Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-01-29

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 The failure of the queen of Cores Co stay dead may result in seriously eomplicating eastern affairs General Gomez, At the head of the insurgent army otCuba, is said Co be dying of consumption.
 France Is not dong any hurrah- ing over the reconciliation between the Kaiser and his grandmother. Sarah Barnhart can give most of her younger sisters lessons in the ant of acting as well as in the getting of free advertising.
 Old man Gladstone displayed his good sense by refusing to talk when he lacks the power to back his ! opinions
 Why doesn't MT. Cleveland invite Joe Pulitzer and Charlie Dana 10 eat q reconciliation dinner at the white house'
 ! The sale of the democratic nA- tional convention seems to have been overlooked by most of the democratic editors.
 Maybe there is no uudersta nding between Mir. Cleveland and the Morgan bond syndicate, and then i again maybe there is. It's a ten to one shot that the syndicate gets lots of those bonds, anyway.
 Now that our sympathy for the poor Armenisns is, in some cases being accompanied by cash contri- buttons, there Is reason to hope that some practical good will bs done in spite of the sultan.
 The affairs of the nations of tte earth seem to be growing more con- plieated every day. Scarcely a day passes now that we do not hear of some nation treading on the cOrns Of some other one.
 ! According to the revelation, "wars and rumors of wars" was to be an omen of the latter days. Just now tho 'rumors" are very sbun- dlnt, but real war has not yet com menced.
 According to late uews the Venez- uelans have taken the right tlck to bring John Bull down to 8 common sense basis; they are boycotting English business houses and trans fer.ing their trade to American es- tablishments.
 The semi-oficial publication of the statement that Great Britain is not seeking an alliance with any power indicates that John Bull has been turned down by them all.
 Ono would suppose that Carlisle had made bad enough mess as sec retary of the treasury without try ing to pose as a candidate for the democratic presidential nomination.
 There are two or three papers ID the territory snarling at Delegate Murphy and misrePresenting him in regard to bis efforts to secure state hood. One of them is a professedly republican paper, but one which did all in its power to defeat Mir. Mur- phy last year.
 There is a church in Chicago, called the Church Militant, presided over by pr. John Rusk, which is said to be composed Cf all kinds of people. h i, man may believe what he p.eas,S. 50 long as he sub sc-ibes to the single doctrine that 1t i, the duty ol every man to aid his unfortunate fellows. Dr. Rusk says; We have 8 volunteer orchestra of twenty-five pieces. legal commis sion composed of over thirty of the leading lawyers of Chicago, who are each pledged to try at least one case a week free of charge for the poor, or to take up the prosecution of laI city officials or law breakers. Our committee of physicians hunt up the poor and care for the sick; dele gates visit the police stations and cure drunkards by practical methods. The health committee of ladies fights the saloon by trying to pro- vide the working man a better club house. not by Invectives."
 Eastern dispatches state that President Cleveland will, within 6 day or two, issue a proclamation recognizing the belligerency of the | Cuban insurgents It is also stated that the United States will resist, to the last ditch, any attempt on the part O. Spain to transfer the islands to England. The London G lobe, in an article on the attitude Of the United States in reference to the Monroe doctrine, dons its war paint and says: The English people will not stand much more fooling from anybody, and these gentlemen whom We credi; with no more exalte,. en- timeu, than the wish to staud we'll with their constituents may very easily find themselves face to face with a situation that could be called appalling" The warlike Globe, if ! it understood the first principle of