Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-12-15
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Small pox is raging at San Mar cial, New Mexico.
 President McKinley's message contained 13,000 words.
 The San Francisco mint will coin S3L0O0,OO0 gold this year.
 Three new beet sugar factories arc to be erected at once in Califor- nia.
 4 freight rate war is on with transeontinental lines over west of the Missouri traffic.
 Earnest A. Hummell, of St. Paul Minu., has invented a device for sending pictures by electricity. that has, on test, proven successful.
 At Millerville, Nevada, Dec. z. Adam Uber was lynched for the murder" of Hans Anderson. The body was riddled with bullets.
 It Is not generally known that people are still going to Alaska by the hundreds. Every steamer car res a cargo of men bound for the gold fields.
 The hand of the wicked Turk is now dripping with the blood of Bulgarian frontiersmen. Bulgarians are being slaughtered and Bulgar- ian women outraged.
 Jimmy Barry, the American ban tam weight pugilist is out on bail in London charged with man slaug ghter for killing Walter Croat in a championship fight.
 Woman's rights is exemplifed by the calling of Mrs. R. F. Perdue to serve on jury at Fort Scott, Kan sas. The woman in question says she will serve.
 At Wesson, MississippI, Mrs. Ben jaminin Smith and four children were murdered by 8 negro while the husband was away. The negro was captured and lynched.
 The present school population of Colorado is l30362, of which 75,OOO are in towns and cities. The total enrolment is l00,SS0. There are 3l20 teachers and 4S high schools in the state.
 Ex-Governor Waite, Of Colorado, has located in Decatur county, Iowa, where he is developing 8 colonization scheme the details of which he has not yet given to the public.
 Hayti has saluted the German flag and peace reigns supreme be- tween the two countries. The in- iemnity demanded by Germany for the arrest and detention of Herr L'seders hes- been settled to the satisfaction of Germany.
 The net expenditures on account )f the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1897 was S6,50S, ,539'34. | md the net revenues collected for he district were just half of that ium.
 The number of business failures throughout the United States for be first week in December were 259, 1 $ compared with 359 the first week | n December. 1896; 3I6 in 1895. 325 n 1894 and 3S3 in 1893.
 At Ashtsbula, Ohio, on December l, Clifford, the six-vear-old son of | Theodore Squires, was killed by a ,ull dog. The lad went ont to the ,arn to feed the dog and the vicious 'east literally ehewed him to death.
 Constable James Murray of Fort 'mith, Arkansas, was lynched Wednesday by a gang of coal miners. Murray had arrested a amer named McBroom at Jenny ind, and while on his way to Fort 'mith was overtaken by the mob, hoked te death and rid6led with 'ullets.
 Captain Hiram Chittenden of the orps of army engineers. sent out by uthority of congress to investigate be arid regions in Wyoming aud toiDI d0O Has sCnl HIS IcPOAk lHlO Y sshington, recommending five systems, three in Wyoming nd two in Colorado, for construc- ion.
 The pension bill was discussed in he lower house of congress Thurs ay. Several of the southern demo- rats offered criticisms of the arious classes of pensions and John Hen of Mississippi, who led the ssault in speech replete with his characteristic humor, presented sri,s of amendments to prohibit he granting of pensions to widows those applications were not filed uring their widowhood and the ranting of pensions to widows hose applications were based on larriages contracted after the pas { lge of this act, and to permanently lsane and idiotic minors who had cached their majority. Northern emocrats favored a reasonable ap- reputation for the old soldiers and ( uriDg the discussion both sides of { ne house agreed that the $40. 0.O00,- ' lO carried oy. the bill would not I feet the required expenses of the ,