Arizona silver belt., 1899-09-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts
 and Happenings.

Presi,len. and Mrs. Mckinley hnv, returned to Washington.
 Labor Day is now u holiday in twen ty-nine states and territories,
 Two more deaths from the bubpnio plague have been reported at Oporto.
 Female bootblacks are becoming m. merous in Paris and other French cities.
 Clay Center, Kan. has n Senator Hanna who ships butter to the Philip, pines,
 Owing to the dry, cold atmosphere, not single infectious disease IS known in Greenland.
 Mexico City is to have the largest bull ring ever built. Its capacity will be 1000 persons.
 A current report that the end of the world is approaching has caused n panic in southern Russia.
 An agreement has been reached to pull of the Jeffries.S .Sharkey fight lie- fore the Coney Island sporting club this fall
 An order has been issued by the war department establishing sanitarium at Fort Bayard, \. NJ, for consump- tives of the army.
 General Fred Funston will return to the United States with the Kansas reg iment of volunteers His term of ser vice expired Sept. ?,
 The secretary of war has ordered the the thirty-third regiment of volunteers from Fort Sam Houston, Texas, ,>to San Francisco, for colonization to the Phil, ippines.
 The national encampment Of the Grand Army of the Republic, at Phila- delphia, have chosen for commander in chief Col. Albert D. Shaw of Water town. N. Y.
 The net amount of gold in the Uni ted States treasury Sept. ,, was S247, SS0,O00 This is the largest amount on hand at any time in the history of the department
 late estimate of the loss of life on the island of Porto Rico in the recent tornado places the number at 5000. which was almost entirely among the common people or peons.
 Surgeon General Wyman, of the marine hospital service, does not think there is reason for alarm in this coun. try on account of the outbreak of the bubonic plague in Portugal
 J. G. Johnson, of Kansas. is to be the active manager of the work of the democratic national committee in all its branches until after the adjournment of the next national convention.
 The pension claim agents received as fees in 1898, S73O, 900. In 1899 the amount paid Tn pension fees was S47G,- 969. This explains the opposition of pension agents to Commissioner Evans.
 1t is announced at Hermosillo that Collis P. Huntington and associates have purchased the extensive coal fields at San Marcial, state of Sonora. The reported purchase price is S2O0,OOU
 Forty-fiye hundred troops are sched- uled to leave San Francisco for Munila between Sept. l2 and l5. The 34th volunteer infantry which includes the Arizona troops. are in camp there awaiting transportation.
 The annual convention of the Ameri. can Bankers association was called to crder last Tuesday at Cleveland, o. Between twelve and fifteen hundred bankers we're present, representing all sections of the country.
 A Bloomfountain dispatch of the 7th instant says "The Transyaal artillery has been called out and the burghers  notified to be ready. The latest reply of the Transvaal to Great Britain is re- garded as marking the disappearance of the last hope of peace.
 Plans for the Grand Army monument on the field of Gettysburg provide for q square tower, $50 feet high, hanked by two large circnlar buildings, one to serve as an auditorium, the other as an art hall The tower will be surmount- ed by statute of Liberty.
 The cabinet has decided to suspend negotiations with the insurgents throuph the Philippine commission. An aggressive campaign has been or dered. The army is prepared to deal crushing blows. The military men of the service will be given full sway.