Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-03-02
SOME GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
Facts, Figures and Fancies Found Floating All Over the Country.
Events Told in Brief Paragraphs for the Information of Our Readers.

III SOobhCAh SANACos
 The Spanish cruiser Vizcaya has
 sailed from New York for Havana.
 The French steamer La Cham
 paigne is now overdue at New York. The Rhode Island prohibitionists
 will put full state ticket in the
 field.
 No other war vessel has been de- tailed yet to take the place of the
 Maine at Havana.
 Miss Frances E. Willard's funeral took place in Chicago on Thursday February 24.
 The cruiser Cincinnati has reached Barbadoes having been called from Brazil.
 The artillery force of the United
 States will soon be increased by the addition of two regiments.
 Sam Jones, the evangelist, an nounces himself as a candidate for governor of Georgia.
 The tobacco crop of Kentucky for tbe past year is being sold at about the rate of Sl50 per acre.
 Brigadier General Samuel Breck, |. s. A. was retired February 24 on account of the age limit. General Breck was adjutant general of the army and his successor is Colonel Henry c. Corbin.
 Scurvy has developed among the miners to such an extent that there are now seventeen cases in the pub lie hospital at Dawson.
 MT. Gladstone will shortly under go an operation to alleviate pain caused by necrosis of the bone of the nose, which it is alleged, some of the specialists say he is suffering.
 Corean lads and lassies are anxi- ous for the king to marry. For two years, or since the queen was mur- dered, weddings have been pro- hibited by edict.
 Col. Sheaf, commanding officer of the South Dakota National Guard, is recruiting a regiment of cowboys at Sioux Falls, $. D, for service against Spain. He says these men are the best fighters on earth.
 The Canadian government has decided to permit Canadian goods to be shipped from Vancouver and Victoria in American vessels free of duty by St. Michaels to the Yukon for the coming season.
 Incredible as it may seem, it is said that after a partial examination | of the magazines of the Maine, divers report that the one in which l the explosion is supposed to have | occurred is intact.
 Captain Eulate, of the Spanish 1 war ship, Vizcaya, has requested the withdrawal of the police patrol boats, which were placed for his protection. He says he will trust his ship to American honor.
 The social courtesies to have been attended to the Spanish warship Vizcaya, now in New York harbor, lave been withdrawn on account of he Maine disaster, and it is said he Vizcaya will sail at once for Havana.
 Calamities, like that of the Maine Iisaster serve to show that in de- pite of mere outward seeming, there 5 strong bond of sympathy and inship between the English and he American people, which cannot 'e destroyed by commercial rivalries or superficial antagonisms. (
 Four lives were lost by an ava !; anche at South Quebec, Canada, : mich destroyed two houses which < tood under a cliff opposite the i irand Trunk railroad sheds. One ! ouse was crushed by the weight of now from above, while upper stories I others were cut clean of from the 1. rst story and overturned upon the i treet. { The chaplain of the United States T enate, in his opening prayer last t referred to the present srious situation in the following 1 Inguage: "Oh Lord, We pray that [ y Thy inspiration our rulers and all c authority over us, may do what 1 ley ought to do, and with Thy a lessing perform the same" v A correspondent of the Washing I )n Star telegrsphs from Havana I nat the result of the investigation \ the Maine disaster so far may be a lmmed up in a statement of the that it was an accident r sem to decrease with the progress ! the investigation. Most intense @ nxiety is shown by the Spanish fl heials here who are in constant s with Madrid. They salize that the relations with the nited States were never so much l danger of rupture as now. This the general feeling. D A statement is published in the A akersfeld Californian to the effect lat in prospecting out in the Coast 2 ange for sulphur, c. F. von Peters Il orf, sunk hole to a depth of a 'rty feet, when the formation e ecome so soft that he could not s, roceed further, so the boring tools fl ere removed and the hole aban- W oned. Subsequently the well filled ft } within three feet of the top with @, and it is thought that T, le substance is of sufficient amount e be commercially valuable. Five .llons were sent to San Francisco a
 be tested. N