Arizona silver belt., 1900-03-29
GENERAL NEWS.
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts and Happenings
 of the Universe.
THEY OCCUR WEEKLY.
A Condensation of Telegraph and Cable Messages, Giving Prefer red Space to the News of
 Our Own Land.

Cecil Rhodes sailed from Cape Town for England on March 21.
 A corps oi 2,O00 Boer women has been organized to fight the English, It will be known as the Amazon corps.
 The democrats of Alaska have called convention for May 2s to name dele gates to the kansas City convention.
 Cecil Rhodes says ''the marvellous thing about England is her luck It didn't look that way few weeks ago. nor has the casualty list that appear ance.
 The bubonic plague is fast increas- ing in India. In Bengal 1, 525 deaths occurred week before last. These in eluded "A in Calcutta and 2,04l in Patha.
 A dispatch from Constantinople an. nounces the death of Osman pasha, the hero of plevna, the greatest Turk ish soldier of recent times He was 6S years old
 The hall in which the national re- publican convention will be held will have seats for l4,99s persons. besides working'room for 300 newspaper men and l,oo0 telegraph operators.
 It is stated that the Mexican govern nient has ordered 1000 regular troops to Sonora to crush the Yaqui revolu- tion. If this be true, the uprising and revolution is much more formidable than has been believed.
 The Indian government eXpendi- tnres on account of the famine for lee9-1900 are stated at f2,055,000 It is estimated that the famine expendi- lures for lsOO-l90l will be g, 335 ,000
 The verdict of the Prussian minister 'of railways 0n the American lccomo- slves that Were tried In Bavaria Is that, notwithstanding their faultless con- struction, they cost considerably less than locomotives of similar style of Prussian make.
 The national convention of the silver republicans will be held in Kansas City on the same date as the demo- cratic national convention. July l. The session will be held in the Audi torium theater. and over 900 delegates will be in attendance.
 Europe is paying interest on several hundred millions of of indebtedness to the United States. Russia has placed a loan in this country and American institutions have taken a part of the new English issue of bonds.
 The silver republican state central committee of California will meet in Los Angeles on April 10 to elect dele gates to the national convention. It is expected that William J. Bryan will be in Los Angeles when the committee meets.
 The steamer Switzerland which ar rived at Philadelphia on March =, from Antwerp, brought nearly 300 Films. who are said to be the first of many thousands fleeing from the cruelty of the government of the czar of Russia The party will locate in Minnesota. Iowa and Montana.
 1t mas come at last. Within few weeks New York is to have a brand new industry that of selling air The company proposes to extract oxygen, nitrogen and carbonic acid, the prin- cipal clements of the atmosphere, re- fine them in such way as to make the resultant products of commercial value.
 General CoXey of army fame is get ting rich by the operati' of stone quarry near Massilion, o. If his pc litical ambition keeps pace with his fortune he may be able to buy sen atorship and then walk on the grass at Washington if he wants to, says the Albuquerque Citizen.
 There is hardly ranch in the Pan handle or the western part of Texas that does not have it's own private tel ephone system, and the barbed wires of the pasture fences are used exclu sively for the purpose. \ number O. these private lines are % miles long and messages are sent and receivee daily that distance without break.
 The Philadelphia conference of tht Methodist Episcopal church on tho 2oth instant adopted a paper in sup port of the expansion policy of tho present national administrations The paper is all respects similar to the ont adopted recently by the South kansa conference, and is in the form of { call for volunteers to go to the Philip pines for evangelical work.
 The total area of Cuba is about 10, GOO square miles. Oithis LOGO souar' niles is uncleared and unexplored for est; 1000 square miles is devoted t' pasture; 10000 square miles snscepti bic of cultivation has never felt th' blow. and only about l2.OOo square miles. or little more than one-iourtl