Arizona weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1885-1903, 1900-05-09
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Nest Important Features Of the
Worlds Daily DOings Boiled
Down for Busy Men.
1t is SplCed With Brief Comments Of Men
and Their Actions, and Public Events.

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and Their Actions, and Public Events.
The senate has passed the Alaskan
code bill.
President Dole has been selected for
governor of Hawaii.
Roberts has requested Mafeking to
hold out another month.
British subjects have been given
sixty days to leave the Transvaal
Three thousand employees of the New
York Central railroad threaten to
strike.
The Santa Fe road opened its new
road for freight to San Francisco on
May l.
Coal mines at Bristol. Tennessee.
are on fire, endangering lives of men
at work in them.
Mrs. Nevin. of Chicago was drugged
and then robbed of $4,000 worth of
diamonds and gold by her 17-year-old
son.
1t may be merely a coincidence. but
Nebraska has had Il disastrous wind
storm, at about the same time that
Bryan returned to his native heath.
An Oakland expressman who was
taken to a hospital for treatment of
the ear was found to have a grain of
oats sprouting in his head
Chicago's Dewey day was a great
success. The admiral was given a
great ovation. The ball in his honor
at the auditorium was attended by
1000 people
An engine and seven empty cars of
the Santa Fe road were thrown into
the bay from the new Santa Fe wharf
tat Point Richmond. May 1, by the
breaking of an apron. No one was
killed.
The joint resolution which continues
the present administration officials of
Porto Rico in office until appoint
ments can be made under the civil
government law. has been signed by
the president
The New York Times says that Sec
retary of War Roots address at the
Grant dinner Friday night, in which
he limited at the possibility of a war
TO maintain the Monroe doctrine. was
called forth by the intrigue concerning
the Danish West Indies.
The south bound Illinois Central
limited was wrecked near Jackson. Il
linois, Tuesday. The engineer and
baggage man were killed. and several
passengers We're injured. Many of the
women became hysterlcal and tainted.
The forest fires in Wisconsin con
tinue and the plight of the people is
terrible: the country is very dry and
many lumber camps have been de-
strOyed. There are fires along the
Milwaukee and 500 railroads and seri-
Gus damage is feared.
The change whereby the Depart
ments of Havana and Pinar del Rio.
Cuba, will in the future be under the
command of General Fitzhugh Lee,
with headquarters at Quemados. went
into effect today.
The great stampede to the gold
fields Of the northwest mas fairly be-
gun and is unprecedented. Cape Nome
seems to be the principal objective
point. An early spring has made the
streams fordable thus starting the
rush earlier than usual
Miss S L. Wiedner. of Flatrock.
o., who was recently elected by the
foreign mission board of reformed
church of the United States as teacher
in the girls school at Sendai. Japan.
will sail for that point early this
month.
Caleb Powers, John Davis. Harlan
Whitaker, W. II. CultOn and ',Tallow
Dick" Combs were arraigned at Frank
fort, Kentucky. April 30, on n charge
of completely in the GOebel murder
All the defendants plead not guilty.
From the Kiowa and Comanche ag-
encies comes word that the Indians are
starving. The money due them has
not heen paid, their rations have been
cut off and the traders have refused
to credit them. Squaws are begging
for food enough to preserve life
After declaring Abraham Lincoln's
power Of literary expression to be
marvellous. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler
-says ''hc built it out of Abraham Lin
coin, the Bible, John Bunyan and
Shakespeare" and that he wrote
with the grandeur of the Psalms of
David and the Prophet Isaiah"
The Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon, who
recently edited the Topeka Capital for
one week, has sailed for England. He
will devote two months to speaking
and organizing the movement of prac-
teal Christianity in that country and
viii then return to the United States,
where he viii establish headquarters
in some eastern city and continue the
work of speaking and organizing in
every state in the union.
The jury in the Roberts polygamy
case at Salt Lake failed to agree.
Captain Won Christmas Dircknick
Holoenfield. agent of the Danish gov
ernment. states that unless CONGRESS-
acts on the West India islands mat
ter before June i. a scheme VIII be car
ried out to exchange the islands with
Germany for North Schleswig. taken
from Denmark by Germany in 1861
Major-General Otis is expected to
leave for the United States today He
will be succeeded in command of the
Division of the Philippines by General
Macarthur. General Otis return is
in response to Il cabinet request re-
ceived from him April 5, in which he
says that private interests require his
return to the states. He adds that
he believes matters can be placed in
quite satisfactory condition by that
day. although large repressive mill
tary force must be maintained for
some time.