The Meeker herald., 1903-09-26
short reLeoaAms.

Six inches OF snow 1ell al over Iei7
lowstone park on the 18th and 18Th
inst.
Recent heavy rains have done great
damage to the hay and grain crops In
Eastern Washington.
The 15,OOO-ton armored cruisel
Maryland was launched at Newport
News. Va. September 18th.
otto Sarony, the famous portrait
photographer, OF New York city. died
OF lung disease on the 18th inst.
Rear Admiral ONeil. chief of ord
nance will ask for SIS 100000 for ord
nance In the navy for the next fiscal
year.
Count Tolstoi celebrated his seventy
| NTH birthday on September 18th. at
| home among his children. He was In
| excellent health.
The board of regents of the Nebras-
ka state university have decided to
locate an agricultural experiment sta
ton at North Platte.
| It is reported at Deadwood that the
Rothschilds have offered $35. 900 600 for
the famous Homestake gold mine, own
ed by the Hearst estate.
The Rev. Robert Benson. son OF the
| late archbishop of Canterbury. who
died In 1896, has been received into the
| Roman Catholic Church.
Four students of the technical high
! school of Stuttgart. Germany, have
! been sentenced to three months deten-
ton in fortress for dueliing.
Rear Admiral Francis A. Cook. who
commanded the Brooklyn at Santiago,
| was retired on his own application
| September 18th after forty years ser
vice.
/ Two earthquake shocks were felt at
Portland, Ore, on the afternoon OF
September 18th. No damage was done,
although the largest brick buildings
were shaken quite severely.
The Anaconda group of mines at
Butte closed for two months pending
alterations in the big Washoe smelter.
resumed operations September 10Th.
The mines employ 5000 men.
Heroic work on the part of nurses
and attendants prevented a serious loss
of life in fire that started from de-
fective fiue in the Keogh Wright hos
pital at Salt Lake. The loss will not
, exceed $4,000.
Lieut.. Colonel Charles G. Treat
4
and Capt. James X. Thompson. Fiji
teenth infantry. have been detailed as
umpires during the army maneuvers at
Fort Riley, Kansas.
Some time will probably elapse be-
fore the meeting of the Venezuelan ar
bitration tribunal at The Hague. as the
Associated Press is informed that the
Gar has asked for two months In
t,h he
Augusta. Wis. was greatly damaged
by cloudburst September 18th. Abb
botsford. Medford, Chelsie. Merrill.
Mondova. Unity and Glenwood are
among the other points in Wisconsin
that suffered from heavy floods.
Ralph Mcbride. aged seventeen. died
at Button. Iowa. on the 18th instant
as the result of Initiation into high
school secret society. The grand jury
returned indictments against nine stu
dents In connection with the AFFAIR.
1t having been stated that President
Roosevelt had objected to meeting Sir
Thomas Upton at dinner OF the Sea-
wanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club. the
president wrote a letter to the chair
man OF the club trustees denying the
report.
Francis v. Benque. arrested on COM
plant of federal authorities on a
charge of having written threatening
letters to Secretary Hay, has been com
mitted to the Manhattan state asylum,
| Wards Island, having been found par
TALLY insane.
| President Loubet recently paid an
| unusual compliment to the wife OF
! Senator Lodge by placing his box at
/ the opera at her disposal. General
| Brusere, commander-ir-chief of the
army, sat with Senator Lodge and wife
in the box Throughout the evening.
The ivy on Massachusetts, and Harv-
ard halls at Harvard college, that on
, the former dating probably from the
| building of the hall. in 1920. has been
| cut down to the roots for the purpose
Of stimulating the growth. The dust
! and dirt of almost two centuries had
to be scraped on diligently before the
! bricks became visible.
Tho Board of Inquiry into the
charges of cruelty formulated against
Major Robert l.. Howse through Major
Hunter. has finished hearing testi'
mony at Manila, and adjourned. 1t viii
later consider the arguments offered OF
| both sides of the case. at the close o.
| which the records will be sent tt
Washington for final adjudication.
At Cleveland. o.. September 18th tn,
trotting mare Lou Dillon. paced by tive
running horses and driven by Willard
Sanders, lowered to 2:5 the high sulk,
trotting record Of 2:sA made by Maut
s. In 1885. The sulky used weighe,
fifty-tWo pounds. eight pounds NOR
than the sulky used by Maud s. TIL
sulky was not ball bearing. but CT thu
old axle type.
The secret service has received
new counterfeit $40 National Bani
note on the Mechanics National Banl
of New Bedford. Mass. The series is o
1882, check letter B, charter No. 743
Bruce. register, wyman. treasurer Q