Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-02-01
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS

1
 paper. called the Herald.
 Mrs. Luna. wife Of Tranquilla Luna, of New Mexlro, IS dead.
 Murderer Maxwell feels gloomy over the prospect ct hanging
 lanes F. Wilson has heen reelected as Unted States senator, from Iowa.
 Col. C. W. Mouton brotherln-law of General and Senator Sherman, + dead.
 Denver officials have asked the Rock Island road to make that oits Its ter'hi- nus
 Hon. Joseph hamber!an i' likely 'o succeed Lord Lansdowne as governor general of Canada.
 The income of the Brooklyn Tabfr- nacie lbls year will be about S55,oOc
 from the sale of pews.
 The father Of Dr. Tanner, of fasting fame, Is looking foi property in the Santa Clara valley, Caiitornis. 2 Receiver Dyer, has made demand ior the Mormon tithlng house and church farm property, valued at SI,34o,745.
 Ike Wels, alias the ''B=lfast Spider. : 5nd Tom Miiicr. the 70 naha Bantam, had fight 10 a finish at Minneapolis, recently Miller being knocked out m he seventh round.
 ] POnt:ons uf the Andes seem to be sink ] ing, the altitude of Quito having dlrnin- ished 76 feet Tn I22 years, ard that of another Pee> cIS feet. \ crater nas sunk 425 fec 5 years. ' he senate has just passed a biii, ty a vote of $ to : giving pension of S2,ooo per year to the widow of General 1 Logan bi.l givIn9 ike pension to the widow of Gen f. r. Blair has also passed nat body.
 teorec :. Mcigs, dentist. cousin of OIart.r- Master General Meigs, of Wash mstou, D. C., committed suicide by poison. Extreme nervounesS, loss of practice and Christian science were 'he Contnbutory causes. The Rockville manufacturing com pany. of Rockville, Conn, employing four hundred h 'n6s, went on eight hour time Wednesday, and will remain on that tune until tariff matters are def nnely settled by congress.
 The Birmingham, Alabama. board of trade have adopted resolutions, asking for the repeal of the internal revenue system, and favo.ing tariff for revenue on all imports except iron. The duty on ron they want to remain as at pres ent
 A desperado known as Nosey Smith was hanged by visilan:es, at Sun river, Montana He left there two years ago to escape hanging for shamefuly abus- ing his two daughters, and going back to Jaln possessi"n If them he met the doom.
 | IS reported that enough flour IS smeared on show Dil dead wall aiver- tislng tD feed all the the tramps in the  country Here Is chance for lhe country 10 econonlze something. and Ir the same time feed our hungry iramps
 The number of people killed by wild animals and snakes in Hindustan Tn 1887 was 24,S4I, an increase of nearly 2,ooo on the figures of 1886. The snakes got thelr fangs Tn and did nine-tenths of the JOb. The man-eaiing tigers slew 028 and the wolves devoured 22,.
 David Mason, professor of rhetorc and English literature in the university of EGinburg, delivered lecture in that
 
 zed Ignatius Donneliy's Shakespearian cTiptogram as miserable drvel and tissue Of ArlthmetlCal puzzles which would be hiSscd even in bedlam.
 Senator D,Y'' has introduced d bill to amend the -nsion ltws so tha, they shall not pfo.-i, he payment of pension money 10 any person who served in the late rebellion against the United States, but afterwards voluntarily enlisted in the military or naval service of ,he United States and incurred disability in theIn e of duty.
 \ wife-bealcr who has been confined in the Albuquerque jail so shocked the other prlsSners ny his brutal conduct toward the woman he had promised 10 love, cherish and pn tect, they gave him T severe padding with flat board kept tor that purpose. Owing to the enor- mlty Of hlS offenSe he received fifteen strokes, and since then he has shown no disposition to sit down.
 \; a meeting of the Ono wool grow CTS association resolutions were adopted which rcci'e the wool growing industry ot the United States requires protection as favorable asshat of 1867, under the conditions then existing: endorses the schedule of duties agreed upon by the recent conference at Washington City and demands its enac,men, in law. and I continuance so long as it will accom- plsh the purpose desired
 A S Pall telegram says that one of the most desperately contested prize hshtS which ever took place in Minne- sota occurred at Norway station between Danny Needham. igh, weight champion Of the north west, and Jimmy Griffin. of Grand Rapids, Michigan The fight was for Scoo. with skin gloves, and 10 finish. The fight WAS hard one, and in rn,. sl,vsp.h ,,rnd Needhan, kpcoL