Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-11-09
TODAY 5 IELEGR APT H!

the Philippines, Cuba and the Wes 3 Indian Islands. If this is refuse, the Spanish commissioners say the will withdraw. iThe American think that this is a bluff.
 Washington, Nov. 3.-The wa and naval officials denied this morn
 ing the reported sinking of the trans port Panama of Cuba with Con
 gressmen Dalzell, Huff and othe | prominent meO aboard. They sa, ! that the ship couldn't founder as re ported in last nights dispatches.
 St. Petersburg, Nov. 3.-Novosti commenting upon the United State. determination to claim the Philip
 pine islands, says: "The great pow CTS can, like Spain, protest against
 the proposed cession as several o
 them are directly interested in ths
 maintenance of statu quoto. IT an extreme case the question should be arbitrated."
 New York, Nov, 3.-Fire destroy. ed the big starch works and other sections of Glen Cove this morn ing. The loss is over a half a mil lion dollars.
 Manila, Nov. 3.-The health of the troops here at present is far from good, notwithstanding the statements of the medical depart ment to the contrary. At Cavite the conditions are very bad. There have been over forty deaths there since September l, mostly from ty- phoid fever. One third of the off cers of the Montana volunteer regi- ment are on the sick list. including the colonel and lieutenant-colone . who are unfit for duty. In one bat tery alone over seventy five per cent. of the men stationed there have been ou the sick list within a mouth.
 London, Nov. 3.-Ron ne dispatches this morning report that the Pope is seriously il. Several physicians are at hls bedside.
 Paris, Nov. 3.-Soleil il today. com menting ediiorially upon the posi- tion assumed by the American peace commissioners says: "No monarch ial government would hay, dared to conduct itself after the fashion of the Americans, who are forever talk ing so much of right and liberty. The plan of the Americans is evi- dent. It is to take all of the Span ish colonies and leave Span the debts of all those colonies. This is the result of the holy war under taken to insure the independence Of the Cubans. What base hypocrisy do these liberals, these democrats. these republicans show"
 Havana, Nov. 3.-The traaspor, Panama with sick and convaIescenr soldiers aboard from Santiago n,cu was reported lost off Cape Maysi a,- rived here this morning all safe aud sound.
 London Nov. 2-It leaked lou. day that England's war pzepata- tions, which have been made osten- sibly against France is in reality meant for Russia on account of the Chinese question. The Feshoda in cident was a mere blind.
 Jerusalem, Nov. Emperor Will liam preceded to Mount Zion yes terday, where he was occupied with the ceremony of hoisting the Ger man and Turkish flags on tLe piece of ground which, according to tra- dition, was formerly occupied by the abode of the Virgin Mary and which the sultan presented to the German Emperor. The latter sub sequently presented the ground to the German Catholics.
 Washington, Nov 2-The presi- dent today appointed Ms. Julia Ma honey as postmistress at Winslow, Arizona.
 New York, Nov. 2.-Abner Me Kinley declines to discuss the charge that he personally proftec l by large sums of money by infuenc- ing army clothing contracts.
 San Francisco, Nov. 2.-Genera Merriam has received orders to send l the Wyoming battery to Manila at once.
 Washington, Nov. 2.-Henry Ro- meyn, a retired army officer was the first witness before the war investi- | gating committee today. He went | to Cuba as a war correspondent. l He declared that mismanagement | prevailed at Santiago. He said the hospitals were poor, that the food and supplies were outrageous and the lack of attention was shameful. | He was a yellow fever patient at Siboney. He said that men died all . around him from neglect.
 Detroit, Nov. "A letter left by Mrs. Amelia Sonnobend, who was found dead in her bed nine days af- ter she committed suicide, det lares the deceased was cousin of Prince the German chancellor. The statements by the woman's daughters seem to corroborate the claim of relationship.
 Newark, Ohio, Nov. 1.-rhos Ran dall, a farmer near Kirksville, shot into a crowd of village Halloween CTS last night and killed Harley Smoke, aged 17, a son of Jacob Smoke, of Kirkville. Randall used a revolver. Smoke had an arm full of corn when he fell. A party of girls was waiting at the fence for the boys who went in the corn field. Randall is nearly crazed over the affair. He has given himself up to the Newark authorities.