Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-06-06
NEWS. NOTES AND COMMENTS.
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 The newly elected Methodis, bishops gre ordained last Sunday Henry T. Coxwell, the balloonist, Is
 70 wears of age, ard has made 100 Voy- ages ID the air.
 Hall stones as big as hens eggs are ,,ii tohave fallen during the recent storm 1 h the east.
 The natl nal prohibition convention, with St ,hn as chairman, IS h session , at Indianapolis.
 Fifty thousand tons of soot IS taken
 annually from the chimneys of London.
 It Is used for fer,iizng. Leprosy is spreading at a dreadful rate ID Russia Thirty cases have been officially reported n Dartat alone,
 A curious old citizen down in Arkan- ,ss has his gravestone all prepared and [ .e;tered except the date of hls death. i An Elko, Nevada, landowner IS seed- 1 ,rg his ranch with tea and will employ
 Indian women and children to gather , the crop.
 John L. Slkvan has bought one 1 third interest Tn l. B. Dorri,' circus and l will travel with the show through the 1 United States
 1 Heavy rains, accompanied in many 1 places by strong wind, are reported hr ughout the east from the Mississlppi river to New York.
 The civil service record asserts that there has been a clean sweep of the re- publicans once holding presidential ot- l ices in the interior department. Charles T. Caldwell, a prominent West Virginia attorney heretofore known tor bis infidelity, has been ap- pointed as a minister of the Methodist church.
 The locomotive that was stolen by the federal raiders at Big Sandy, Ga, Tn April, 1862, Is still Tn service, being used in their road construction by the Eto- wah Iron X Maganon company.
 The United Steamer Yantic IS under orders to proceed to Port Au Prince. Hayti, as soon as possible and look after American interests there. as 1t has been reported that a revolution Is imminent.
 Maggie Hughey, a PIttsburg woman of forty. was married Friday to her third husband just five hours after her lsmented No had joined the silent malority-an unusual intermingling of crape and orange blossoms.
 A recent issue of the Albuquerque Democrats contained SIX items relating 10 the arrest of fallen women for drunk enness and fighting, and two others were brought before the justice for wearing "Mother Hubbards" on the street Particulars of .he late great storm m Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia proves 1t 10 havA been the most terIillc and destrUtHlvc demonstration of the elements ever witnessed in those sections since the s,tilcment Of the country Erastus Snow, one of twelve apostles l.l f I,,I Nos, h at Sal, Lake aged 70 years. He was among the earliest converts of Joseph Smith, and very soon became one the leading men Tn the church.
 The Taylor brothers, of Tennessee, whose Adding campaign for the govern orship of that state was notorious q short time ago, are again candidates .or office. Robert l. Taylor. the present governor, IS candidate for reelection, while the republican brother is running for congress.
 Commodore kittSon left fortune of $l,ooo, ,ooo, divided among the children They are each to receive the first rn- stalment of $Ioo,o 900 at once and the remainder of the estate is to be divided when ,he youngest heir shall become of age. The girls get Uuited States bonds and the boys real estate.
 \ number of anarchists invaded the office of lntransgent, Paris, and threatened its editor. NJ. Henri Rocheforte, with violence unless he apGogized tor an o. fensive article which appeared in his pa per M Rochefotte drew a revolver and defended himself until the arrival of the police. when the anarchists were driven from the office.
 Nelson 3sby, a railroad engneer, living at Rockland, Cal, went into sa- loon at that place, where he found John paily drunk and asleep. SAsby at tackled him. beating and kicking him un- mercituly until the man presented a horrible appearance. Mrs. Silsby is Daily's divorced wife, and she told her husband tha, Daily had visited her Tn bis absence, and made offensive remarks l 10 her
 The Chicago city council has passed saloon ordinance which restricts location 1 of saloons hereafter to be established ! but in no way interferes with those al- l ready in existence, and also provides for keeping the front door closed and blinds drawn on Sunday; it IS in the nature of concession on the part of the saloon interests, but falls short of meeting the l views of the anti-saloon element of the { community.
 Judge Wakely, of Omaha, has decided | the case of Franklin Robinson, of Cali | fornia, vs. A. D. Jones, of Omaha, in favor of the plaintiff and he will event uaily gain possession of Seoo,ooo. Rob-