Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-04-14
NEWS. NOTES AND ooMMENTs.
Denver and Topeka elected repub licsn mayors yesterday.

Denver and Topeka elected repuo- licsn mayors yesterday.
 Frank P. Flint, of Los Angeles, has been appointed U. $. Attorney for Southern California.
 Carter Harrison, Jr., was elected mayor of Chicago yesterday, receiv ing more votes than all the other candidates combined.
 The Missouri river al St. Joseph, Missouri, is higher than ever before known, and indications are that 1t will rise still higher.
 The New York Senate has passed an antl-cartoon bill, which prohiblts newspapers from publishing the portrait of any person wishoaE hls consent.
 Under the operation of the age limit, Rear Admiral Francis NJ. Rsm- fey, chief of the bureau ot havlga tion, went upon the retired list on Moaday.
 President Mckinley is Malho- dist, yet he has not a member of bis cabinet from that denomination. There are three PresbytsrisIs, Corg gregationalist, Unitarian, a Catholic and an Independent.
 .F::Kleupfer, who killed c. R. Dodge and Alex. Borland at New Hope, California, about six weeks ago, strangled himself in his cell at Stockton by hanging, using Q handkerchief tied to the grating of his window.
 William Lewis, of St. Louis, had his nose poisoned by centipede bite, resulting in cancer, 4 phy- sIeiaa of the above city cut away the flesh and built a new nose on tho bone. He originally had Roman smeller but the present one is of Grecian architecture.
 In extending congratulations to Carter Harrison, w. J. BryaR said: "The elections in Chicago, Cincin- natl, Detroit and ether cities, indi- cate decided change in public sen timent since November" How about the returns from St. Louis, Topeka, Eeuver and a score of other cities, which went republican by increased majorities, Billyf
 Edward Freer, a ten-months-old child of Richard Freer, of Chicago, had both his eyes burned out by hts two and a half-year-old brother, named Russell. The children were playing together in a basement. Russell procured a poker, aud hold ing it in the stove uptil it was red hot, poked IL into the infants eyes.
 Word comes from Modoc county that the remnants of Captain Jacks tribe of Modoc Indians, now living in that county in the neighbOrhood of the scenes of Captain Jacks tIeEchery and General Canby's death in 1872, are now in a pitiable coeditiOn, veEging on actual starva- tiop.
 \ telegram from Waynesboro, Miss, says: "J. w. Hollin yshead, white farmer who was one of the leaders in ;he celebrated Chsmbliss lynohing case, in Washington county last year, and who, whsu arrested, turned states evidence and brought about the conviction of 6 number of bis neighbors, was assassinated in his dwelling near there Saturday night. He was preparing to get into bed, when some one outside of the window fired a load of buck shot into his body, killing him in- stantly."
 A telegram from Coulterville, California, says: The authorities believe they have captured the mur- derer Dunham, who killed his wife, father-in law and four others near San Jose, and for whom the police and sheriffs of the entire country are on the lookout. Late last night miper made murderous assault on a companion at the mines, six miles from here. He was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Butler and brought to jail here. Subsequently the prisoner was identified as Dun ham by several people.
 :. The new battle ship Iowa, the last of the premium-built battle ships, on Wednesday, earned for her builders, Messrs. William Crsmp & Son, of Philadelphia, $200000 by making an average of I7 even knots an hour over the regular govern ment course of the Massachusetts coast, in the four hours speed trial required by the government under the contract. She is now the Queen of the Navy.
 The Minnesota house of repre- sentatives has passed bill prohibit ing sectariaR instruction or wear ing of sectarian garb in the public schools, and providing for 6ne and Imprisonment for violation of the