Arizona silver belt., 1899-09-28


 the assignment to the South Atlantic station.
 Milwaukee is seeking to have the national democratic convention meet in that city.
 General Oates has announced his candidacy for the seat now occupied by Senator Morgan of Alabama Gov.-Gen Wilson has issued a re- port of the condition of the provinces of Mantanzas and Santa Clara, Cuba.
 Aguinaldo has proposed to submit negotiations for the release of Amer ican prisoners now held by the Fili- pinoS
 The British have placed large or ders for mules and wagons in the United States to be shipped to South Africa.
 The clerical press of Mexico con tinues to warn the government of the desire of the United States to absorb that nation.
 Cigar manufacturers of Tampa and Key West, Fla, New York, New Orleans and Havana have formed a combination with capitalization of S25, 5,00O,000.
 English jingoes are said to be much Snpn,isAd hn l. raf1SnA n quietly submit to being wiped out by Chamberlain.
 The American citizens of Honduras are dissatisfied with Minister Hunter and will petition President Mckinley to withdraw him.
 The executive committee of the democratic national committee has decided to retain Chicago as the work ing point for this body.
 United States. British and French representatives in Venezuela have cabled their governments for warships to protect their subjects.
 santa Cruz, Cal, is probably the only municipality in the United States in which water is furnished free to inhabitants for domestic purposes.
 The French senate is sitting as a court of justice to try a number of pol iticians who are charged with coh- spiracy to overthrow the French gov ernment.
 The Chinese government has made an emphatic protest to the United States government against the order of General Otis which excludes citi- zens of China from entrance to the Philippines.
 The reply of the Transvaal govern ment to the British demands repudi- ates suzeranity and refuses to recog- nize the Dutch and English languages. It also reyerts to the seven years fran chise.
 The boiler-makers of San Francisco are out on strike. The men declare they will not yield, and the managers of the different iron works are not prepared to accept eight hours as a days work.
 Former Captain DreyfuS is now at Carpentras, department of Vaucluse, France. at the home of Paul Vala- brogne, his brother-in-law, who has been established as a cloth merchant there for quarter of a century. Mme. Dreyfus will join her husband at Car pentras.
 President Dia2 has asked the Mexican congress for twenty days leave of absence in which to visit the United States. The request was granted, and the president proposed Ygnacio Mariscal, Secretary of Foreign Rela- tions, as his substitute as president during his absence. His visit to the United States will be confined to Chicago.
 On October every poStoffice in the country will begin weighing all mat ter passing through it. There are nearly 5000 offices, and in each one of these this weighing will be kept up for thirty-fiye consecutive dave. At the end of this time each office will forward to Washington its complete report, and from this enormous mass of statistics will be compiled, by special staff yet to be selected, wealth of information that cannot fail to benefit the service greatly. 6
 Enslgn NOan T. Coleman of the bat tleship Iowa died last Thursday in a private hospital in San Francisco as a result of a complication of troubles and bullet wound inflicted by him self some time ago in an attempt at suicide. Young Coleman had been condemned to stand trial by court martial for various otfenSes. The wound would not have caused death under usual circumstances, but his vi tality was so weakened by worry that he could not survive. Coleman comes from one of the oldest and most re- | Il T