Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-01-12
SOME GENERAL
 NEWS ITEMS!
Facts, Figures and Fancies Found
 Floating All Over the Country.
Events Told i'll Brief Paragraphs for
 the Information of Our Readers.


 There is a strong war feeling in Japan.
 Western Kansas is over run this year with coyotes.
 Durrant's execution was witnessed by his father.
 Eastern bidders received most of the Pacific coast mall contracts.
 Mrs. Ourrant will not be per mitted to attend the execution of her son.
 Durrants attorneys are bringing pressure to bear on Gov. Budd to save their client.
 Mir. Kurtz aims to demonstrate that be Is a bigger man than old Hanna.
 Another cargo of steel rails is about to leave this country for India.
 Senor Canalejas, editor of the Madrid Herald, advises Spain to abandon Cuba.
 The United States imported 2Sl7,- 900 boxes of lemons during eleven months of 1897, as against 9,593,OO0 for the previous year.
 The government is building a gun in Philadelphia that will throw a 2,5O0 pound shell distance of six teen miles.
 Francis Loomis, United States Minister to Venezuela, is in Wash ingtOn in the interest of reciproc- ity treaty between this and that country.
 General Segura, of the Spanish army in Cuba, declines to take the field under General Blanco, as he is disgusted with his method of cam paign.
 The new Randsburg Railway, running from Kramer, on the hue of tbe Santa Fs Railroad, to Johan- nesburg in the heart of the mining district in the Mojave Desert, is completed and ID operation.
 The British warship Powerful has arrived at Hong Kong. She is a powerful vessel and carries a crew of $40 men. Mrs. Marie Lay of Washington and Count Von Goetzen of the Ger man Embassy wero married on Tuesday.
 ! Ignatius Donnelly is about to we'd his twenty year old type writer, which leads the Los Angeles Times to remark, that he will find that he has tackled a cryptogrsm this time that will keep him thinking. General William Booth, comman- der m chief of the Salvation army, is en route to the United States. He hopes to bring about amicable rela- tiOns with his son during his visit The latter Is at the head of the American volunteers.
 The woman's branch of the Epis- copal church temperance society of New York has inaugurated a scheme for the relief of coachmen on cold nights, who are compelled to wait on their vehicles while their em- ployers are at the club or other places. It sends its coffee van trough the streets serving coffee and sandwiches to the cabbies.
 The police statistics of Paris, just . published, enumerate twenty-one murders, by which the assassins . averaged SIG, and all the criminals . were executed. The largest sum obtained was S55, although in many cases large sums were overlooked. ! The conclusion Is that murder does . not pay from a financial standpoint.
 The English government has cat egorically stated that that Great . Britian will refuse to recognize any special powers. Any port opened to one power must be opened 10 all or none. II Russia has been grant ed right to winter ships at Port Arthur, Great Britian will enforce her rights to the same priveleges. and her ships will winter there whether China comedies or does not concede the right.
 The St. Petersburg Novosto pub fishes an article strongly urging 6 Russo-Japanese alliance as the best means of guaranteed 2 mutual in terests and the maintenance of the political equilibrium in the far east. It is rumored that this view is Ia vored in Russian official circles, where it is felt such an alliance would contribute to avert such com plication in the far east. |,
 The New York legislature organ ized January ,. The senate. with membership of 90, has a republican majority of 20; the assembly. with I5O names on the rCll. is republican by 8. In both houses the republi- can caucus nominees were elected without an unusual incident. he speaker of the assembly Is ]. NJ. E. Ogrady, who presided during the session of 1897.
 New Englaud's abandoned farms are to be reclaimed. restocked and reoperated on plan that is primar- fly philant hrOpic and secondarily commercial. A corporation has been formed, with the secretary of the New York Stock Exchange at its head, to purchase arabic land and farm buildings in the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont, and to re sell them on such terms as to at tract purchasers in large cities.
 Alderman Coughlin, of Chicago, ; ago, proposes to introduce a curfew ordinance in the Chicago city coun- cil, 10 apply to men, women and ; children alike. Speaking of it he ' said: "I would have the curfew bell sounded at 9 o'clock each night from the steeple of every church and the i roof of every school house. Woe be unto the citizen or stranger who 1 needed not the warning. Adults 1 cause more trouble than children. If the home is a good place for I children it should be all right for 
 Ticket brokers are'making a vigor- ous fight against the anti-ticket scalping law. In their argument they claim to save the travelling