Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-07-25
NEWS. morEs AND commEN1s.


 Cholera IS raging in China. Albuquerque has frog farm. James C. Blaine will leave for home August Ist.
 Sheidan's symptoms have taken an unfavorable turn.
 One of the Chicago Anarchists has made confession. Anew and rich oil territory has been found near Pittsburg. Mills anti tariff bill has been reported fsvorably to the house. The Bell telephone monopoly is pay ing 26 per cent dividends. The wool clip of New Mexico is esti- mated at I6, 900, 900 pounds. It Is estimated that the floods in Mex lco involves loss of $S. .ooo, 900.
 The senate has confirmed Fullers nomination by vote of 41 to 20.
 Editor and Eloper Moore has escaped from the custody of the Kansas officers.
 Anarchists have broken out in Chi cago again and three arrests have been made.
 A volcanic eruption has occurred in Japan by which 400 were killed and LOGO injured.
 Another boycott has been inaugura.ed against the Chicago, Burlington < Quincy railroad.
 The national teachers association IS in session in San Francisco Arizona IS we'll represented.
 All right and interest in Edison's pho nograph has been sold to an English syndicate for $25o,ooo.
 Twelve years ago mad dog hut D .vid Ashley. of PlatsviIe. Neb Las, week he died of hydrOphobIa.
 Alex Goldenson, the murderer of Mamie Kelly. has been sentenced to be hanged on September I4'h.
 A New York merchant estimates that 5000, 900 bushels of peanuts were con- sumed in this country last year.
 More than $Io, GOO, 900 worth of oys- ters were shipped from Maryland to all parts of tn, world this season.
 In Burlington, N. l., within one block there is said to live ,hirty-two widows. It is an attractive but dangerous place.
 So far this season American farmers have sent 90. ooo,o 900 bushels of wheat and flour as wheat ,U foreign countries.
 There are ahOut 1000, 900 hcg-ralsers in the country and the 46,ooO,o 900 hogs raised are estimated to- be worth $I96,- ooo.ooo.
 MT. Langry. father of Lillie, died worth $25. His theatrical daughter is more fortunate. She is reported to be worth $a5o,ooo.
 As a complimentary recognition ofher executive ability, the Empress Lowager, of China, has been asked to occupy the throne with the emperor.
 Grand Rapids, Mlch.. IS the great fur niture making center of the United States. It has forty-two furnitu facto. ries, which employ over I2,ooo men.
 Tramps are..usually pennlless, but not always. One arrested at Lancaster, Pa, had in his pocket over $5.ooo. He said 1t was an heirloom that had come down to him from former generation.
 The new government cruiser, Charles ton. built by Irving M Scott x Co, San Francisco, was launched last week. This is the first vessel of the kind ever built on the Pacific coast.
 Japan has 25o newspapers, 1000 miles of railroad, and 2,ooo or 5000 miles of telegraph line. A Japanese reporter collect news, but does not in every case write It. He tells what he knows to new writers.
 Portable electric lights, arranged to hang on the button of ones coat, and with parabolic reflector t concentrate the light. with storage batteries weighing 1H pounds each, are made to enable persons to read in railroad cars by night
 On the farm of w. D. Smith. near Grove City, Penn, flock of seventy five sheep congregated under one tree to seek shelter from a thunderstorm. Sat urdsy week. A flash of lightning struck the tree and killed the entire lot Stating the matter on cash basis. the use of natu al gas has conferred on Pitts burg an annui,p of $6, GOO which at 6 per cent. represents a capital of $Ioo, ooo.o 900 placed at the disposal of the fortunate owners of that favorite locality. The Rev. James Jasper, the colored preacher of Richmond whose views on l the sun have made him celebrated. has preached since I84o. He was slave when he professed Christianity. and his first religious labor was performed among his fe ellow-workmen in a Rich mond tobacco factory.