The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1904-04-08
GENERAL NEWS.
Squibs Pertaining to Current
Events Transpiring DUR
ing Past Pew Days.

WHO WAS NOIhluR at Nuo 1Ohbug hiIo,
There is considerable talk about the
affair, some saying it was a cold-blood-
ed murder and others claiming the
officer was justified Meldrum had a
preliminary hearing and was bound
over to the district court under $40, 900
bond,
A Springfield, O., dispatch says; "The
Farmers Cooperative Harvesting Ma
chinery and Implement company in
tends to incorporate next week with a
capital of s5,000,000. The shops which
will eventually employ 400O men, are to
be built here and manufacture agricul
tural implements. The National Grande
is backing the project which results
from dissatisfaction with the Harvester
combine"
At Columbus, o., while the family of
B. Wilson, president Of the Columbus
National bank, we're at dinner last night
negro sneak thief entered the house
and took jewelry worth $4,000 and
made his escape,
All eyes are now on Colorado and
should the battle between capital and
labor continue there will be no need of
war correspondents leaving the United
8 tates.
That some Kansas women have little
to do will be seen from the following
dispatch from Wichita, Kas: "Some
women at party tonight discussed the
Reed Smoot affair and varied thei
proceedings by hanging the Utah senat-
or in eftigy." They might better be at
home raising babies
The penalty for the crime which
Senator Burton was convicted OF is
fine of $4,000 or two years in the peni.
tentiary.
A Scranton dispatch Of March 81 says:
Through an explosion in squibs
factory at Pricebarg, a few miles from
Scranton, fourteen girls we're killed, the
majority OF them being 30 badly mang-
led that it was with great difficulty that
they we're Unidentified. Six bodies have
ID heer, taSeR ,gc. 'Ha l4i'G.ls. the
explosion, it is thought, was caused by
one Of the girls throwing squibs into
stove"
About 1850 miners are on a strike in
Iowa, and every mine in thai state is
closed.
The citizens Of Slbee, Tex made
determined attempt on April to drive
all the negros from that section. The
attack on three white men by gang
of negroes was the cause.
Roswell, y. NJ. had $1,000 fire last
week.
Three men held up the Oregon ex-
press near Copley Calf, last Friday,
They took human life without proVoca.
tion and the methods they used in open.
Ing the safe we're so crude th4t they
gained little plunder for their work. 1t
was the work Of novices.
Roosevelt thinks Parker will be bis
opponent,
Mother Jones is now 10 Glennwood
Springs, Colo, and will menace eur
rounding camps,
Oliver W. Stewart, Prohibition ma
tional chairman, says. "Gen, Miles has
an excellent record az canteen opposer
In the army, but unless he becomes q
pruhibitionist he will not be named al
the head of our ticket. He has as yei
never affiliated with our party. We
shall put out all entire ticket, and i
will be good one."
Chairman Griggs Of the Democratic
congressional committe resigned his po
sition yesterday Representative Cow
herd of Missouri will probably be bis
successor.
One of the largest mining deals coseC
In New Mexico for years was concluded
at 1erre Haute, Ind., last Monday b.
the sale of the famous Graphic, ldah
Hill and Contact mines at Magdalena
Sorroco county, for sl75,OOo to W. H
Cottington. The deal was negotiate
by G. I. Brown and A. B. Fitch. Th
mines have been the largest lead pro
ducers in New Mexico, but lately hav
produced more zinc, which is bein
shipped to Joplin, Mo- for treatthen
The new owners will erect large col
centrating works.
At St. Louis last Monday the con
mittee on srrangettents 1 the Demo
cratic national corhtittee t4et at ii
Southern hotel. Everything pHss7b
was arranged with view Of fightenir
the labors Of the committee in ptepa
Fog for the Democratic national conta
zion.
A delicate operation was perfortne
upon a eeyen .yegr old boy named No
dan F. Ant OF New York city last Tue
day. His heart was trausplanted fro
the right side Of his body to its prop
place on the left side. All his life Il
little fellow has been living with hea
that hae been swinging from the rigl
side of his breast to the left, hike II
pendulum Of clock
The New Mexican says; "a five-yea
old San Juan Indian girl, the daught
N Francisco Attencio. died yesterda