Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-09-25
The Mexican congress is in session.

Fort Hancock, Texas, is to be abandoned and turned over to the Interior Department.
 The Silver Belt announces a gen eral revival of business in Globe, and an incipient building boon hay ing set m there.
 Dan Coffey, one of the best known detectives of San Francisco, com mitted suicide Sunday night.
 How many of Mir Cleveland's friends share in the S60O,OOO, alleged to be lawyers fees" in the Mora claimi
 Hardin, the democratic candidate for governor of Kentucky, Is in hard luck. Breckinridge has taken the stump for him.
 The worst thing that has yet hap pened to Hon. Theodore Roosevelt is the endorsing of his enforcing the law by Dick Croker,
 There is more probability that Cleveland will be nominated for a third term than there Is that the national democratic convention will be controlled by silver men.
 Now that Liliuokalani is free to dispose of her time and person as she pleases, she should pay her great and good friend" Grover, a visit.
 When Tucson people are real naughty and die, they go to Phenix, When P.enix people are real good and die, they enter the gates of paradise by way of Tues ,n.-Citizen.
 Brother Reppy, of the Florence Tribune, pleads guilty to the JOUR NAL MNRE's charge that the afore- said Reppy is a constitutional kicker. Verbum sap.
 A new governor is said 10 be in hiding in the territory. It is possi ble, but not probable, that the fellow may be in cold storage in Phenix, and is waiting, only waiting till the thermometer has a little lower grown.--Ex.
 The English papers criticise the boyish action of Lord Dunraven in the yacht race, and they speak in high terms Cf praise O. the genei- ous action of MT. Iselin in offering to re, sail the race of September 10.
 Tine Phoenix Riata is trying to lasso the Republican of that city for playing a confidence game on it. The Riata is printed at the Repub- lican office. Last week it prepared an illustrated article ou the Chinese chop joints of Phoenix, and 1t claims the Republican stole the idea and produced similar article prior to the issue of the Riata. On the other hand the Republican claims originality for the idea and says that they had it incubating for three weeks in the office. Men al contact between the two great minds of the two offices probably was the cause of its coming to the surface simul- taneously ill both offices. Neither the idea nor either of the articles would ever have attracted any par ticular attention had not the dis pute about the originality of them occurred.
 Late advices from China and Japan are to the effect that notwith- standing the endeavors of the Jap anese and Chinese authorities to suppress news concerning the chol- era, the truth has at last come to light concerning the plague. Japan and North China are fairly alive with cholera germs. In China the disease has gained a firm foot hold. In Tokio the heat is terrific, and the disease germs have been nursed by the climate into yirulent lie. The plague is raging also in Yoko- hama. In China, at Che Foo, the 1 disease is spreading rapidly. At Nankin much illness prevails among the foreigners, many of whom have | been forced to flee from the country. | The ravages of cholera in Japan are | far greater than have been reported. Over 17,OO0 deaths are reported to | have occurred in Japan.
 A telegram from London says | that according to an extremely vO- Luminous report issued to-day by | the Government Board of Trade and which has been compiled by | Hon. J. Burnett, the chief statisti- clan of the board. The trade unions of England are as a whole, speaking | broadly, insolvent. The report deals with total of 6S7 trade organiza- tions and shows that while their gross receipts for the year ending Aug. 3lst were nearly ten millions of dollars, the gross disbursements were eleven and quarter millions. was only avoided by the fact that, at the beginning of the year, the combined unions had in hand a balance of nine and half millions. out of which the deficiency of million and quarter has been met. The principal items of dis bursement of the 67S unions, which have an aggregate of 1,270,7S9 mem bers, were: Strike pay, three and a half million dollars; out of-work