Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-09-20
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS

Typhoid fever is epidemic in Der lin.
 The funeral of Cornelius Wander bilt took place iu New York today.
 Only a total of four yellow fever cases have been reported in New Orleans.
 Clearance papers have been grant ed the transport Tartar at Hong Kong.
 Colorado gave her returning vol unteers rousing welcome at Denver
 Fifteen hundred house painters are on a strike for an eight hour day in Philadelphia.
 The Winnebago Indians have chosen Thomas K. Roddy, an Irish man, for their chief,
 Two-cent street ear fares became a reality in Chicago last Thursday, I2 tickets being sold for D cents.
 Louisville policemen have been in structed to interfere as much as possible at the polls in the interest of Goebel on election day.
 Peter King, crazed with liquor at Southbridge, Mass, killed his aged father and mother, crushing thelr skulls.
 The island of Anguilla was visited by hurricane during the night Ot Sept. s, which destroyed 200 houses and 800 people are homeless.
 The latest reports from the Trans vaal are very conflicting. One tele- gram says that war IS inevitable, another says an amicsble settlement of differences has been agreed upon.
 Father Charles Brady, of St. Louis, has left the priesthood and the church and married a young wo- man who nursed him through a spell of sickness.
 A London telegram says there IS no intention on the part of the Eng hsh government to withdraw from the Paris exhibition, though many individuals and firms announce their intention to do so.
 The German Trades UniCn as sociation, has adopted motion not 10 exhibit at the Paris exposition, declaring that the Rennes sentence was an insult in its disregard Of the official statements of Germany.
 The Filipino police, numbering 2JO men, armed with reyolvers and clubs. has became operative at Ma nila. Thus the administration pro ceeds as rapidly as possible iu re- deeming it's pledges of sell govern ment for insulsr possessions.
 Mrs. J. NJ. Williams, the wife of a brakeman al Sedalia, Mo, saturated the clothes of herself and two months-old babe with coat oil and set them ou fire. Both died. She was a Christisu scientist and 1t IS thought her mind was weak.
 The Rand Irishmen have formed a corps to help President Kruger aud it is said at Cape Town that cable gram has been received from New York saying that ten thousand Irish men there are ready to help the Transvaal.
 The secretary of the treasury has decided in view of the money string ency in New York to anticipated October interest. This will amount to s, ,5S9, ,526, and is due on the four Der cents of 1907. The secretary s action was taken without soliclts- ton.
 The shortest, straightest and most profitable railroad in the world, IS said to be the Marine railway at Coney island, connecting Brighton with Manhattan beach. Its length IS half a mile; its capital stock IS S25,OOO. and the number of shares thereof 300. When Austin COrbin, ir., was nine years of age, his father presented him with 499 shares. In 1884 when the fare was 10 cents, the income of the road was SS6,OOO, aud at the present time at reduced rates, the profit is still very large.
 The prairie dogs in Texas are be ing destroyed by means of new de- vice for catching them, which has been adopted by a large number of ranchmen and farmers. On one large ranch over l2,000 were cap tured and killed last week. The trap is placed over the animals mound, and makes it a prisoner when IL emerges from the hole. This pest has been destroying over 50 per cent of the growing crops and grass in Texas annually.
 Ten wears ago Louis G. Gottman went in debt to buy a farm of l20 acres in Marion county, Missouri. He refused all attempts to sell him more land, but carefully cultivate a every foot he had except what be used for pasture. He is now out of debt, Las built a Sl0O0 barn, and recently made trip with his family to Europe. He attributes his re- markable success to utilizing to its fullest capacity what he possessed, without trying to overdo the thing.
 Word comes from Washington that the process of substitution of male clerks in the departments for women clerks has assumed the pro portions of a revolution. When vacancies occur in places before filled by women it Is stated tbat heads of departments and bureau chiefs almost invariably ask that the places be given tO men. One Of the reasons given is that women insist upon their vacation privileges much more than men. It requires great stretch of the imagination to be lieve that the desire to take week of is confined to the tender sex.