The Meeker herald., 1901-04-13
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dying OF cancer IN London.
Three hundred metal polishers at San
Francisco struck for shorter hours
April LIST.
Five hundred factory girls went out
on strike at ST., Joseph, Missouri,
April LIST.
NJ. waldeck-R osseau, french pre-
mier, is suffering from an abcesB OF
the throat.
The bubonic plague continues its
ravages at Capetown and gives the Of
hcials much concern.
Oxford won the great annual boat
race between Oxford and Cambridge
universities March Both.
The entire wheat and ont crop OF
northern Texas is threatened with de-
struction by the fly pest.
The United States Rubber Company
| has reduced its prices twenty-eight
per cent from those Of 1900.
The trial of James Callahan for COM
pliclty in the abduction Of young Cud-
any will begin April 22d at Omaha.
| The published statement that Lord
Salisbury has symptoms OF brights
disease Is denied by his private secre-
tary.
Five hundred and fifty journeymen
painters and decorators Mt CINCINNATI
struck for an eight-hour day on the LIST
of April.
The Jefferson hotel at Richmond, Viz
| ginia, burned on the night of March
18th. Its cost WAS 100000 and 1t
was insured for $65O,00O.
Medical Director William T. Hord
died at Washington April LIST at the
age Of seventy. He had been in the
naval service for forty years.
The capital of the United States Steel
Corporation has been increased to $1,-
1OO,OOOOOO. The state of New Jersey
received fee of $4,000 for the Hing
of the papers.
Sir Thomas Upton feels confident OF
winning the All Americas cup this
summer with his new yacht sham
rock IL. He expects to sail for Ameri-
ca about June 18th.
Governor Dietrich of Nebraska, ex-
poets to resign Mt an early date to ac-
cept the office Of United States senator
for the short term, to which he was re-
Gently elected.
Three expert biologists from the I'm
tied States survey have been detailed
to make geological and mineral recon-
noissance of the island Of Cuba, whose
government will pay the expense.
Petroleum in large quantities 10 re
ported to have been discovered at
Greenville, Clay county, Iowa, and
people are gathering in great num-
bers. This is the first oil discovered
in Iowa.
1t is believed at the Indian office In
Washington that the recent reported
trouble with Nayajos In southern Utah
or,5 rnr%borp rjynpo vUaa drIc tn fhA
encroachment Of white miners on the
reservation. 8
Two tons of American hags have
been contracted for in Chicago to b
taken to Porto Rico and erected ON the
school buildings. 1t Is proposed o.
erect a flag over every school house on
the island before July 4th.
The official Gazette Of the City 81
Mexico has published denial u tn
announcement made In various 1eexi-
can newspapers that President Dtax
has asked permission to 60 to Europe
for the benefit of his health.
The secretary of agriculture. has sent
dairy experts to Japan and China Tor
the purpose of introducing American
dairy products In the markets OF the.
China sea. and another to the Carib-
bean sea for the same purpose.
Tom L. Johnson, the noted slngle-tax
advocate, who has just been elected
mayor Of Cleveland, Ohio. says that hs
shall fight, without giving or accept
ing quarter" for municipal ownership
of street railways and Scent fare.
Alfred T. Patrick Is again on trial
in New York charged with causing the
death of Millionaire Rice last Septem-
Der. Patrick is also alleged to have
! aA1, = A. vrSrH
porting to have been signed by Rice.
Harry Adamson Lund, whose
strange disappearance from the steam
ship Eddy in New York two years ago
created a sensation, has turned up in
| Nanalmo, British Columbia, where he
has been working In the mines for
some time.
Colonel A. X. Mcclure has an
nounced his retirement from the edi-
torial direction of the, Philadelphia
Times. Colonel Mcclure began his
journalistic work over fifty-eve years
ago, as the editor of a weekly paper
in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
r. l.. Pease, vice president of the
Exchange National Bank at Atchison,
Kansas, died March 10Th. He was one
nf the operators of the Holiday stage
line between Atchison and Salt Lake
in the early days, and later was an
extensive star route contractor.
In North Carolina the attempt to i'm
peach Chief Justice Fuchs of the SUI
preme Court and Associate Judge
Douglas failed through inability to Sc
cure two-tbirds vote for impeach-
ment. 1nere were twenty seven votes
for conviction and twentythree for ac-
quittal.
A fire in the main building Of the
Jacob Dodd Packing Company's plant
at Kansas City. March goth, destroyed
100000 worth of property. The
building was burned in 1892 and i'm