Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-11-27
NEWS. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Kansas farmers are using corn fol fuel being cheaper than coal. Secretary Whitney has refused to ac cept the torpedo boat Vesuvius. Ep zootic is reported in various parts of the country.
 Searle, the oarsman, IS dangerously silk with typhoid fever.
 Senator Hearst lost $reo,o 900 on a recent horse race in the east.
 Galen M Fisher, prominent banker of Oabland, California, is dead.
 The Brazilian minister at Washington says the new republic has come te stay.
 Rev Talmage has secured corner stone for his new tabernacle from Greece.
 Caroline Fitzgerald, of New York, has married Count Fitzmaurice, oi England.
 The new million dollar ocean steamer. China, grounded recently at Yoke hama.
 Col. BoyIe, editor ot the Lbs Ange- les Tribune. has been indicted for black. mailing.
 Joseph A. Smith was lynched Sunday night at Elkton, Kentucky. for the murder of w. T. Williams.
 Watson C. Squires and John B. Allen are the newly elected United states senators from Ws-:hinaton.-
 Richard Tenbroeck. ,he once famous king of the turf, is in ydemented con dit,on at Redwood, California.
 The Chinese government has refused to grant a concession for . telegraph line from Siberia to Pe..in.
 Santa Cruz, California, hes offered Sso.ooo for Sullivan and Jackson to fight on the ocean beach at that place.
 While making balloon ascension ., Honolulu. Prof Van Tassel was carried out to sea and dropped in the ocean and eaten by sharks.
 A fast young business man named Pet,us was shot and killed in New York CD Friday by handsome widow named Sou,hworth, whom he had wronged.
 Col Rathbone. founder of the order of Knights of Pythias in American, is lyIng at the point of death at Lima, Ohio. There are small hopes of his recovery.
 James Teal. represented as formerly having been a mining man of promi- hence in this territory, was hanged by a mob last week at Kenneit, Missouri, for the murder of his mistress.
 William Brooker, of Pine City, M,n- nesota, shot and instantly killed his wiie's sister and her husband, William Coombs, because the former interfered while Brooker was abusing his wife.
 Boston has a private hospital for neglected cats, maintained at an ex- pense of more than $z,ooo a year, while barefooted and half-stsrved chil- dren wander homeless and friendless through the streets
 Guthrie, a town started in Oklahoma since that territory was opened up to settlers some few months ago, now con- .ains I5.oos inhabitants, six banks, eight newspapers. thirty-seven lum Der yards and hundreds of stores.
 Wild geese lost in storm and at- .racted by the electric light filled the streets aud yards Tn Grass Valley, Cali 7srnia, recently and large number of hem were killed.
 Admiral GillIs, commanding the South American squadron. has been or tered to go with the Richmond and Tallapoosa te Rie de Janeiro to pro- ect American interests.
 Mrs. Wm. Martin IS probably the mother in New York state. ;hels only thirteen years and seven months old and gave birth to a nine 'ound child few days ago.
 At an informal ballot for United tases senator in the Washington legis- ature on "Wednesday, John B. Allen md Ex Governor Watson Squire re- eived majority of votes. | Robert Wilcox.l eader of the Hawai- m instruction, has been acquitted. the Belgian, who was ths rst one of the conspirators convicted, as had his death sentence commutet, J King Kalakaua to one years impris- 'ent, after which he will probably be | anlShed