Arizona weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1885-1903, 1900-05-16
THE P|TH OF THE NEWS
Most Important Features Of the
Worlds Day DOings Boiled
Down for Busy Men.
1t is SpicSd With Brief Comments Of Men
and Their actions, and Public Events.

General Roberts is still pushing
toward Pretoria.
Il is said that congress will adjourn
June IL.
Mount Vesuvius is reported in a
state of eruption.
Three guests were suffocated to
death in Il hotel fire at Genesee. New
York.
General Roberts wires that the relief
of AIafeking is expected at any mo-
ment.
Mayor Phelan and the city council
of San Francisco have memorialized
congress to pass Il Japanese exclusion
act.
John Hays Hammond. the well
known mining engineer, formerly of
South Africa. is in Colorado on min
| ing business.
1t is reported that the Beers intend
to make a big stand near Sand river,
and big battle is expected to take
place there.
\ force of Filipinos on May , at
tackled twenty men of Company 1,
Forty fourth regiment, stationed at
iarotac. IloflO.. Three Americans were
killed and seven wounded.
President Powell of the Order of
Railway photographers. has issued an
order formally disseminating the strike
of the Southern Railway telegraphers.
The boycott on the Southern viii be
continued.
The London war office has been adj
vised that Il widespread plot TO as
Sassirate Roberts ana other leading
British officers in South Africa was
discovered just in time TO be frus-
trated.
The chairman of the Illinois state
republican convention bitterly de
nounced trusts i'll his opening address.
The capture of General Garcia. sec
ond to Aguinaldo in the command of
the Filipinos. has been confirmed.
The Beers around Mafeking are said
To have been gradually reinforced.
Their strength is estimated ut 1900.
| Plumer has succeeded in communicate
ing with Mafeking by means of car
rier pigeons: he is endeavOring TO com
municate with the southern relief col
umns.
The steamer Z Paso, from New York
has arrived mt New Orleans with the
second officer and fourteen Of the crew
OF the steamer Virginia. which went
to pieces On The Diamond Shoal. of
the Virginia coast. several days ago
They We're taken from Il leaking yawl
boat.
\ report comes from Lorenzo Mar
queZ that women have been placed
in the government offices IN the Trans
vaal in orGpr to relieve the burghers
for active service. The New South
Wales Lancers. who escaped from
Waterfall prison. have arrived at Del
agoa bay after a dangerous journey.
According to Il dispatch to the Lon
don Daily Mail from Cape Town. :
= special expedition TO the westward left
Kimberley Il few days ago and viii
endeavor to relieve MafekinS, while
General Hunter and Lord Methuen are
{ operating ON either side of the Naa
river in conjunction with Lord Rob
erts' army.
Pinned TO Il blanket recently pre-
scented TO Mr.. Bryan in New Mexico
was the following note: Under the
republican administration the wool il
this blanket sells for % cents Il pound
Under the democratic administration
it sold for 6 cents. Please tell this
to your constituents" At last advices
Mr.. Bryan had not read the campaign
tip from the platform.
President Mckinley, of. course. is {
wicked imperialist, but his latest ex
hibition of Imperialism in choosing
satraps to govern the helpless anC
unrepresented dependents in the Dis
trict of Columbia seems even to please
the anti-eXpansiOnists. 1t is wonder
full how many good things he doe:
for such a bad Matthew York Tri
bune.
t Capt Cecil Boyle of the Oxfordshirt
| Yeomanry, who was killed in tn,
: skirmiSh that counted Colonel ViIleboi.
, Mareuil among its victims. was goot
: example of the many English gentle
6 men who made sacrifices for thei
1 country. He was n rich man and grea
I fox hunter When he went to Soutl
Africa he took with him thirty bloodeC
: horses to be used by men in his corps
I In the case of Private Frank Miller
of Company l. Twenty-third infantry
: who was cOurt-martialed and convicte,
: of rape. committed near San Nicolas
+ San Cebu. and sentenced to be shot
| the president, upon recommendation
e of the major-general commanding, ha
: commuted the sentence TO confinement
n at hard labor in the penitentiary 70
+ twenty years.
Senator Platt of New York has al
: ready taken possession of the seat oC
cupied for so many years by Mr.. Quay
Last year. when the caucus at HaT
; risburg refused 10 indOrse the Penn
: sylvanian boss for election Mr. Plat
: apparently thought Quay was doomed
Il for he thereupOn filed an application
5 for the coveted seat. one of the hes
= in the senate chamber.
u So quickly has Roberts advanced
that his cavalry is only twenty mile
from Kroonstadt. while the main arm
3, only elevn miles behind then
= lience in about Il day the British vii
be within striking distance of tn
: Orange Free State headquarters TIL
presence of 10000 Beers in the neigh
bOrhood of Thaba N'Chu is confirmed
They are holding the line invent.
miles north and to the southeast o
Thaba N'Chu. The Boer headquarter