcered and equipped and
emitted to the strength Of $4,000 by
August LIST.
An American concern has secured
the contract for mill locomotives re-
Gently ordered by the Calcutta port
commissioners. despite active Euro
.pean competition.
It IL reported that an immense vol
ume Of counterfeit silver dollars has
been circulated among the boomers
on the border OF the Kiowa and Co
manche country. in Oklahoma.
ons ct the last acts of the President
before leaving the White House on his
tour was the signing Of tho commits
sion u Mr.. Pruden. one Of his assist.
ant secretaries, rs = major and pay
master.
The position Of general superintend-
ent Of normal schools for the Philip
pines, at a salary Of $4,000 year. has
been offered to Elmer Burnett Bryan.
professor Of philosophy and pedagogy
at Indtana.
Carte Henderson. 1903 years old.
who went to Montana with the frst
rush fbr gold. IL dying at Helena. She
worked as slave with Fred Douglass
in the South before the Civil War and
at oneatime had fortune.
The Abbott woman suffrage bill.
granting women the right to vote in
elections, was killed in the
lower house of the Illinois Legisla-
ture. he enActing clause being strick.
en- OUT by viva voce vote.
Steihen A. Weltmer and Joseph H.
Kelly former president and secretary
of tha Weltmer Institute of Magnetic
Healing ut Nevada. Missouri, who
pleaded guilty to using the mails to
defrah. were each hned $500.
Chijhgo manufacturers of clothing,
representing an aggregate capital Of
from Bis .000, Uvv to $20,000,000. met
April e5th and decided to form an as
sociat}on which will combine with
similsf bodies throughout the United
Stated
Tho Rosebud mine at Aurora. Mis-
souri,Icaved in Friday and buried nve
men h depth OF no feet. It may be
moth before the men can be
reached. They are Grant and VIII.
shane. Elmer bislsr. John Gillian and
Feester.
The new comet observed ut the
Yerkes observatory April 27th 10 said
by the astronomers to be the bright
est that has appeared for nineteen
years. II was discovered at Queens
town. April 2srd. and observed At
Cape Of Good Hope April 25th.
An oil eusher was struck April 30th
1t Sulphur. Louisiana, forty-hye miles
east OF Beaumont. Texas. on the
Southern Pacific railway. The oil IL
heavy and black in appearance. and
when II broke loose 1t went to the top
Of the derrick, sixty feet high.
The United States Court Of Appeals
At st. louis has decided that the fact
that an employe remains In the en-
ploy Of q company when he well knows
that risk 10 assumed by SO doing.
does not relieve the employer of the
responsibility I. accidents occur.
The NTH international convention
of the Epworth League Of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church will be held at
San Francisco July 18th to 21st.
Bishops Warren and Cranston will be
among the speakers and music will be
provided by a trained chorus of 1000
vDices.
Suit has been instituted against the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Company for $250.000 damages by
forty.four claimants alleged to have
O6en 10JuT6u III Tue WIEN az ACp0ACs
Wisconsin. June oath last year. All
are residents of Oshkosh. Menasha
and Fon du Lac.
The figures OF the treasury bureau
Of statistics indicate that the coal ex-
ports Of the fiscal year. which ends
June goth. win amount to about 8,0O0,-
900 tons, as against less than 100000
tons in 1890, 3,772.192 tons in 1895 and
7,1Ss,64S tons in 1900. These figures
are exceeded only by England and
Germany.
At a meeting held in New York
April 30th an agreement was reached
which will bring the greatest ship
building concerns Of this country
under one management. H. E. Hunt
ington is said to be the president, and
l. M. Scott, president Of the Union
Iron Works at San Francisco, will be
vice president.
The California Supreme Court has
n1n In hn mill