Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-29
NEws NorEs ANp ooMMENrs


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 A German torpedo boat capsized and sank, on the night of the 2lst near Hamburg. Eight of the crew, including the commander, Duke Frederick William of Mecklenburg Schewerin, were drowned. The Duke was born in 1871 and held the rank of Lieutenant in the German Navy, and his brother is the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schewerin.
 Tho Chronicle states thai anotheI broad guage railroad is soon to bs built from this city to Santa Cruz, and intimatas that 1t may thoTe connect with an extension of the Santa Fe's newly acquired Mohave division.
 Peace has been restored in the an thracite region and nearly every col fiery there Is being worked again. Included in these arc the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre companies employ ing 2,500 men. The strike was prae- tically inaugurated in them. and their return to work Saturday has caused S stampede oE other stTikeEs More than two thirds of the strikers in this region are now working.
 The notorious Staifieback house st Galens, Kansas, has been burned by mob and every vestige of the old structure. where murders and diabolical crimes have been commit ted, was destroyed. The search for the remains of the Stailleback fam ily's victims still goes on.
 Forty men were killed by a ey- clone in Italy on Tuesday.
 The inexorable law of China which condemns a parricide to death by the slicing process, whether he be tl e perpetFatoT of a wilful crime or the victim of accident, is illustrated by case in Shanghai. 4 little lad of II years, swinging a stone in . sling about his head in play, hap pened to strike his mother a blow, from tho effects of which she died. The boy is to be sliced to death by the public executioner. The cores pondent asks whether some thing cannot be done. lt is probably now too late. but certainly any foreign representative who urged the Chi nese government tc pause before permitting such horror. would be acting a friendly part to China and doing his duty as man. The Em- peror's prerogative of pardon could not be exercised on worthier occa- sion, says the Japan Mail.
 The report comes via Paris that the United States has practically sent Spain an ultimatum threaten interference if the instruction in Cuba is not suppressed by the end of October.
 Mir. and Mrs. John Bradbury are ubiquitous people. They were re- ported on the coast of Mexico a short time since, and now a telegram from Denver locates them in that city, making their way leisurely to Los Angeles"
 Mayor Harrison, of Chicago. says he has no objection to sparring matches in that city under police supervision, but slugging will not be allowed.
 A special from Washington says that man with loaded revolver was arrested in the White House grounds after he had sought in vain to secure an interview, on alleged important business, with the Presl- dent. lie was evidently a crank, but his presence in the grounds, his preparation for hostilities, aud, above all, his actions for the last few days, lead to the belief that the man was much more dangerous than the average lunatic. The police off cers are inclined to believe that their watchfulness prevented tho execution of a tragedy similar to that which removed President Gar field from the White House. The man registered at Hotel Raleigh on Friday as John B. Jackson, of Meri- dian, Conn.
 Ex-Sherif Patrick J. White, of San Francisco, IS dead. He was 6S years old and left a widow and twelve children.
 A Chinaman named Yee Lee has just been convicted at Santa Fe for importing Chinese into this country. This is the first conviction ever had under the Geary act for this crime.
 Tom Fitch. Jr., has brought suit to annul his mothers will. His mother and father separated several years ago and the former married a man named Sweeney, and died re- gently leaving all of her property to her husband.
 The police of San Francisco and San Jose are satisfied that the man now being held at HermosIllo, Mex ico, for acquisition papers, IS James Dunham, the much wanted muT- deIer.
 James Leonard, an II Year-old boy, shot and killed John Allen, a horse trader in the Choctaw nation recently. The boy was riding along the road when he met the stranger who bantered him into horse trade. They traded, but the stranger was dissatisfied. The boy refused to trade back until forced with Win chester. While changing saddles the boy seized the strangers gun and killed him.
 Silyanus Johnson was hanged on Thursday at Key West, Florida, for rape. Owing to the bungling of the hangman, the rope slipped un. der his chin and Johnson struggled violently for ten minutes, and was still alive twenty-five minutes after the drop fell. He confessed the crime.
 The sanitary officers and health authorities of New Orleans expect to be able to announce iu a few days that the fever has been completely stamped out, The total number of cases up to date are eighty with ten deaths.
 The Russian wheat crop is almost an entire failure. The beginning of the trouble was dry winter, caus- sl ,rhasf coxrn