Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-01-05
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Facts, Figures and FaucieS Found Floating All over the Country.
Events Gplliu E i,f p ragglphS f the Information of Our Readers.

Mrs. Fitzsimmons has released her husband from his promise not to fight again.
 The California supreme court has unanimously denied Durraut's sec ond petition for D writ of probable cause.
 W. 4. Brady has posted S2,5O0 to bind a match between Corbstt and FitzsimmOus.
 While the operators were keeping their eyes peeled ou that wheat deal, young Letter took Q whirl in oats, and cornered them.
 Twenty-Five widows have left New York in company en route 10 the klOndike to take care of the miners needing female assistance.
 Parties who left Dawson NO7em- Der 8, have arrived at Sksguay. and confirm previous reports about the scarcity of food at the former place.
 The Countess Castellaine. form erly Anna Gould, gave birth to Q son Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 2l.
 Five hundred thousand inhabi- taDts of Cuba have died during the last twelve months, a death rate of % per cent.
 ] A Connecticut store keeper rounded up five burglars, shot two and captured two others, turning the four over to the police. The fifth man escaped.
 ! Peter French, one of the largest cattle owners of Oregon, was shot aud killed at Csnyoa city December ! 2S, by a man named OlIver, in a dis pute over land.
 Over thirty English war ships have arrived at Port Hamilton. Another dispatch says the report Is current at Chee Foo that a Japanese fleet also arrived at Port Hamilton. ] Boss Croker has selected James B. Eustis, formerly ambassador to France, as his sub chief of Tam many, and the big boss of the dem cratic party in New York.
 The supreme court Of California has decided the contempt case of Editor McClatchy of the Sacramento Bee in favor of the petitioner. The court says that the editor was de- nied his constitutional right to be heard in his defense.
 Bishop McFaul, the arbitrator ap- ! pointed to unite tbe warning fac tions of tue Ancient Order of Hiber- nians, has been deluged with letters from all parts of the country, sp- proving the plan of amalgamation that he promulgated last week. ! Harry New c.llei to see his parents near Indiana, Pennsylvania, on Christmas evening. and was greatly surprised and shocked to find them dead. They had been murdered.
 4 young Japanese fired four shots ct his mistress. a young Spanish girl, in San Francisco. Although the bullets flew wide oi their in- tended mark, the giEl dropped dead from fright.
 Miss Annie Virginia Wells, an ac- compiished young society woman of Washington. and a warm friend of the late Miss Herbert, who com mitted suicide recently, followed the example of her friend by com hitting suicide December ?.
 J. Pierpont Morgan, who recently effected the wire and 9ail trust, has sailed to England again on a mys- tcrIous U'ission, presumed to be for the purpose ot effecting coal com bine.
 Adlai E. Stevenson, former vice president, has accepted the position of western counsel of the North American Trust company of New York, with a membership in the board of directors.
 G. ". Kretsinger. attorney for the 5 F. P. X r. railroad passed through Prescott on Saturday en route to Phenix in bis private car. returning on this mornings north bound train enrOute To Los Angeles. He will leave the latter place on his return trip to Prescott nn Wednes- day. when he will be accompanied by President F. II. Murphy and wife.
 Governor General Blanco's ac- ceptance of President Mckinlev's request that the American people be permitted to relieve the suffer ings of the concentrates in Cuba, is . tantamount to the acceptance of the offer of intervention by the United States in the conflict so long m progress between the people of Cuba and the Spanish government, said Tomas Estrada Palma, the Chief of the Cuban junts in New York to the Associated Press re- {. porter.
 Eighty per cent of the edge tool manufacturers in the United States have consolidated their interests and have agreed for the erection of . a new plant near Charlroy, about . forty miles south of Pittsburg, on the MonOngaheia river. Ths concern will be known as the American Axe and Tool Company. anC will be capitalized at S2OO0,OOO. It will employ over 2,0O0 skilled workmen. The consolidated plant will be in operation next week.
 Horace Smyth, a juror in the'Dur- rant case, has been summoned to ap- pear in Judge Wau0ce's court to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of court. The citation was issued upon the af- fidavit of W. 4. Durrant. the father of the condemned man. The alii- davit stated that Smyth had told several reputable citizens that his verdict of guilty was based upon the statements of shocking immoral ity on the part of DurTsnt.
 A Japanese fleet of warships Is watching near Goto island, outside of Nagasaki. fully equipped for war and only awaiting instructions. This fleet includes the Yashami and the FUji, two of the finest vessels in the Japanese navy, and the Chsu Ue1, fI,t W5-s eaptVre fr- flt-1. It IS expected ,le ltpauese l.l vi a'temp' @ grev-a ta ra.H- 70. reinforcement ir7H t3 3t-E- ir sH- EruraCt .ln Cf .Ef ~-E. s-f