Arizona silver belt., 1900-01-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. NJ. ]. Patters,n, the only chil of eX-President Andrew JohnSnn, is critically i'll at her home at Gre, nville, Tenn, and not expected to live. She is over 80 years of ag..
 Fort Bayard, x. M., has been dis continued as d garrison post, ani the buildings will be turned over to the surgeon general of the army for ls,, m connection with the general lo>pilal to be esiablisht d there as a sanitatlum for the treatment of officers and ,h- listed men of the army suffering frum pulmonary troubles.
 The justice's court at Fort Thomas is conducted entirely by one mar. Justice of the Peace Louis Re e,shaw acts in the dual capacity of ,olrt and sheriff, and when the officer makes m arrest he is taken before Jus uce Reashaw, tried, convicted. and If wltn out funds with which to liquidate. is turned over to Deputy sheriff k.a shaw. The judge and the arr,stirg off ,er work in harmony, dividing the fses pro rata.
 Vice-Cnusul Murphy, at Bremen, r,- ports to the war department, at Wash ington, that vigorous eff, rtS are being made by the authorities and people of that city and community toarrest the progress nf tle plague. One of the meas tres adopted, upon the recon.- mendation of the medical department, is the eXtermination of rats To en- courage the people to employ ,very means to this end, a premium of II cents will be paid for every rat drliy- cred at the port of Bremen, caught in that city or in the surrounding country dIstr.ctS.
 A Baltimore dispatch says the post mortem examination of the b dy of Charles F. Seeberger, the electrician who was shot last Saturday night at Brunswick, Md, by Conductor Jerome Swartley, and died Tuesday, revealed the fact that Seeberger lived sixty hours with a bullet hole through the center of his heart. The wound in the beart the doctors say, was of such a nature that instantaneous death should have resulted, and that the man lived sixty hours after receiving 1t is regarded little short of miracu- lOuS.
 A Stockholm cablegram says that King Oscar, in the speech from the throne at the opening of the riksdag, referred to his love of peace, but de- clared that even if satisfactory reSo lution had been reached at.The Hagne no country could be abSolved from the duty of taking defense measures, nor will the exlstance of an arbitration tribunal release any country from the obligation imposed by the maintt- nance of neutrality. The budget piO- vides for the appointment of miii- tary attache in Berlin.
 A large number of claims for per- sions are being received by the pension office as result of the Spanish war. Statistics prepared by the bureau show that the percentage of applica- tions from volunteers is much larger than from the regulars. The battle of | San Juan was selected as basis for calculations, as the greatest number of casualties occurred there. There were l92 regulars killed, l097 wounded and 55 missing. At that battle 34 volunteers were killed, TIT wounded and 75 missing. Tie claims for pen siOns from volunteers number Soos. There were 23 regiments of regulars and three regular batteries engaged Tn the fight, as against nine regiments of volunteers. One regiment lost none in killed, wounded or missing, but has 4l9 claims for pensions pending.
 January, 1897, John Coffheld and partner located a quartz prospect near the railroad, six miles from Del RIO. The partner finally dropped out, ana Coffheld, for lack of means, had 10 QQlU. lie OuBTcu t Si'c oiN S
 one party, but finally got another partner, who also dropped out. Con- held had faith in the prospect, now ever, and with only his faithful dog as his companion, he continued to "ork on that prospect. Every morning the dog would rush into the mouth of 'ne tunnel and commence to bark. ana this gave the miner courage to con tnue to work, and his perseverance has been rewarded, for on the 29th oI last December he struck ledge ol gold bearing ore, the dimensions oi which he has not ascertained, as ms 6x5 foot shaft is all in ore. He came to town yesterday with lot or the rock, which shows well in free gold. He will return prepared for deeper snking. g.-Prescott Courier.