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

York is dead.
 The Union Trust and Savings bank atlTacoma has suspended.
 The finest and most elegant "kid' now made, is composed of tanned rat and frog skins.
 The sultan has issued an trade raising the strength of the Turkish army to 100000.
 A strike embr acing the coal min CTS in five states has been ordered at Pittsburg.
 The South Dakota bank robbers, who shot 6 piece out of bank cashiers ear, have been arrested.
 4 Haxletou, Iowa, dispatch says John Bradt, who was have appeared for trial Monday on . charge of murder of Vitsliana Tomalla, shot aud killed himself in the nor mug.
 Kansas City gets her pauPers buried at ten cents each.
 The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce has adopted memorial urging Hawaiian annexation.
 Editor Mclean of Cincinnati, seems to have the call on the demo- cratic senatorial candidacy in Ohio.
 A building was blown up by dy- namite in Scranton, Pennsylvania Three persons were injured and S25,- OO0 worth of property destroyed.
 A St. Louis girls mind became unbalanced during the tornado last year, and during a thunder storm the other day she killed herself.
 The estimate of Chicago's popu- lation by the publishers of the di rectory just printed is 1928 ,000, an increase of 76,0O0 over last year.
 A deal has just been closed in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, by French syndicate for the purchase of 2,O00,- 0O0 acres of land and steps taken to locate 20,000 French colonists. The land lies on the west slope of the Sierra Madre and will be used in the culture of coffee.
 Chas. +. Smurr has been pro moted to the position of freight traffic manager of the Southern I'a- eilc system. while Wm. Sproul has been appointed to the position for msrly held by Mir. Smurr.
 The Keystone National bank of Erie, Pa, by unanimous vote of its directors, has decided to close its doors. Depositors will be paid in full.
 Captain McKelvrey. of the Brook lyn police force, says that he will not permit the proposed contest be- tween Bob Fitzsimmons and John l.. Sullivan, who were to meet at Ambrose park July 9th.
 The steamship Alden, bound from Yokobonaa to London, was wrecked oH the Island of Socotoo. June 9, and twenty-five passengers aud thir- ty two of her crew drowned. Nine passengers and six of her crew have just been recovered.
 Theodore Figel was arrested on Monday, in San Francisco, charged with embezzlement and forgery. A charge of murder will probably be lodged against him later.
 A New Yerk Woman mistook a burgular for her husband and near ly choked the life out of him for not coming home earlier.
 While in a Kansas town to attend local political meeting, rat got into Mrs. Lease's bed. Politics make strange bed fellows"-the rat thought.
 Three hundred Bannock Indians have broken away from the Fort Hall reservation in Idaho, and their actions have alarmed the settlers in the adjacent territory The war de- partment has been called upon for troops.
 The New Mexican says: Governor | Otero proposesto bring the assassins l of the late Albert J. Fountain and l his innocent little son 10 justice. 1 In his determination he will have l the active and strong support of the best people of New Mexico"
 James Arnold. 8 mining man from Butte, Montana, ran up against ''sure thing" game in Chi csgo and quit loser to the tune of | $500. He told his troubles to the police who are looking for the swindlers.
 A Minneapolis man has been in- dicted for stealing kiss from a pretty girl. His manly offer to return the stolen property had no effect upon the hard hearted minions of the law, and he must stand trial for his crime.
 Man can no longer be considered the most ambitious of ali created things, since an eagle tried to carry of an Iowa woman the other day weighing l90 pounds. It was bald headed eagle at that.-Kansas City Times.
 Tho manufacture of paper collars is a vanishing industry. Country boys used to wear them and thought them the finest things on earth. They came in box, dozen costing from twenty to thirty-6ve cents. In 1878, the annual output of paper collars was valued at Sl,750,OO0. It is now less than $S00,0O0. At first the collar was all paper. Then linen finish was put on. Later, real linen was glued on the outside, and 1t was good for week.
 John Haney, a section boss on the Wisconsin Central Railway, in Min nesota, has just come into an inher- itance of $l50,000. When first told of the news, he acted like a mad man. When the news was confirmed
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