Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-06-02
NEws. NorEs ANp ooMMENrs.

F. Doc Stark, San Francisco drug
 gist, has been arrested for counter
 letting.
 F. Whitelaw Reid has been commis
 stoned to attend the Queens jubile,
 this month.
 Two highwaymen held up an Oak
 land policeman and took his gur
 away from him. This was the only thin5 of value he had on him.
 A man that looked like him wa: arrested at Lagrange, Texas. sus- pected of being Dunhsm, the Cali fornia murderer.
 San Francisco has passed an anti high hat ordinance prohibiting ladies from wearing high hats and bonnets in the .theaters during a perform ance.
 . Colonel James K. Wade, Fifth cavalry; Colonel William Graham, Fifth Artillery, and Colonel John K. .Mizner, Tenth Cavalry, have been promoted to be brigadier generals.
 A St. Louis actress secreted her. self in a closet, from where she heard her husband make love to an- other woman and plan an elope ment. She didn't do a thing to them but fire five bullets into her hubby, killing him, and one into the woman.
 A New Hampshire man has got 8 divorce from his wife and married her mother. Among "the mottos that are framed upon the wall" of his residence is one that reads, "What is home without a mother in.law."
 Officers of the Cuban League have decided to attempt the raising of . fund of S1,0O0,000 in the United States, believing that this will sna- ble the Cubans to establish their independence.
 An old California pioneer, who died at Azusa recently, was supposed to have left neither kith nor kin, but he was not long under ground before a woman claiming to be his widow, appeared on the scene to claim his estate.
 Members of the Roland Reed the atrical company have just been awarded verdict, in Macon, Geor- gia, for damages sustained in . rail- road wreck on the Southern rail- way, as follows: Miss Meyers, $4,000; Roland Reed, S2,OOO, and Miss Rush Sl,000.
 4 young Russian was arrested on Wednesday near the Czar's summer residence, seventeen miles south of St. Petersburg. He had a dagger and revolver in his hand and said be wanted to murder the Czar, become famous ana be hanged like other heroes.
 The trial of Henry O. Havemeyer president of the American Sugar Refining Company, indicted for re- fusing to answer a question pro- pounded in the senate sugar investi- gation in June, 1894, is in progress in Washington.
 < dispatch from Athens says that Great Britain has declared her in- ,ention to abandon the concert of the powers if it is determined that the occupation of Thessaly by Turk ish troops should be prolonged un- til Greece shall have paid the war indemnity demanded by Turkey.
 A rumor was circulated in Guana. haeoa, Cuba, that Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, the United States Consul Gen. eral, was going to distribute money to the people. In consequence about six hundred persons gathered to- gether in anticipation of receiving relief. They were advised by the police that there was no truth in the rumors, and were ordered to dis perse. The crowds, however, refused to obey, and the police were com pelled to disperse them by force.
 Little Flossie Brush. six years old, of San Francisco, has been lowering between life and death for nearly a week from the effects of blow by a schoolmate, Ross HayriL The blow was struck in the school room last Thursday. Havril leased the little girl and took her pencil away. When she tried to recover it he bit her with his fist in the side, just be- low the lower ribs. Internal in- hammation set in, and much of the time since the child ,has been delir- ious. She is not yet out of danger.
 In New Jersey they vote with bal lots inclosed in envelopes. When the election officers of Madison township were counting the ballots they found in one envelope 6 dollar bill. One member of the board thought it must be taken as a re- jeeted ballot and strung as such. The other members thought diff fereutly and after some discussion it was decided to create precedent and spend the dollar for cigars and "otheF things"
 Socorro, New Mexico, is inundated by high water. Many settlers have been driven from their homes and scarcely hope now to save even their fine orchards as it is raining along the valley again, and every thing points 70 a continuance of the floods for weeks to come. The San ta Fe company has a large fierce working day and night to protect its tracks.
 People of Baltimore thought there was sH earthquake there on Wednesday evening. On investi- gation however. it was ascertained that it was only Arizona's attorney general stepping of the train at Washington that caused an incip- ient temblor around the place for radius of fifty miles.
 The selection of Lyman Gage to be secretary of the treasury gave his bank in Chichgo such 6 boom that