Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-12-27
j. (. MARLIN, Editor and Proprietor

Eleven democrats supported the financial bill passed by the lower house of congress.
 Senator Allen, of Nebraska, was sworn in on Tuesday and took his seat.
 The call has been issued for the republican national convention to be held June 15, 1900.
 Alexander Paviof, Russian min ister to Corea, who is in Washing ton. says there is no foundation whatever for the reported immi- ence of war between Russia and Japan.
 Itisa fact not generally known that Senator Hanna served hFe months m the army during the re- belIion. He was a lieutenant, but the servlce was so brief that he sell dom refers to it.
 Having no election campaign on hand now and having no engage ments for burning negroes at the stake the good citizens of Kentucky have settled down again to the monotonous task of settling their feuds by killing each other of.
 A panic prevailed on the New York stock market on Tuesday. While money seems abundant for legitimate business, stock sPecu- lators have been wsding into the market over the means at their com mand, which inevitably results ID a panic.
 General Lawton owned an orange ranch near Riverside, California on which there is a mortgage. A move ment has been started in Washing ton to ralse funds to pay od this mortgage Mrs. Lawton and their four children have been residing there ever since General LAwton went to the Cuban war.
 Train robbers have introduced a new industry in their line in the east, that of robbing passengers instead of the express ear. It worked sue cessfully on a train on the Missouri Pacific out of Kansas City. Three men engaged in itIsndsthey robbed the passengers in. Pullman car while the train was in motion, se- curing $lO0 and five gold watches.
 The six-shooter argument was used effectively in Dallas, Texas, the other day in a law suit, when F. NJ. Ether idge, one of the most prominent Iawyers in that city, shot Attorney Edwin O. Harrell. who IS equally well known. The men were opPos- jag counsel in a big case ID court end met in an elevator where the shooting occurred. Harrell died later.
 We send missionaries to Japan to civiIize the moon-eyed oTieDtsls. How the laps must smile when they hear about our burning ne- groes at the stake, and how the Fiji islanders kick themselves all to pieces when they think of such delectable roast going to waste. The Fijis should send missionaries to Kentucky to teach these people how to do the thing up "brown."
 The Florence Tribune wants the statehood committee of thirty, whea they go to Washington to boom Arizona for admission, to put in their oar for sn irrigsting canal somewhere near that section. The probabilities are that If the com mission tackles any side issue. the ''ship of state" will be numerically swamped. So we would advise the statehood committee 10 go It whole hog or none on admission solely.
 R. G. Dun & Cos monthly re- view of trade conditions in south ern California says that never be fore has the close of the year brought so little hesitation in the business world. Industry IS well employed, supply not get meeting dsmand. A steady increase in clearing house returnL the high level of staple values, the increase of wages in iron, cotton and woolen industries are good indications of business, health and prosperity.
 Admiral Dewey has renewed his request that the Chinese who served with him during the battle ot Manila bay be given the right to CD CT the United States free ot re- strictIons. In his letter to Secre- tary Long, which has been forward ei to congress without comment, Admiral Dewey says that 1t IS doubtful if more than a dozen of these Chinese would care to avail themselves of the privilege, adding: But it seems to me that II would be only common justice to give 1t to them"
 4 telegram from Cleveland, says; "At the request of Senator NJ. A. Hanna, the Little Consolidated Street Railway, of which he IS presi- dent, will distribute 5000 among employees Saturday night as a Christmas gift. The senator, ID 6 telegram 10 the directors, says be wants to show the company's zap precistion of the manly course taken by its employees during the late strike ou the Big Consolidated lines, when they refused to go out IL is in order now for the democratic press to jump on Mir. Hanna, ss nothing he does seems right Tn their eyes.
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