Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-11-07
NEWS, NOTES AND comMgxrs.

NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS. Mormons are being nomInally ex-' pelIed from the church m Idaho to qualify them to take the test oath re- quired by law.
 The largest and oldest tree in the world IS a chestnut near the foot of Mt. Etna. The circumference of the main trunk is PIP feet.
 A turkey gobbier at Darlington, $. C., sat upon some Guinea foul eggs, hatched brood of chickens. and Is now taking proper care of them.
 Andy Fulton, who has large ranch twenty miles from Denver. was shot and seriously wounded by bis wife. Jealousy IS alleged as the cause.
 4 prize fight between Patrick Duffy. of Boston, and Wm. McMillak, of Wash ingtop, took place al the latter city, and was won by Duffy in the seventeenth round.
 Vizitelly, a prominent bookseller of ] London, was tried for publishing the works of NJ. Zola, which were held ny the court to be improper literature, and fined xIoo.
 In the renewed hearing of the A. I. stewart will case in New York, the fact was developed that the estate has been charged $6,SoI for the funeral expenses of the millionaire.
 New Jersey turns out nearly thirty seven million yards of ribbon year, or | about twenty-two thousand seven hun dred and ,hirty-one miles if stretched out in a single line.
 A woman in Maine got divorce from her husband because he went to temperance meetings six days during the week and on Sundays went to church twice.
 Mary Abbott. sixt"en-year-old eir. residing in San Joaquin valley, Cal, has become insane from reading dime novels. Her mania is desire to be- come cowboy.
 It IS believed that Russian oil will ul- timately drive Americpn oil out of Japan. owing to its superiority and to the great influence there oi the firm which has undertaken the business
 H. B. Stone has been appointed sec ond vice president of the C., B. x Q system. E. P. Ripley succeeds Nr. Stone as general manager of the C.. 5. & o. east of the Missouri river. ] John Nutz was detected in setting fire to building a, Salinas City, Cal, and was arrested and imprisoned. Shortly afterward he took dose of laudanum, from the effects of which he died. 1 There is in Socorro, N. M, China
 man who is reported to have amassed Sao,o 900 by the sale of vegetables. The
 rumor getting abroad, robbers entered
 his house and left him poorer by $S5. l According to returns received by the department of agriculture over two hna- dred Mormons have emigrated from l Utah to the Canadian northwest during the past season. They are devotlns
 themselves to cattle raising.
 | A New York girl dropped dead the
 other day, two hours after having be-
 come engaged to he married l. IS SUD-
 posed her death was caused by an st tack of heart disease, brought on bY joy. l For the first time in the history c!
 Washington Territory gambling iu'
 struments, seized by process of iaw,
 were burned in tbe public streets oi
 Tacoma. October I9th, h the presence
 of the officers of the court and larse
 number cf cltRens.
 ] The Pittsburg Chrouicle-Telegraph
 prints letter from young American
 m London giving the theory and the
 results of the investigation of detective
 in the White Chapels murders, that Ge- clares that the crime was commits ed
 by a woman or man dressed IT. wo-
 mans clothes.
 The Atchison. Topeka x Santa Fe com
 pany are havng an immense passenger locomotive built at the Hlnokley works,
 in Boston, which will be the largest pas senger locomotive ever built. Al! the
 wheels are paper, Nith steel tires. 1t IS
 expected to make eighty miles an hour
 e------------~AAAaaAr- on an ordinary
 There are 7oo men Tn the world worth
 over S5,ooo, ,ooo each. Of these over
 POO reside in Great Britain. 100 in the
 United States, 100 in Germany and
 Austria, $ in France, 50 in Russla, 5o
 in India, and r25 in other countries. Jay Gould Is put down as the ric5est oi 1 all, the value of his estate being es,i-
 mated at $775. .ooo,ooo'
 l During the progress of a islander suit in court at Fresno, California. trouble arose between Robert Seconce and a man named Hardwick over the test mony given by the tormer and Hard wick shot and fatally wounded Seconce The latter'S brother m return shot Hardwick. Both wounded men died Negotiations have hecn completed 1 with Charles C. Bowr, sn cx-new pa- per man, la'meriy 0, Duiuth, fyr the 1 purchase of q two thirds irteres, l. his newly inverted cCmbln4li 'n spring alr cushion for freight ard passenger cars. MT. Brown receives S7o, GOO in cash on January 2, next A larae offer for the remaining third was refused by the in- vtntoi.
 The steam whaler B5sshtr arrived al San Francisco from tne Arctic and brought information thlt whalcs- with their crews of about Sco rsn, which were caught Tn ar ic- pack the las, of September are safe. October 2d. after the vessel had been Imprisoned nine days a gale sprung up and the ice began to break. The whaling captains took the first opportunity to release their vessels and in day or two all were safely out.
 There were I9,9Iz patents issued last