Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-11-18
GENERAL NEWS.

Rev. Sam Small was wnlppeu ny saloon keeper at Atlanta, Georgia Los Angeles will have tug-of-
 war show, commencing December 2.
 Houston Kelly (colored) was hang
 ed at Rogersville, Tenn, recently
 for the murder of Dan Carmichael
 last Chr istmas.
 John Currie, once sport and
 pugilist, now an evangelist, is hold ing series of revival meetings in
 San Francisco.
 Hundreds of persons are dying
 daily from influenza in the famine
 stricken districts and large towns Tn
 the south of Russia.
 At Racine, Wisconsin, Dr. Chas.
 \. Palmer, physician who pleaded
 guilty to burglary, was sentenced to
 one year in the State penitentiary. I Judge John Kelshaw shot and
 killed A. NJ. Sherwood, defendant in
 a case which was being tried before
 Kelshaw, at Paso Robles, California.
 Sherwood attacked him and he shot
 in self defense.
 E. Ashbury, a we'll known wealthy
 farmer of Merced county, Cal, was crossing Bear Creek bridge in
 wag n, Monday night, when wheel of the vehicle came of and MT.
 Ashbury was thrown into the creek and killed.
 ken. J. Harris, the Southern
 Pacific detective who was So badly wounded by train robbers some weeks ago, and who has since been coniinded to his home in Oakland, has SO far recovered as to be able to walk about the streets.
 The Federal grand jury has re- turned four indictments at San An tonic, Texas, against President Con rad. Vice President Morris and thir- teen other members of the Louisi- ana Lottery company for using the mails in violation of the lottery law.
 Two hundred representative Re publicans met at Topeka, Kan, Monday to celebrate Republican sains at the last election and to out line plan of campaign for 1892. Presidential possibilities were dis cussed, and the prevailing idea seemed that Blaine was the most popular candidate the Republicans could put at the head of their ticket.
 A telegram from Tucson says: On account of the fact that the ranges on the San Pedro and other sections of this country, are supporting five head of cattle when they should only have one, and the protracted dry weather the stockmen are very blue. Many cattle are dying and unless it rains soon and the grass is brought out the calamity will be greater.
 Remarking the fact that after serving eighteen years in San Quen- tin for highway robbery, Shorty" Hayes has utilized his freedom by returning to his old tricks, the De | troit Tribune remarks: "The next | time Mir. Hays , is taken into dur l ance vile it would be policy to hold | him up, just once, and see what sort | of hornpipe he can execute in mid | air" And that may be exactly what will happen to MT. Hays, If he is convicted of train robbery under the new laws.-L. A. Times.
 A new use for electricity has bee. devised by fishermen of San Diego it is said. Several incandesce1t electric lights are lowered into the water with la ge seine beneath them. Fish are att acted by the mysterious glare, and when the ope- rators above see that they have a good haul they heave away. The catches are reported very large. This reduces the catching of fish to soncthfng like an exact science. What Is the matter with San Diego trying this same scheme on tender feet lin bathingf"-L. A. Times.
 The jury in the George case at Catskill, New York, returned a yer dict of guilty. Rev. Harrison George. of Leeds, was indicted for man slaughter in the first degree for caus- |, ing by abortion, said to have been performed by Dr. DeGrand Farwav the death of Lottie Townsend. The judge imposed sentence of fifteen years in the penitentiary. The pris- oner addressed the court denyino that he had anything to do with the abortion and saying he had been nisrepresented and unjustly con Ticted. A Chicago telegram says: James F jharlsen broke the record to-day ' with a frightful fall of nineteen tories. He was terracotta oper- . tor, working inside the roof of the T lew Masonic Temple. He and a ompanion named John Wilson rected a temporary scaffold. and ,harlsen was standing on this when gave way. The distance to inc round was covered in about three econds. Every bone in his body as crushed, and the corpse pre, 'nted frightful spectacle. Wilson wed his life by clin. ing to the side ipports. He has since disappeared nd 1t is said he and Charlsen ouar' led a few moments before tbe M, 'affold broke. W h'