Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-12
News, Notes and Comments.


 The list of victims of the Thanks giving day disaster in San Francisco now numbers twenty-two.
 The president has nominated Dan iel McMillan, of New York, to be as sociate justice of the supreme court of New Mexico.
 With cheers and bravos the Hol- land chamber of deputies adopted resolutions welcoming President Kru- ger to Holland and extending him cordial sympathy.
 Lord Roberts has sailed for Cape Town en route home. Before leaving he made a speech in which he adjured his hearers to extend the hand of fel- lowship to former enemies. Miss Roberts accompanies her father.
 Australia is the one civilized coun- try in the world which never puts a woman in prison. Instead of giving a female criminal so many months in goal, she is sent, no matter how terri ble her record, to one or the other of the convents devoted for that purpose and kept there during the time for which she is sentenced.
 At the meeting of the British par liament the Queens speech was read, declaring that it had become neces- sary to make further provision for the expense incurred by the operation of Britiah armies in South Africa and China concluding. You will not en- ter into any public matters until the ordinary meeting in the spring.
 John Gibson, who murdered his two-year-old step daughter by thurst- ing a red hot poker down her throat, has been captured and safely incar- cearted in Marysville, Kentucky jail. Gibson declares others are implicated in the crime, which he says was for the purpose of securing insurance on the child's life.
 The agreement reached by the min isters in Pekin must not be under stood as being in the nature of a treaty. It is simply a statement of terms on which the powers will nego- tiate with China for final settlement, when signed by representatives of all the powers it will be laid before the Chinese officials as matter of form for theirs. No doubt they will be obliged to accept its provisions, when way will be cleared for final negotiations on the basis proposed in the agree ment.
 Emperor William has sent to the reichstag, charts, maps and statistics showing the growth of the Russian, British, French and the United States navies, and also their strength in far eastern waters. In view of this the members of the reichs;ag fear that an other bill to increase the strength of the German navy Is coming.
 The Sampson-S -Schley controversy is likely to be renewed this winter. In his annual report the secretary of the navy recommends that the rank of vice admiral be revived, as consonant with the dignity of a greatly increased navy. It is thought that Secretary Long desires to see Admiral Sampson elevated to the proposed rank. In the naval list Schley is two points higher than Sampson.
 John White and John Draulinger, farmers near Evansville, Indiana, met on Wednesday on horse back and fought a duel. Several shots were fired by the men and on ball took eff feet in Draulinger's mouth, and lodged in the back of his neck. He fell from his horse and was picked up by passelsby and removed to his home, where the attending physicians say he will die. White made his escape The men are neighbors and a grudge has existed between them for a long time.
 Fourteen years ago August Red ding was murdered in his store in To ledo, Ohio, by a burglar, and since that time the affair has been shrouded in mystery. Two years ago, Grant a Toledo policeman, was sent to the penitentiary to serve seven years for criminally assaulting a little school girl. An application is now pending for his pardon. The widow of his brother, John Hardinger, now comes forward with a statement that Grant Hardinger was the man who killed Bedding. She claims her hus band gave her the information. The divorced wife of Grant Hardinger, who has since married, says she doesn't believe her former husband is guilty of the murder.
 4 Manila telegram says: Sunday in Vigan was a great day for the Ameri- gan cause. Twenty-two hundred na- tives of the region, nearly all fighting rebels, crowded the church and took the oath of allegiance to the United States. The oath was administered by the priest. All but POO of those sworn were bolomen who had previ- | Duslv surrendered. The proceedings in the church occupied the entire day, md included an address by General Young and aL eXhortation by the priest. Scarcely any rebels remain in he vicinity nf Santa Maria. General Young attributes this to three reelection of President the arrival of a stronger body of troops, the especially rigid | of war measures, and the | deportation of prisoners to Manila. He reports that it is necessary to oc- ,upy all the barracks in order to pro ect the natives from the vengeance of | ragalo raiders.
 The United States transport Kin uck is preparing to take an enormous general cargo, including live stock, rom Puget Sound for the use of the rmy in the Philippine Islands. She will carry S20 head of horses and mules, 1900 tons dead weight of grain nd hay, fifty army wagons and of general army stores.