Arizona silver belt., 1899-11-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Brief Mention of Interesting acts
 and Happenings.

the men who blew mp the Maine mas been captured and that the detectives are hot on tho trial of the others.
 The usual big celebrations in honor of Martin LutherS birthday took place throughout the German empire on the 10th inst. Luther was born November 10, lis3,
 By the recent decree of the governor of Sonora, it is prohibitory for any merchant of the state, under severe penalties. to sell any individual ann munition and firearms, especially Remington cartridges.
 Information received from Ortiz, state of Sonora, Mexico, states that another fight had taken place between the Mexicans and Yaqui Indians and that twenty-five Indians were taken prisoners. The Indians retreated into the mountains northwest of Sahuarpi and are now hiding in the mountain fastnesses.
 Albert Becker, the Chicago sausage maker who murdered his wife, cut up the remains and boiled it piece by piece in a coffee boiler on the kitchen stove, was hanged in Chicago last Friday. Ida Sutherland, the girl for love of whom he killed his wife, is exhibiting herself in a dime museum as Becker's "child wife"
 The president of the Boers has been married twice, has one child by his first wife and sixteen by his second. His grand children number 104. He has done his share toward surprising England with the size of the Trans vaal army. loom Paul" is very appro- priate as a war yell. The Boer goes out to fight for his father and his fathers country. Dom Paul is all right if the boys stay with the old man.
 The Cleveland, Ohio, Press says that the Arizona sheriff who sent printed invitations to his friends, informing them that the latest improved meth OdS in the art of stranpulation will be employed, and everything possible will be done to make the surrounding cheerful and the execution a success has certainly missed his vocation. He ought to edit the funny column of q newspaper" Our Navajo county of ticial will no doubt feel the weight ot the caustic eastern pen--times were when these little matters attended tc from the 'bOX-seat' of Concord Now, We do it ourselves.
 A City of Mexico dispatch says: In view of the rumor alioat that General Portirio Diaz will decline a TenOmina. tion for the presidency, mass meetings Mexico in the hope that general ex. pressiOn of the favor with which his candidacy is viewed may induce him to accept another term. Oddly enough, the foreign residents of the republic are interesting themselves in the matter The American colony will hold meeting in Odd Fellows hall Thursday, to draft complimentary resolutions, and other foreign colonies have already set dates for similar meetings.
 Dan Pipkin, better known as Red '' Pipkin, was arrested six or eight week ago charged with attempted train robbery at Grants, N. M., on March 29, 1898. His case, says the A r. buquerque Citizen, was not brought to trial during the March term, his bond being fixed at s2500. His rela- tiyes succeeded in the last few days in securing the bond which was appoyed this morning, and Pipkin was tech nically set free. But he was immedi- ately arrested by Sheriff Hubbell, who is holding him upon telegram from the sheriff of Graham county, Arizona who says Pipkin is wanted there for petit larceny. Attorney Rodey claims that his client, Pipkin, is q resident of New Mexico and is not fugitive from justice. and says he will protest before Governor Otero the honoring of Arizona's requisition.
 The lately made Senator Clark, o1 Montana is still in the throes of tht enemy; although he is high upon tho political perch, there are those wht would cling to his boot-straps and i'm plore Croesus to ''come down" Th' copper bound Senator has been throwl into the judicial channel and startling developments may be expected soon An Associated Press telegram has tn following version of the fight stil being waged: The time of the su preme court of Montana has bee taken up with the hearing of tn charges against John B. Welcome, on of w. A. Clark's attorneys, who wa Clark's confidential man during tn senatorial election last winter, an who is accused of having distribute at that time a large sum Of money l