Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-03-30
Events Told in Brief Paragraphs for the Information of Our Readers.

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 The monitor Terror has been ordered to Key West to report to Admiral Sicard.
 The battle ships Massachusetts and Texas are now stationed al Hampton Roads.
 The battle ships Kentucky and Kearsarge were launched at New port News today.
 Portions of Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas were visited by a terrible blizzard on Wednesday.
 High waters and considerable damage to property Is reported along the Allegheny and Monon- gahela rivers in Pennsylvania.
 Stock IS sad to be suffering ir portions of California on account oI the drouth.
 Senor Polo Bernabe reports to hi: government that the report of the naval board of inquiry finds that the Maine was blown up from the outside.
 Up to the present time the gold movement from Europe to the United States amounts to nearly S2l,000,000.
 Henry Brown. local pugilist who was injured in a boxing bout with Jack Smith. at Trenton. New Jersey on Monday night, has died.
 The French expedition sent against the Bossiriris on the island of Madagascar met with>~serious re- sistance, six officers and one hun- dred men being killed. The insurg- ents captured a number of rifles and l50,000 cartridges.
 Geo. T. Nicholson has been ap- pointed general passenger traffic manager of the Atchison, Topeka X Santa Fe railroad, to succeed W. F. White, deceased. The appointment takes effect May l.
 Japan, between 1895 and 1905, will have devoted 103,OO0,OO0 yen to the building of war ships. Forty-seven have already been ordered in Eng land, France, Germany and the United States.
 The gold reserve of the United States has grown to such large pro portions that 1t has ceased to inter est the business public. It IS now nearly Sl7l,0O0,000, and is increasing every day, having gained nearly a million dollars in the past week.
 Guadalupe Otero, the school superintendent of Valencia county, New Mexico, and one of tbe most prominent republican politicians in that section, fell from the porch of his house in Torreon, and in the fall broke his neck, causing instant death.
 New Works best tipped waiter is one who looks exactly like Brother Jonathan, made familiar by cartoon ists. It is quite a picture when he comes on with an order of stars and stripes, which in the walters vernac- ular Is pork and beans.
 The negotiations between General Pando and Delegates Ramirez and Charvez and General Calixto Garcia and other prominent insurgents, in which the radical autonomists made what are said to be final offers of practical independence, have proved an absolute failure.
 The bull fighters in the City of Mexico have been fined S100 for giving such a poor fight. The espada "Mellaito" has, in addition. been fined Sl0 for trying to kill a bull which had been lassoed. The veterinary surgeon was fined 8 for misrepresentation. And the man in the audience who tore of a board and threw 1t in the ring in a spasm of disgust at the poor show, has been sent to jail for fifteen days for damage done to the bull ring-Ex.
 A telegram from Havana, dated March l9. says: Gunner Morgan made a startling discovery in the Maine wreck today. He found a large amount of gun cotton in the crystal tubes in which it was kept. The tubes were unbrOkea and the gun cotton absolutely dry. It was the highest explosive aboard the ship, and If the explosion had orig mated within the hull it would cer- tainly have blown up, too, yet it was found intact.
 \ party of seven from Dorchester, Mass, write home an account of theIr passage over ChilkOot by the aerial railway. The one woman in the party was strapped in a box two feet wide, three feet long and two feet deep. and, as she describes it, twas swung in mid air from point to point over rocky chasms and almost tossed from peak to peak" One span of l600 feet was crossed in less than two minutes. and the mountain was ssurmounted in an hour and half.
 The resident physician of the Boston city hospital has completed a study of S0O cases of diptheria at that institution, in which antitoxin was employed, and materially re- duced the death rate. The number of non fatal cases was 679, ana in many of these, the physician says, the patient would have succumbed but for the antitOxin, while in no case was there the slightest indica- ton of injurious effect Experience has not justified the alarm sounded by some authorities when antitoxIn was introduced.
 MT. Allen, a ship builder on the Tyne in England, recently said: Within a month of hostilities breaking out, l wager the United States will have every town on the Spanish coast blown to atoms. 1 consider that America has some of the finest ships afoat, and I know AD,arican sailors to ha az fyOoI as