Arizona silver belt., 1900-08-30
GENERAL NEWS.
Brief Mention of Events or interest Throughout the Known
 World.

The Shah's hotel Dill m brusseis ID 5000 day.
 The American boy who won fame bv scaling the wall at Pekin IS Sal walton Army soldier.
 State officials and prominent citi- zens of Nevada roundly uehouhce Stewart for his flop to Mckinley
 Gov. Shaw has appointed congress man I. P. Deliver of Fort Dodge, Tinted States senator from iowa to sncceed the late John Henry Gear.
 It is re ported that Russia is about to conclude an arrangement Wleh aIi .he great insurance companies od o .no ono United States for loan oi 'oo'ooo'ooo rubles about S2l3,00o, ,OO0)'
 Siesel. Cooper X Co.,, Chicago ana New York. have decided to erect mammoth building in London, Eng land. to be used for a department store and conducted on the American pian'
 A Shanghai dispatch repeats the re, port that the Japanese troops pursued inc dowaper empress and court. ana overlook them so miles southwest or Pekin. The emperor, 1t IS addeu, threw himself on the protection Of ms captors.
 Omaha's census for 1900 shows big decrease from that of 1890, the hrst case of the kind so far reported. The population of the Nebraska metropo- lis, according to the official count of the twelfth census, is l02,5oo. In leso the figures were 40, ,452.
 A party of Americans employed Ill the construction of the Mexican Cen tral railroad near Tlajomulo, on the Pacific coast extension, recently un- earthed a big collection of prehistoric relics and an earthen jar containing Sl5.OOO in old Spanish gold. The wealth was divided among the dlscoV- erers.
 The census returns for Cleveland show that that city has passed Cincin- natl and has become the first city Of Ohio in population. It has total of 3Sl, ,76S, while Cincinnati has 32o, ,9O2. Columbus and Toledo change places, the latter becoming the third city in the state, while Columbus is relegated to fourth place.
 A London cablegram says: Because the general manager of the Tatfvale railway refuses to meet representa- tive of a labor union, not pound of coal is moving at Cardiff, and 3O, 900 coliers are idle. Welsh steam coal has already touched record prices, and the admirality only few days ago was forced to pay exorbitant prices for 250,000 tons
 A number of benevolent people, in- spired by the visit of l,500 Cuban school teachers to New York, have or ganized company and obtained cer- tificate of incorporation for perma- nent Cuban training school. The idea is to afford an opportunity for young Cuban women to come to the United States and obtain the training neccs- sary to qualify them as teachers.
 Joseph B. Noble, father of the first polygamous child born after the intro duction of that belief into the Mormon church, died recently near Salt Lake. He was more than 90 years old. Noble had six wives, who bore him 47 chil- dren. Of these B are living and 30 of them attended the funeral. There are 124 grand children and and number of great grand children.
 The census bureau is making rapid progress in the counting and tabula- ton of the returns from the 52,600 enumerators who took the population of the country. Out of the 52,600 aL but 600 of the reports are Tn. The re- turns from IS, 900 enumeration districts have been counted by cards and the population of l4, GOO of these districts have been tabulated in detail. Of the army of enumerators over 40, GOO have had their accounts paid and closed.
 At Georgetown, Ky, Aug. 22, the trial of Henry Youtsey, "Tallow Dick" Combs and Holland Whitaker, charged with the murder of William Gobel, and Capt. John w. Davis, charged with being an accessory, were continued until the October term, and by agree ment of both sides bail was fixed at s3,000 each, except for Youtsey. The latter is suffering from an attack of typhoid malaria.
 Dr. Alexander W. Evans, instructor in botany in Sheffield scientific school, Yale, has returned to his home at New Haven, Conn, after spending four weeks in Porto Rico studying moses and lichens. Dr. Evans believes that the island will be drawback to the United States and that the problem of managing the people and educating them is well nigh a hopeless task. There is now an exodus of Americans because business is found unprofitable.
 Henry Gannett, the chief geographer of the United States geological sur vey, has just completed the measure ments of the mountains of Alaska and has taken the altitude of 325 peaks within the limits of the territory. The highest is Mount Mckinley, which rises 20, 464 feet above the level of the sea and 2,440 feet above Mount St. Elias, which until now was supposed to be the highest peak in the United States, and is so given in the geog- raphies.
 Out of 75.531 exhibitors at the Paris exposition, 42, 790, more than half the total received some sort of prize. The French authorities, desirous to secure the good will of everybody ap- peased all dissatisfactions, domestic and foreign, by scattering medals and diplomas with unheard-of generosity. The most important exhibitors are now protesting, claiming that the awards have been so cheapened as to be practically worthless.
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