Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-10-04
NEWS NOTES AND comREsTs.

The British government Las chartered two big steamers at New Orleans to load mules. forage and teamsters for South Africa
 Three hundred men who fought under Dewey at Manila were pre- sented, on board the Olympia, with broAze medals awarded them by ! congress.
 Admiral Montoio, who command ed the Spanish naval forces in the battle of Manila bay, and who has been on trias before the supreme court at Madrid, has been con demued to retirement without the right of promotion.
 The Dewey demonstration in New York September 29 was one of the greatest pageants ever witnessed in this country. It was estimated that over 100000 visitors were in the city.
 Active work in the Senator mIne, 1 1t IS said. will be commenced soon. A good sized body of ore which goes SiO per ton is reported having been | struck in the mine recently. Dr. F. NJ. Sponogls. who recently was dismissed from the position of experimenting physician of the in- sane asylum at Agnew, California, has filed suit in the superior court against Governor Gage to recover S5O,OOO damages for libel
 4 company has been formed in Pasadens, Cal. to build a railroad from the Los Pintos mines in the Altar district of Sonora to a point on San Jorges bay on the gulf of California.
 The sale of the Costilla group of copper mines, adjoining the Copper Queen mines, to the Lake Superior and Western Development company, means that Bisbee ls to have another ] big copper producer, and the terri ! tory will take another step toward 1 the head of the list of copper pro l ducers of the world.
 The great storm of Sunday and Monday, near Calcutta. India, which | caused destructive landslides and floods, gathered at the head of the bay of Calcutta and then moved ] north. Between Darjeeling and 1 kurseong alone, 300 persous lost their lives
 Advices from the Cheyenne Sioux ] agency saysthere is great excitement over the murder of Long Haley, l Cheyenne river Sioux, by Buddy. a squsw man. At the funeral of Haley l which was conducted at the Catholic l cemetery, White Swan, one of the 1 principal chiefs, made an infAmma- tory appeal, bitterly denouncing the | white men Tor their treatment of Indians. This stirred the Indians | up more than ever and trouble is an ticipsted.
 The volksEasd of the Orange Free State has decided to join with the 1 Transvsal in the event of hostI!ities. | The raad's resolution, made the 1 brotherhood of arms between the l Transvaal and the Orange Free l State, of which hitherto there was only a strong propability, SD ab- 1 solute certainty, and the British will 1 have to face the situation.
 During 8 noon recess at the Flon- her school in Edgar county, Illinois, the pupils constructed a play house ! of straw and rails, leaving a small 1 opening. 4 number of children were inside when the straw was ignited l by a match and the structure was consumed. Six children were severe ly burned. Ralph Nay,Aged 6, died and Herman Redmond, aged 8, is not expected to live.
 Twenty-seven years ago Booker T. Washington left Charleston, W. l Va, a penniless colored boy and l. walked to Hampton to try tc get an l education. A few days ago be re- turned to Charleston as the guest of the city, was received by the mayor ] and officials and was greeted at the | opera house by 200 enthusiastic ad- mlrers.
 Trade conditions between the | United States and Cuba and Porto i Rico are revealed by statistics fur nished by the war department. For the first seven months of the current | year Cuban imports of American products amounted to more than $l4,O00,0OO, or about three times as much as in preceding years. Porto Rico imported S2,20O,00O worth of American products-nearly twice as much as was imported the year be- fore the war.
 William A. Franz, professor of English and literature in Oxford college at Coyington, Kentucky, killed himself Tuesday night at his home there. The deed was done with pocket knife, Dr. Franz In- hicting fifteen wounds on his neck, arms and in the lungs. He was found by hls wife, who thought he had died of hemorrhage. Dr. Franz only assumed the duties of his posi- ton Monday, going to Covington from Fayetteville, Mo. He was native of Virginia, and the remains were taken to Dadeville. in that state for internent,