Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-03-01
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS

London has established a Sunday mail delivery.
 Rudyard Kipling is i'll in New York.
 Speaker Reed threatens to kill the river and harbor bill.
 Rudyard Kipling's condition IS still quite critical. New York City spends annually for wages in cleaning her streets, S1, O56,OO0.
 Four thousand coal miners have resolved to strike at Little Rock, Arkansas.
 American restaurant keepers in Havana refuse to feed negroes and race war IS threatened.
 The Presbyterian churches of the north and south are having confer enees with a view of uniting.
 We pay the Philippine islands about A.000,0O0 annually for hemp imported for manufacturing pur- poses.
 San Diego harbor will receive im- provements to the amount of the congressional appropriation this year, f65,0O0.
 Louis W. Dexter, who originated angel food and made a fortune out of 1t, has just died st Vinelan1, New Jersey, aged s5 years.
 Jesse James has been positively identified as one of the train robbers who held up 8 train near Kansas City.
 George Began, a San Francisco footpad. has been sentenced to serve twenty years iu Folsom state prison by Judge Lswler.
 Baron Paul Julius de Reuter-, di- rector and founder of Reu,er's Tel egraph company, is dead in France, aged S4 years.
 Another snow slide occurred at Silver Plume, Colorado, Wednesday morning. burying four men, two of whom were rescued alive.
 A marked increase in the demand for national bank charters is one of many symptoms of reviving business activity afforded by the treasury statistics.
 The very last line of omnibuses in the city of New York has been sold out, horses and all. and hereafter automobiles will take its place.
 P D. Armour has made another endowment of $750.OOO to Armour institute. in Chicago, making a total of S2,25O,OO0 which be has given to thls institution.
 Cebu, one of the Visaya islands. has surrendered to the Americans It has an arsa of 2C)0 square miles and population of half million of people.
 A transportation company of New York City is now operating 100 auto mobile carriages and SO great is the demand that not one-third of the business offered can be accom odat- ed.
 The work of the court of inquiry ID Washington will be finished for the time being about the middle of next week, when the court will ad- iourn to Chicago end Omaha to look over tue packing industry.
 
 On refusing to pay a bill of Sl02, l Jay E. Hunter an attorney of Los Angeles, was shot and killed last Saturday by William H. Afford. | Hunter was reputed to be well of. l but repudisted this debt.
 The extraditiou treaty negotiated 1 between Mexico anc the United l States has been signed by Foreign Minister Mariscal and Ambassador i Powell Clayton. The treaty is to have a retroactive effect 60 ss to cover the cases of fugitives from jus tice during the interim between the old and new treaties.
 A man in Vienna, Austria, souand- cred hIs fortune. His wife sad to him, John, go and shoot yourself so l can get the insurance money He did, but recovered. Some time later she said: "Jobn, you were too stupid to shoot yourself properly; go and hang yourself" He did and thIs time with success. How's ths: Tor husbandly obedience.
 A daring attempt early on Mon day to burglarize the St. Peter, Min lesota, postOfbce was frustrated by he bravery of W. H. Gresham, head Jerk. Gresham overpowered sbe burglar and marched him of to jail. The prisoner gave his name as Charles Valentine. He had a com ,leie safe-crsckiny outfit. Gresham 2 a nephew of the late secretary of afa Walfar O Erash.,