Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-04-19

Secretary Algsr has just made his regular monthly denial of the per ennial rumors of his enteniion to re- sign.
 Vice President Hobart is said to be seriously i'll at Washington. Probably he got whiff of the fumes from the beef enquiry.
 Charlotte WIlhelmina Gertrude Bishop, otherwise Mme Pianka, the lion-tamer, has just secured a d. vorce from her husband at Kansas City. She could manage lions all right but not her husband.
 Were Thomas Jefferson living it would be interesting to know whether he would have eaten with the the S0-cent democrats or boozed with the $l0 fellows last Thursday night. h our opinion, he would have remained at Moticello, and partaken of Mrs. Jefferson's home cooking rather than train with either crowd.-L. A. Times.
 There were five or six different Jefersonian banquets in New York April l3. The price per plate of tie various feeds varied from Sl to Sl0 per plate. The themes discussed by the banqueters included free silver, single standard, expansion, anti-ex- pansion, free trade, protection, the Jefersonians being divided on all of these subjects.
 Los Angeles is preparing to give Brigsdier General Harrison Cry Otis a rousing reception on his re turn from Manila. GeDeral Otis made a record ot which Los Angeles, the state of California and tfe country generally should feel pride and general reception to hun on his return is certainly be6tting performance.
 After all if turnes out that Col. Bryan acted wisely in declining the invitation to that $l0 New York banquet. What was intended as a political banquet was transferred into disgraceful, drunken debauch. Walters were assaulted. tue tables were stripped of their decorations as well as of costly dishes and orna- ments and pandemouium reigned generally, according to the tele- graphic reports. It is the natural outgrowth though of the way demo cratic politics are managed in New York.
 The bravery of the Filipinos has been demonstrated on more than one occasion. During the advance of Lawt on, 6 native hid himself in stone building which General Law ton and staff had to pass. As the group of officers reached a spot op- posite to the building he opened fire on them but owing to his poor craftsmanship he did not hit any one. He was driven out of the building, but instead of surrendering continued to fight single handed and this after being shot three times. He was clubbed into in- sensibility with gun before giving up.
 The embalmed beef inquiry is progressing in its deliberations. If the commission does net soon end the remains of several dead soldiers will be e1humed, most likely to give color to that recently testified to by Rudolph K. Spicer, a funeral di- rector and embalmer of Harrisburg, Pa. He was a member of the Fourth Pennsylvania regiment and served in Porto Rico. He paid special at tention to the meat issued. The cooks found it necessary to cut of two or three inches of the refriger- ator beef because of a greenisb dis "I also noticed crystal line scales on this meat" he said "It was generally in the ioInts and it occurred to me that some article like soda or boracic acid had been used on the meat, such as we en- baImers use on human bodies when they begin to crack"