Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-07-26
Manila is to have SlO0.OOO gov. ernmeht ice plant.

haHita ts Nh nave h Ctpb,NNu EbN- ernmeht ice plant.
 Itis estimated that GOOOOO for eigners will bs added Co tho AmeTi- can population this year.
 An American yndicale has bought the famous Mexican volcano. Pope catePelt for S500,O0O in go d.
 The grand jury indicted Roland
 &. Maliineux Tor the murder of Mrs
 Kate J. Adams tn New York. The newspaper correspondents at
 Manila are not to be allowed to con duct the war in the Philippines. This IS q severe blow to sensational journalism. but 1t will be endorsed by the people of the Uniied States
 On account Of the retirement of Col. Evan Miles ol the First infantry, Lieut.-Col A. 4. Harbach becomes colonel. Major Sumner Lincoln, lieutenant-cOlonel, and Captain Geo. l.. Brown, major,
 A stat meut prepared at the WAT department shows that of the fifty six officers and 1916 men enlisted of the Second Oregon regiment, only or'y-nine were killed in battle or died of disease during the campaign in the Philippines.
 Judge Merrill, of Salt Lake. has imposed q fine of SlO0 upon Angus NJ. Cannon. the defendant, having bY his attorney on Tuesday last. pleaded guilty io a charge of unlaw- ful cohabiiat'on.
 Kansas has the biggest corn crop iu sight in the history ot the state. Three weeks more without hot winds and the corn crop of Kansas will reach $O0,0OO,O0i bushels, double that of last year.
 Tho volcano of Mokuaweoweo, on the island of Hawaii, has become active after several years of quiet. There Is an immense flow over the island and it was rumored in Homo lulu that the lava flow was within five miles of Hijo.
 The United States cruiser OlymIis. with Admiral Dewey on board, has arrived at Triste. The principal newspaper there had a latterlng article welcoming the ad- miral to Austria. The Olympia III
 enain about two weeks. Admiral Dswey's health is perfect.
 Exclusive of the deaths on il @ transports. the total number of men to lose their lives in the Philippine war was 6q3 Ol this number 650l were killed or succumbed to wounds or disease. The number wounded in acton was l,l9l. Five committed | suicide; one, the colonel of the Ten l nesse regiment, died of apople1y in | an engagement. and nineteen were | accidentally drowned.
 4 telegram from Stockholm, Sweden, says that q mysterious cpl | demic, which has been prevailing I recently among the cattle on the | island of Gothland has spread to human beings in the district, and a large number of patients have been | to the hospitals. Some of the cases Srr extremely difficult ol diagnosis Cattle are dying by hundreds throughout the island.
 The Railway Age estimates that in the last six months l31O miles of pew railroad were laid. which figures exceed the record for any year since 1872 Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsyl- ganiA and Utah lead in new mileage. Taking lS99 as a whole, its mileage will be, it IS estimated, some 4.5OO ni es, or more than in any year since 1890. The high price of iron will doubtless to some extent check the growth of railroads.
 Occupying luIuriously furnished parlor car attached to the west bound New York Central train which eft New York Thursday morning were Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and his young friends who purpose to pend the next twelve months en, ,ircling the globe. The itinerary akes the young men across the con inent to Vancouver, where they will ake steamer for the orient. After isiting the various eastern coun- I ries they viii go to Africa and hunt 'ig game in Abyssinia. The last our months before the return ( cross the Atlantic will be spent in 6 doing" Europe. {