Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-09-08
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.

son, Indiana. Several will dIe.
 The first national bank of Greens
 burg, Indiana, has failed.
 , The trial of Luetgert, in Chicago for the murder of his wife attract. hundreds of spectators daily to tn, , court room.
 r The New York vestibule train or the Delaware, Lackawanna & West r ern railroad jumped the track al Bridgetts Mills, the first station l south of Garland, and plunged
 through the station building. The locomotive, baggage cars and two coaches went entirely through the structure. Superintendent A. c. Schwartz, of Delaware, was a pas senger on the wrecked train. but has wired his wife that he is uniniured
 Mrs. J. Fl. McQnillan, of Philadel- phia, was killed and seven other
 passengers injured. The accident
 was caused by broken rail. Many
 passengers were injured in the last
 ear, a Pullman, which was over
 turned. The injuries of these pas
 sengers are said not to be very seri-
 ous.
 During a thunder storm near
 PeOa, Utah, while Andrew Jorgen-
 son was reaping wheat in a field
 near his residence. lightning struck
 his two horses and killed them. Mir.
 Jorgenson was prostrat"d by the
 stroke, and Is m a very low condi-
 tion, with very little prospect of his
 recovery.
 The Manchester, England, Daily
 Spy has started public subscrip-
 tion for John Richardson, ono of
 the few survivors of the famous
 charge of tl e Six Hundred, who is
 seriously i'll in that city without | pension, relatives or money. He
 was in the front at Inkermau
 Sebastopol, 'the Valley Of Death,"
 and also fought with Northern
 regiment in the American civil war. X history of his career was recently sent to the Queen and tho Prince of
 Wales, but elicited nothing more substantial than sympathetic ac- Acknowledgements. Richardson :s seventy-two years old, nearly blind, ard has nothing between him and the poor house but the subscription now on foot.
 Owing to the great increase in trailic all the railroad hops in Bir- mingham, Alabama. and it's vicinity have been ordered to work ten hours daily. Inquiry for pig iron. cspec- ially Tor export, IS so great that two | more furnaces are about 10 be put l in blast making sixteen in operation.
 New Mexico has available cash balance in the treasury of Sl54,503.- l 52.
 The exports of lumber during the | last fiscal year show an increase of | over loo per cent as compared with | ten years ago.
 The railroads are employing I00,- | 0OO more men than at ths time last | year, says the St. Louis Globe Dem ocrat. It is hard to keep the run of all the items of republican good | luck.
 Thb Standard Oil company which has hitherto been rated as the great est corporation in the country, will have to pass over the pennant to the combine that has united under one management all of the distilleries in Kentucky.
 The first letter mail t0 be de- spatched from this country to the Klondyke country under the new reciprocal arrangement with Cana day effected by the establishment Of an international exchange between Dyea and Dawson city, will be for warded from Seattle by the steamer leaving there on September II. ( From that time forward letter mai will go over the new servIce regu- larly once a month. The last op- portunity to send newspapers and reading matter generally into tho gold region until next spring will be afforded by paper maIl the last Of the season, which will be for warded by the steamer leaving San $ Francisco on September 9th. (
 The operators and striking coal miners are all at sea over the proba- ble settlement of the the strike. While both sides unite in the hope ' that the struggle will soon be over, I all profess iguorance Of tho negotia- lions in progress with that end m c view. c
 Martha Margaret Craven, the q pretty and talented daughter of the | woman fighting for million dollars i of the Fair estate, was quietly | married Wednesday to Henry Koh- < Ter, Jr,, a rich broker of St. Louis. k Miss Craven has attained great suc- ' cess as an actress in various com q panies Tn the east. s
 Waynesborro, Pennsylvania, on. C 1, celebrated tho centen- | nial anniversary of the founding of V town. The place is named after V General Anthony Wayne, a number Il of whose descendants were present.
 One student was disflgured for r life, and two or three others more a less seriously injured, at the annual d rush of students at the Berkeley, a California, university. President t Kellogg has issued an order pro V hibiting these brutal practices m | future. Q
 A rather singular suit has been in San Francisco. Mrs. Annie Kirk and her husband, w. ;. a Kirk, have sued w. A. Atwood, P dentist for $250 damages, alleged to @ have been sustained because he posi- | lively refused to examine the lady's c teeth after he had agreed to put a them in good condition. The reason | for this refusal was that she came | to his office on her bicycle aud wore s ! .las. h .