Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-07-24
NEWS. NOTES AID coaMemTs,

NEWS. NOTES AND ooMMGmvs.
 Another big flood in the Kanawha river. West Virginia.
 Charley Mitchell has gone to Canada to avoid arrest.
 DipbtheIia still prevails to an alarm Ing extent in Albuquerque. Hon. R. G. Horr. of Michigan, has declined the consulship at Valparaiso. General Greedy is having a scientific report prepared upon the Pennsylvanla floods oi last month.
 Two thirds of the persons who con-
 mit,ed suicide in this county last year
 were of foreign birth.
 Queen Victoria is not fond of Ameri- can girls She considers them too fir ta,ious and does not like the way they dress.
 The San Francisco Post says that the atmosphere appears to be purer since
 the Sharon case is finally settled. The new directory oi the city of New
 York indicates a population in ths,
 place of I.7ss.eIo, and a gain over last
 year of 7s,ooo.
 More than$I .ooo. 900 is piled away m
 the New York sub-treasury, representing
 money orders issued by the post ofhcc
 department which have never been paid.
 Dr. McDow, the slayer of Captain
 Dawson. editor of the Charleston. s. C.
 News-C Courier, has been expelled from
 the South Carolina medical society. Two old maid sisters named Bags
 committed suicide recently at Point
 Pleasant, Virginia. because they thought
 there was nothing in life for old maids. The corn yield in Kansas last year vas | I3S, GOO. 900 bushels. This year 1t vii
 exceed this. It would be an exceed
 ingly low estimate to place 1t at 100000 900 bushels.
 An aeronaut named Hogan made an ascension last week in a new fangled air ship and has never been heard from since. Supposition is that he was car ried to sea and drowned. Some twenty women in Wyoming town joined forces and gave man there who was in the habit of beating his wife a good, sound thrashing This kind of vigilance committee is to be com mended
 Nothing seems to be too mean for some men. There is an old fellow m Maine who Is imposing on his hens most shamcfully. He has put an cleo tric ligh, in his hen house and the hens lay day and night.
 A Kensington, Pa, dentist propped patients mouth open to fill tooth, and then to divert his mind told joke from one of the funny papers so vividly that the patient gave a snort of laughter that blew his filling clear out of the window.
 Jose de la Rosa, an old printer at San Diego. Cal, is 100 years old. He was sent by Gen. Santa Ana to Monte rey to start paper in 1853. He still has wonderful memory and the con trol of all his faculties.
 Col. Daniel s. Lamont is making his mark as street railroad president in New York city. He has equipped the Avenue C line with new cars drawn by two horses each. and with uniformed conductors. two months before the time set by the board of aldermen for the disappearance of the one-horse jiggers.
 Secretary Proctor recommended that that the reservation of For Nc Dermott Nevada, be restored to the public do- main, being no longer required for mill tary purposes. and President Harrison has issued proclamation carrying into effect Proctor's recommendation.
 The Missouri state board of railroad commissioners has decided that all the railroads in the state must reduce their rates on grain ten per cent; on live stock twenty-five per cent; on coal twenty y-five per cent The new rate is ordered to go into effect as soon as the railroad, can publish new tariff sheets.
 Two ranch hands at Blacks station, l Yolo county, Cal, to settle feud stripped to the waist and commenced fighting with bare fists. They fought without resting forty five minutes. when they became exhausted and lay on the floor and rested ten minutes. They then got up and fought ten minutes longer. the broken jaw of one of the contestants causing the fight to end.