Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-04-25
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.


 The trans Mississippi congress is in session at Houston, Texas.
 The Shah of Persia is en route to Europe for a visit.
 The cost of the Paris exposition is placed at S20,000,00O.
 Perry Belmont says he is in favor of an instructed delegation from New York to the Kansas City convention.
 Portions of Mississippi are inun- dated with water, causing great loss of property and some lives.
 Four persons burned to death in a tenement house fire at Newcastle, Pa.
 Several people were badly hurt in train wreck on the Missouri Paclne road near Joliet, Missouri.
 A Japanese steamer arrived at Sc attle recently with 1900 Japanese aboard.
 The last survivor of the war of 1872 is Hiram Donk, who lives near Rome, N. Y. He will be 100 years old next Friday.
 North Carolina populists refuse to fuse with the republicans of that state. Up in Oregon the pops jumped at a chance to fuse with democrats.
 Actress Melba, who secured a di- vorce last week, announces that she will marry Haddon Chambers. the English playwright, next week.
 The North Atlantic squadron has finished its winter cruise, and is now en route to Hampton Roads from the Bermudas.
 General Wood, the military gOver- nor of Cuba. cabled the war depart ment today that he had selected June IG as the day for elections throughout the island for municipal officers.
 The latest estimate of the treasury balances in the general fund, eXclus- i've of the S15OOOO,OO0 gold reserve in the division of redeptiOn shows available cash balance, S150, ,164,O99 gold. S9O.047, ,271.
 The ChillicOthe AIiSsOurl Town Mutual Fire Insurance company of ChillicOthe. has notified the insurance department that it has made an as signment to Earl B. Kellogg for the benefit of its creditors.
 Miss Sylvia Caesar, granddaughter of the late Jacob Vanderbilt, has married Dr. Dudley NewcOmb Car penter. who was surgeon of the flag ship Olympia during the engagement with the Spaniards at Manila bay.
 A row among the delegates to the Alabama republican state convention started before the body had been called to order After a scene of great excitement, accompanied by some shooting in which one man was seriously hurt, the governor cleared both factions out of the state house building and grounds.
 Senator Jones. chairman Of the dem ocratic national committee ,ridiculeS the story that the anti-Bryan dem ocrats. who are behind Dewey's can didacy. would get a Dewey delega- ton sent from New York to the Kan sas City convention. He says that Dewey's candidacy will cut no figure at all in connection with the dem ocratic nomination for president. that Colonel Bryan will be nominated by exclamation.
 The finest and fastest steamship ever constructed for the cOastwise trade was launched recently at Cramps. which. when completed, will be put in service between New York and Havana. The MOrrO Castle was originally designed and contracted for by the Plant Steamship company but was sold during her construction to the Kew York and Cuba Mail Steamship company, for which cOrpOr- ation she is being completed. Her contract speed is eighteen knots per hour and she will cut down the run ming time between New York and Ha- vana to under two and a half days.
 A balloon ascent has been planned for in Berlin in mid June. with the object of ascertaining the time bal loon can be maintained in midair. Hitherto this could not be done for much over thirty hours, chiefly owing to the effect of the change of temper ature from day to night on gas. The experimental balloon will contain 315.- GOO cubic feet of gas. The car will be eight feet square, and accommO- date five persons. with sleeping ac- commodations for three. It is hoped that the journey will ast several days, and provisions for ten days will be taken.