Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-06-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 1 Jay Gould is sick.
 1 Robert T. Lincoln has gone to
 Europe.
 The Sultan of Morocco has purchased
 six cannons from the Krupps for $2oo, ,ooo.. l The Pennsylvania Railroad, in order
 to reduce expense, discharged about
 5000 men.
 Mammoth steel and iron works will
 shortly be erected in Seattle Washington
 Territory.
 | Last year the Japanese students im'
 ported S5.ooo English and Il9,ooo
 American books.
 James B. Hayes. chief justice of the
 supreme court of Idaho territory, died
 Friday. aged S4.
 The name of the St. Louis Repub-
 lican has been changed by its new edi-
 tor to the Republic.
 Dr. Chariot, the Paris expert in cases
 of insanity has been called to attend the
 Emporer Dom Pedro, of Brazil.
 Two French ladies on a wager pro-
 nounced 2o3, 56e and 2o6. 3II words re-
 spectively, in the space of three hours.
 General Sheridan completed his
 memoirs three weeks ago, and the man. uscript is now in the hands of his pub fishers.
 The Lick observatory on Mount
 Hamilton, near San Jose has been trans ferred to the regents of the California university.
 The national prohibition convention nominated Clinton B. Fisk for presi- dent. and John K. Brooks, of Kansas City, for president. Jack Williams, of Boston, and Frank Murphy, the English fea,her.wei sht, fought five rounds near Boston on Sat urday, in which the former was knocked out The total amount received by Mrs. Grant up to the present time as her share in the profits of the generals book has been $411, QUO, and 3Io.ooo sets Of the work have been sold
 It is reported that the first run of Dakota tin was put through the rev smelting process at Rapid City success fully. and plans for the erection of large works for treating tin are in course of execution.
 Banker Rawson's wife, of Chicago, attempted to kill her husbands attorney the other day in the Chicag" court room She fired five shots three of which took effect and may prove fatal. Mrs. Raw son has been indicted by the grand jary.
 A sections of southern Illinois is m a State of excitement over an epidemic of hydrophobia. One man and a number of animals have been bitten and | over twenty dogs have been killed This malady was never known to be more prevalent
 A conductor poked his head in the door of Car and called cut the station Sawyer" whereupon young man who was on his wedding tour who was about to kiss his bride, yelled back: Il don't care if you did. SIT, she IS my wife,
 John Jones, living mar Fairburn, Ga, has an old fam'ly house cat that is nurs- ing and caring for young rat bestow- ing as much attention upon the adopted child as she does her own kittens, with which the rat gets along peaceaby.
 The Kern Courty Californian says: W. B. Carr expects to cut and stack Ico,- 900 tons of nay on h's ranches in ,k!s 1 vicinity this season. He also has some of the finest fields of wheat and barle, that were ever grown in this state, IL, -esult of irrigation.
 Harmony, Maine, Is ezcited over the 'eport that Chesley Bean, who quit Hal nony forty-seven years ago. and has lever been heard of since, has recently lied in Texas, leaving $II.ooo, ,ooo worth of property. His sisters and two 'ephews are the only heirs known.
 Dr. A. L. Chapin, the venerable ex- resident of Beloit college, was stricken 'ith paralysis Friday evening and now les in critical condition. His daush- er, Mrs. Porter, who has long been missionary to China, is on her way home ut is delayed in quarantine at San 'rancisco.
 Ed Hassong, editor of the Nelson Ian. at Nelson, Nebraska, was fatally not Wednesday while returning from rand Army camp fire. His assassin as concealed in the grass at the side of le road, and made good his escape in le darkness. No cause is known fer e shooting.
 President Seelye, of Amherst college. gifted with remarkable memory. le IS able to greet by name every liv- L g graduate of the college whom he er met. and freshmen who have not zen in the college week are surprised
 hear the president address them by nl st names. tn oh There were lynched during the year ta 'S7. in the United States, no fewer s,' sn an one hundred and t~enty-three rSODS Of the various statee and fer