Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-12-18
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Nuotets uss tc4PPGsseu es oaSosu Searle, tue champion sculler. is dead.
 Oliver Johnson. the veteran abolition. ist. is dead.
 The manager q the London Times. Mcdonald, is dead. The First Nalional bank. oi Abilene, Kansas. has suspended. Peoria. Illinois. e6srs $so.seo for Sullivan and Jackson ts fight there. The female convitts at the Kansas penitentiary mutinied lev days go. Senator Cockrell. of Missouri. has introduded bill for I-ccnt pestage on letters.
 Kilrain vas adjudged guilty of an as- sault and battery by Mississippi jury and fined $ 800.
 The sun does not rise on Minor lake Yosemite valley. until Ii:3o s'clsck in the morning.
 Mn. Wils0n Wadinsham. wife of
 the noted cattle king. has secured . dlvorce irom her husband. Foxes iuorease % rapidly in several
 districts of Australia that they are
 nearly as great pest as the rabbits Influenza. said to be the forerunner ef cholsra. prevails at St. Petersburg.
 Psesth. London. Paris and other Euro pean cities.
 Denver has been assured that shops cesting half . million dsllars will be
 erected there by the Union Pacific early next year.
 Foreign engineers report that at the present rate oi sinking. the northern
 coast of France will. in few centuries,
 be completely submerged.
 Several people were killed and sevea- | ty Eve injured in crush caused by an
 alarm of fire in an opera house a, Johnstown. Penn. on the eth.
 h revival meeting at Walla Walla. Oregon, a man confessed that he vas q
 murderer and asked forgiveness He
 refused to reveal the circumstances.
 J. B. Watkins, of Lawrence. Kan,, Il
 enc of the largest land owuer ins the
 United States. He owns I,soo, 900
 acres in Louisana, but much of it is
 swamp land.
 Vegetable flannel is . textile material
 now being largely manufactured in
 Germany out of pine leaves. The fibel
 ls spun. knitted and woven into under
 garments and clothing ef various kinds.
 The Russian government is building
 . railroad across Siberia to the Pacific
 ocean. There will be 4,eoo miles sl
 track and a,soo miles of river transpor, tation.
 A cloud burst at Santa Cruz, Cali.
 foroia, washed away many miles of railroad track and destoyed fine houses. Joseph Easton was drowned in the | flood.
 Commissioner Morgan has refused his
 consent to the annual renewal of the
 contract by which Buffalo Bill securss
 the services of 800 Sioux Indians, who
 constitute the feature of Bills show.
 Attorneys J. D. Bennett and w. D
 Kelsey, of Holyoke. Colorado. were f Eged by the "white caps" and ordered to leave the country last Monday. Trouble over county seat war was the cause.
 The Two Republics of the City oi Mexico denounces the action of the Chihuahua legislature in repeating the law against bull fighting, although that journal admits that the law has always been evaded with impunity in the city of Juarez.
 The longest bridge m the world is said b be at Laugange. China, over an arm of the China sea. It is as much as five miles long. built entirely of stone, and has zoo arches. each seventy feet vide. The roadway is also seventy feet in width.
 A convict named Smith murdered fellov-c ,nvict named Herman Brown in the Jefferson City penitentiary last June. The facts were concealed until grand iury's investigation brought them out. Smith can be indicted for murder in the first degree.
 Last Friday night, at negro festival, near Florence, Alabama. Bod Vaughan (white) ouareled with negro named Griffin Jones. and began firing at him. Another negro named Brown killed Vaughan with an ax A large number of armed men came to town with the avowed intentions of lynchiug the negroes. The sheriff telegraphed the governor for aid. and two militia companies are at Florence guarding the jail, while the lynchers are camped near | the city.
 The Mexican government makes pretty generous offer to negro colonists | from the United Statea If within three | years 1000 negro colonists have settled | ia Mexico 1t will permit the coleni. Eatien ef s.ooo more fos ten years They will be granted special privileges ls soon as they occupy Mexican terri. sry, the most important oi which are exemption ffem military duty and the ight to free importations and exporta- ions. As the Mexicans thenselves are he worst taxed people in the world the rec trade permitted the negro colonists vill make them an especially favored lasa