Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-02-09
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A railroad rate war on Klondik'
 business seems imminent. Asia Minor was shaken up by ar earthquake yesterday. Secretary Alger's condition is re- ported improved. President Dole, of Hawaii, d:n0d with President Mckinley yesterday
 A plot to murder the Shah oi Persia has been unearthed.
 The estimates for running the
 New York City government foots up $S0,OOO,0O0 per year.
 Thos. B. Turley has been chosen United States senator from Ten nessee.
 France has shown its interest in starving Cuba by raising fund of $40,0O0 for their relief.
 The degree of Master of Arts is about to be abolished by Stanford university, as it is held to be useless.
 The latest scheme for reaching the north pole is by use of a sub marine boat, travelling under the ice.
 The International League of Press Clubs is considering the erection of home for invalid newspaper men.
 A Chicago judge has just handed down a decision to the effect that insanity can not be plead as a ground for divorce.
 Four men have been arrested charged with having participated in the burning of the two Seminole l Indians.
 The report that President Diaz, Of Mexico, would shortly visit the | United States, is denied on the Presidents authority.
 The aggregate annual circulation of the worlds periodicals IS l2,000,s. 100000 and consumes 76O,00O tons of paper.
 The government receipts from customs for January were over g., ,- OOO,OOO more than for the cores bonding month in 1897.
 Ethan HitchcocK, of Missouri, has been made ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiaTy to Russia by order of the President.
 England has had to take back seat in the Orient and allow Russia's Czar to get all he wants at Port Arthur.
 Wages of employees at the Carnegie mills at Ironwood were advanced ten per cent on February l.
 Japan has withdrawn all objec- tions to Hawaiian annexation. The resolution favoring annexation passed the house yesterday.
 At Los Angeles yesterday s. w. Page and Herman Glass, two bicy- clists, collided with the result that Page was killed and Glass seriously injured.
 A Plymouth dispatch states that the mail steamer Channel Queen struck on the rocks of the island of Jersey and sank. taking nineteen people down to watery grave.
 The Dreyfus case mas aroused considerable antagonism to the Jews, and France promises to develop a strong anti Semitic fol- lowing.
 The Canadian government pro- poses to control the Yukon trade through the construction of a rail- road between the Stickeen river and Lake Teslin.
 An effort will be made to save the Corona, the ship Klondike bound, that went ashore on the Alaskan coast January 29. Most of the pas gers have lost their outfits.
 Germany has prohibited tue i'm portation of green fruits from Amer ica on the grounds hat California and other vermin threaten German trees and fruit.
 The outbreak against the Jews in France has strengthened the move ment among the Jews all over the world for the purchase and occupa- tion of Palestine.
 Arizona has anything you want in the line of cuTiosities. Wild hogs, l with fangs like wolves and bite that is sharper and more deadly than a serFent's tooth, is the latest heard-of critter. Circus managers are invited to send in bids.-Albu- querque Citizen.
 An aerial tramway has been built 1 across Chilcoot pass, making it easy for Klondikers to get through. The l tramway has been built by he Chil- 1 colt railroad and transportation l company and when the road is com pleted the trip to Klondike will be shortened thirty days.
 Near the town of Du Bois, Idaho, ! the other day a meteor fell that pro- 1 duced shock felt for twenty miles around. James Turner, 8 stockman, was near by and was so badly shock ed as to render him insensible. An attempt will be made to locate the | aerolite.
 According to medical authority, leprosy is increasing in this country l with alarming rapidity, and census of the lepers of the United States is to bs taken preparatory to their isolation under government control.
 General Merriam has received l orders from Washington to equip a | party and send it out on an explor- ing expedition for the purpose of | locating q feasible route to Klon- dike wholly within American terri tory.
 The gun factory at Washington is working constantly 4 hours a day turning out large and small guns | for the battle ships and auxiliary cruisers. A Washington special l says thIs fact is coupled with con- siderab ble significance.
 The Paris exposition has allowed | the United States 300,OOO square feet of space, of which New York |