Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-07-21
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.

days in the east.
 Tho Christian Endeavorers have commenced their homeward journey from California.
 The question of making all pen sious payable in Washington is be- ing agitated.
 The heat record in the east up to Sunday last showed 2.0O0 prOstra- tions and a50 deaths.
 Tho cost of the coal miners strike ! for the first week, according to an estimate which seems to be accurate, was about Sl ,SO.000. The Crescent. tin plate mill at Cleveland has shut down on account of the heaters refusing to work.
 The senate has rejected the nomi- nation Of Liout-Colonel Fl. E. Moves of the 2d cavalry, to be a col onel.
 Senator Wolcott says everything looks bright foI international bi- metallisnl, notwithstanding reports to the contrary in American news papers.
 The head of Wm. Gnldensuppe is said to have teen found by some boys at Branchport, encased in sail cloth and plaster paris.
 In Chicago in one day, eight per sons were drowned while trying to escape tho heat aud only one person was sun struck. The best way is to tolerate the heat and to keep as cool about it as possible.
 John D. Rockefeller has notified the Des Moines. Iowa, Baptist college tha. he will give S for every dollar the college will raise from other sources.
 Butler the Australian murderer arrested iu San Francisco, was hanged at Sydney, N. s. W. July l6. He broke down st the last minute and confessed to the murder and others of a shocking nature.
 Water has been turned on in the great Yagui canal, designed to irri- gate the lands of the valley Of the YaQui river. Tho great enterprise promises to do much for Northern Mexico.
 E k. Carter. a former bank teller of New York, who was sent to the penitentiary in January, 1895. for six and a half years for embedding $30,000, has just been released through the persistent elforts of his daughter.
 Capt. Gel, of Rome, has invented a rifle from which eighty shots a minute may be fired without remov- ing the weapon from the shoulder. Tests of the arm are being made by the Italian government.
 The arbitration commissioner, representing five states in which the miners arc now striking, are making 6 strong efort to bring the opera tors and miners to an understanding which will result in settling their differences.
 Miss Grace Allen of Fredouia, Kansas, is under arrest charged with poisoning Miss Phronia Riches and mother, the latter is dead. Jealousy prompted the deed. The girls were rivals for the heart of W. G. Smith. Both are school teachers. When arrested Miss Allen tried to commit suicide but was prevented.
 Lilliuokalani, former Queen of Hawaii, has settled down in a New York hotel into a sort Of literary refinement. There she devotes her self to composing Hawaiian melo- dies and songs and to collecting material for her eventful autobiog- raphy.
 An Austin, Texas, telegram says 1 a freight train in the International and Great Northern yards, ran over boys of Fort Worth who lay asleep | on the track, killing three and fatally injuring the fourth. The 1 same train while leaving the yard 1 ran over a negro from Waco, who | attempted to steal ride on the | brakebeam.
 Emanuel Reich, of the firm of | Reich and Brothers, of Atlanta, Georgia, one of the largest dry 1 goods and furniture houses in the 1 South, committed suicide by cutting | his throat with a fruit knife. He | attempted suicide last Saturday night but was prevented. He after wards escaped the surveillance of his friends and slashed himself four times severing his jugular vein.
 Mrs. Dempsey Colly was fatally | injured on the branch railroad at Washington in a peculiar manner. She was passenger in car just be- hind a freight ear. An iron pipe 36 feet long fell from the box car to the ground when the train was running at high rate of speed. Que end was driven through the car win dow and struck Mrs. Colly on the head crushing her skull.
 The case against Mrs. John Brad bury of Los Angeles, charged With adultery. has been dismissed in San Francisco. Mrs. Bradbury expresses the greatost satisfaction at her es- cape from Ward and has gone east to meet her husband in Chicago. Secretary Kane, of the society Tor the prevention of vice says Ward was entirely to blame as he kept administering liquors to her, and had her in maudlin condition all the time, so that she did not know what she was doing.
 Henry Sutton and Daniel Hart, two bows of Marble, Colorado, had |
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