Arizona weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1885-1903, 1900-06-13
THE P|TH Of THE NEWS
Most Important Features s lie
Worlds Daily Doings Boiled
Down for Busy Men.
II is Spirsd With Brief Comments Of Men
and Their Actions, and Public Events.

Kansas wants 10000 farm hands to
help gather in the sheaves.
The postoffice at La Junta, Colorado,
was burglarized last Friday night
Down in Atlanta, Georgia, the whites
refuse to sit with the blacks on the /
street cars.
The restoration of the Bloody Tower |
in the Tower of London is now COM
pleted.
Munster, Germany, has high school
which has been in existence 100
years.
Street railways at Havana are to
change the motive power from horses
to electricity.
In the ME months ending March 1,
1900, 39,625 horses were exported, at
an average price of $120.
According to the School Review, only
41.51 per cent of the pupils in Ameri-
can high schools are boys.
Shears in steel mill in Coatsville,
Pennsylvania, cut n slab of iron four
feet wide and two feet thick at one
stroke.
The NOrdeutscher Lloyd company
has recently ordered a steamer. which,
it is claimed will be the largest yes
sci atioat. 1t will be 106 feet in
| length.
The total number of compound loco
motives built in the locomotive works
of America is 1896 up to date. OF
this number 1929 We're constructed at
the Baldwin works.
4 xx-aSf M
that recently arrived at Oodnadata re-
/ ported that there had not been Il drop
of rain for two years in the region
traversed.
| H. L. Barck. overseer of the poor in
HOboken, \. j., is very warm in his
advocacy of a whipping-post TO punish
inhuman fathers who desert their
children.
Drafts of some of Tennsyon's early
poems. as we'll as much correspondence
between Arthur Hallam and the late
poet laureate, are said to have been
discovered at Sheffield.
The orange expert estimates Flori-
da'S orange crop for the season 1900
1901 at 100000 boxes. The average
price for the coming season is approx
mated at 81 per box on the trees.
The Chinese government is inform
ed that it will be held responsible for
the security of French citizens, but
if necessary France will protect them.
The board of health of San Fran
cisco reports no new development in
the plague situation this morning. 1t
is understood that the quarantine
lines will be drawn tighter.
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel c. Lemly
has assumed the duties of judge advo-
cate general of the navy Mr. Lemly
halls from North Carolina and his new
position is good for four years.
I 1t is announced that Russia has re-
solved if the dangerous situation in
/ China continues, to take immediate
energetic military action TO represS the
anti-foreign movement.
] Thomas Muncey, aged 90 years. died
the other day at his home IN Little
I Greek, Delaware. He never saw
railroad train, never used tobacco. and
never drank liquor. Little Greek is
not on Il railway line
Simon Adams, a negro. was lynched
just outside the city limits of Column
bus, Georgia He entered the room of
the two daughters of E. H Almond,
but their father heard their screams
and captured him.
/ One feature in an opinion held by
many financiers is that if the present
disturbance portendS the opening of
China up. it also portends an inestima-
BILE increase in the circulation of sill
yer. with an accompanying tendency
to put that metal on Il parity with gold.
Out of 100000 pieces of register
ed mail handled annually in the Unit
ed States. the loss has been One-thOu-
Sandth of 1 per cent and in the trans
mission of ordinary letters the loss is
but Seven-thouSandths of 1 per cent.
| The Boston Transcript says that the
trees which suffered most from the
ravages of caterpillars last summer
We're the first TO bud this year, and
| that their foliage is much thicker
than that of the trees which were not
stripped of their leaves when others
suffered.
| George W. Dart. who raised the stars
and stripes over the Confederate capt.
tai ut Columbia, South Carolina, at
the end of Sherman'S march TO the
sea. has just entered he Soldiers
Home of Iowa. at Marshalltown. His
home was at Utica. New York.
DR. John W. Hamilton. recently chos-
en- a bishop of the Methodist Episco-
pal church. is a vigorous advocate of
temperance and an upholder of the
rights of women. He is described by
the Boston Globe as "a rather rare
combination of devOut minister of the
gospel and acute man of business.
James Fitzharris. alias "Skin the
/ n AT11Il ri n
InvincibleS. who reached New York
on the Lucania, were not allowed to-
land by the immigration commission
erS. They We're only recently pardon
ed from life Imprisonment for partici-
patton in the PheniX park murders, in
Dublin.
The San Francisco health office re-
ports nothing new in the plague stu
alton The last suspicious case report
ed was that of a Chinaman who died
ON Saturday last Doctors have been
making a meteorological examination of
the glands taken from the body. but
at the end of a week are unable to
say that he died of the plague.
That plague of the middle ages, the
black DEATH has taken root in Sydney,
Australia Sanitary conditions in that
city are said to be very bad, scarcely
one house in ten connecting with the
sewerage system. The visitation of
the pest. however. which is simply
natures penalty on filth, has aroused
the authorities TO action, and soon
Sydney will be one of the cleanest
cities in the world.
The citizens of Hiawatha. Kansas,
are divided into two hostile camps
over Il curious question. Some time
ago wealthy woman died and was
buried. When her will was opened
it was discovered that she had left
$500 for the improvement of the
cemetery in which she should be bur
led. The managers of the graveyard
in which she wasn't buried are trying
To have the body moved and the peo-
pie have taken sides.
The mud volcanoes situated in the
vicinity of Laytonvil1e, California.
I,o,-o l,,,re+ into oil activity Tho