Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-01-15
THE LATEST NEES!.
General Happenings Throughout Many
 Points Of the Country.

upon the attorney general for in formation as to what steps, f any, had been taken to enforce the laws of the United States against trusts. combinations and cOnspiracies and what further legislation. If any, Is needed. On motion Of NIT. Dlngiey . resolution was adopted calling on the secretary of the treasury for lu- formation as to the amounts re- ceived from the leSsees of the Alaskan seal islands each year from May. 1890. and from lS6S to lSS0, and the number of skins taken each year, also cost of policing Behring sea and North Pacific each year since 1890 and the amounts for the support of the natives of Alaska. At l205 the house adjourned until tomorrow.
 NEw YORK, Jan. 7.-The uncer- tainty regarding the government bond issue and the political and financial disturbance abroad dOmin- ated the opening of the market hsre. London cables reported de clines in Americans, ranging up to , per cent below yesterdays New York prices. Pacific mail dropped 2l. Large blocks were thrown on the market. One million and q hall dollars in gold has been ordered for shipment tomorrow.
 WASHINGTON. Jan. Up to noon the treasury department officials had received only few telegrams con ceFning the new loan, and they were not of a character to indicate how the announcement WAS received throughout the country. Although the president WAS constrained to make this a popular loan as far as possible by soliciting individual subscriptions, 1t is understood that neither he or NIT. Carlisle place any reliance in its success, except by the aid of the syndicate.
 FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Jan. :. - The sherif's posse which left here yes terday for Squaw Tanks, forty-ive miles northeast of here. has re- turned. The report that the Navajo Indians had three sheep men cor Falled at that place, and intended 10 kill them, proved untrue. The posse found no Indians in that vicinity.
 BERLIN, Jan. At a special audi ence which W. J. Loyds. Secretary of State of tbe Transvaal. had with Emperor William today his majesty declared that he would not recog- .N fnr arrrsr the Transvaal. Great Britain, by the treaty of lS44, claims Suzerainty ever the Trsnsvaai Republic.
 Los ANGELES, Jan. 7.-The coroner IS looking into the case of Charles ! Burney, of Arizona. who died yes terday in a Chinese hospital. The . Chinese physicians had been plaster . ing him all over with COW manure for several weeks.
 EEw YORK, Jan. s.-The suns . London correspondent says that the . noise of war alarms should not dis !. tract attention from the marvellous ] triumph of science which Is reported 1 from Vienna. IL Is announced that . Prof. Routgen. of WurZburg Uni I Versity has discovered light which. ] for the purposes of photography, l will penetrate wood, flesh or almost ] any other organic substance. The l professor has succeeded in photo ! graphing metal weights which were enclosed in a wooden case, and also 1 has made a photograph of mans hand, which shows only the bones, the flesh being invisible. The cor respondent says that the professor takes so-called crooked pipe. namely a vacuum glass pipe with an induc ton current going through it. and by means of rays which the pipe emits, photographs on ordinary pho togrSphic plates These rays peue- tTstes organic matter and other opaque substances, just as ordinary rays penetrate glass. He has also succeeded in photographing hidden metals with a cloth thrown over the camera. The rays penetrated not oply the wooden case containing the metals, but the fabric in front of the negative. The professor Is al ready using his discovery to photo
  human bodies.
 WAsHISGToN, Jan. S.-A bill was introduced in the Senate to-day by . Senator Allen, directing the fore closure of the government lien on |. the Pacific roads. The bill provides . for the operation of the roads by the government in case they are not ] redeemed by the present owners.
 HAVANA, Jan. s.-Insurgents are burning and destroying property up . to within eight miles of Havana.
 WAsHTSGToN. Jan. 9-lu the house. as soon as the journal had been read . Mr. Livingston, democrat. of Geor- gia, offered the following resolution. Be it resolved, by the house ot repre- sentatives, the senate COncurrIDg. that the president of the United States IS requested to forthwith as certain whether Great Britain, is advancing her OutpOsts on the terr!- tory in dispute between her colony in British Guiana and tho Re public of NenZuela, or IS reinforc- ing the posts heretofore estab- lshed with troops, police ordnance, and should the president become . cognizant of the fact that the Bri.- . ish military are advancing Go invade or reinforce, or since the l7th Cavof . December last has invaded or rein fotced the posts formerly occupied . within said disputed territory, that he . demand the Immediate withdrawal of said soldiers and the reduction of the police force in sad territory to a not greater number than were ocru- . pying the British outposts on the aforesaid I7th day of December. Livingston asked unanimous consent . to make a brief explanation of the resolution, but Mir. B0utelle. repub- licsn of Maine. objected and the resolution was referred Co the com. .