Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-04-14

! not reached Salt River
 The Italion parliament Is about to bust up on the Cretan question.
 President Mckinley has slipped away for a few days from the office seekers
 Hawaii wants to be annexed to 1 Uncle Sam. and the ball is now roll ing that way,
 A hot box on a whisky train in Indiana. Loss. two lives and sey- eral thousands of dollars.
 The insurgents of Cuba have cap tured two big Spanish forts, and yet Weyler says.his cause is won. The battleship Iowa seems to be in the same class that the state she was named after belongs-the first.
 The adoption of the bicycle habit by Mir. Gladstone is another attempt of the old gentleman to keep the ] procession from-passing him.
 The Senate is settling down to business on the financial question, Gold and silver interests are st bit | ter ends,
 If that Greece Turkish war wants 10 attract any attention in this coun- try, it must get down to business before our base ball season opens.
 Senator Platt, of New York, got a black eye the other day, but it was 1 given him by heavy swinging door in the Capitol building, and not by one of his enemies.
 When the average democratic editor is at loss for something to | write he attacks "Czar" Reeds method of running the house. That is one of the reasons republicans admire Mir. Reed so much.
 When Speaker Reed declined to recognize as a political party the l populists in the House, on the ground that they were a part of the democratic party, he made a bulls eye.
 Vicola Tesla, the noted electrician, says he has discovered a means 10 produce an electric light that is much more brilliant and cheaper than the present in use. There is no telling yet the possibilities ir cleo trieal research.
 At a meeting of the directors of the Southern Pacific Company, held in San Francisco on April 8, all the former officers were re elected, c. P. Huntington being unanimously chosen the president. There wss no opposition to the election of any of the officers.
 The Turks are playing back on the Christian fleets that are protect. ing them, in Cretan waters, and for the fun of the thing massacred 1000 Armenians the other day, and yet the civilized powers are preparing to blockade the ports of civilized i Greece.
 Some body could do the country a great service by producing some method of hurrying the tariff bill through the Senate, so that the speculating importers would not have time to overload cur markets with foreign made goods.
 The "old boys" are slowly, but surely, passing away. Major E. P. l Dougherty, who, when a lieutenant, was ID command of the party that captured John Wilkes Booth, died in New York on the 3d of this month
 The offer of the New York i'm porters to furnish plate matter" or ready prints" attacking the Ding. ley tariff bill, free of all expense to such papers as will use it, is likely to do that bill more good than harm.
 The dedication of the Grant Mau. soIeum in New York is going to be made au event worthy of the name of Grant. The President aud hii cabinet, and doubtless a consider able number of Senators and Repre- sentatives, will go over from Wash ington, and foreign nations have been invited to send war ships. ] The Turks have been compelled to ask the powers to help them let SC in Crete. A telegram from Canes says that the foreign admirals have sent war ship to Kissamo, with in, structlons to assist the Turks m eyacuating the place, the latter hay, | ing declared that it is impossible to resist the insurgents.
 1 Senator Hansbrough thinks the business relations between the 1 United States government and the solicitors of patents are too close for the latter to use lottery schemes in their business; hence, the intro duction of his bill making it illegal i for solicitor of patents to offer any prize or premium to inventors by means of so called competitions, or m any other way,
 The spirit of courage, patriotism aud liberty loving independence,