Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-05-26
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Kansas pOpuilsts are ulViueu on the temperance question.
 New York has just enActed law adopting the death penalty for train robbiag.
 The Southern Hotel. at Meriden, Miss, was destroyed by fire. Loss, .$l50,O00. No lives lost,
 The news of the eetiug of a wealthy young Englshman by South Sea cannibals has just been confirmed.
 A statue of Stephen Girard has been unveiled in Philadelphia. Mir. Girard was the founder of Girard college, in the above city.
 Oscar Wilde has been released from prison, after serving a two years term. He is enjoying robust health, and will go to Paris imme- diately. He intends to return to London aud engage ill literary work He says he will write over his own signature.
 Russell Sage, the New York capi- talist, had a mortgage for $500 on some property owned by his nephew at Joliet, Illinois. He importuned his poor relative so much for the money, that the latter's wife became deranged and tried to commit sui eide.
 In little spat between two demo- cratic seua,ors of Kentucky, Senator Halloway, a gold democrat, tried to strike Senator Brouston, a silver democrat, and while be was being held away from him, Brownston said: "Damn you aud your demands" and a3 led. Turn him loose. dare you to lay your Aaad on me, you cow s1ily belp
 \ mon b seamship serSi,e be- tween Gaclale aud Papsete. the chef seapJG: u Tahiti and a hun dre,i her S., tn sea islands, has been arranged for by the French government. The purpose IS 10 provide for the quick transportation of corIespo. dence, mail matter, pas se lgt r. and government supplies be- tween France and her colonies in the South seas.
 The body of the late millionaire banker. W. :. Ladd, was stolen from Riveryiew Cemetery, Portland, Ore gon. The wooden casket in which ! the body rested was also taken. The ] discovery as made by an employee of the cemetery. who, in making his usual rounds, discovered that the grave of the deceased millionaire had been disturbed, and an examins- ton showed that the body had been stolen.
 4 Princeton, Illinois, dispatch says: Judge Stipp, of the Circuit | Court, made an important ruling on | the Australian ballot law. He held it to be lawful to prepare and mark complete ticket containing many names, and to take this ticket tO the | election booth and paste It tO side of ! the regular ballot handed in by the election judges.
 Gov. Black, of New YCrk, has ' signed the SO called anti-sealper bill. It absolutely prohibits tho selling of railroad sud steamship tickets in ! the state except by agents authorized ] to make such sales, and then they ! shall sell tickets only in the towns ! where their written authority gives them permission to make sales. ! X cablegram from Rome says that ! Prince Luigi Amsdeo, of Savoy, Duke of Abbruzzi, and nephew of tho King of Italy, left Rome on Sunday on his way to Alaska, via l New York and San Francisco, with the object of ascending Mt. St. Elias and later Logan's Peak. United States Senator J. D. Me Pherson, of New Jersey, had a mar TOW escape from being killed in his office at Newark. William VonAken attempted to shoot him, but was prevented by Edward F. Low. An ac1omplice of VonAken escaped. VonAken, who IS partially blind, was arrested.
 George Francis Train has ret up a clam to the ownership of tho entire City of Omaha, where be held large property interests thirty years ago. | He has taken his claim into the courts and able lawyers aie in charge ! of his cause, which IS evidently not without some legal basis. If Citizen Tam should win this suit, he will be worth, il is estimated, $20Jl00, 900. He may then ba expected to begin proceedings to secure the absolute ownership of the earth.
 A fight occurred some where in Yamhill county, Oregon, over dance, and you z man was fatally stabbed. Oregon is famous for that sort of business. Some thirty yeats ago a country dance took place at Coles valley, not far from Roseburg, ana SIX men were either Killed or crippled for life. The Yamhill diff culty if not so bad, numerically speaking. but it arose over less important question. ] be killer want ed a waltz and his victim did not. Hence the stabbing.-Los Angeles Times.
 A dispatch from Lama, uat9u May IS, states that the white flag has been hoisted between the armies of
 Turkey and Greece, and the Prince
 Constantine has suspended hostili- ties, with a view to concluding an armistice. A panic prevails st Lamia, owing to a report that criminals
 would be released from tho iails. The arrival of troops during the night increased the general feeling of terror. The army of the Grown
 Prince has reformed on the Othmys
 mountains, and will be reinforced by General Smolenski's brigade and
 troops dispatched to the front from
 Athens on Monday.
 The last of the Santa Fe's east
 bound limited trains for this season