Arizona silver belt., 1899-09-07
general NEWS ITEMS.
Brief Mention Of Interesting Facts
snd happenings.

Admiral Dewey has cabled the may
or of New York that he expects to ar
rive there sept. 2S.
Returning soldiers from the Philip
pines say that country is not gooo
place for white men.
Captain Jarvis of the revenue cut,
ter Bear makes a report of the rescue
Of nearly 900 godseekerS i'm Alaska.
New York's Dewey arch is repro
duct,on of that of Titus at Rome,
which was erected something like 2OOO
years ago.
The work of taking the census in
Cuba will begin October l6, and the
enumeration will be completed within
few weeks
There are 2,0OO,000 Iagals on the is
land of Luzon. and the loss of 100, 900
or so does not weaken Aguinaldo's
army perceptibly
In the eighth Bland'l district of
Missouri, Shackleford, democrat, was
elected to congress by majority of
about 5000, over Vosholl, republican.
The Empire state express recently
made the run of s0.3S miles between
Syracuse and Rochester, N. ", i'm IS
minutes, an average speed of II miles
per hour.
American travel in Europe this year
has broken all records. II is estimated
that 10000 persons visited London and
that they spent aboard the sum of
SIO5, ,OOO.OOO
James X. Keene captured the rich
Futurty stake, at New York, with
Charcornac, horse he purchased the
day before the race for S25,OOO. The
value OF the Futurity to the winner
was $50, 800.
Under the management of the
United States government the receipts
of the island of Cuba from January
to June 81 of the current year were
SO, ,0l0, exceeding disbursements
Sl,4s0,O21
The dNnamiting of street cars i'm
Cleveland. Ohio. continues. A car
WIS blown up on the night of August
30, and five of the six passengers sus-
tanned broken legs. The perpetrators
OF the outrage were not captured.
Tits expected that next year through
trains will bc running between Port
Arthur and Nladivostock and st.
Petersburg. The first railway train
10 enter Manchuria rolled over rails
from Philadelphia nailed to ties from
Oregon and hauled by an American
engine.
The commission which has been en-.
gagged in distributing the $1,000, 900 APP
propriated for the purpose of paying
off Cnban soldiers who surrendered
their arms to the American officials has
returned to Havana. 1t reports that
81, 692 persons have received their
share of the gratuity, and that the to-
tai gmount of money disbursed is So
526, 800.
vi, Mayer, an assayer at Butte, Mont,
John F. Boyd night watchman and
James Mcdonald an employe at the
GraniteBimetallic mill at Philipsburg,
Mont, have been arrested charged
with the theft of silver bullion. esti-
mated at from s75, 900 to $3.50, 900. from .
the Granite -Bimetallic company.
The new White Star line twin.screw
steamship Oceanic, from Belfast, Ire,
has arrived at Liverpool. She will sail .
for New York Sept. q. Her gross ton
mage is 900 tons. She is 7O4 feet (
long, GS feet breadth of beam, 30 feet
depth of hold and her draught is - +
feet. She is said to be the largest
steamer in tine world.
New York retail butchers, cooperat-
ing with retailers in other cities, have
decided to fight the beef trust to a fin
ish. Those back of the enterprise es-
innate that they will be able to raise at
once from Slj.O00,0 geo to 500, 900, 900 to
carry it out, and they are confident
that later they can get as many mil
lions more as may be necessary. John /.
d. Rockefeller is named as one of the
capitalists who may put large sums of
money into the fight to down the beef
trust.
Mayor Jones, of Toledo, indepen-
dent candidate for governor of Ohio,
viii make a novel canvass ofthe state.
travelling in an automobile He will
be accompanied by a speakers and sing
er. In addition TO this feature large
Of canvassers will be started
in few days, and they will sell Mayor
Jones' book, "The New Right" and
each man viii be provided with liter
ature and arguments. The proceeds
Of the book viii be devoted to the
work.
Two clipper ships, the Tillie Z. Star
buck, built ofiron, and the ST. Francis,
4 wooden vessel, both owned in New
York, left that port Aug, 81, to race
70 San Francisco, for stakes aggregat-
ng S1o,o putup by prominent ship