Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-10-11
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.
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Twenty-eight parachute jumPerl were killed and about 40 injured iI the season just closed. John Corson, a farmer living peal Newton Falls, Ohio. was stung C death by bees.
 TeIas fever has appeared among cattle near Stockton, California
 Admiral ScLleY was given sn ova- ton in Washington st the Dewey reception.
 Four men we're killed in . head end collision on the Great Northern road near Glasgow, Montana, Oc- tObeT 1.
 4 new steamship line will soon be established between Portland, Ore, and Manila.
 Corn brought from Porto Rico and planted ID Wisconsin in June has reseLed the height Of fourteen feet.
 The navy department has decided
 
 to send four more war ships to Ma nila. The Brooklyn will be one of the number.
 President Mckinley arrived In Chicago today, October 3, sO par ticipate in the corner stone laying of a new government building there. 1 About 10000 members of the Jewellers Protective union in New York, struck for eight hours and a 50 per cent increase of wages for over time.
 Miss Daisy Prushan, of Pasadena, Cal, aged 25, was burned to death in Gre which partially destroyed the Prushsn residence Tuesday night. She dropped a lamp in her bedroom.
 Agents of the British governms Ut are now in this country buying horses and mules by hundreds for shipment to South Africa Dealers say l2,0O0 animals are wanted.
 Captain Carter has been sen teneed to five years imprisonment and is fined $7000. The sentence was approved by the president. It be- gins immediately.
 Admiral Dewey has elected to ac- eept house in Washington already cOnstructe ], instead of having one built for his occupation. The fund amounts to S50,000.
 The savings of the enlisted men in the British army amount tc x2,0O0,- 0O0 annually, all of which is on de- poslt with the government. l C)nstantinople customs officers have refuss q tO pass 0,000 sacks of American -four arriving direct from the United States, CD the ground that 1t was unwkolesome. The United States minister there, Oscar Strauss, energetically protested and obtained an order allowing the ad- mission of the -four.
 ] At the Massachusetts state repub- lican convention October 6, Lieuten- ant Governor Crane was nominated for governor; John L. Bates, speaker of the house of representatives, for lieutenant governor; Hosea Nj. Knowlton for attorney geDeral-all by exclamation.
 The Southern Pacific snow sheds between Cisco and the Emigrapt Gap, were burned Wednesday morn ing. The fire vas of incendiary origin. A four rhundred-foot bridge IS badly warped by the heat. Sixty four hundred feet of sheds burned. All trains are held and the telegraph lines are down.
 Judge Shiras of the United States supreme court, sitting as circuit judge, establishes a precedent in bankruptcy law. He holds that one member of firm can file a petition and have other members declared bankrupt if good and sufficient cause is given. If the party al legged to be bankrupt does not con test then the prayer of the petitioner will be granted.
 Edward OConnor, a very popular young man of Fl Paso, Texas, brother of County Treasurer John r. OCOnnor of that place, w&s shot and instantly killed Tuesday night by a Mexican boy named Garcia. O'Con- nor had trouble with a Mexican hackman and knocked the latter down when Garcia, who was with the haekman, pulled his pistol and shot O'ConRor through the head.
 A press telegram speaking of the appearance of the Columbia and Shamrock in the race on Tuesday says that the spectators maryeled at the clouds of canvass the levia- thans carried. Straight up into the air the slender yards carried the points of the pyramids of canvass l75 feet. It Is hard to realize that this means the height of a I2. story building.
 A well preserved Roman camp has been discovered co the right bank of the Narents, i,l Harzepoyina. 4 section 330 feet long by 20 feet wide has been trS.ced. Part of the walls, gates ar d towers are still standing, and many utensils and weapons hay 8 been dug up. It is believed to at the camp was erected in the tip e of Nero.
 Hans Lawther, a wealthy citizen ot Flu ton, Mo, is defendant in a re- mst'iable law suit. Several years ago MT. Lawther took Mise Ethel ] lynch from an orphan asylum under the condition that she should be ed ucated and brought up as one of the family. The young woman al leges that instead of complying with agreement he gave her such a limited education she can only work as a servant. Because of this she asks S2,400 wages and 5000 dam ages. I've don't claim" says the Port l land (Me.) Advertiser, ito be the biggest printers sAd publishers in the world, but we have the biggest devil in this country in our office. l He is Robert Blanchard, of Kinds dale, N. H., andlwhen he is in good | trim he weighs 406 pounds, but he is a little thin this summer, and now weighs 362 pounds. He is only 19 | years old, and holds the medal for champion heavy weight bicyclist, having gained considerable noto- riety in this line"