Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-08-28
NEWS. ,orss AND coMMGmIs


 Albub ,erque's water works have dried up.
 The pope is preparing to leave Rome.
 The Rio Grandeis dry at several points
 New Mexico has territorial republi- can league.
 Kansas will have BOG. 900. 900 bushels of corn this year.
 General Malone has been nominated for governor of Virginia.
 Small pox at Socorro. New Mexico. Three deaths have occurred.
 Over TOO persons were by poisoned eating ice cream at picnic at St. Paul
 Carriage horses only tairly well matched. in Buehos Ayers bring $5,ooo a pair.
 Charleston. w. Va. has an epidemic of nloody Aux. fifty deaths having oo- cured.
 The ]. H. .Mahler Carriage, company. of $, Paul. has failed. Liabilities $4oc.oso. ]. A. Reavis, the land grant baron, has written letter favorins statehood for Arizona.
 Philemon Bliss, . justice of the su. preme court of Missousi, died in St. Paul on Sunday. Successful telephonic communication has been established between Chicago and Milwaukee.
 Three persons were killed and several others injured by an explosion in brewery in Pittsbure. 1 Governor Wilson, of West Virginia, was badly injured on Sunday by being thrown from buggy.
 Twelve persons have been burned tc death within a month in Denver by building fires with coal oil.
 The lima bean crop of Ventura coun' ty, California. this year will amount to S.ooe tons, worth $4oo, 900. Legitime has given up the fight toI the presidency of Hayti. leaving Hyp polite master of the situation.
 Jerry Moron, of Hancock county, West Virginia, is over twenty years oi age and scarcely three feet high.
 While a steamer was making heI trial trip at Shanghai the boiler ex ploded, killing thirty of the crew.
 Ex-Governor Ross, of New Mexico will shortly assume the editorial charge of democratic paper in that territory.
 Cholera is raging at Bagdsd and Bussarah. Orders have been given ts place military cordons around the towns
 A sufficient amount of wheat could be raised in the Verde valley to supply flouring mill, running the entire year
 A charter has been granted for rail road in Liberia. It will be the first iu that country. Its length will be 6st miles.
 Carlisle D. Graham made a success. ful trip througd the whirlpool rapids be- low Niagara falls on Sunday in bar- rel shaped boat
 The shah of Persia considers the Dschess of Marlborough the handsom- est woman in England. She was origi- nally an American.
 Mamie 1. Burlew, a music teacher ol Kansas City, and R. T. Hinde. recorder of deeds. were both killed by cable cars on Saturday. August 2Ath. A Cleveland man attends funerals takes the sermon in shorthand, writes i, with typewriter on bordered paper, and sells it to the family for from S to $ao.
 Baron Reavis, the Phenix Herald and Gazette. the Tombstone Epitaph and Flagstaff Democrat are the only advocates the constitutional convent,en has at present
 The original of "Old Black Joe" is dying very numerously at present Three of him have died in different parts ofthe country now within a few weeks with several states to hear from. Postmaster Lybarger. of Danville. Ohio. during a family quarrel shot at his daughter, but missed her the bullet striking and killing his wife. Lybar- ger then committed suicide.
 Edward Conroy. United States consul at San Juan Porto Rico, died. aged Sc years. He was the oldest of United States consuls. and in length of service was the junior of but one. He was appointed in 1869.
 The Maybrick committee has re. solved to agitate for pardon on the grounds that the decision of Home Sec retary Matthews shows that there are reasonable doubts whether Maybrick was poisoned.
 During the burning of his residence at Tecumseh, Ontario. Rector Robinet became so exited that he threw three of his small children from a second story window. They escaped serious injuries, however. by being caught by neigbors. Phenix and her little sister Tempe are having family quarrel. The inn mediate cause is the railroad bond question. Tempe wants a railroad to