Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-06-16
NEWS. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

8, He is now en route to London
 Mrs. Lease has a l7-year old daughter who proposes to take the stump.
 Frank A. Leach has been appoint ed superintendent of the San Fran cisco mint.
 Five hundred Chinese fishermen were drowned in a gale of the Chi nese coast on May 6.
 Mrs. Libbie Swift of Santa Cruz, California, tried to commit suicide because her son married.
 A young man in Chicago s:isri from the effect of over exert1p in learning to ride bicycle.
 Prof. Alvin G. Clark, the great telescope lens manufacturer, died last night.
 A daughter was born June 10, 10 the Czar and CzaTina of Russia. Fms is their sesoud child.
 A Missouri man has just been ar rested in Oregon charged with the murder of bis wife aud two chil- dTen SIX years ago.
 4 New Jersey judge has ruled that Sunday bicycle r.ding IS illegal in that state and therefore refused to award an injured cyclist dam- ages.
 James Hughes Taylor, the veteran tragedian of wide reputation, died of dropsy at Downington, Philadel- phia June 10. He was 77 years of age.
 Two boys, brothers, aged respect ively Ii and Is years, fought . duel with didn't -know-it-was-lo d d" pistols in New York. One of them is still alive.
 Alfred Quick, of Cincinnati, com mitted suicide to escape mob ven- gence. Quick had been discovered in au attempted criminal assault on a IO-year-old girl, and with the UT bAna incident fresh in his mind, took his life.
 Dr. Calvin s. Hastings of Los Angelee, has been acquitted of the murder of Lillian Hatterly.
 A negro under sentence of death at Princess Anne, Maryland, was taken from jail and hanged by a mob.
 Jesse Grant has received a con- cess;on from Mexico to have all tLe guano and minerals discovered in the islands of the gulf of Califor- nis and give the government 10 per cent of the proceeds.
 While trying to arrest three bur glars in Omaha, police officers Tiedman and Glover were shot, the former perhaps fatally. Glover's wounds are not thought to be ser ious. The burglars escaped.
 William Hood. John Farley and John Coleman were killed by the explosion of a boiler in the Gro GTaade shelter besween BsTstow and Sa1 Bernardino. The shelter is a complete wreck.
 In arguing a case in . iusiice's s court i0 Arkansas, after exhausting all the profanity at their command, one Of the opposing counsel used a chair and the other piSt ll. The fellow with the chair was kille3 aud the one with the pistol is threatened with lyuching.
 A telegram fIom Barbour l.. Kentucky, says Rev. Harry La sou. a Methodist divine, was shot ana h. stan5ly killed by his l5. 5.year-old son, Isham. The father whipped tbe boy Ou Sunday for some slight Oi- fense and he left home. The pun iShment ranked in the little fei- ioW's heart and he rs urned home and 6nding his father in a corn field, slipped up behind him and blew his head from his shoulders with a shotgun. The murderer es- capped.
 A San Francisco telegram says the steamer Coptic has arrived from Honolulu, bringing advices up to May 3l. According to the latest in- formation procurable the difficulty y between Japan and Hawaii, growing out of the immigration question has been increased rather than d. unfinished by the diplomatic pro- ceedIngs. Officers on board the Japanese cruiser Naniwa, now at Honolulu, stated that 6 second man of war is now en route to Honolulu, and that a third armed vessel is about to depart from Yokohama for tue islands. Mrs. Shimamura, wife of the Japanese minister st Homo lulu, has arranged to leave for Japan on June 5. The intended departure caused rumor iu Honolulu to the effect that the minister would soon follow her. He admitted that he was not satisfied with the answer of the Hawaiian government in regard to the immigration controversy and he gave close friends to understand that unless a reply, satisfy, satisfac- tory to him, were made, he would depart for Tokio, thereby severing diplomatic relations between Japan and Hawaii.
 A San Francisco telegram says While no steps have been taken fol the arrest of Theodore A. Figel as yet, in connection with the myster. ious death of Isaac Hoffman, hi: employer, it is understood that on the arrival of Edward Rothschild ol New York, who is now on his way here, Attorney Ach will advise that member of the firm to have Figel arrested upon charge of embezzle ment at least.
 A Washington telegram says Mrs. Chiroaro Guilane, who wa' shot by an Italian, has died. Fer rari, the murderer, wooed the wo' man in Italy, but was rejected anC came to this country and tried tC win her from her husband, but fail ing be shot and killed her and him