Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-05-02
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NEWS. MoTE8 AND COMMENTS. Iowa has placed a prohibition ticke, in the field
 Allen Wilson. the sewing machine in
 ventor, is dead. Indian Commissioner Gregory ha
 rendered his resignation.
 Yellow fever has already appeared in
 some portions of Florida RP.Garett, treasurer of Scott county, Kansas, has been found short in his ac-
 counts to the am ount of 5000. The consumption of coal at Pittsburg 2 Pa. has diminished 4,5oo, 900 tons !: year since the introduction of natural gas.
 The smallest people of the world are
 the Ahkas, of Central Africa. The
 average height of both sexes is 4 fee, 5 # inches.
 The deepest drilled we'll in the United
 States is near Pittsburg, Pa. A depth Of 4,6I8 feet was reached, when the tools
 were lost and the work ceased. At Akron. Ohio. the other day, , letter
 was delivered to fourteen John Smiths
 before the right one was reached. Every John Smith in the town had an oppor- tunitv to read it
 The elegant steamer. Que en of the
 Pacific, plying between Portland and San Francisco, sprung leak and sank near Port Hanford Sunday morning. The passengers were all saved. In Paris, a7,ooo families live in apart. ments having no windows, and in Lon- don Go, 900 families live Tn ceArs It would bother an orchid or a chameleon to live on the air that is kept on tap there.
 A funeral without corpse is being ar ranged for by the relatives of David
 Hamilton. who was blown to pieces by dynamite near Richmond, Ind, recently. Not fragment of the unfortunate mans body could be found.
 An explosion of nitro-glycerine oc- cured st Belleview, III :, short time ago, and not dog has been seen on the street since. At the first repoi, every canine started on the keen run for the woods, and not one has returned.
 San Diego offered Mrs. Clara Foltz a salary of $1o,ooo per annum to lecture on the beauties of that city and sur rounding country and Clara has agreed to do it and will shortly leave for the east for that purpose. As a lecturess she has few equals
 lake Kilrain accepts John L. Sullivan's challenge. and will fight under London prize ring rules, either in England or America. If in America, the fight must take place west of the Missouri river. Kilrain's engagements will prevent his meeting Sullivan for the next six months.
 The supreme court of Mexico has confirmed the sentence of death passed on Colonel Francisco Arvizgss and Lieutenant Benjamin Gutierrez, for for having authorized the violation of American territory and an attack on American police officers at Nogales, in January, 1887.
 The postmaster-general has arranged with the post nastergeneral of Canada, establishing uniform rate of postage of one cent per ounc: on ali merchandise, and one cent per two ounces on printed matter in mails exchanged between the countries, and now known as thrd class matter in domestic mails of this country.
 The insane asylum furnished cam. paign ammunition for the democrats two years ago and the material has been put in shape to be worked over for the campaign tbls year again. The present outlook. however, is not suspicious for its use from recent developments of the administration of the affairs of that in stitution under democratic rule.
 The Alarm, the paper which A. R. Parsons, anarchist, was editor. will be suspended indefinitely. Complications partaking of financial character, it is supposed have caused a stoppage, which occurs exactly on the second anniversary of the last issue of the paper by Parsons himself, the number just preceding the Haymarket bomb throwing, and con- taining the "Call to Arms"
 It is semi-oficially announced that Claus Spreckles has secured the oriental mail contract, and will shortly put on a llne of steamers to make semi-nonthly trips between San Diego and China. They are to be run to connect with the Santa Fe railroad system, and when in operation the latter company proposes to place ves,ibule trains on their line,. running ove' the Atlantic X Pacific and California Southern.
 An exchange speaks. as a strange oc- currence, of the fact that a., lot of land m Sao Francisco which was bought for $45 forty years ago. was sold for $I27,ooo short time since" Nothing strange about that. We can back three or four hundred years ago when we could have purchased the whole state of Ohio for less money and see what it is worth now ard what a bargain we missed.
 The United States has over $33o, ,ooo. 900. co lying idle at the pres ent time, notwithstanding the ast of March }. 1881 which provides ;ha, 'tte tbe secretary of the treasury may at any time apply the surplus money in the treasury not other~lse appropriated. or 30 much thereof as he may consider proper. to the redemption of United States bonds; Provided, Ina. the bonds l L-t