Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-12-12
NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS.

 NEWS, NOTES AND coMMEnTs.
 John Bright IS seriously i'll.
 The railroad trust has burst.
 Diptheria IS epidemic in Albuquer- que.
 New York chronicles five suicides in single day.
 A new navy yard is to be built at Pu- get sound.
 An attempt to form drug trust has just failed in Chicago
 Dorinick McCafffey has issued a challenge to igh, Sullivan.
 Ex.S,ate Senator Mcclure, one cf California's leading lawyers, IS dead.
 Texas increased her democratic ma iori,y ever that of 1884 by over 4,ooo votes.
 Kilrain announces that he will accept SullIvan's challenge to fight him for $Io,ooo.
 The output of the beet sugar factory at Watsonville, Cal, tor last week was 300 tons day.
 The Golden Gate Athletic club, of San Francisco, will off.r $5,25o for Dempsey and Mitchell to fight.
 Rev. W. L. Parker, rector of Christ Episcopal church of oswego. N. Y.. committed suicide on the 7th inst.
 Mra. Shell, of Chicago. offers a re- ward of $5o,ooo for the arrest of Tas- colt, the murderer of her husband.
 The furnaces of the great Anaconda copper mine in Montana have closed down throwing I,5oo men out of em- mcnt.
 A condition of eutlawry exists at Bo- vier, Missouri, and Governor Morehouse has been appealed to for aid in suppres-. sing it.
 Among the students at Princeton col lege is one 72 years old. He is study ing for the ministry, and expects to graduate this term.
 A woman ef Huntington, Conn.,. who is only thirty years of age has had nine husbands, and yet it IS said that marriage is failure.
 King Milan has returned to Queen Natalie all the presents he formerly made to her but had taken back and has granted her one million francs.
 Fred Douglass recently registered at Leavenworth hotel to see if he would be denied room as guest. Greatly to his astonishmeut he was taken in and charged S Per day.
 It is rumored that Jay Gould has pnr- .Is.,,-fuPcKa ~ Sznta Fe railroad, thus giving hlm through line from the At. lantic to the Pacific.
 Word comes from Wheeling w. Va, that live bat has been found there i'm bedded in solid rock in a crevice just big enough to contain it, and utterly shut away from the outside world.
 The amount of forfeited bail inlthe criminal courts of New York City for the last twenty years figures up over $3,ooo, 900. Much of it could be col lected but for political influence.
 Some one who went through the dormitory at Vassar college found only one bedstead without cud of gum stick ing on the headboard. They ought to suspend her for being eccentric.
 The public debt of France is now over $8,Ooo, COG, 900 and taxation is so high that everybody is growing and finding fault. The government must l have another billion for the army. how ever.
 Gum chewers should take warning rom the fate of Newton, Conn.,, girl, lged sixteer. A piece of gum slipped town her throat, and lodging at the en- rance to the stomach, caused a fatal ul- :eration.
 If every criminal convicted was given he full extent of the law, says Inspector 3yrnes, ''crime would decrease in five ears so that every police force could pare half its men. The fault lies en- rely with the judges"
 It issaid that the great oil fields of Jew York and Pennsylvania are rapidly ecoming exhausted. The supply has llien from 100, ,ooo to 43.ooo barrels CT day. Search is being made for new elds.
 A man in New Brunswick has dis layed strange taste about dying. He ug his grave, lowered his coffin, got in nd took dose of poison, and then nlled the string 10 landslide. which upon him.
 The constitution ot Cesta Rica pre- lbes hospitality to strangers as sa- ed duty. and declares citizenship to be rfeited by ingratitude to parents. aban- ,nment of wife or children, and peslect the obligations due to family. William Spear, farmer living in Wal 't Bend. Cook county. Tex. suddenly ;