Arizona republican., 1897-09-16

result The acquisition of Chatta- nooga would add much to Georgia's wealth and importance, and give her an outlet to the Mississippi river system, which she has long coveted.
 The heat in some of the western states is excessive. A dispatch from Des Moines, Iowa, states that the hot weather of the past week has damag- ed corn, potatoes and other late crops to the value of $1O,000,OOO. Several we'll known grain men who have made an examination of the situation i'm different parts of the state say the late corn is of no value, and that many farmers are cutting down the stalks for fodder. The present heat ed spell is the worst experienced in Chicago for the month of September in twenty-five years. In September, 1872, there was a heated term for the first twenty-two days. During that period the highest temperature reg istered was 95 degrees
 The Valentine syndicate of New York has practically bought out the repuIblic of tT1onduras. They Twill complete the railway which was be- gun by an English company ftrty years ago, to run from Puerto Cortez to the Pacific, but neverAinish The Honduras government has agreed to surrender all its governmental func- tions to the syndicate The latter will begin operations by Oct. 1, when S1 100000 is to be paid to carry on the expenses of the Honduras govern ment, and the government is to turn tF cyry frsof ,11 and the latter Is to control all the custom houses, etc, no reimburse it. self. Some of the money has already been paid. The syndicate also agrees to relieve the Honduras governm ent of all responsibility for the foreign debt of $35 100000 owed in England, and will compromise or settle with the foreign creditors.
 It is reported in Paris that a pro- visional contract has been entered in to by the Brazilian government on the one part and the Rothschilds Freres, the Discount bank of Berlin and the Compton d'Escompte of Par Is, on the other, with reference to farming out the Brazilian railways A company to take over the admin istsration of the railways will be con- stdtuted with capital of 200 .000 ,0OC francs, of which sum half<wil be re- served for an English financial group and oae-quarter each for the French and German members.
 The London Daily Chronicle has published letter calling attention tc the July bulletin of the Johns Hop. kins hospital, at Baltimore record | ing toxic experiments upon eight lun.
 atics from Baltimore City asylum
 who were dosed with thyroid extrac
 until one of them died, and in an edi
 torial it is asserted that in England
 such experiments would bring the ex
 perimenters before jury
 According to @ dispatch received
 from Moscow and published in tn,
 London Standard a fanatical monl
 has given another curious illustra
 tion of a form of religious delusior
 now raging in many parts of Russia
 The priest in question had himsel buried to the armpits in a cave neaI
 the town of Urlask, the capital O
 the government of the same <name o1
 the 'Ural, a district inhabited for tn,
 most part by Cossacks He hoped tt
 find salvation by mortifying the flesh
 and asked his friends to return tt
 him in week, when he expected tt
 have found the object of his desire
 They consented to the arrangement
 but on returning found him dead. few years ago toad was found alive encased in a stone in Egypt where it must have lived for two ol
 three thousand years. A similar in
 stance has been noted at Bristol, Pa
 An old moss covered vault ln the olt
 St. James's Episcopal churchyare was opened few days ago by the sex
 ton, and in the interior was found
 a live toad. The most recent date o1 the vault was William Henry, 1793.
 There seems to have been no possible
 way by which the toad could have en tered the tomb after it was sealed.