Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-08-18
SOME GENERAL NEWS!
The More Important Happenings All Over the Country Carefully
 Told in Brief.

While lCanovas was slain by an
 Italian, still the belief is general
 that behind the deed the act was one of retTibntien to his Cuban pol icy and also to Wsyler's inhuman
 methods.
 Canada is modifying her mining laws and cinehing up the American miner to the queens taste. Ths extent of a placer claim has been cut down from 500 feet to 100 feet Other restrictions are placed on the foreigneF.
 There have been 2SOO departures from Seattle for Alaska this week IIail of these never saw . mine or have bean to support them.
 As usual the big coal strike Is go- iug outside the sphere intended ana the fight is in the hands of political and money making gamblers of the worst stripe.
 The English aud Egyptians are at it again along the Nlle. Two british officers of high rank were killed.
 When CanOvas del Castillo was a young assistant master at school a gypsy woman told his fortune. She predicted that he would become great and would meet with a violent death.
 An associated press dispatch from " .averville, California says great excitement prevails at Trinity cen ter and vicinity over 8 rich strike ma le by the Graves brothers and He ,ry Carter in the drift claims on Coffee Creek. h four days they took out three water buckets full of gold, or $6S.O00, the largest piece weighing Sl2,OO0.
 0meexeItementi is aroused among the native population of old Yuma over the reported discovery of a. live alligator in the lsguna, few miles below town.
 The new gun boat Wheeling goes into commission, and also goes 10 Honolulu.
 Vallejo, California. is excited over the finding of nineteen skeletons with their clothes on. Another Bender occurrence.
 Armenian agitators rush into Tur- key and kill 200 people. Greece should renew the war and enlist these sure shots.
 They are beating the Dingley tarif by smuggling goods into British Columbia.
 The supreme court of California has refused to have anything more to do with the DuFTant case.
 The Cubans have great hopes of capturing or killing General Wey- 1 Ter.
 Further details have been received of the battle near Agnacate, Cubs, which is near the Mstanzas line. l The hght, 1t was 6Ist reported, was in Matanzas Province, bu, 1t was just on this side. These is no doubt ss to the result of the battle, how ever, and conssFvssive estimate places the nnnfbeT of Spaniards killed at 200. while the rebel loss was comparatively triiling.
 C. s. Msllsn has been elected president of the Northern Pacific railroad.
 4 tannery at Falls Crock, Pa, has closed town On account of the Ap- pearance Of peculiar and terrible disease among the employees, four of whom have died within a few hours after they were seized. It is to be caused by the hand .nH of some hides wAich were im- ported from China aud contained germs of an unknown and dangerous disease.
 Mrs. George Ruthman, of Beaver Falls, Pa, heard a peculiar uolse on the back porch of her residence. She found her two sons, one aged and the other 1 year old, in corner. The Labs was on his back The elder brother had inserted the tube # a bicycle pump in the baby's mouth and was filling him with wind. The victim was unconscious md its little stomach was inflated ike a balloon. The mother pulled he tube from the child's mouth and | he air followed with a sharp sound like the exhaust of an air brake on a railway train. The baby recovered consciousness.
 Down at Bowman, Georgia, John II. Maxwell, a we'll to do farmer and merchant was detected peeping into . residences window late at night. \ committee gave him ten days in which to leave. The time expired aud as he failed to leave a crowd of men stripped him and laid hun fred lashes on his back. He tainted and was carried into his store by bis wife, who revived hlm. Later the mob returned, put Maxwell on the train and told him if he returned he would be killed.
 Peter Monohan, 4 years old, was hanged at Baltimore. August 13, for the murder of his wife, committed May p, 1897.
 Senator George of Mississippi died on Saturday.
 The Standard Oil Company has purchased a site upon which to erect new plant in San Francisco. Work will be commenced within two months.
 EX-Collector of Internal Revenue Q. M. Welburn has been indicted on the charge of having embezzled $2,l l22 on various dates from Sep tember 90. 1896, to May last.
 Three women have been drawn as grand jurors st Fort Scott, Kansas. This is the first time in the history of the state that women have besp drawn for grand jury duty,