Arizona silver belt., 1899-11-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts
 and Happenings.

the lineotype typesetting machine, died at Baltimore, last Saturday, of consumption,
 Secretary of War Roots first annual report now in the hands of the prin- ter, recommends a standing army of 100000 men.
 The Pullman Palace Car company has absorbed the Wagner company, consolidating the interests of the two big corporations.
 The Occur d'Alene miners are on trial at Moscow, Idaho, accused of stopping the United States mail train at Wallace on April 20.
 Judge Lacomb in the United States circuit court has rendered his decis- ion upholding the finding of the court martial in the case of Captain Carter.
 The steamer Roanoke arrived at Se- attle, Wash, November l, from St. Michael and Cape Nome, The Roam oke brought sl,5Oo,ooo worth of gold and 100 passengers.
 By the advice of his physician, Ad- miral Dewey has cancelled his pro posed trips to Philadelphia and At lanta and will accept no more invita- tions before next spring,
 Emperor William of Germany will arrive in England about the 20th instant, remaining at Windsor castle five days, after which he will go to Sandingham for a two days visit to the Prince of Wales,
 Moses Hedges, supposed to be the oldest man in the country, l07 years of age, died at Indianapolis, Ind. He distinguished himself few months before his death by whipping his IT. year-old son.
 The late George Clay ton bequeathed Sl ,0OO,0 ,000 to the city of Denver for an orphan college The contest of the will, which was threatened by brother and other heirs of the deceased, has been abandoned.
 A dispatch to the war department from General Otis, says that Lawton $ and YOung's advance to San Isidoro met with considerable resistance. One man was killed and three wounded The enemy suffered severely.
 The famine in India is one of the most terrible events of modern times. ItiS estimated that the famine-allected areas comprise 100000 miles of British territory and 2j0,0OO miles of the ter ritOry of the native states, each sec tion containing upward of 15,00O,00O people.
 At St. AnneS, Miss, negro named Joe LeitOre was burnt at the stake. He went to rob q house but before doing so tied woman and four chil- dren together, piled feather beds upon them, poured coal oil over the lot, cremated the family and robbed the house.
 Adyices from the Alaska Conner cial company, received at San Fran cisco, says that the British steamer Pelican, which left Puget Sound in October 1897, for China, foundered near the Aleutian islands and that her entire crew perished.
 The frst-class battleship Kentucky, on ner builders trial trip, under the unfayorable conditions of heavy sea and high wind, attained speed of sixteen and one-third knots, or one third of knot more than required by the contract. Under favorable condi- tions the Kentucky is expected to do much better
 The government of Guatemala has acceptt q the proposition of the United States government to adjust by arbi- tration the claim'of MT. May of Ten ncssee, aggregating about Sl25,OOO, in which sum May claims he was dam aged through the action of the Guate- mala government in wrongfully de priving him of a railroad concession.
 Secretary of War Root will with draw the federal troops now in the Occur d'Alene country, and who have been doing guard duty for the state of Idaho in holding about one hun dred miners charged with crime, against the state. The charge against the miners being held is rioting when on the 10th day of April last mining property of the value of S250, coo was destroyed.
 The New York sun directs atten tion to the fact, lost sight of in some quarters, that the margin by whicl the republican party controls th' house of representatives has narrowed from about fifty, over all, in the Fifty fifth congress, to less than ten, oyel all, in the Fifty-sixth, and that, if tho populists and silyerites should com bine with the democrats in the house and this combination should oppose unitedly, any measure adopted by tht republican caucus, they would need