Arizona silver belt., 1900-04-19
GENERAL NEWS.
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts an5 Happenings
 of the Universe.
.As TREY OCCUR wEEKL Y,
A Cond, n atim If Telegraph and Cable Messages. Giving Prefer red Sl ace to the News of
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 ence of 1J,o ,oco pp' pie at Los Angal' s on April 10.
 It is said th,t Mrs. Dewey. wife of the admiral has reuounced CathOli- cism and ioii,d tha Episcopal church
 Since the occupation of B)oemfOn. tein by the British Lord Roberts has lost 2Il1 men in killed, wounded and captured.
 The Texas legislature will be asked 10 appropriate Sl.S00000 to liquidate the bonded ind, htedness of the flood stricken city of \ustin
 England's fleet of transports for t;tk. ing troops and supplies to south Afri- ca includes li7 steamships, purchased chartered Or impressed.
 The sale by the whisky trust Of 6o0p barrels of whisky at 45 cents a gallor rather looks Ike bringing it within the reach of the humblest consumers.
 olga Ne hersole', enthusiastic wei come back to the stage in New York serves to show the public cannot abide anything that looks like petty perse- cution.
 The American people will have to continue to pay the onerous war taxes because the republican congress in- SistS Upon adiourning at the earliest date possible.
 The correspondent of the Manches- ter Eng. Guardian at Bloemfontein says .hat since General French'S relief of Kimberley, Lord Roberts has lost ll,000 horses.
 X special to the London Daily News from Berlin reatfirms the statement shat Captain Reichmann, the Amer tcau military attache led the Boers at Koornsprint, but it is emphatically de nied by Consul Hay.
 A contract to buy 30,000 to B 0Oo horses for the British Government has been about completed in New York. The horses are for cavalry regiments and the artillery service in South .Af- rica. and they will cost between S6,000,- 900 and s7 ,000,O00 This is the largest single order of the kind ever placed in this country
 The order of the Knights of Labor has decided to begin powerful cam paign against the trusts during the next six months. The General EXecu- tive Beard of the Knights of Labor has made public a circular letter or dering all organizers in the country attached to the order to Immediately begin an agitation against trusts and criminal and oppressive combinations of capital.
 We have lost another of our great artists by the death of Frederick Ed win Church, whose paintings of NJ agara. the Yosemite, the Alps and the Himalayas are almost as impressive in their grandeur as those majestic scenes themselves. Who is going to take the places of these masters whose deaths we are chronicling from tune to time?
 The superintendent of all Indian schools in the United States, Miss Es- telle Reed. is at work on bill to be introduced in congress having for it's object the compulsory education of all Indian children. She believes that these wards of the nation should be taught useful trades, to the end that they may be able to earn their own living.
 The days of the good old funeral horse will soon be at an end in Berlin, and electricity will usurp its place. The Electric Railway Company of that city has been the first to introduce an electric hearse, with compartments for mourners and friends The charges are very moderate, s5 for a party of eight and $2.50 for each extra car. The great object of the company is to les. sen the cost of burials for the poorer classes.
 The submarine boat Holland has been so successful in all the tests to which she has of late been subjected that the navy department has agreed to buy her for Sl50,0OO. The purchase is contingent on the completion, ac- cording to specifications, of another of the same class named the Plunger, which is now S5 per cent finished. Congress has appropriated money enough for the purchase of three yes sels of this type.
 The total receipts for the fiscal year to March 3l are given as $42I .163, 162, while the total expenditures for the same period were SS72, s40,6l leaving an excess of receipts over expenditures amounting to $54, 323, ,l5O. At this rate the excess of receipts over expendi- lures at the end of the fiscal year would be at least SlOO, O,000,0 ,000. Making due allowance for diminishing re-