Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-02-08
NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Congress will investigate the Reading railroad strike. Col. Mapleson. the great opera man. ager. has failed. More small pox on steamers arriving in San Francisco. The ice gorge Tn the Mississippi, at St Louis has broken. Jem Smith wants to fight Sullivan in May for L,I,ooo 2 side.
 The fire in the Calumet and Hecla mine Is said to De dying out
 Denis kesrney has given a congress s;onal committee sample of his jaw.
 The price of coffee IS steadily going down, under the prospect of ar abund- ant crop.
 Russia. following the example of Ger many. has placed an embargo on Amer ican pork
 The Southern Pacific companys pay roll Tn Sacramento amounts to $4oo, 900 Der month.
 An explosion IT a Cleveland powder mill killed the engineer and wrecked the mil completely.
 McCaffrey and Dempsey fought ten rounds Tn Jersey City recently, the latter being the winner.
 From May to November HOO car loads of fruit were shipped from Cali fornia to the east.
 L. w. Harmon, prominent attorney of Peoria. Illinois, has been indicted for land frauds, Tn Colorado.
 The governor of Virginia has ordered out the militia 10 stop the Hatfield Mccoy .eud Tn that state.
 An English syndicate has just pur- chased 5o,oo acre tract of land in the state of Cohuls, Mexico.
 4 boiler explosion occurred in Arr old's saw mil near Belmont, Ohio, killing the owner and SIX employees
 The wife of Jos. Macklin, now in Joliet prlsou for fine work" ID the Chi cago election, IS working for his par don.
 A man was robbed Of $500 in the gallery of the California theater, recently just previous to the commencement of the play.
 em Smith has announced hat the will accept the challenge of Sullivan, provided Sullivan will agree to many conditions
 Twelve hundred convicts in Sing Sing have been throw out of employment for want of an appropriation for manufac,ur- ing in prison.
 Two cowboys named Arthur and Potts. attempted to run the town of Buffalo Gap. The citizens turned out in frll force and killed both os them.
 Tte house committee on mines and mining has agreed to report ;avorably a bill providing tor investigating the mir ing debris question in the state of Cali fornia
 The Boston Transcript says they are digging for locomotives up Tn New Hampshire now, and they find good many of them, twelve Tn one drift above Boscawen
 The London geographical society has ssued circular urging British mer- chants and ship owners to combine for he purpose of dlspatching two steamers 10 the south pole this summer.
 The remains of pr. Frank We,zel, the Chicago suicide. were cremated yester- lay Five pounds of ashes were taken rom the retort. The process of incin- .ration occupied three hours.
 A Guelph, Ont. special says the Cul- en bank has suspended and IS a con- ,lete wreck. All the assets in sight are nortgased, and the depositors and cred tors get nothing Liabilities, $4,ooo, ooo; lsss,s. $25o,ooo.
 Charles Arbuckle, the wealthy New York coffee merchant. has filed a notice # appeal to the supreme court from the judgment obtained against him by Miss Campbell in the recent famous breach ,f promise suit
 The second trial of Robert F. Nor ow. the San Francisco millionaire, who ]