Arizona weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1885-1903, 1900-05-09
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.

st. Louis gave Dewey a big ovation
Admiral Dewey and wife are visiting
St Louis.
The army reorganization bill has
passed the senate without division.
The New York Central railroad com
pany's strike has ended.
Southern California was treated to
abou an inch of rainfall last Friday
and Saturday.
Cotton exports for April We're nearly
100000 heavier than for the same
month last year.
The British steamer Montpelier went
ashore on Duck island, New Found
land. The crew was saved.
John d. Rockefeller's income from
Standard Oil stocks since January >
of the present year has been $4,000,
900.
1he Dewey boom collapsed so fat
that the New York Herald mas ;hand-
oned it and has come out fiat for Nc
hlnley.
The president has vetoed the bill au-
thorizing the adjustment of the rights
of settlers on the Navajo Indian reser-
walton.
\ dispatch from BlOemfontein shows
that Roberts has thrown forward his
lines so that the Beers must now fight
fact to face.
The sundry civil bill as passed by the
lower house of congress carries SOL
100000 or about $10,000,000 more than
any previous bill of the kind.
Aosinthe and vermouth are said to
be filling the French lunatic asylums
with victims and their use in the
French army has been prohibited.
a Copenhagen dispatch says that
the project of selling the Danish West
Indies to the United States has been
abandoned, owing to opposition in
court circles.
1t has been settled that the heavy
weight contest between Jeffries and
Corbett Will he pulled off before the
Seaside Sporting club. at Coney Is
land, on Friday night
Texas democrats are largely in favor
of expansion and they are after
Congressman Bailey's scalp Bailey's
personal popularity may pull him
through in spite of his adverse views.
y call has been issued for a conven-
| ton May II, in Honolulu. to organize
the republican party of the Territory
o. Hawaii. The convention viii also
elect delegates to the national conven-
ton at Philadelphia,
Hundreds of men have been shipped
to Great Falls. Montana. to take the
places of striking train men on the
Montreal Central. 1t is expected that
trouble will occur when the attempt
is made to put lie new men to work
Cholera has broken out among the
ADMINISTRATION sufferers in, India, adj
ding a new horror to the situation.
The infected districts embrace n cOun,
try in which there are over $4,000. 900
people.
The &c stone house at Tappan. New
York, where Major Andre was con-
demned for treason and imprisoned
until his execution in the revolution is
said to be turned into 4 soap factory.
1t has lately been used as Il hotel
Wong Cow, a heap big Chinaman
of New Orleans, is dead and the date
OF his burial is set for Tuesday. Nav
o. DeieSdtIU OF celeSJtlIS are eN-
pected from st. Louis, New YORK,
Washington, San Francisco. Chicago
and other large cities. Cow was by
long odds the richest Chinaman in the
south
Frank Rockefeller and family have
withdrawn from the Euclid Avenue
Baptist church of Cleveland O.. be
cause of a quarrel between the former
and his brother John d. Rockefeller
The latter wanted to run church mat
tiers to suit himself. which called forth
the remark from his brother Frank
on retiring. that ''he does not believe
in placing Caesarism before Christian
ity in any church..