Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-07-04
THE PITH OF THE NEWS
Most Important Features of the Worlds Daily DOings Boiled
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lt is Spicsd With Brief Comments of Men and Their Actions, and Public Events.

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 II is estimated that the total wheat yield of Oklahoma will be 30.OOO.OC bushels this year.
 Last year Kansas exported 3,100,000 dozen eggs, as compared with 1J1.- OOO dozen in 1895.
 In Berlin an association of eminent physicians has been formed for the special study of cancer.
 Mexico is now the only country in the world of any commercial stand ing which remains on silver basis.
 Funeral services over Mrs. John Haskell, of Abilene, Kansas. were held in the orchard in which she play ed with her children. It was her re- quest
 Lady Randolph Churchill has an nOunced that she will marry Lieuten- ant George COrnwalliS West. of the Scots Guards, in July
 Clarence Mayer. extradited from Naw York to Cuba on charge of raising checks. was sentenced to eight years Imprisonment in Havana.
 Two thousand persons arrived at Cape Nome on June II. It is estimat- ed that there are 30.0O0 people there now.
 A large Rumber of students from the Southwestern Kansas college, boys and girls, have gone into the Kansas wheat fields as harvesterS.
 The armament of the Taku forts consisted of very heavy Krupp guns. and the approaches to the forts from the Gulf of Perchili were extremely difficult
 A New OYrk man has turned out his 121th patented invention. consisting of a finger ring that cuts twine and erases marks on a package.
 The British consul at Chee Foo wires the foreign office that a messen- ger from Pekin to Tao Tai, collector of customs at Tien Tsin. says the for eign legations are still at Pekin.
 The Japanese press urges active measures against China, with or with out The consent of the powers, and Japanese naval and military officers are busy with preparations.
 General McArthur cables the war department that Second Lieutenant Paul Draper. of the Twenty-SerOnd infantry. was drowned while working on q ferry near Manila. The body sraS not recovered.
 In the house of commons the par liamentary secretary of tbe foreign office announced that the British los ses with Nice-Admiral Seymour's forces which returned to Tien Tsin were twenty-siX killed ana ninety eight wOundsd-
 The transport Burnside. which Jeff New York for San Juan de Porte Rico. carried $1.OOO.OOO in American gold. silver and paper money. which j. to be put into circulation in Porto Rico as rapidly as il can be cXchang- ed for old Spanish money
 Thomas Flannelly was hanged in San Quentin on Friday. for the mur- der of his father. Patrick Flannelly. and Sheriff w. P. McEyoy. of San Ma leo county. at Redwood City. October 26 1S9I. He made no statement from the gallows.
 ! story has been printed in London To the effect that in January four Ori- ental maidens arrived at York house and announced themselves as q present To tine Duke of York from an eastern pOtentate. They were dismissed Automatically.
 Benjamin Hill Shell. 1years ol,i. formerly q clerk in the pension office at Washington. was hanged Friday for the murder of 13-year-old Lizzie WeiSenberger who was employed in his home and with whom he was in fatuated. Shell weighed 2B7 pounds. and the rope nearly Severd his head from his body.
 Queen NicIOria's eyes are getting worse instead Of better. The blue glasses she has lately worn have lost their efficacy. and. contrary to her custom. she can no longer write even her most private letters. Another famous specialist has been consulted. but has given small encouragement.
 Belgium has been visited by huge SwarmS of large winged insects. vari- ously described as dragon files and lOcusts. In Brussels people in the streets had to cover their faces. and many fled indoors at the sight of the invading swarmS. In several squares ih9 story goes. there was a workable light for pOsseSiSOn between the in- Srcis and the human inhabitants.
 As to inc report from ConstantinopIe that the United States charge. Mir GriscOm. has presented another de napd for the settlement of the claims ii can be stated on high authority from Washington that this government is steadily pressing for q definite and final settlement. and is losing no 0p- pnPtunity to remind tine Turkish au- ihOritieS Of the unsatisfactory aud in definite nature of the present silUa- lion.
 The French minister of foreign af- fairs informs the French cabineT couD- cil that Viceroy Yum Nan autographed that FrancSiS. the French consul. and h;s party. who left Yum Nan Sen june 24. reached Tong IIai. half way io Tinquiu. on June 21. safely. fine viceroy. il Was further announced. i=tuScd tine ring leaders Of the mob svhich attacked the FrenroiS party on June {. 10 be beheaded.
 Clarence J. Berry's mastif. Julian the most widely-known dog in the far away gold fields of Alaska. k dead Exposure to the rigorS of the north ,.ru ,iiinaie put an end io tine career nf a dog which had travelled hundreds 0f miles over the pathleSS ice. and had hauled thousands of pounds of freight AIr. Berry first put him to work on sled in 1895. when the dog hauled pro- visions for the season over tine Chii- kOot pass.
 The San Francisco Chronicle Says that thc santa Fe and SOuthcra Pa ,iiic railroad cOmpanIcS have perfect fd a traffic deal designed Ia control the passenger business of California with in the territory of ffa two companies. The main features ara thc inter change of tickets To San Joaquin val ley points on Santa Fr passenger trains to Los Angeles. There will be nO rate cutting.
 The authorities of sydney. New South Wales. have been conducting vigorous fight against the plague with rncuordging results. The starting point of the disease in Sydney was in fhe waterside premises in Darling harbOr. where nearly all imported pro ducp iS unlOaded. and where rats .u.s