Arizona silver belt., 1900-06-28
GENERAL NEWS.
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts and Happenings
 of the Universe.
AS THEY OCCUR wEEKL Y.
A Condensation of Telegraph and Cable Messages, Giving Prefer red Space to the News of
 Our Own Land

Mrs. Beverid.' wife of the Indiana senator, died at Dansville, N Y, or the 18th inst.
 Mrs. William Henry Jones, from Utah, was the only woman delegate at the Philadelphia convention.
 No less than II ,O0O American tour ists, it is said, will visit Oberammer- gau, to witness the Passion play.
 Queen Victoria has completed the sixty-third year of her reign, and she is in good health and may survive many years
 ]. Sterling Morton will try to gal vanize the gold democrats into life, to aid Mckinley He will find mighty few of them left this year.
 Fire destroyed five large business houses on FIfth avenue, Pittsburg, June P. The fire started in the Eich- baum printing establishment. The loss is nearly half million.
 It is now estimated that the govern. ment surplus at the end of the fiscal year, June 90, will amount to 5,000,- 900; and yet the republicans in con- gress refused to abate the war taxes.
 Evidently that Philadelphia man who manufactured 10000 Mckinley and Roosevelt campaign buttons some time before the convention, possesses the faculty of looking ahead for busi ness.
 No wonder the horse business is good the world over. The number of horses and mules landed in South Af- rica since the beginning of the war, for military purposes, is over 10000, at a cost of 20,0O0,00
 Marcus A. Hanna was reelected chairman of the republican national committee, and Colonel Dick, tempo rary secretary. Headquarters of the national committee will be established in Chicago and New York.
 Two hundred and ninety millions of dollars for poultry, the proceeds or one year, compared with s1s6,OOO,ON for hogs for the same time, tells with emphasis the enormous magnitude of the poultry business.
 There are now nearly 1000. electric street railways in the United States and Canada, operating about 19,OOO miles of track and more than 5O,000 cars. The aggregate capital liabilities of these companies is sl ,500, 900, ,000.
 It is the judgment of ex- Minister Charles Denby, who represented this country in China from 1885 to 1898, that the Boxers will be put down, and that before long peace will prevail in China, and that partition will not be attempted just yet.
 The international allied forces to march from 1ientsin for the relief of Pekin will number l5,000 men. With the regiment already ordered from Philippines, coupled with the marines and bluejackets to be landed from the gunboats, our total landing force to join in the international brigade soon to move from TientSin will aggregate about 200 men.
 The organization of labor in the United States is growing very rapidly. With a membership of 1,00l, 1000 on January 1, 1900, the American Feeder. ation of Labor has since enrolled 304,- 900 more members. besides issuing l,500 local charters this year. The past three years have been those of greatest success for the consolidation of labor interests.
 The signs continue to multiply that the colored brother is hereafter going to be somewhat less an object of es- pecial solicitude on the part of the Re publican party than he has been hith- 6 to. There was less of him from the south at Philadelphia than there has b .en at any of the national conven- ti since the war, and he wasn't very cordially welcomed there, either
 Senator Platt is highly pleased at having got rid of Teddy" in New York politics. He is quoted as saying: Ut is very good ticket, Roosevelt will make very good run. l have grtye doubts whether We could carry New York if he ran for governor, but there is no doubt that he will carry the state as a candidate for vice presi- dent. lie certainly makes better candidate for vice president than as a governor"
 The thrifty Philadeiphians are al ready figuring up the profit derived from the republican convention It is estimated that 250,OOO visitors were present. On the conservative assump. ton that they shelled out only s2 a day for rooms, that would make s2, 100000 for the four days. Then they figure that as much more was invested in meals and half as much in drinks Here we have a total of S5, 1000. 900,