Arizona silver belt., 1900-08-09
GENERAL NEWS.
Brief Mention of Events of Interest Throughout the Known
 World.

under way will cost s92 ,O0O,0 600.
 1t is expected that a large portion
 of England's war loan of f10, ,000, 00
 will be subscribed in this country.
 Roger Wolcott, ex-governor of Mas
 sachuSettS, has accepted the president:
 tender of the post of ambassador tc
 Italy, vice w. r. Draper, resigned
 Steps have been taken by the state
 of New Jersey to investigate the ale
 gationS that the assassination Of King
 Humbert was plotted in that state.
 The president has appointed AS men
 from the ranks in the regular army as second lieutenants, and assigned them to various arms of the service.
 Gaetano Bresei, the assassin of King Humbert, will probably be tried for treason and shot, as the extreme pen atty for murder in Italy is life impris- onment.
 In round numbers this census will show about 22, 900, 600 potential voters in the United States, Those in charge of the statistics believe that fully so per cent are native born.
 The population of the city of Mil waukee, according to the official count of the returns of the twelfth census, is 275,3l5. In 1890 it was 204, ,l6S, an in- crease of 39,54 per cent.
 The trial of Alexander Jester for the murder of Gilbert Gates, nearly thirty years ago, came to an end at New London, Mo-, Aug. l. On the sixth ballot the jury agreed to acquit.
 Four cases of bubonic plague and two deaths from plague at London, England, are reported. Quarantine regulations will be strictly enforced at all Atlantic ports in the United States.
 Cincinnatians are much disappointed by the figures representing the popu- lation of their city as compiled from the census returns, which are given out as 325, ,902, an increase of less than 10 per cent since 1890.
 Lieutenant Bresci, brother of King Humbert's assassin, has informed the colonel of his regiment of his inten- tion to leave the army and change his name. He will be provided with an appointment in the civil administra- tion.
 In compliance with a recent law the authorities of New York city have published the municipal pay roll. The amount paid out on account of salaries indicates a total expenditure for the year of about s40,0OO,O O0O. This expenditure is for the combined city and county service.
 Articles of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of state of Min nesota by the Great Northern Steam ship company with a capital stock of S6,00O,0O0. The purpose of the com pany is to build and operate a line of big steamers between Pacific coast ports and the Orient.
 The most dersely settled area in the United States will be shown to be in- cluded in the two square degrees be- tween latitude 40 and II and longitude 73 and 75, comprising New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, HobOken, Will liamsbnrg and Long Island City, with a total population of about 100000,
 At Paris on the morning of Aug. ?, an anarchist who gave his name as Salson, attempted to shoot the Shah of Persia as the latter was leaving his apartment in carriage. As SalsOn was about to mount the carriage step he was siezed and disarmed. It is also rumored from Belgrade that an at tempt was made to assassinate King Alexander of Servia as he was driving through the town, on the 1st inst.
 The net democratic majority in the North Carolina election was J9,5j3 The legislature will be overwhelm- ingly democratic in both branches, thus insuring the election of a demo- Crat Uo succeed United States Senator Marion Butler pOpulist. The consti- tutional amendment diSfranchlsing the illiterate negro vote was adopted It is calculated that by Its provisions T GOO negroes will be disfranchised.
 Gov. Beckham of Kentucky, has is- sued a call for an extra session of the l legislature to meet Aug. 2l. The call | embraces an amendment to the | GOebel election law, an amendment l to the schoolbook law, and pro- vision to cover a deficit in the state l treasury. Members of the legislature | have drawn up bill providing for an equal number of election officers to be | given each party.
 The government has arranged to | provide the American soldiers in the | field in China with regular postal i service similar to that in operation | during the Spanish war. Malls for the troops in the Chinese service, as | well as from there, will be promptly | forwarded, and the American soldiers | win also have the benefit of the | domestic postage rate of two cents m | ounce instead of five cents half ! ounce.
 The republican Detroit Free Press | pays the following tribute to Mayor | Naybury, who has been nominated | for governor by the democrats: His honor is a clean man in these days of | political degeneracy. He has never been in the market to buy or to sell. | He may lack persistency, but he has honesty and intelligent motives Few men enjoy like popularity in the city where he was born and no man has held the same offices without alien atiug greater numbers in the com munity. That he has much the same hold in the state must be inferred from the fact that his nomination was prac- |. ,l,,.