Arizona silver belt., 1900-02-15
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts and Happenings
 of the Universe.
AS THEY OCCUR WEEKLY,
A Condensation of Telegraph and Cable Messages, Giving Prefer red Space to the News of
 Our Own Land.

state.
 The total British loss up to to Jan
 uary 3l is reported by the war office tC
 be 9,649 men.
 The seventh session of the four
 teenth parliament of Queen Victoria's reign opened January 30.
 The Independent order of Foresters of the state of Illinois has gone into the hands of 9 receiver.
 There are about 40,000 people in Alaska, not including 1000 or (, ,OOO liy ing on British soil.
 England is already reduced to the extremity of drafting troops for the Transvaal service
 On the first of June, 1899, there were 420,9l5 invalid pensioners, and lSO. 266 widows and other dependents.
 The largest corporation in the world' IS said to be the Carnegie Steel com pany, which has a capitalization of S25O, eco, GOO.
 There will be over 1000 exhibitors at the Paris exposition, and the United States is Tn the first rank of the ex- hibitors.
 In the last three years an increase of 3O0,0O0,000 in gross earnings of railroads in this country has been re corded.
 The old frigate Consultation is to be prepared and used as "a naval museum and floating monument to the glory Of American sailors"
 According to the annual report of the civil service commission there are now 75,OOO positions in the classified service of the United States.
 Itis reported that the bubonic plague has broken out in Argentine in violent form, and this is expected to check shipments to and from that country.
 For a third time the Massachusetts legislature has refused to rescind the order of banishment pronounced against Roger Williams, 200 years ago.
 The funeral of General LawtOn took place at Washington City on the 9th instant, The whole nation mourns the untimely death of this gallant sol dier.
 Ths internal revenue receipts dur ing December were S24, ,21o, sos, and fer the six months of the present fiscal year s15l, 7sO, ,15S, an increase of S13,- 457. .6S3.
 It is estimated that the total ship ments of wool from the Salt Lake dis trict will foot up 7,OOO coo pounds for the season, a quantity far above pre- ceding totals.
 The Holland submarine boat has been rejected by the naval board on construction. Another boat, the Plunger, IS being built by the C6lum- bian Iron Works of Baltimore.
 Thomas A. Edison's first large earn ings were S4O0OO. This he got from a telegraph company for the model of the now famous ticker" for which he had intended to ask 5000.
 The Kansays City Star says that susan B. Anthony, whose sOth birth day comes on February 15 missed . being a valentine by just one day, though nobody will deny that she is Q daisy.
 A dispatch from Suez states that Os- man Digna, who was the principal | general of the late Khalifa Abdallah, and who was recently captured by the British, has been brought to that place
 The influenza epidemic is making extensive strides in southern Europe, and the Pope has ordefed special prayers to be offered up for the the cessation of the alfliction in Italy and Spain.
 Signals have been sent by wireless telegraph through a suite of seven | rooms, the doors of which were closed. | They were transmitted through a tel egraph switchboard containing Doth |. dead and live wires.
 A bill now pending in congress will, if passed, prohibit the granting of di- vorces in the territories except for adultery during marriage, and only the innocent party will be permitted to marry again.
 The official report makes the crop of potatoes for the past year 34,000, GOO l bushels more than 1898 and 64 GOO coo | more than the preceding year. The total output of 22s, ,1s3,oO0 bushels is the highest since 1896.
 Governor Poynter of Nebraska has challenged the National Live Stock | association and announces that he will 1 fight the plan, agreed upon at its meet- ing at Fort Worth, to lease all arid and semi arid land, belonging to the