Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-05-13
ARIZONA JOORNAL-NINER
WDNRSDAY-.......MAYl3, 1899
NEWS. NOTES AND COMMENTS,

NEWS. NOTES AND COMMENTS.
 Manta, a seaport town in Ecuador,
 suffered severely from earthquake
 shocks last Thursday. Great chasms
 were opened in the earth, and the
 loss of life was heavy. Later advices
 confirm the news of the destruction
 Ot Puerto Vieio by earthquakes and
 foods.
 A dispatch from Springfield. IL,
 says chinch bugs have put in their
 appearance all over central Illinois,
 and are laying their eggs, which will
 hatch and destroy the growing rye,
 oats and wheat, and then, when they
 have devastated these fields, they
 will attack the corn. The outlook
 is not very promising for farmers.
 Attorney George B. Chamberlain.
 of Chicago, who claims to have first
 exposed the late H. H. Holmes and oIvea him from that city says that
 Holmes dying confession will be re- ceived by Chief Badenoch, of the Chicago police, next week. In this bs is supposed to dispose of $500 100 which he made in swindling operations.
 A telegram from New York says that with trouble pending with Spail Admiral Bunce's North At la2tic squadron, lying at anchor of the lighthouse station at Tompkins vile, 5. l., IS being kept in readi- ness to get up anchor and steam out Ci the harbor at two hours notice. Fires gre kept banked on all the cTr'sers. and steam eau be raised within an hour. Never before have the ships of feet been kept up to 1~,A high standard of efficiency.
 Dr. J. c. Zehn, a member of the board of health of Alameda, Cal, died Saturday of blood-poisoning. He scratched pimple on his nose with his finger nail and on Thursday last wss taken Ill with symptoms of eryGpelas. The disease took viru- lent form and spread rapidly. Dr. Zehn died Saturday after terrible suffering. He said before his death that he had not attended an erysipe- las case for three months, and had no idea of the cause of the blood poisoning.
 The state prison directors of Cal ifornia have decided that convicts must not compete with free labor. Recently the prison directors took a | contract to manufacture a number of jute borax bags for the Pacific | Borax company. T1e Oakland cot l ton mills filed s c1.-plairt on the l ground that the prison was inter fering with free labor. and the di- | rectors to-day ordered the manu- lecture of borax bags stopped after the present contract has been filled.
 Kid" Thompson, the Roscoe traln-robber, has secured another lease of life from the supreme court of California. Thompson was con victed, and, on taking an appeal from the judgment, the supreme court affirmed the judgment, sus- taining the validity of the law under which train-wrecking and train robbery were made capital crimes. Thompson was then resentenced and his death was ordered for May 2. In the meantime, however, his coun- Sel had taken an appeal from the order denying him a new trial, and Chief Justice Beatty granted q stay Of the death sentence while that ap- peal was being determined.
 4 telegram from Oakland. Cal iforn'a, says: "Honora Townsend. the Queen of West Berkeley" will Ted Henry Bentley, late of Los An yeleS, notwithstanding he was once lccGsed of having poisoned former , lie in the City of the Angels. Mrs. Townsend IS a buxom widow, and ] avs she Is satisfied with the man { f her choice and needs no advice , 'r counsel on the subject. Bentley ' s middle-aged, and is fairly well 1 'ducsted. Mrs. Townsend met him s bout year ago through mutual i trends. She has had her share of ( lon -stic troubles. and so has her respective husband.
 CLairuan HarrltY of the demo- ratic national committee has writ t eB letter to e8ch member of the c committee ia which he says as Chi r ago, has not kept her pledge to | Ls national comnittee, it is time | Q consider the probability Of the t onveDtion being held in some other { ir. h this letter Harrity called q ;teution to the fact that Chicago c ad raised only $l0OOO of S4OO0l b romised when this city was selected e 3 the place for holding the con e ention- There seemed to be a e reliability, he si1ed, that Chicago z ould not or could not, raise any $! lore money, and it was desirable to be looking around for lotber location.