Arizona silver belt., 1900-06-21
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts and Happenings
 of the Universe.
THEY OCCUR WEEKLY.
X Condensation of Telegraph and Cable Messages, Giving Prefer red Space to the News of
 Our Own Land.

The widow of the late William E Gladstone died at Hawarden, England last Thursday, June II.
 The Paris show is now drawing half million people day severa days week. That ought to make quite a crowd.
 Wm. l. Bryan is the choice of every state democratic convention yet held and great majority of them have en' dorsed the Chicago platform.
 The Chicago Tribune estimates from census figures thus far obtained, that the population of the United States is 7S.9G4,742, a gain of 26 per cent since 1890.
 Senator Platt of New York Sus- tained a fracture of rib by falling against a chair, in his office on the 10th inst. His friends express uneasi, ness over his condition.
 California has about ended gather. ing its great orange crop, the yield this season being estimated between l4,O0O and 14,500 carloads, or between a200,000 and 4,5O0, 900 boxes.
 They keep arresting women in the New York poorooms betting on the horse races, but it doesn't seem to in- terfere with business to any great ex- tent. The passion is stronger than the fear inspired by the police.
 A London cable of the l6th says: A special from Hong Kong says that all the Pekin legations have been de- stroyed, and that the German minister, Baron von ketteler, had been killed. A later cahlegram says the report is anconhrmed,
 At Rio Janerio, two girls joined to- gether like the Siamese twins have been cut apart successfully. They were united by the ribs and shared one liver. The girl without the liver, if she survives, will escape many of the ills with which mortals are afflicted. It has been estimated that Great Britain put 25O,OOO troops in South Af- rica and the Boers armed 5o,0OO sol diers for the defense. The British army lost j0, 900 men and the Boers I2.OOO. The money cost of the war has been S3O0, 0,0O0, 900 to Great Britain.
 
 Senator Hoar'S denial of the report ! that he has been in correspondence | with the Filipinos is sufficiently com ! prehensive and emphatic. He seems | to think there are about as many diff | ferent kinds of lies as there are statis- tics, and that they are amenable to about the same qualifying adjectives. The Chicago Mining Record says that Sl0O,OOO day leaves the state of Colorado to help support the people of the east and Europe. The product of the mines and farms, earnings of factories and railroads, and interests on mortgages and bonds. with contri- buttons to insurance companies, amounts to the enormous sum of s146,- O,O00 year.
 The London Daily express cores pondent telegraphs from Machado- dorp. 40 miles east of Pretoria, under date of June 10, in connection with the capture and destruction by the Boer general, Dewet, of LOGO suits Of clothjng; "The British soldiers com plain much of cold. There is much suffering among them, and the hos pitals are full of sick and exhausted. | The sickness among the horses, too, IS increasing, thousands of animals hay ing succumbed at kroonstadt on the | road from Bloemfontein to Pretoria" The publishers of the Topeka Capi- l tll have allotted 5000 to the Rev Charles M. Sheldon as his share from the profits of the Christian Daily newspaper during that memorable week in March. Mir. Sheldon there upon distributed this amount to ob- iects he considered both deserving and needy, giving sl,Ooo to the fund for the India famine sufferers, Sl,0O0 elch to two Topeka hospitals, $500 to Washburn college, $500 for a public d linking fountain, and the remainder to temperance. charitable and similar associations.
 The annual readiustment of post masters salaries, just completed in the office of the first assistant postmaster general, shows that the presidential o 1ices now number 4,270, an increase of 256 over last year, and S6s oyer 1894 There are 297 first class, g42 second class, and 3,121 third class. Owing to the increased receipts at presidential offices during the year. l,l94 postmas- ters will receive increased salaries on July 1, the individual increase ranging from s1OO to S1, ,0OO. The aggregate in- crease of postmasters' salaries is $236. 100.