Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-04-21
NEWS. NOTES AND comMESrs.

Turkey has formerly declared war against Greece.
 !, Cere bro spinal meningitis pre- ? vail to an alarming extent in Bos- ton bordering on an epidemic. The treasury report shows s53.- GOO 900 in excess of the $iO0,0OO, ,O0O : allotted as the gold reserve. There are 2l2,757 names in the St. Louis directory, of which number
 l6zS are Smiths and 715 Jones. The director of the observatory at
 Coronns, South America, has ob-
 served the Perrine comet. It lies in
 the south at about 78 deg.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Hilton, one of the
 principals in the Beecher scandal
 lover twenty years ago, died in
 Brooklyn few days ago.
 Construction of the first foreign
 warship ever built in the United
 States has been begun by the Union
 Iron works, of San Francisco. on a
 Japanese cruiser.
 The victory of the democrats in
 Chicago is explained upon the
 ground that most of tEe republi-
 cans were in Washington looki
 after the offices.
 The longest commercial distance
 at which the long distance telepnous
 is now operated is from Boston 10 St. Louis, distance of 1,40O mlies.
 This line is mcrs than twice as long as any in Europe.
 The Easter lily is a native of the Bermuda islands. 4 local for st says that between 10000, 900 and I5.- 0O0,O00 bulbs are imported from he Bermudas by florists in the Uni ed States annually.
 American apples are hayiI a great run in England. One firm = ports sellingin . single day IS. Co barrels, The Unit : States will year export to Europe, 1t is
 mated 30.O00.0O0 barrels of app
 The New HampsAige courts h. just sustained law by which t. state IS ti.'C to any excess profits over 10 per cent earned [ any railroad in that state. Uu sr decision the state reeovers $50, from the Lswrenceville x Mancl ter railroad.
 Bradstreet's has ascertained by careful investigation that, in if cities, 100000 more men are er ployed at the present tine tha were able to find work fe month ago, an average of POGO for each city.
 The lower Mississippi is sad to be higher now.than it was in 1892. and that in that year the high water killed magnolia trees that were 1000 years old. Hence, it is argued that the great river is higher now than it has been for l 900 years.
 A telegram from Sackett's Harbor says that horrible crime was com mitted ir the vicinity of that village, where the Ninth United States h. fantSy is stationed, on Friday. Dur ing the evening George Allen. a steward at army headquarters, hired a carriage at 6 livery stable at Ssckett's HaFbor and took Miss Daly and divorced woman. Mrs. Crouch, out driving. At 2:30 in the morning, the horse and carriage came back to the stable with the dead bodies of the two women. About this time Allen came stagger- ing into the barracks in a weak con- dition, and be, too, is expected to die. He made an aate-mortem state ment to the effect that Crouch, the husband of the divorced woman, the whole party, and mur- dered the two women, and threw him (Allen) into the creek. Crouch is under arrest.
 A Leavenworth, Kansas, telegram says: After lying in a mans coffin for more than thirty years, a vii has been exhumed, the terms of which are likely to increase trouble some litigation among the heirs of the man who had the document buried with him. Jacob Kissengen was the man. The will was found by accident, because, when Kissen- gen died, although a will was be- lieved to have been made, nobody could find it. So the heirs went to law and have been at it for three decades. A few days ago dispute arose, which could be cleared up by tho family Bible. The grave was opened and the book taken out. It vas in good state of preservation. and, when opened, to the surpriseuf every body, disclosed will. By the ;erms of the document found in t grave, he property of Kissengen divided equally hetween five chi iren, one of theln residing in Ger many, and born ot Kissengen's frs wife. This IS where the new trcubl began. None oI the four Americs laira auar hoard nk Inc faihn-l. c.