Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-02-16
Events Told in Brief Paragraphs for
 the Information of Our Readers.

A telegram from San Jose de Qua temala Says that President Barrios was assasinated on the 9th inst.
 The Luetgert jury has brought in a verdict of guilty. fixing the pen alty at life imprisonment.
 One of the witnesses ln the West Hazleton riot case is named John Yourshekowitski.
 Of the $2,5OO,OOO postal money orders issued under the new system, only $200 in fraudulent orders have been reported.
 One of the new bills introduced the Kentucky legislature proposes
 change the name of Carlisle tounty to William Jenuingss Bryan Ounty.
 The torpedo boat Cushing, of the North Atlantic squadron, has been ordered to Havana with stores for the Maine.
 It is denied in Vienna that there is any question at present of prohib- Itiug the importation of American r. its, aud fruit products into Austria.
 In recent fire at Pittsburg, Penn sylvania, fifteen people were killed, over a score injured and property valued at a million and half dol lars was destroyed.
 The mortality in the Cuban city of Santa Clara last year is reported at 6,9Sl, pr considerably over one half ot the total population. His tory has but few examples of such deadly suffering.
 It Is announced that Mrs. Hetty Green of New York. will build 6 railroad through Oklahoma. The proposed road will run from Med ford, on the Rock Island to Sher- man, Texas, where it will connect with E. R. Greens road.
 Emporia, Kansas. had jail deIiv. cry February 10, twelve prisoners making a dash for liberty. They threw red pepper in the sheriffs eyes. Two of them succeeded in escaping, but the sherifFs brave wife came t. his assistanee and drove the others back to the cells at the point of a revolver.
 The San Francisco Chronicle wearily observes: If Gen. Cassius Clay will trade his child wife for a doll and then deny hims slf to re- porters, he will confer a boon on a fatigued ani melancholy nation" Amenl and then break the doll.
 Jo. Heavenston, the Sants Cruz constable, has been sehtenced to San Quentin for fourteen years for may hem. He received the same sentence as Plyler, the principal in the case. The grand jury has resumed it's investigations of the Plyler case.
 The White Star lines new steamer, the Cymric, left Liverpool February II without passengers for her maiden trip across the Atlantic. The vessel represents a distinctively new type, and is intended to carry the less expensive grade of saloon passen- gers. She has at the same time as much speed as the GermaEic, and will make the trip in seven days.
 Ex-Postmaster General Wana- maker when notified of the action of the recent aDtI-Quay convention which decided upon him as its choice for the republican nomination for governor to succeed Governor Hastings made no definite announce ment of his intentions. other than to say that he would give the mat ter his careful conside ration.
 Adolph Sutro, ex-mayor of San Francisco, and builder of the famous Sutro tunnel, has been adjudged mentally incompetent by Superior Judge BeIcher. His 0aughter. Dr. Emma Sutro Merritt, who has been in constant professional attendance on her father for many months past, has been appOiGted guardian of his person and estate, her bonds being fixed at $l00,0O0. Her two brothers and her sister became sureIies ou the bond.
 Plowman, an Alabama democrat, has been unseated in Congress, and Aldrich given the seat as a result of a contest. This was the first cons tested election case decided by the present House against a sitting member.
 The bids for the construction work for San Pedro horbor have been opened at army headquarters. There were eighteeu bids submitted from all parts of the country and many representatives of the various companies were in attendance. The lowest bid was that of HeIdeIncv.u and New of Chicago. They offered to do the work for $l ,6S6, 219 99. The highest bid was that of the Ma tional Contracting Company of New York which offered to do the work for S4,595, ,116.
 A carload of loo trained dogs ar LlNcu dL uuSOufcE. ID. V. Q IST OdTe ago from Newfoundland for ship ment to Skaguay, Alaska. where they are to be sold for use in haul ing miners supplies in the valley of the Yukon. The dogs have been trained to the work of hauling sledgeS iu Newfoundland and are accustomed to a very cold climate. and it IS believd they will render ex- eeptionally good service in the Yu- kon region.
 W. E. D. Stokes, of New York, has the diaries and private papers of the late Boss Tweed and proposes to publish book from them, Stokes says also that there is a real con. fession of Tweed in existence, winch is likely to be published, and which Is bound to create the liveliest kind of stir. He says Tweed's diary is she most interesting of all the papers. It contains references to