Arizona silver belt., 1900-02-08

facing cattle. water and food scare ity of most terrible character.
 At murder trial in Bastrop, Texas nearly two thousand men assembled, to control whom it requires the utmost vigilance of large force of Rangers. There are 1,240 witnesses in the case.
 General Brook has arrived in Wash ingtOn from Havana. It is under stood that he will be appointed to command of the Department of the Lakes.
 The Pennsylvania Railway com pany on January 1 relieved from ac- tive service about 96O employees, as a result of the operation of the new pen sion system.
 | The national executive board of the International Typographical union has voted to order out the stereotyp- CTS on systematic strike in behalf of the linotype men at Pittsburg. Mrs Hattie D. Rich, who was extra dited to Mexico and tried for the mur- der of her husband in Juarez, last March, has been sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment.
 Phil D. Armour, jr., son of the big packer, died suddenly at Montecito, Gala, last week from rupture of an aneurism. The elder Armour is spend ing the winter at Pasadena.
 The Chinese emperor, KwangSu, has abdicated, naming Pu Chun as his sue cessor. The ex-emperor is reported to have committed suicide. Pu Chun is only fourteen years of age.
 The result of the Cuban war has given a wonderful impetus to the cigar makers organization in Florida. Union No. 36 at Tampa has increased nearly 300 members in the last three months.
 Fifty years ago there were few per sons employed or gaining livelihood by the utilization of electric energy. Now in England and America there are over LOGO, ,00O-very likely 2,000,- 900 in the world.
 How closely the world is knit to- gether commercially is instanced by the fact that some three hundred lap diaries in New York alone are out of work because of the failure of the sup ply of diamonds from South Africa.
 One of the queerest corners of the earth is Chatham island, off the east coast of Ecuador. The island abounds in cats, every one of which is black. They live in the crevices of the lava near the coast, and get a living by catching fish and crabs, instead of rats.
 The American officials who have been engaged in making a census of Cuba report having found in the noun tains of the interior tribes of Indians whose existence was unknown, and they ran across intelligent white per sons who were unaware that the United States government had taken control of the island.
 Elaborate preparations are being completed for the reception and en- tertainment, in Washington, next week, of the delegates to the thirty second annual convention of the Ma. tional American Woman Suffrage as- sociation. Particular interest attaches to the forthcoming gathering from the fact that it is expected to be the last national convention of the asso citation which will be presided over by the venerable Susan B. Anthony.
 Gasoline drunkards are becoming common among the small boys in the vicinity of North Penn Village, su burb of Philadelphia, and the district known as 'swampoodle." For some time past the police have been mysti- fled by finding youngsters fast asleep and in a semi-unconScious condition, slowed away in vacant houses, wood- sheds and briekyards. It was finally discovered that the boys had become beastly drunk from inhaling the fumes of gasoline, and some of them have | developed into juvenile debauches.
 The ordnance bureau of the navy has begun the investigation of a new explosive known as "Marsite." It is supposed to be a nitrate compound. It has been demonstrated that it is im- possible to produce an explosion with | it by hard blows, nor will it explode when lighted. To explode it, it is nec essary to use simultaneously the com bined forces of percussion and con- cussion. These forces were secured | by the use of electricity. Further ex- periments are being conducted and great success is expected.
 Two dozen specimens of the Ven- ezuelan plant known as the tua tua, have been sent from Washington to Hawaii for the purpose of making a test of it's alleged wonderful power as cure for leprosy. The plant will be tested at the leprosy hospitals there, whara the i 0-2 lepers will afford eyerv |