Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-05-19
THE LATEST NEWS.! General Happenings Throughout Many
 Points of ths Country.

car run over ms lett leg cutting IL oil
 The accident happened while the
 engine of the south bound train
 was switching some cars in the yard,
 Carney was brought here and placed
 in the hospital. No blame attached
 to any one but himself.
 ST. LoUIS, May 13.-The commit
 tee of the stockholders and income bondholders of the Atlantic & Paci i fic railroad have commenced pro- ceedings against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad con- pany, the Atlantic x Pacific con- l pany, St. Louis and San Francisco O company and several trust con- | panies, attacking the validity of tue sale of the Atlantic x Pacific to the | Atcbison. It is sought to have the property acquired held in trust fer the benefit of the Atlantic x Pacific income bondholderS whose liens up- un the property and income the AtcLlson company attempted to ! foreclose. The petition oi the com l plalnants is that the AtchisOn com ] pany cannot deprlv. tneG o! their rights as creditors iuaSmuch as all ] he security holders of the old Atchison company are practically re-lnstated in the new articles of he company in same position and NIth the same prioTIties while the ,Iens of bondholders of the Atlantic x Pacific are transferred to other creditors and stockholders of the
 Atchison company at their expense.
 he bill asks for an accounting and injunction against the disposition of the securities of the Atlantic X Pacific by its nominal new owner,
 WASHINGTON, May l4.-President Mckinley has under earnest consid- erstion the advisability of sending a message to congress next week on the Cuban question. He is inclined to suggest that measures be adopted to relieve the distress among the American residents of Cuba. The message if it goes in will be entirely pacific. In order to have facts on which 10 predicate his message Me Kinley has had cablegrams sent to every consular office in Cuba asking each to give exact information O. the status of affairs in his district by telegraph at once. It was under stood today by some members of the senate committee on foreign rels- tions that this information would be communicated to the senate, but 2 !, I., ...s4 by a message recommending action was yet matter of doubt.
 The prospects are that consider able opposition may develop in the Senate to the proposition of relief. Senator Burrows, of Michigan, said today: Distribution of relief is i'm possible and a scheme thoroughly impracticable. How is the citizen ship of the people asking for relief to be determined, and must there be an investigation of the citizenship of every starving woman aud child who asks for relief. We will be pre- vented from taking care of Ameri- cans in insurgsnt lines aud cannot relieve distress even in insurgent hospitals. We shall simply be help ing Spain feed her hungry people"
 TOPEKA, May l4.-President Kip ley, of the Atchison, Topeka X Santa Fe railway, has issued a circular for bidding employees to engage in other business occupying part of their time without his sanction. Employees in the purchasing or ocr,,,,,,o,t lanarfv,ar+s ara alsn prohibited from having any private interests which may give suspicion that the neutrality of the treatment of the patrons of the road is not observed. Mir. Ripley encourages the investment of employees say ings along the lines of road so long as it does not affect their official actions. In cases where officers or employees already possess invest ments which might be construed to influence their official actions and cannot dispose of them, save at sacrifice, they are ordered to report them to the general manager, who will make recommendations.
 SACRAMENTO, Cal, May l4.-Dur- rants last plea for life was made to- day before Governor Budd, Dur rants attorneys relying chiefly upon the alleged confession of prisoner m San Quentin, named Rosenberg. The alleged confession of the con vict Rosenberg was to the effect that he had killed Blanche Lamont at the instigation of stranger who paid him S700 for the job. Before the attorneys and reporters were admitted to the executive chamber, Governor Budd sent for the records in the case of John Rosenburg. The governor then had Private Secretary Shields call up the district attorney of Santa Clara county to see if Rosenberg had pleaded guilty. This action on the part of the governor would indicate that he suspected a put up job on the part of Rosen- berg.
 SAN FRANCISCO, May 14.-The al legged confession of Convict John Rosenberg, of San Quentin prison, 1 that he murdered Blanche Lamont, is utterly discredited here, no one placing the least credence m it. The | police pronounce 1t a baseless fabri- cation. The ship Hospidar, on which Rosenberg says he came hither from Hamburg, arrived, ac- eording to the records of the hsrbor commissioners, in November, 1895, but the police say she arrived in June. 1895. In either case her arri-
 val was subsequent to the murder of 1 Blanche Lamont, for which Durrant
 Is to be hanged.' She was mur- dered in April. SO Rosenberg could ] not possibly be her murderer.