The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-08-30
News Items.

Republican newspapers.
 In fight between the insurgents and the Spanish cavalry, near Puerto Principe, Cuba, the former were beaten The Spanish lost Sl insurgents, II.
 Details have been received at Washington of the recent battle between the Pawnees and Sioux. The Pawnees were surprised by one Sioux 100 men, women and chil- dren were killed and scaped, and the dead and dying were thrown into heap and burn- ed in a most barborous manner Only six of the Sioux were killed.
 X despatch from Fort Scott, Kansas, says shat mob of 100 men had taken possession of the county seat of Linn, and threaten to hang the Sheriff unless he delivers up Killar' the man who, a few days before, murdered bis wife and two children and his wife's sis ter, and then burned their bodies. The sherif refused to tell where the prisoner was.
 4 desperate battle was fought near Berga, Spain, on the 10th, and the Republicans were defeated with loss of 200.
 The Peruvian laborers at Lima and Caloa threatened to attack and drive out the Chi nese. The pig tails" are protected by the military.
 An immense land slide occurred sixty miles from Lima, damming up the river log feet above its ordinary level. It is feared that the water breast will burst and flood the lower portions of the city.
 Four towns in Chli have been badly dam aged by earthquakes, and fire at Valparaiso destroyed S5OO,0OO worth of property.
 The horse-shoers of Brooklyn, x. r., are on a strike on account Of reduction in their wages.
 A letter from the Yellowstone expedition, says a stir was created by the arrest of Gen. Custar by Stanley. Custar's men denounce the act as tyranical. Stanley's men sustain the command of Gen. Stanley, who ordered all the liquor in camp to be destroyed.
 The steamer Alabama, thought to have been wrecked off the coast of Ireland, has ar rived safely at New York, and reports the sinking of the bark Abeona, of Liverpool. Eight persons were lost.
 English mail adviccs from New South Wales, say that that Colony has entered into l a contract for mail service between Sydney and Liverpool, via San Francisco.
 Capt. Chisholm reports the killing of three Indians and the capture of the horses stolen in New Mexico, on the 18th of July. The Indians resisted the arrest of the thief and
 nurdarar and ,,nt b;r, e,r,y into tha ,,.o,r tains. Several Indians arc held as hostages for his return.
 | Halifax despatches say the revenue cutter, William Stars, has been wrecked at York Point. All hands lost, II in number.
 George T. Keller, reporter of the Brook lyn Union, and Geo. P. Rowe, a reporter on the Times, (N. Y), were drowned while bathing near Long Island.
 David Hoadly, for IS years President of the Panama Railroad Company, died in New York on the 2lst inst.
 On the 22d, San Francisco brokers wer, selling greenbacks at S7i and buying at s734
 Charles Burroughs, a we'll known gamble in San Francisco, fell down stairs at Congress
 Hall, on the 20th inst, and fractured hi skull. He is reported in dying condition.
 In consequence of the industry in sinking
 oil wells, and the success met with in strik
 ing oil, the production of petroleum, in tn
 United States, has reached the enormou
 amount of B, 900 barrels per day. Contract
 have been made in New York for the deliv
 cry of refined oil in barrels, this fall, at Il cents per gallon. The lowest price eve
 known.
 Henry P. Barber, a lawyer, we'll known il
 California, recently died in San Francisc from paralysis. He was about 50 years c age, and came to California in l8i9. Man residents of Arizona will remember him an , regret his decease.
 ! The wool market in New York and Bosto
 is lively. California wool in large quantitie
 sold, August Is, at from IS to 70 cents pc
 pound, according to quality. All kinds (
 wool are in demand.
 The Mokelumnc stage was robbed Augu' l9, by two masked men. They got S2,6o from the driver and passengers. ,, By the Alton railroad disaster seventee 2 persons were killed and thirty-three wei VI wounded.
 A Washington despatch says the "peace . men will bring strong pressure to bear c
 Grant to induce him to avert the penalty l. death upon the heads of the Modocs. OI army officers assert that he will follow tt . advice of the Attorney General D. It is said that the distribution of prizes
 the Vienna Exposition was very tau ,o affair, only 5000 persons being present. !. A fire in Quebec, August l9, destroyed ., cabinet factory, large amount of lumbe h and two schooners; loss, Sl500O0. ,o The Vienna Exposition awarded prizes Q. Joseph Newman, of California, for cocoon n. to c. G. Watkins, of San Francisco, for ph ., togrsphs to c. P. Kuptel, of California, .. minerals to the Sutro Tunnel Company f