Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-05-20

The Methodist conference at Cleveland retired Bishops Bowman and Foster on the ground that they arc too i'd for efficient service.
 Sherman, Texas, was visited by cyclone yesterday and between thir- ty and forty people are reported killed.
 Advices from Havana state that in the recent action between Maceo and Gen. Inclan at CaTacarsjacas, Pinar del Rio, 400 Spsniards were killed, while the CubsnS lost seven teen. Sicarss, the famous Cuban leader was killed in this battle.
 Jack'R. Alexander, a great nephew of Jeff Davis, was shot and mortally wounded at his saloon in Paris, Ken lucky. by John Steers. brakeman. He had refused to trust Steers for drink.
 Ex-Police Captain Edward B. Car penter, of New York City, has been sentenced to three months in the penitentiary and a fine of Sl,50O. Carpenter pleaded guilty to having received a bribe of 5000 from the Liquor Dealers association.
 Coronado, California, proposes to have a novel race. A span of cock ostriches will be hitched to buggy and trotted against time. The biras are said to have a record of three minutes. Under proper conditions 1t is believed that this pair of bipeds can outbest the feetest horses, and the best of the whselmen are not in It with the ostriches when racing.
 4 dispatch fron Caracas, Vene- zuela, says tha. m a sham battle Sunday bullets were secretly used by both sides. As a consequence one man was killed aud several wounded in the excitement of the fray. The Caracas Journal. in commenting upon the the affair grimly observes: "We have bullets for Englishmsn."
 The San Francisco and San Jca- quin Valley Railroad directors have let contract for seven new locomo- tiveS. Four of them are to be for freight and three for passenger service. The new engines will be ready for use bV August I2, next, or about the date that the line will be completed into Fresno.
 < Wichita, Kansas. telegram says that MEs Irene Leonard, accused of the murder of her husband. Henry II. Leonard. has been found guilty of murder in the second degree. The fact that Leonard was killed in his own house and that the motive was tO secure insurance was not on- ly established by circumstantial evi- dence, but by a confession of the defendant.
 The Arkansas Gazette, the lead ing democratic newspaper of Ar kansas and the oldest paper pub lished west of the Mississippi under the same name, has changed hands From an advocate of gold standard and defender of the national ad- ministration in this respect, the Gazette will hereafter be an earnest champion of free coinage. The Ga zette has been published continu ously since 1919.
 The London Daily Courier con- firms the report that Jameson's raid into the Transvaal failed because Cecil Rhodes wished the reformers to revolt under the Union Jack, while the latter insisted upon the TrsnsVsal flag. It also appears to be confirmed that all arrangements were made to proclaim Charles Leonard President, and John Hays Hammond, States Attorney, but they refused to alter the plans, and consequently left Jameson in the lurch.
 An Austin, Tex, dispatch says United States Minister Terrell, who has been visiting his family there for several weeks, was called post haste to Washington by a telegram from President Cleveland. MT. Ter rell refused positively to explain the causs of the summons, but from what IS learned from his friends. it Is understood that he will be sent to Turkey immediately, as his pres ence is very necessary there in the opinion of the officials at Washing ton.
 A Constantinople dispatch says the work of the agents of the Ameri- can Red Cross Society, under the direction of Miss Clara Barton, its president, is very successful. They have been relieving & great deal of distress by distributing seeds and tools, especially in the Hsrpoot dis trict, where pr. J. D. Hubbelrs party has been urged 10 make a lengthy stay. A he'd Cross medical corps is being formed at Constaot.- uople and will be placed al the disposal of Ira Harris for work in the Marash and Zeltoun districts. where typhus fever and dyssn;ery are raging.
 A telegram from Spokane, Wash IuCj 3n, avs: Thomas Griffin. a prominent farmer residing with his wifi. and two childrel, near Oakrs- 1 Oale. in this county. crimiuallv as suited Bessie Gum, the fourteen year-old daughter of ]. W. Gum. a merchant, to-dsy. Gum started -..er Griffin with a rife to kill him. H. Was r1uirontsd a the door by t.J5. Griffin who. when she learned . ,i her husbands crime locked the DOTS, snd with a club beat Griffin
 death in the sight of their chil- .