Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-01-09
NEWS. morEs Aso conagm,s g.

NEWS. NOTES AND coAaMEMIs.
 A case of small pox Is reported iu
 the town of Gallup. N. M.
 Major General Scc6elds wife died in
 Washington, December goth. 1 Yellow lever has appeared on the
 United States steamer Yantic. at Port
 au Prince.
 Owing to the open winter St. Paul l, obliged to dispense with her ice palace this year.
 ]. H. Dimmig. charged with the mu' = der of Benhayon, in San Francisco. has been acquitted.
 John L. Sullivan refuses to fight with a colored man or with any one who wIll enter the ring with one. The Burlington strike has been amica- bly settled and striking engineers will De tiken on the road again.
 Mayor Hewitt, of New York received as Christmas gift photograph of the log house in which he was born.
 The New York law substituting cleo tricity instead of hanging for the exc cutioa ot criminals. has gone into ef- feet.
 A family at Augusta. Me-, claims to have been made quite i'll by an electric light shining directly in their sleeping rooms.
 Lord Sackv,lie's chair Is still vacant ss Washington. When it will be filled only Lord Sackville knows and he can keep . secret.
 Great anx,ety is felt regarding Prince Bismark's health. The chancellor has been ordered to remain in strict repose and not go to Berlin.
 Several mysterious Englishmen are digging for geld said to have been bur jed by Hessian soldiers in New Jersey during the Revolutionary war;
 There are a,Soo members oi the Mich isan Anti-hcrse Thief society. and dur ing the past year they have not had a cents worth of property stolen.
 
 The value of the production of Celo- rado's precious metal mines during the past year amounted to $a6. .o6I. s46 as aeaingt $a+576,o4S.79 in 1881. Sacramento, Cal, has passed an ordi- nance making it unlawful for any person under seventeen years of age to smoke cigarettes within the city limits. Mrs. Sarah Athea Hll! Sharon Terry has sued Marshal Franks, of San Fran CISCO, for $50. 900 for causing her illness and the death of her unborn child. A little girl of Ponlon, G.. raised enough sugar cane and peanuts 10 pay for five and half acres of land, and she had enough money left to fence it.
 The foundations of a church in San Luis, Cal, have been shifted seven inches by the roots of eucalyptus trees. and the latter are. therefore, to he cut down.
 This country has been won't te boast that it excels in all railroad affairs, but it appears lha, Bombay is ahead in one particular. It has railway station which cost $ao, 900. 900.
 Iowa has Ia,s7a chool houses worth $rs.oo7,349 with educational apparatus worth $3aI9s7, and 6. I69 volumes in l their libraries. This fully explains why | Iowa is always republican.
 George Baker. one of the original | stockholders of the Standard Oil com. pany. committed suicide a few days ago at Cleveland after a rapid descent from being millionaire to being pauper.
 A special from Gainesville, Texas, says E. W. Rilorease. county treas urer of Montague county. is short in his accounts $4.ooo. A called meeting of the county commissioners Is now in se,- sion considering the matter.
 Experiments have been made in Der. lin with India rubber pavement lii aid to be very durable. Of course noise ess. and unaffected by heat or cold. As ] covering for bridges it is said to have 'eculiar merits, its elasticity preventing vibration.
 Two coal miners tough, msst brutal issic duel in the presence cf 800 men nd women in Jasper county. Iowa The men were named Gailaehar and :lark. The latter was knocked out in he forty-ninth round. Both were terri Iy punished and disfgured.
 Charles Collen hss been appointed re. Iiver Of the hrm of Henry Warner, holesalt dealer in hides. New York. J D application of Simon Strauss, a part p CT o5 the firm. Liabilities are ssid to ' ' e ,vey Ssoo- t1,ot assets %sra ooo ;n |