Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-01-26
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Facts, Figures and Fancies Found Floating All Over the Country.
Events Told in Brief Paragraphs for
 the Information of Our Readers.


 far east.
 Patti is a widow. Her husband died last week.
 Heavy snows are reported in Kansas and Missouri.
 Calcutta has passed law author. izing the issuance of currency notes
 IL is rumozed in Havana that Gen. eral Blaneo will resign.
 The fund for the erection of q monument to Eugene Field now amounts to $700.
 Mayor McKisson proposes 10 con test the seat of Mark Hanna in the | Senate.
 A rich vein of silver is reported to have been found on a farm near Newburgh, New York. ! 4 Georgia selected jury returned the following extraordinary verdict: "We, the jury, find the defendant almost guilty"
 The Japanese cruiser Chitose was successfully launched from the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, on Saturday.
 Virgil Gallagher, a medical stu dent, 20 years of age, of Galveston, Tex, has been sentenced to desth for the murder of his mother in August last.
 4 fashion journal says: 'The old | fashioned hustle is coming forward again" That's no way for a hustle to behave" remarks the Chicago Times Herald.
 The jewels of the wife of the American ambassador at Rome are said to lay those of the queen Of Italy completely in the shade. Who says American diplomacy does not shine abroadi
 ! Edward J. Livernasb, who is one of commission of three appointed by the miners at Dawson to go to ! Ottawa and endeavor to secure a modification of the mining laws, estimates that this winters output of gold will not exceed $6,0O0,O00. Luetgert went on the stand Fri day on his own behalf. When tell ing of his marriage, be IS said to have wept like a child.
 San Francisco Chinese refused to obey the edict of the Chinese en- peroror asking them to refrain from celebrating their New Years today, on account of the eclipse of the sun in China.
 A complaint has been lodged against Emite Zola for his recent excoriatiou of the members of the court which condemned Dreyfus.
 A big coal combine has just been effected in Pittsburg. It is com posed of Pittsburg and Cincinnati operators.
 Japan is strengthening her navy. She has given orders to hasten the construction of the two vessels being built at Philadelphia and has pur- chased two of ChiIi's finest war ships.
 The fourth day of balloting for United States Senator from Mary land, found the situation practically unchanged. The feeling is growing that the only way to settle the mat ter is bv the withdrawal of both Shaw and McComas in favor of a compromise candidate.
 Our English neighbors are paying a tribute to our new tariff by charg- ing that 1t Is responsible for the falling Od of their exportaticns dur ing 1897. Their official figures show decrease of nearly S200000O0 in their exportatIon, and their author ilies attribute it to the new tariff law in the United States
 Richard J. Halloran, a police off, cer on tine St. Louis force, was fatally shot with his own pistol an hour after midnight Thursday, by Miss Nellie Mangau, who then turn ,-,i be pistol on herself and put a bullet through her own brain. The shooting followed a quarrel, during which Miss Maugan begged Halloran to marry her.
 The senate committee on terri tories oa Thursday decided to in definitely postpone a bill ,to snnul an act of the legislature of New Mexico, relating to insurance com . panies. The act IS to go into effect on February 1, and provides that all insurances companies doing business in the territory shall deposit $I0,0OO in cash, municipal or territorial bonds at par as a guarantee for the payment of losses.
 The "St. James Gazette" gives a list of ships ln the Japanese navy and points out it's immense fighting strength and says: Even with Great Britain a mere systematic on- locker, it is probable that Japan could finish of all the Russian and German war ships east of the suez canal in short order, Great Britain even including the Powerful has not a vessel in the North Pacific capa-
  ble of stanidng in battle line against three different battleships in Japan's possession.
 In the case of Chris Merry. the peddler, charged with wife murder in Chicago, the jury returned verdict of guilty. Smith, his alleged accom- plice, was found not guilty. When the verdict was read, Smith jumped to his feet and shouted for joy, but Judge Horton sternly commanded him to sit down. Bring me 8 war rant" said the judge. ''I want this man re-arrested as an accessory to the murder after the fact, and l want him indicted by the grand jury to- day" This had the effect of cooling Smiths spirits,