Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1890-11-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Parnell has been convicted of adul- iey.
 Railroad disasters are becoming cpl demic again.
 Birchel!, the Canadian murderer, has been hanged.
 Old Roman Thurman says he will never run for office again, no never.
 O'Sullivan. the ice man, has made a confession in regard to the Cronin mur- der.
 Fifteen hundred physicians have ap- piled to Prof Koch to learn his new con. sumption cure.
 An Indian who claims to be the Mes siah, is creating trouble among bis peo- pie in South Dakota
 Blaine and reciprocity is the cam paigu cry for Iso, already taken uy by few republican papers.
 San Diego saloon men have organized to fight high license. The license i'm posed is $50 per month. E.
 C. P. Huntington has expressed him. self in tavor of the consolidation of all the grea, transcontinental lines of rail- road in the west.
 Slavin says be is willing to fight Cor belt in England. San Francisco or else where in America for one thousand pounds a side. ...|.:7 U. =.
 South American countries. seem to be ripe for reciprocity with the United States. Cuba and Mexico are also fall ing into line on the same proposition.
 Mrs. Anna Baxter has been elected county clerk of Jasper county, Missouri and the question of her eligibility has been raised. She bss served as deputy leTk for several yeais. o Returns received last night from Tuba City and Castle Cfeek, on sheriff. give Mclnernay majority Tn both precincts. He is eleven ahead, with, Boaz, Bayard and Hillside to hear from. A traveller says; "Tbe ioyeliest sum- Tner resort on earth is probably the pla- teau of Newera Ellia, the Kings sum- nit. as the natives call it, in the high lands of southern Ceyion."
 Charles L. Terry. who became no,o- rious as smuggler a, Seattle, Washing ton, while acting as inspector of cus- koms. but who fled to Victoria to escape ,rial on two or three indi ctmen,s returned agzins; him, was converted recently and has returned to stand trial.
 Benjamin Mitchell. who was elected representative of the IoIst Kansas legis- Iative dlstric, by the Farmers Alliance, was in the state of Washington when nominated and elected and has de- clined 10 return and accept the honor thrust upon him. >~><*
 Judge vanderburgb, of the Minnesota supreme court, has handed down. de- ciSion which settles the qnestion of the yal,dity of railroad tickets purchased Of ticket broker aud scalpers and afsrms the liability of the railroad company to accept such ticket when offered by an innocent purchaser. The decision grows out of suit against the Northern Pacific involving those points,
 Tte Farmers Alliance, of Kansas, elected ]. A. Mckay as judge of one of the judicial districts. of that state. Mckay was never even admitted to the bar and was never in court in his life in sn oi6ciai capacity. His alliance pro- poses to send him to m Harbor Uni- versity for sixty days, which they think wiil be sufficient time to make a judge Of him. ..:..s :; .-I-.': c:::.
 It may not be generally known, bu. metal ties are now in use on 90, 600 miles tf railroad Europe has one-third of his metallic mileage. Asia, Africa and South America have the reminder. There are only two miles of, track on metal ties in the United States. h the ountries where the substitute for wood has been tried il is pronounced saii:fac- ory. On but one road: where metal les in considerable numbers have been t down have they been ,aken up. 1 al was a division. in Prussia. where De roadbed was at fault rather than the ! es.-Ex x =: =. ]