Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-09-16
Judge Cooley has resigned from

: by resignation. If all the membe
 of the commission were to die or T sign and the vacancies remain ul
 filled the country would be just !
 well of. If there ever was lift
 wheel added to a four-wheeled go
 ernment vehicle the interstate con merce commission Is a good illustr' ton of it. No practical benefci'
 results have ever been obtained froi
 it. although it has been in operatio
 now for over five years.
 Jacob Steele, of Uniontown, Penn
 sylvania, has just died at the age (
 los years. He was the oldest inhah
 itant of Pennsylvania. He had a
 ways been church-goer, and flo
 more than seventy years had been
 member of the Methodist Episcopa
 church. His habits were simple, an'
 be was careful as to his eating. H,
 never used tobacco but used whiske,
 in moderate degree. He was al
 early riser, and was noted for th'
 evenness of his temper. On the ds,
 of Washington's second election Steele could remember that he Wa: gathering hickory nuts.
 Lieut.. Governor Jones, of New
 York, who aspires to succeed David
 B. Hill as governor, has published an open letter to Grover Cleveland intimating that as the latter is s candidate for president in 1899, he should keep himself as we'll as his friends aloof from all alliances which might result in his injury. or in other words that Mir. Cleveland should not insert his political shovel where there is no partisan fertilizer. Some of Mir. Cleveland's friends are opposed to Jones and the letter is intended as a gentle reminder that MT. Cleve- land shall call them of.
 A mining convention is called to meet at Fl Paso, Texas, in Decem- Der next, and will no doubt be pro ductive of great good to the mining interests of the west. Leading min srs throughout Arizona, New Mex GO and Western Texas are support ng the movement. The object of he meeting is to secure favorable 'ilver legislation and to memorial ze Congress to annul that portion ,f the alien act that forbids the in- Testment of foreign capital in the erritories, but that permits it in he states. Leading silver men from he east will be present. The en- ire Texas delegation to Congress ill be included among the invited.
 The Pheni1 Con. Con. organized | n Tuesday by the election of W. A. lowe, of Yavapai, president of: the | without any opposition; Hen C. Barnard, of Pima, secretary; ohn O. Dunbar, of Maricopa, as istant secretary; Miss NJ. G. Me l 1lwain, clerk; John c. McCasey, of | una, sergeant-at-arms; John C. | .incaid, of Maricopa, doorkeeper; nd John Hughes, of Pima, mes anger. The organization, it will be oticed is strictly in accordance with ne non-partisan doctrine enunciated 'cently by democratic member. hat is, while it is non-partisan one but democrats were elected to flee. After effecting an organiza- ion and adopting a code of rules, ,rty-four in number the con. con. ijourned until Wednesday.
 Minister Fred Douglass has given is reasons for resigning his place as mister to Hayti. He states that 3 received what he took to be an 'ation from the people from the oment he landed. Said he, "of 'urse I felt highly gratifed, and
 is qualification was greatly in- eased when after a few days, I ard these children singing when CT appeared on the streets what unded like Hail to the Chief It as it was in French I could not lderstand the words. So one day asked an American merchant, who $ been living there for many years, l translate the words for me. To | 7 horror 1 discovered that tbe a ng of acclaim, as 1 thought, was c thing more nor less than French V rsion of the American negro min d 'el song: d
 There's new coon in town;
 There's new coon in town" t A craze for ballooning has seemed | be spreading of late and fatalities n ending the dangerous feat have U come correspondingly numerous. c sewhere in this issue will be found C
 account of the death of Prof. Il 'ward, who made such successful n .ent in Prescott few weeks since. e l iH the general news items will be p md brief announcement of the e ,th of a female eronaut at Peoria. n nois. Five persons lost their lives W different parts of the country on g Fourth of July, in making ascents, o1 lie the death roll of eronauts @; ce that time has been increased to la 'ut twenty. Erial navigation. d' h its excitement and pleasant sen m ions, has always been attended B h danger and there are few ex- ar tions, where the occupation has vc n continued, that fatal accidents pi e not been the final result. Prof. re Sc, the elder, was probably the or st careful and most experienced he erican Rronaut, his ascensions tn nbering over 300. But with all pr care and experienee ba fna llvu mat in