Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-06-15
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NEWS NOI IFS AND COMMeNI D
 Japan objects to the war duty or
 tea.
 Another steamer in the Klondike
 trade has been wrecked.
 The United States will experience
 no difficulty in securing a war loan
 The publishers of Judge" have
 gone into voluntary bankruptcy.
 The arsenal at Cavite has been
 prepared for occupation by United
 States troops upon their arrival on
 the transports.
 The United States cruiser Buffalo.
 formerly the Brazilian war ship
 Nictheroy, was sighted of Cape Henry, Virginia, Tuesday morning.
 It is reported that a government iron water barge, bound from Nor folk to Key West, has gone down at sea with five men.
 The cruiser Charleston arrived at Honolulu on May 29. The trans ports, with troops, aboard for Manila were due to arrive there June2.
 The bill for the removal of all political disabilities, arising from the civil war, is now law, President Mckinley having formally approv- ed it.
 Secretary Gage has asked congress to appropriate quarter of million to keep the hints of the country working overtime for the purpose of coining the immense quantity of gold bullion now in the country.
 Theodore Park Haynes. murderer of Police Lieutenant Burke, at San Francisco, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree, with the penalty fixed at imprisonment for life.
 The final battle between the Phil lippine insurgents and the Spanish forces for the capture of Manila, is being fought, according to prelim- mary advices received from the is- lands.
 Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn has chartered the steamships In- diana, Morgan City and City of Para for transportation of troops to the | and has closed a con- tract for the Victoria, Olympia and l of the Northern Pacific s. 1 5. Line, and secured the privilege of l acquiring the Tacoma and Colum- bia, if needed.
 The Spanish governor of Manila has been notified that unless he l the reward put upon the head of the insurgent leader he will | get no quarter. Otherwise the rules of civilized warfare will be strictly to. As result of this price being placed on his head, three at .empts have been made to take life.
 The New York Sun is in the fore 'ront of the territorial exPansionists. The laying of cable to Manila, via Honolulu, is declared to be an i'm mediate military necessity. The sun says: "When the war is over, he Manila and Honolulu cable will |, 'ecome the instrument of political administration, and, later, of 'et ceful commerce vast beyond the of enthusiasm and pre- table beyond the dreams of ava ice"
 As sample of the contradictory nd purely imaginative character of lleged news sent out in the absence f genuine information the follow 1g sentences found in the same 'aragraph with two or three lines ' 1tervening is fair example: Some { I the naval officers beheve that the ! ;adiz squadron will never leave 2 pain. Ambassador Hay cables that z may be four weeks before the ' 'adiz squadron leaves Spain. Naval r fficers think the ships will depart r 'om Cadiz within week, but will o no further than the Csnaries.
 A telegram from Iowa City, Iowa, Iys: Death from swallowing a long ', at pin IS the remarkable fate that ,I efell Robert, the two-year>old son n David Simpson. an Iowa farmer. ., Monday. For three months the lild had suffered great pain, and vi lst mortem held last night re- ., 'aled in the baby's stomach, lying . ,alnst the spine, a brass headed n i've and one-half inches in ngth. The child was playing with @ pin the day it was taken i'll he little one's lungs and aeso- lagus finally clogged and death ys sued. Local physicians claim the pl SC IS unprecedented in medical and $ rgical annals. T, Senator German exploded a few mbs Tn the ranks of the auti-bond ia smbers of the senate in a patriotic eech he made in favor of uphold "a the hands of the government by oa thorlzing the issue of bonds and posing the issue of either silver iuI 'tlhcates or greenbacks. After ling attention to the fact that no ui' T had ever been fought without co issue of bonds and expressing the sn mon that none was ever likely to .. MT. German exploded bis beav- S1 '1 bomb by saying that if the sen- m mIol refused to authorize bonds the Se ST sldent would be compelled to is n nS them, as soon as be was bound a have money, under the law of o ol 5. ass