Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-30
II is Spirsd With Brief Comments Of Men
and Their Actions, and Public Events.

the Dack OF catfish.
Because nOn-union man was EN-
plOyed 500 employees of the Hamilton
prints works struck at Lowell, Mass.
An attempt to raise the price of milk
in New York city is being made by the
Five States Milk Producers assOcia-
ton.
The Turkish government has issued
an trade. prohibiting the Importation of
all apparatus connected with electric
ity.
Whisk brooms have been placed in
all cars of the South Chicago street
railway company for the use of dusty
passengers.
The Berlin Vossische Zeitung calls
the tariff policy of the United States
affecting Porto Rico 'brutally unfair
toward Europe
The Argentine government has sent
fifty young men from the different
provinces to be educated in the agri-
cultural schools of the United States.
a second volume of the report of the
first Philippine commission gives pro-
clamation of Aguinaldo asking the Fill
ipinos for Christmas present.
Litigation among the heirs of the late
Adolph Sutro, of San Francisco. is like
ly to result in the scattering of his Ii
brary of 100000 volumes, one of the
finest on the Pacific coast
The weather office records in Chicago
show that the 25th of April has been
clear in that city for % years past. not
drop of rain having fallen there on
that day since 1919.
The call of Secretary Gage for the
old > per cent bonds to the amount of
$25.00O0O0 is printed by the democratic
papers in such small type that few of
their readers will be likely to hear it.
Representative Shafroth, of Colorado
is looking after the preservation of a
large number of monuments and cliff
dwellings which are the work of pre-
historic man. in Utah. Colorado. Ari
IONA and New Mexico.
The attention of heavyweights Cleve-
land, Hill, Bryan. German and Dewey
is invited to the def of James ]. Cor
bett, who declares that he is as good
democrat as ever lived, and is prepared
to defend his title against all Corners.
SOusa and his band have made hit
in Paris and the leader is receiving
many compliments, one from Wen
nese visitor being: You have not a
band under your direction: Rather it is
a living organ.
Comptroller Coler has caused sen
sation in New York city by refusing TO
accept the sureties of the Croker
Freedman bonding company, basing his
action ON the fact that the company
has refused to make good the bond of
a defaulting contractor.
\ London dispatch states that the
United Kingdom is plastered over with
trusts" and now monopolists are after
the tobacco supply. 1t is in order TO
ask if free trade is the parent of the
English trusts.
General Macarthur. who has sue
ceeded General Otis in supreme com
mand in the Philippines, is eight years
younger than his predecessor, and is
one of the best tacticians in the army.
besides being popular among officers
and men.
Little WI, the 12-year old son of the
Chinese ambassador, WI Ting Fang.
attends fashionable school in Wash
ington, is always at the head of his
class. wherein he is the youngest pupil.
and last month he had mark of 100
in every branch.
There are 100 employees in the postal
service of Cuba, of whom only 1O4 are
Americans, and these are chiefly in the
department headquarters and the Ha-
vana post office. There ae 2T3 post
offices on the island. of which 251 are
in charge of Cubans.
Charles s Wilbur, superintendent of
the census for New York. refuses TO
make the names of the numerators
public because they are always in de
mand by advertisers who want TO use
them to solicit and push various
schemes while they are doing their
census work.
A rumOr prevailed in London May p
that the Mafeking relief force marched
TO Johannesburg surprised the Beers
and captured the town. The belief in
the report was sufficient to cause
sharp squirt in Kaffir stocks
An embassy has left Abyssinia on
its way to Paris. King Menelek, who
was expected to accompany the dele
CATION, was not able to leave his coun-
try, owing to internal disturbances.
George Washington ran third in a re-
cent voting contest gotten up by a
Brooklyn newspaper to see what names
the people wanted enrolled in the
Hall of Fame. Washington and his
old time notions seem TO be dropping
out of public favor
Waddie Edgar, 20 years old, was shot
in the head and instantly killed at
Given, Iowa, Sunday night, in a riot
resulting from ball game. A constable
attempted to arrested Edgar at the
depot, where a mob was fighting. The
mob turned on the constable, and the
bullet that killed Edgar was intended
for the constable
The Emperor Fancis Joseph, who /
this year celebrates his SEVENTEEN 1
birthday. has recently suffered consid-
cradle from rheumatism. When adj
vised by high court official to take
the baths at Gastein he answered.: Il
have too much work to do now to think
of going to a watering place. 1 shall
begin to think of that when I grow
Old
According to Free State advices Brit
iSh on Thursday were AT Grevlino,S