Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-06-06
GEORGIA and AIahama have ane

Grasshoppers are playing havoc with
the cotton crop in the Mississippi ielsa.
The Chicago city architect has made
plans for a mansion for stray dogs.
warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Governor Taylor, of Ken
lucky
Five persons We're shot in the st.
Louis street car troubles on Wednes-
day
c. Meyer Zulick was temporary chair
man of the New Jersey democratic
convention
The May riots at Milan in 1898 have
cost the Italian government $13.0OU.-
600 so far
New Orleans has an ice war. and
ice is sold at S cents a hundred pounds
at the factory.
The Prince of Wales has again At
his physicians advice. given Up for
time the use Of tobacco.
Twenty-Five dollars and thirty cents
is the annual allowance of 1851 pen
sioners If the state of South Carolina
At Miles, Montana, the saloon-keep-
ers have petitioned for permission TO
close on sundays They need the rest
Florida. Georgia. South Carolina. and
Virginia, have made jefferson Davis
birthday, June ,. a legal holiday.
The bakers strike has revealed the
fact that Londons baking is nearly all
done ny Germans or other foreigners.
Dr. O'Brien. of the san Francisco
board of health, reports the plague stu
alton unchanged. no deaths or new
+ cases having been reported
The Boxers are swarming the
streets of Pekin and making demon
STATIONS in front of the British en-
bassy.
Al those who attend Queen Victoria
are very well aware of the fcehleness
which has recently come over her eye
sight
General Cronje has been seen hy
several newspaper men at St Helena
but refuses to be interviewed FOR pub
LEGATION.
The steamer on which General Otis
was aboard from Manila is detained in
quarantine in SAN Francisco on ac-
count Of small pox.
Paris is threatened with a strike of
cabmen. which is likely to come ut a
most inopportune moment for the con
venience of visitors.
There is again under consideration a
plan for establishing 4 telegraphic cir
cult of the earth by uniting Alaska
with Siberia across the Behring Strait.
The dignity of the United States sen
ate was very much ru1fled the other
day by the mysterious appearance OF
butterfly within the chamber.
The British have occupied Heidel-
burg. on the railroad connecting Jo-
hannesburg with the TransvaaI from
tier town of Volksrust. on the Natal
frontier near Laingsnek
There are now forty pearl button
factories in Iowa. working up shells
procured from the river beds. Nearly
100 people are employed in the factor
les alone
Lord Kitchener is reported TO have
said that, considering the nature of the
country, the Beers. if skillfully direct
ed, might be able to maintain their re
sistance for two years.
Lawyer Thomas Taylor shot an(
fatally wounded E H. Barrett, a schoo
director of Dunlap, Iowa, because the
latter did not reappoint Taylor's daugh
ter. who is Il school teacher.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.. in the three
years he has been a teacher in tie
Sunday school of the Fifth avenue
Baptist church, New York. has moi
been absent more than three or foul
times.
The republican leaders in Washing
ton have concluded to work for an
early adjournment of congress. and tc
go before the people in the ensuing
campaign on the record already made
Season tickets to the Paris exposition
must bear the photograph of the per
sons to whom they are issued. The
Algerian. Tunisian and other Moham-
medan exhibitors, however. refuse to
} have their pictures taken. as it is con
trary to the Koran.
y tremendous demonstration greeted
Emperor Williams return to Berlin
Thursday He has Just completed a
visit to eastern Prussia and through
Lorraine. \ big parade was held in
his honor
Elections viii be held as follows
prior to the November election: Ore
gon, June I: North Carolina. August >;
Alabama, August 6: Arkansas. Septem-
Der 3; Vermont, September 1: Maine
|. September 10: Georgia, October ,.
There is legend about the senate
chamber that General Hawley, for ten
or twelve minutes. in Il speech, once
spoke 225 words Il minute. The aver
age speech of senators in speeches
does not reach 40 words, and in die
tating letters rarely reaches 100 words
The Oldest relics in Admiral Dew
ey's collection relate to the battle be
tween the English and the Spanish in
Manila bay in 1862 One of these is Il
flag captured by Sir William Draper,
which came into the hands of William
Everett. of Massachusetts, who gave it
to the admiral
The senate committee on elections
hoe ,.anoJ,oI with tho