Arizona silver belt., 1900-03-15
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts and Happenings
 of the Universe.
AsTHEY OCCUR WEEKLY.
A Condensation of Telegraph and Cable Messages, Giving Prefer red Space to the News of
 Our Own Land.

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 lion. E. ]. Phelps, ey-Nlinister to Haven, Conn, March 9.
 The Lawton fund, amounting to SOS, ,432 O., has been turned over to the wife of the deceased general.
 There is al appropriation in the army bill of S25,00O, to bring bodies of all civilian employees from Cuba.
 In the month of December 1000 men applied for enlistment in the United States army and l ,55l were accepted.
 The estimated cost of the projected memorial bridge across the Potomac at Washington is from sl,oOO, 900 to S2,000,000.
 General McCook, in feeble health and destitute circumstances, has been admitted to the Soldiers Home, near Los Angeles.
 New York's list of city employees shows 30,000 names. Tammany thus controls an army one-third as large as the American army.
 President Diaz runs well at the pri- naries. He has been named as the next candidate for president by l, ,456,- 4So votes out of total of l,j4S,654.
 Belgium has plan for the encour- 'agement of matrimony. single man 'opeS 25 wears of age is to have the right to vote but if he is a married man he can vote twice.
 1t is l40 years since Canada passed from the French to the British, and the two races in the Dominion are no nearer assimilation now than they were then.
 The socialists and social democrats, in convention at Indianapolis, amal- pamated, and nominated F.. V. Debbs for president and J. O. Hartman for vice-president.
 Eastern insurance companies are almost unanimous in reporting heavy losses on the business of 1899, yet nothing has been heard about reduc- ing the salaries of the officials.
 The total volume of money in cir culation on February l amounted to S2,0O3, 149, ,365. This represents an in- crease of over sSI, ,S0O,000 as compared with the corresponding date last year.
 The sum of s2, ,637, ,OO0 has been ex. pended in New Jersey in making 40 miles of good roads. Massachusetts has spent S2, ,631 300 on 210 miles, which are as perfect as any highway in Europe.
 The bubonic plague, like all other Asiatic plaques which have at differ ent times swept over Christendom. is a filth disease, and in it's presence cleanliness becomes more than ever a virtue next to godliness.
 The enormous expense incurred in carrying on the war in South Africa make it necessary for England to Dor row money, and the house of com mons has adopted d resolution to au thorize loan of f35 100000.
 It is proposed in Colorado to pro hibit marriage except after physical examination of the parties desiring to wed, and the granting of certificates from examining physicians attesting that they are free from diseases that can be transmitted to their offspring. The actual figures of British colonia domination include an area of 12,O00,- GOO square miles. And all this from little insular settlement of about 40,- OOO,0OO people. There is no parallel to this feat of expansion" in the world.
 Philadelphia's religious census, just taken. shows the Friends to be near the foot of the list of denominations, with a very small numerical strength as compared with Catholics, Method ists, Presbyterians, Baptists, and as many others. Still, it is the Quaker city.
 Sir Charles Tupper in an iterview in New York, stated that Great Britain and Canada have asked the United States government to consent to the settlement of the Alaskan boundary differences according to the Russian treaty of 1895, and refer the whole matter to international arbitration.
 Great BIitain's attempt to induce the United States to leave the Nica- ragua canal unfortified would have more weight if she had not recently placed new disappearing guns and doubled the guards at Esquimalt, the Gibraltar commanding the entrance to Puget Sound.
 Spain is said to be selling great numbers of cartridges to Great Britain. If the cartridges do not work any bet ter than those used by the many Span ish regiments in the recent American controversy. the Boers will have little cause for trepidation.