Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-05-15
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Adjutant General R C. Drum VI
 be retired from active service on Ma sSth.
 Ten inches ot snow fell in Pioch
 Nevada. during eighteen hours cn tll | Sth inst.
 A man named Parque,t was GOV
 hided by Mrs. Calv Ut, at Casso
 New, for slandering her. The wreck of our var vessels in th
 Samoan harbor of Apia entslcd los
 to the United States of over $s. 500, ,oos Dr. Pillsbury, of kioomington, ll
 has applied to the court 10 change h,
 name to one less significant oi his pro fession.
 Henry Masthe~a who fought unde Napolean at Waterloo, died last Tue,
 day m New York. aged one hund,e, and two years Highway robbers held up the ou, wsr,
 bound stage from Helena. Montana terri
 tory, last Sunday. and the treasure Do,
 vas given up.
 Ex-M,nister Phelps will resume hi
 dunes as professor of the Yale lsv
 school, which he relinquished ,o sccep
 the English embassy.
 At the auction sale of ,he turaiture ol the old Barnum's hotel. at Baltimore, ,
 iew days ago was card table on which
 Henry Clay lost $I,soo a, poker.
 A Port Alleshany man who was tilted ! out of . sleeping car be,th by jolt O
 the train exclaimed tn an unconsciou,
 way, "Doot-ton',-IIl get up ant
 start the fire"
 A cyclone swept over Pratt county
 Kansas. laying waste to homes. barns trees. fences and fields. leaving hun dreds of families homeless, and de stroyed many lives
 The expenses of the New York cele- bra,ion include the item of $,o, 1000 ioI wine. or ten per cent of the whole. Is k wonder, that the select "4oo" made beasts Of themselvess
 A Tacoma. w. T., paper says tha, place is being blessed with perfect cloud burst of babies. It reports the birth ol twenty dainty boys and dainty girls in different parts of the town.
 The new British minister puts on no airs. He attended circus tn the cap 'tal lately, wearing somewhat seedy silk hat and more or less dilapidaied coat enjoying himself hugely.
 John Bright vas the only cab,net min ister who never knelt to the queen, his reason being tha, he could not render to an earthly potentate the homage whie h he owed to the Supreme Being alone
 This is pretty good one "How do you do. little boy1' Got cold in my head" "Oh. l guess not. What makes you think so little boy1 "Cause my eyes leak and my nose don't go"
 It IS stated, that out of 100, 900 peo- pie who cross the Atlantic from New York, the loss of life is not as great as among the same number who travel be- tween New York and Pit,sburg y rsii.
 The residence of Gen. Longstreet. near Gainesville, Ga, was burned few days ago. He lost every relic he had of the late war. among them the old uni- form which he wore when he surrtn- dered.
 The regular income of John D. Rockefeller, of the Standard Oil com pany. is said to be $ao. 900. 900 a year. That makes him the richest man in the United States. perhaps the very richest in the world,
 Seventeen whales have been washed ashore on ,he coast of Norway anthe list three months, and an English paper says that an epidemichas set in which bids ,r 10 exterminate the biz fellows. Wrales have tbeir drawbacks as well as men.
 A negro m Rankin county. M,ssis- s'ppi. who had stolen a mule, ~as given the option of going to the penite n,iary or re, ewing a hundred lashes on his back. He chose the latter. taking his punish ment like a stoic.
 A New York pilot says that # one 'ailing craft can sneak pas, past another n distress ~thou. being siguaIied she sill do ii nine times ou, of ten. It costs owners money to feed the rescued peo 'le and they don't encourage humane IGtions.
 One of the lnckies, investms nts Sec etary Blaine ever made vas mine a, -eadvllle. Colorado. It has paiddivi lends of $t. 500, GOO in the last five years 'ne-seventh of which vent to Mir. Blaine. returning him $I, 800 for every me invested.
 Admiral Potter says that the recent aval display in New York surpassed ny;hing he ever saw Bu, yet he was , command of the hotillas at Fort fisher and at New Orleans, which in | ,eir magnitude excelled anything in the orld's naval history.
 Mrs. Hannah Bsttersby, who diei re- entiy in Philadelphia. was buried in a offin seven feet long. three feet wide nd two feet deep No ordinary hearse as large enough tn bear her. and one extraordinary size had to be Hgeed ?. She was the wife of the living skel- on in Barnum's show, wbo is only years old and weighs forty Io p, unds.
 At Hillman, Indiana. small town
 Du Bois county. Mrs. Weiszman left Y home to visit neiehbor, leaving rec children asleep in the house. uring her absence the house caush; on e and was destroyed. The two young children lost their lives, while e third, aged 9. escaped. but is d'y injured The mothers reason IS destroyed ny the shock, and she n live but short time. Three Bald Knobbers, Dave Walker. | q ief of the Bald Knobbers; his son, illiam Walker, and John Matthews, re hanged at Ozark, Missouri, for the lrder of Charles Green and William len. March 10. 1887. The ropes broke d the three men fell to the ground It was horrible butchery e condemned men were carried to the fold again at Io:Io and again dropped q 1t was again bungled and the men ! T ng by their necks, wsithing and strug- E. and finally strangled to death. Dave :, lker died in fifteen minutes, John 0 tthews in thirteen minutes, and Bill q lker in fourteen minufee V