Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-11-28
News, Notes and Comments.

| hN V AJs CNNAANE7AAAlt AANAANAN AAt%E arrived at Naples and will proceed to Smyrna.
 Reports from Chinese sources say the German and Italian column Is burning villages to the nOrthward.
 Hollanders, on November 23d, cele- brated the tenth anniversary of the accession to the throne of Queen Will helmina.
 The Cannon Ball train on the Iron mountain road was held up at Clifford, Arkansas, by half a dozen masked men. The express safe was charged five times with dynamite, each explo- sion doing great damage to the car. but failed to open the safe; their sup ply of dynamite was finally exhausted and the robbers picked up the local express box and left.
 The German expedition under Colo nel Yorck is confronted with 10000 regular Chinese troops and much ar tillery near Kalgan. The Chinese have prepared to energetically resist q IUEilCI dQNduCC Ol lIC tN litNAlALOl fCOIOnel Yorck will wait for reinforce ments before attempting to proceed
 Gradually the work on the big fac tories is increasing. The Joliet plant of the Illinois Steel company has re- sumed operations in all departments, except the three rod mills. This will put about 20O0 men at work. It is re- ported that there are a number of or ders on hand, and the prospects are good for a steady ran Of savera- months.
 Thomas Burke was found on the sidewalk on Hickory avenue, of San Francisco, on Tuesday morning, badly hurt. He was taken to his home where he died shortly after. Before he died he intimated that he knew his assailants, but refused to divulge their names. NIT. and Mrs. George Eayres and Thomas Cameron, who live in the house in front of which Burke was found, tell contradictory stories and the police are working on the case with a view to their arrest.
 Peter Meade returned on last nights train from an extended visit to Colorado. He said the mercury had reached ten degrees below zero, when he thought it was time to trek to warmer climate.
 Mrs. NJ. B. Eggers came over from Kingman a few days ago and after a brief visit in Prescott left for Clifton where she intends to engage in the millinery business.
 Rev. Claude Thompson, formerly of Verde valley, has been assigned to the pastorate of church at LOmpoc, California. NIT. Thompson was mar ried about five weeks ago.
 Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, was married at OwensbOrO, in that state, November 2lst.
 Columbus, Ohio, has just unearthed a condition of great corruption in its municipal government.
 R. NJ. Dougherty, the well known mining man of the Bradshaw noun tains, is in town today on his periOdi cal visit. He reports times a little dull in the Bradshaws.
 A terrific cyclone moving in north westerly direction swept through Mississippi and a portion of Tennes- see Tuesday night, causing a heavy loss of life and property. The storm completely interrupted telegraph and telephone connections. but from the meager details obtainable, covering only three points, it appears that forty lives have been lost and the de struction of property is very heavy.
 The annual report of the superin- tendent of the dead letter office shows 7,536, 15S,15S pieces received as compared with 6,S55.9S3 last year. Letters and sparcels held for postage numbered 144,6l9, and the misdirect- ed 422,79 Nearly 35,000 letters bore no addresses to the guests of hotels, and mdelivered letters numbered 269,624. The total number of un- claimed parcels of all descriptions was lS0,9l4.
 The Yaqui Indians are again mak ing trouble with settlers in Mexico. They have been burning their nightly fires for two weeks, anticipating the second coming of Quetzalcoalt. whom they still reverence as their god, and are said to be stirred up to high pitch of religious frenzy.