Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-10-17
NEWS. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Chicago street car strikers are riotous in their demonstrations.
 There are now more Chinsmen in the Sandwich Islands than native male Hawaiians.
 Florida physicians say that cigar smok ing is shield against the attacks oI the yellow fever.
 By collision of two excursion trains near Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, eighty people were killed.
 A man named Gall has been admitted to the bar in McP Pherson county Kansas He ought to succeed.
 Joseph Jefferson has more than 2,ooo head of cattle, mostly thoroughbreds, on big Louisiana plantation.
 The Utah Mormon church property has been confiscated and the church corporation has been dissolved.
 Anschlag, the murderer of Mir. and Mrs. Hitchcock, near Santa Ala. Cal, is to be hanged November 10th.
 A Buffalo teacher of chemistry IS re ported to have discovered a method oi refining Ohio petroleum, which until now has refused to give up its extra charge of sulphur.
 Harrison C. Cross. of Emporia. Kans.. and George A. Eddy, of Leav- enwoith, Kans, have been appointed receivers for the Missouri, Kansas x Texas railway.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe, tn ough by no means we'll, is Tn much better condition than she was before her recent serious illness. Her recovery has astonished her physicians.
 Albany is considering the subject of erecting a crematory for turning gar bage Chicago, Milwaukee and Mon treal have adopted the system and Phil d ephia is making preparations. One of i..e natural ouriosit,cs at Ante lops creek, m Bot. c;ees valley, Mon tana. ah0ut 2 mile fsom the residence of w. Bray. is cave which contains supeiior ice al the year round.
 Arrangements between the Union Pacific and the Wabash railways have been comp!sted for running a through train uf brife, sltepers lrom Denver to St. Louis over these in.s without chang ing.
 onsres .l.>n Vindaver. of Califor- nia ch.I4ct,rzld the presidents mes sage accvmp-ny,ng hls approval of the Chinese oxc.,.ss::cE. 5:l. as al apology to the Chinese government for his act ap. proving 1t.
 Halifax claims to be the healtbiess city on the continent, the death rate the past year has been lower than in any other American city. Not single case of dyhptheria has been reported within the last six months.
 The depot hotel at Los Vegas was burned Saturday morning. The guests and employees narrowly escaped with thelr lives, losing money, jewelry and clothing. The loss on the building and furniture is $I7, ooo It was insured for $7, 900.
 A Baltimore telegram says: The entire family, seven in number, of D.. Treeo Sher,zer, of this city, were at tackled with lead poisoning last nigh, the result of drinking milk which had stood for ,hirty-six hours in a new milk can. Each of the patients symptoms were nausea and vomiting. followed by cramps in the stomach and headachr. None of the cases will prove fatal.
 The light weigh; championship battle between Jack McAuliffc and Billy Dace, for the Police Gazette diamond belt took place in barn at Dover, N. ]. ca the nth inst. After eleven fierce ana desperate rounds. lasting fortytwo nii'.- 'tcs and forty second, McAulife knocked his man out by terrific left handler on the stemach ani right handed bl " on the ear. thus winning the battle.
 A Rapid C,y, Dakota. telegram of October I3th says: An unsuc- cessfu attempt was made to rob the pay car on the Black Hills X Fot Pierce railroad near Lead City to day. AS the train WIS rounding curve into Reno gulch, the engine plunged into a gap in the track made by the removal of two rails. The train had scarcely been ditched when three masked men assaulted the pay car. Paymaster ". A. Reemer opened fire on the robbers with Winchester, with telling effect. The robbers soon saw that their plan to plander the cars was futile, and st tempted to escape. Two were shot bu, the third get away. One Of the rof,- bers. named John Wilson, was cap tured and Is now in the Deadwood ia,l He is so badly wounded that he canpo' live. Another, named John Clark, is supposed to have died in the woods, from ,he effects of his wounds, IS Wl- son says Clark was seriously wounded. Tbe third robfer, named Johnson, es caped and is beyond pursuit. Nore cf tho railroad men wo 70 ir iuye1