Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23

Pairolman Barton. of St. Louis. was shot in the head by an unknown per son while riding on q Jefferson avenue ear.
 The anti-fusion pOpulists in con
 ventiOn in Cincinnati have declared in
 favor of public ownership of railroads, telephones and coal mines. } The bubOnic plague cost Honolulu
 S1.0O0.000. not including property de
 StrOyed by sanitary fires.
 It is estimated that gold exports
 during the week are likely to be be tween S3.O00,O00 and S5.000.000. The Methodist Episcopal church in , the United States has increased from 61,0O0 in 1900 to nearly 6,OO0,OOO in
 1899. ,. The street car strike in St. Louis is
 still on. It has already resulted in
 the killing of two men and the serious !, wOunding of several others. T Mrs Potter Palmer will entertain
 during he Paris exposition in the house of the Marquis de Montgomery. near the TrOcadero. paying for it $40O0 a month rental
 The Baker Howard feud. which has ragged in Clay county. Kentucky. these many years. is ended. The factions
 have agreed not to prosecute each other for murder.
 William c. Whitney's reason for removing all his thOroughbreds from Kentucky is said to be his disgust with the political methods and present situation of the blue grass state.
 The Carnegie company has signed a contract to supply Japan with 5000 tons of steel rails at nearly $4 a ton less than the lowest English bid.
 Henry Irving. while playing in Kan sas City last week. contributed $50 toward the expense of rebuilding the convention hall recently destroyed by | fire
 The steamship Sikle has arrived at | Victoria, E. C.. from Japan. having on board five hundred Japanese who are under contract to work in New Eng land mills.
 Mrs Craven has been indicted for perjury George w SimptOn. the Sau- salitO justice of the peace who SwOre | he performed the marriage ceremony | for Fair and Miss Craven and after wars denied it. has also been indicted. The activity of Vesuvius is becoming more and more formidable and the Ob- servatory officials anounce that the seismic instruments are extremely agi- ! tated. A thick column of smoke is is suing from the crater and the earth shakes are violent.
 A New York hotel proprietor who re- gently lasted twenty-One days to cure rheumatism and obesity asserts that any fellow who is broke can live com | fOrtably thirty or forty days without ! food if he will only be sure to take drink of water once an hour
 There has been a total of fourteen deaths from the plague at Cairo and seven cases at Port Said. At Alex andria there have been four deaths and two cases of the plague.
 The bubOnic plague is generally showing material decline through out India.
 General Edward s. Bragg. com, mander of the famous Iron Brigade was thrown from his horse at FOn du 1 Lac. Wisconsin. and his right leg broken in two places. General Bragg is I4 years of age and his advanced age renders the injuries very serious.
 The reports published in eastern pa pers that there have been five deaths recently in san Francisco from the bu- bonic plague are denied. There have been q few deaths from suspicious cases in Chinatown. but it has not yet been conclusively shown that they are plague cases.
 At the recent meeting of the AsSO- ciated Press in Chicago. Melville F. | Stone declined to allow his name to be presented again for general manager ! The following officers were elected: President. Charles w. Knapp; first vice-president, Harrison Gray Otis: second vice-president. Samuel ROwels; secretary and general manager, ! Charles :. Diehl.
 The attorney general of Kansas has decided that the people of that state l have no remedy against the state of | Colorado using the waters of the Ar AanSaS river. Fl PaSo will discover in time that she cannot prevent the people of New Mexico from using the waters of the Rio Grande.
 John Brown, who has just been taken 10 the county almshouse or Orange county. New York, was once manager ! of that institution and superintendent | of the poor for that cOunTy. He was once well to do, but is now q pauper | 1S years old and incapable of self 1 support.
 The cZar of RuSSiaS suite consists | of 173 persons, of whom fifteen are members of the imperial family. sev enteen are princes who are not of i'm perial birth; seventeen are counts; | nine are barons and the remaining l15 are nOblemen.
 ! Democrats in congress are not pleased with the nomination of Charles !. Towne for vice-president on the i .USion populist ticket. They appreci- ate the weakness of TOwne as q rene gade republican and violent silver man, and they do not wish to have him thrust upon the Kansas City con ventiOn.
 American expansion began with | Thomas Jefferson who annexed to the United States. territory of continental extent west of the Mississippi. In ef feet Jackson annexed Florida. Polk annexed Texas and all the territory ceded by Mexico. This vast expansion included California with the gold dis cOverieS made of ineStimahle import ance to the nation.
 Tom MOser. q farmer living in Ere mont. Illinois. murdered his wife and four children Sunday evening" Neigh bOrs found the house locked and ap- parently deserted. On going into the cellar they found the body of Mrs MOSer covered with old carpets The bodies of the four children were found up stairs. No trace of MiSer.
 About midnight while a through passenger train on the Texas and Pa cific railroad was taking water at Glade creek. near Fort Forth. Texas. an attempt was made to rob the train. The fireman was covered with a Dis tOl in the hands of a man who ordered him to get off the engine. Engineer JaquiSh opened wide the throttle and dropped tO the floor. Neither robber was able to catch the train. The fire man caught the last ear and all escaped safely.
 A convention called by Governor Otero to take measures to defeat the Stephens bill. now before congress. was held in Albuquerque recently. | Every county in the territory sent strong delegations New MeXicanS have never been so thoroughly aroused ] as on the menace to their rights con tained in the bill. A dozen of the