Arizona silver belt., 1900-09-06
GENERAL NEWS.
Brief Mention of Events of Interest Throughout the Known
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ing the Kern county, Cal. field. It is building storage tank to hold l40, ,0OO barrels and is spending Sl,ooO,oO0 in the scheme.
 It is agreed that General Chaffee will be appointed brigadier general on the retirement of Gen. Joe Wheeler, promotion which he has earned by his service in China.
 General Otis has been selected to fill the post of commanding officer of the department of the lakes, to become va cant this week by the retirement of General Wheeler.
 Small wonder that Assassin Brescl has been trying to commit suicide. Death, self inflicted or otherwise, is a boon compared with the lingering tor ture that is in store for him.
 The refusal of Congressman White of North Carolina, to stand for re- election under the new election law of his state is likely to leave the next congress without colored member, and at the same time to deprive it of a black man who is White.
 The oyster crop this year will be one of the biggest in the history of trade in the bivalve. Special care has been taken at the oyster beds to pre- vent the destruction of young oysters, and those of more mature growth have been we'll fed, and the warm weather has helped them to attain an unusual size.
 Grover Cleveland has declined to discuss the political situation or to advise democrats how to vote in the fall election. He says it is time when a mans own conscience is his best safeguard and that he, Cleveland, does not care to assume the responsibility requested of him.
 Forty-four cotton mills, at Fall River, Mass, operated by twenty-four corporations, shut down Aug 3l, until September 10. These mills employ 16,500 hands About three-quarterS of the corporations will have completed the month s curtailment on that date, in accordance with a general agree ment
 The million dollars left by Collis F. Huntington in hIs will to his adopted daughter, Princess Hatzfeldt, does not by any means represent the dowry which he gave her on her marriage. This million is an extra" though no doubt the prince, whose tastes are for games of chance, is disappointed at his wife being cut off with what to him IS the proverbial shilling.
 William J. Bryan will lead the fight of the democrats himself in the cen tral and eastern states. He will take command this week in Chicago and then will begin an invasion of repub- llcan territory, for he has decided to stump, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wis consin, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, Maryland and | West Virginia.
 Herr Yon Brandt, former minister of Germany to China, says: It is an | error to assume that the Chinese | trouble is at an end with the relief of | the foreign legations. As matter of | fact, it has but just begun, because now the divergent interests of the | powers are asserting themselves. No . doubt, the United States would con- clude peace immediately and act as mediator if, unfortunately. Chinese duplicity were not so apparent,
 The steamer Deutschland of the Hamburg American line, again eclipsed all previous records for fast trans Atlantic travelling It has broken the eastern and western records. Her time on the voyage just ended is five minutes between the mole entrance of CherbOurg harbor and Sandy Hook lightship. At noon the 3lst she passed the record of the fastest days run, making 5S4 knots. Ths average speed was 23.02 knots an hour.
 1t is just as well to be truthful about the rank of the United States at the Paris exposition, as indicated by the awards of prizes. Commissioner Gen eral Peck's statement that the United States, after France, secures the greatest honors at the exposition is not correct. The latest figures show that, barring France, it is Germany that is far and away ahead of all other nations. The United States comes second, Great Britain with the British colonies, third. Germany has secured 251 grand prizes, the United States 21s, and Great Britain l79. As among these three great competing cOun tries, Germany triumphs in 5l of the 121 classes comprised in the exposition. The United States wins in 3l classes, and Great Britain in 30 classes In other words, the verdict of the inter national grand jures is that the value of the United States exhibit at the