Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-12-08
SOME GENERAL
 NEWS ITEMS !
Facts. Figures and FaRcies Found Floating Ali Over the Country.
Events Told in Brief Paragraphs for
 the Information of Our Readers.
Earthquake at Gaiena, Illinois.

Earthquake at Gaiena, Illinois. | A snow storm has visited the up
 per Missippi valley.
 | Kansas and Oklahoma were visited
 by earthquakes December 2.
 The Canadian Pacific railroad
 company will build branch line to
 Itossland.
 A motion has been made to dis
 miss ali appeals of DuFrant Tn the
 California supreme court.
 1 Ex-Senator Henderson, of Mis-
 souri, in an open letter to young
 men, says: Keep out of public office"
 Martin Thorn, convicted in New York of the murder of Wm. Gulden-
 suppe has been sentenced to be
 electrocuted January 10, 1898.
 Johu l. Morgan. under sentence
 of desth to be hanged at Ripley.
 West Virginia, December l6, has es-
 capped from jail. He murdered
 whole family.
 Joseph Poe, the well-known Ex-
 Congressman from Ohio, IS almost @ years of age, but has announced
 his intention of starting for Klon-
 dike next spring and has no fear on
 account of his age.
 The shoe factories of the world
 use 1000, 900 kangaroo skins yearly,
 and Australians have begun to
 raise and breed kangaroOs as they
 would sheep.
 It will surprise some people to know that during the busiest time on the Atlantic cable, between 9 and l2 o'clock in the forenoon, an aver craze of 900 messages pass each EsY every dsT. H. s. MeCielland, who shoFels dirt for the Panhandle" Railroad Company for Sl.25 a day, speaks eight languages and holds dipfo- mas in tho College de France and ! tAG OattCE5atf OA I1d0TtOs Rev. J. 4. Thompson has preached l for congregation in Thomasville, ] Ga, for thiEty-one years, and has i just taken his hrst vacation in all | that time. He took ten days for it.
 Mrs. Eunice Davis. who is living in Cedham Mass, Is the oldest wo- man abolitionist in the United | States and the only surviving mem Der of the Womau,s Anti-Slavery Board of Boston.
 Geo. R. Blodgett. head of law de- partment of the General Electric company, at Schenectady. New York, was shot by burglar and | mortally wounded. The burglar escaped. i
 A leading health authority says: Drink less, breathe more; eat less, chew more; rIde less, walk more; clothe less, bsthe more; worry less, work more; waste less, give more; write less. read more; preach less, practice more" ...{
 The Emperor of China declares that he would rather forfeit his crown than agree to the conditions demanded by Germany ss redress Tor the murder of the two German missionaries, Nile and Kennel, and the destruction of the German mis- sion property in the province of Shautung. What will Germany doi
 William c. Todd, of Atkinson. N. H.. has endowed the Boston public library with S2,000 a year for the purchase of newspapers. MT. Todd says he is impressed with the in- creasing importance and influence of newspapers aud the great demand Tor them by all classes of tho com munity." He gives the money on the simple condition that the whole annual interest on $50,0OO be ex- pended for newspaper subscriptions.
 The post office department is talk ing Q firm stand against the so called "missing letter" and "missing word" contests conducted by a num- Der of publishers to increase sub scripticns to their papers. The lottery law directs the postmaster general upon the evidence satisfac- tory to himself that a concern or person is operating through the mails a lottery, or scheme offering ! prizes dependent upon lot or chance to prohibit the delivery of all mail matter to it. Missing letter con- tests are held to be violations of the . law because many correct answers :. can be given, but only one list is deemed "correet" by the promoter of the scheme.
 One lone robber with his face hidden by 8 mask, armed with 8 I revolver, attempted to rob the pas. Iengers of north bound St. Louis. ' Keokuk x Northwestern train. A troup and a theatrical a .roap were on board the cars. Soon d liter the train left La Grange, the who had taken a seat in he smoker, put mask on his face, 7 md drawing a revolver, started ' through the train. With pistol in ? ,and, he demanded money and valu- lbles of passengers. There was a ' scramble to get out of his way, but . 'ome of the men in the coach stood ' her ground and attempted to dis 2 Irm the bandit, who fired three 'hots from his revolver, none of which took effect. He lost his mask n the scuffie, and finally escaped | rom the platform by springing to d he ground. f