Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-05-22
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 Rear Admiral Donaidson died Sstur- day last in Baltimore. aged 76
 The business part oi Bsness,lI. Vt, vas ~ipeu out by nrc May 9sh. A great many families were made homeless.
 Eight woskmsn oa the Pi,tsburg X Chars,on road near Osmsly. penn.. ssfe mjared by the wieckiny oi lra,n, ses- erAl oi them iaIaiiy.
 The s,ovs-mskrIs ol SAn Flanetss . held a meeting lately sad all reports shos that wosk IS in better demand new than II has bsrn tor ycsrs.
 The employees of the tube wolks at Mckeespou, Penn. have struck iof an advance in wages oi ten per cent Two thousand men are Gut.
 Ms Mehlabie Sua,ton celebrated her road birthday at Amia. Conn, tsw days ago. and Mrs. Betsey Crsesiii. a Ps~slon. Penn. her io3d ann'seisary
 The hfst piano vas brought Into Rocklzno. Maine. about year ago. and u was SD startling noveiy that lhe suea oa ~hich Il w.s played Is called Piano sItt.
 A furious fire broke m the wheat fields of the MAchedo ranch near Santa Monica. containing s.ooo acres. and ,'e enlire tract was burned oyer. enls,i,ng a severe loss.
  Louisa Lehman, of Galeoa, Illinois, aged 7o years, sues wealthy and se- cenuic old bachelor also nt the san.s age, tor damages In the sun ot $lo o.ooo iof breach oi promise.
 Green weavcls have attacked the bal = Icy stand m the pfinciIsi warehouses m San Ffancisco. and thus tar S.ooo tons have been condemned, and w'li be sold for what ~,lI b,ing.
 James Mccarthy was killed la Ja'i in Santa Clara coanY, Cal, by dis- char ged prisoner, aciiDg as ts sms,cr. who thought that the former wss tryina to secure his job.
 George Ehler vas fatally stabbed al Junc,lon Guy, Kansas by German trayeier, who acted ,n self defense. 4 purse was raised for him, the assaiiant being tough and dangeious ehatsc' ' ter
 Prohibition does nd prohibit as ex- penence has ptovcn. The number ot tax stamps issued Tn Kansas last yea was 3.Ioo. h 1881. before the par sage oi prohibilory amendment, the to- tai was only I,8oo.
 4 Ieined English officer IS making a tour oi the Paciiic coast. While taking dinner at Seattle hotel, he vas wall, upon at the table by young man who Il turns out, was his own son, and had run away from home to scalp indians seven years ago.
 lanes Turner shot and wounded T.. A Hortep, m Nashville. Tenn, duiing a quarrel m the office If justice of the peace. They were prominent mel chants and quaIre.ed over aiepievln | suif.
 A blacksmith and four companions were standing near a wire fence al Helena, Montana, when storm broke out Lightning struck the fence. knock down ali five. Four recovered. but tie blacksmith was killed.
 Transcontinential rates have been cut, the reductions prin.ipaliy effectnis second class business. as u IS very hea.y from the coast at present The seeenc class rate from the bay 10 Chicago |. S47.5o. to New York $6o,so
 In 1860 cattle in ,hls country nun bered STA head to each thousand Of tho population; in 1885 u had fallen to 72: per thousand and nov the last authorltie. put 1t at 100 or \ loss of II4 per thous and in twenty-nine years.
 Mrs. RulIman, oi New York, sue. for divorce from her husband. a tickel speculator, She charges hlm wrth be ing faithless to her and bases her belle upon the fact oi his muImuring in hI: sleep "Doly. my Dolly" instead o "Nelhe, her own name.
 Eliza Jane Starr has peiitioned lhs probate court of Alen,eda county, Cal. tor an increase of her allowance of pin money 1m her deceased husbands es- tate. averIng that she cannot ma,ntaIr herself Tn proper style wi,h less than $I, 500 per month.
 At a May festival in Glastonbury Conn.,. over hundred persons who had partaken of the ice cream were suddenly taken Ill. The symptoms in each case were those which attend poisoning, Ia many instances whole families we're taken sick. Thrry-four persons are beyond hope ot recovery.
 A Maine man. who enjoys the repu- tation in his village of ceing "holy terror," has made three attempts or the lives of his sons-in-!aw. one with a crow-bar and a shotgun. one vim an or father-ir-law boot. and the latest one, for which he IS in jail, with buokshot.
 An explosion at the Uoion lron works ln San Francisco. last Wednesday, was attended by calamitous consequences. Eleven or twelve mou'iers and laborers were engaged on an ordinasycasting. when the blast exploded. on account of defective ventilator, some seriously, md in some cases the feet were burned bv the overflow Of molten iron. Rev. w. Harris, a Congregational minister, of Salem. Oregon, died last Friday He was prostra,ed by stroke of paralysis about the Tt of April los, and has since been confined to his bed He began to abstain from all nourish- ment, refusing to touch any food or medicine. saying that he did not wish to in,erfe,e with the plan of the Almighty It las been discovered that the con- spiracy among the military officers against the Czar is widely spread. Sey- eral of them who were implicated have rOmmitted suiride Ronhe uevo foor d