Arizona weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1885-1903, 1900-05-02
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Heavy rains are reported in Texas
again.
New York celebrated Grants birth
day on an elaborate scale.
1t is rumored that General Joe
Wheeler and Mrs. G. w. Childs are
engaged to be married.
The jury in the case of Attorney
Anderson. charged with attempt to
kill H. ii. Tammen, of the Denver
Post. failed to agree and was dis
charged.
At meeting of the Ottawa. Canada,
cabinet it was decided to give 100000
to relief sufferers of the Ottawa and
Hull fire The city council decided to
give $4,000.
\ total absence of news from South
Africa Saturday and Sunday is pre-
sumed, and indicates that operations
are progressing which it is deemed
prudent to keep secret.
Mayor Harrison issued an ap-
peal to the citizens of Chicago to use
their influence in settling the labor
troubles which involve practically all
branches of industry.
In seven counties in southern Mis-
souri, rich fields of mineral have been
found, and there is great activity there
this spring. Land filed with lead and
zinc is too valuable for farming.
San Francisco customs officials found
in the steamer Dorics fOrepeak four
teen tins of finest quality of opium,
/ 1900 cigars and 40 silk caps, and also
/ $3.50 cigars on the government trans
/ port Sheridan.
! Colonel James S. Petite. of the
| Thirty-first volunteers. in command at
! ZambOanga, has been court martialed
for handing prisoner of war over to
President Medell. of Zamboanga. who
killed the prisoner at once without
trial.
Miss Kitty Wilkins. of Idaho, who
has gained fame as the only woman
owner of Il great stock farm. is to DE
married. She is the most extensive
horse dealer in Idaho and sells the ami
mails in lots of 5000 or more.
Attorney General breckenridge en-
joys the distinction of being the only
state officer in Kentucky. whose title
is not in litigation. Judge Clifton ]
Pratt, the republican contestee. quit
the contest.
General Harrison Gray Otis. of Cal
ifornia. is said by National Committee
man Il. C. Kerens. of Missouri. to be
seriously considered by the repub
licans as vicepresidential candidate
y dog belonging to the Royal English
engineers found his way up to Moddel
river from Cape Town. a distance OF
623 miles. and appeared most uneX
pectedly among the men of his com
pany.
\ flood bulletin from Waco. Texas
says the list of dead there will reacl
ten or fifteen. The property damaged
in the city viii exceed S15O,0O0. The
telegraph lines of both companies are
gone south of Waco, isolating more
than half the state.
Robert Kopald, cashier of the Har
vey eating house, at Albuquerque, has
been arrested, charged with appro
priating eating house money. 1t is
claimed he is short $125 in his &C
counts. The money went TO gamb
ling resorts.
John Truck. who was found guilty
of murder in the first degree will
be electrocuted at Albany. New York
this week. He Killed Frank w Mil
Ter last March. He set fire to the
house and drove away with all the
murdered mans portable property.
W. J. Bryan has joined the Elks
at his home at Lincoln, Nebraska.
monster labor parade has been
planned for tomorrow at Philadelphia
when 10000 wOrkingmen will be in
line. Eleven organizations affiliated
with the Union Labor League Will be
represented. They will participate in
Il monster mass meeting.
The monster telescope at the Paris
exposition, which viii bring the moon
within thirty-siX miles, is three times
the length of the largest of its prede-
cessors, the Yerkes telescope at Chi
cago. 1t is 1871 feet long, feet in di-
ameter and weighs twenty-one tons.
The lenses. the largest in existence.
measure over 40 inches in diameter
and weigh 1920 pounds.
1t is proposed to unite all the farm
erS of the world in Il sort of interna-
tional trust to restrict the product of
wheat and raise the prices This is
the plan which it is proposed to carry
out at the international agricultural
conference in July. 1t is proposed to
ask the farmers of the world to reduce
their wheat output by 20 per cent.
and not to sell bushel for less than
81.
About seventy-five motor cars of all
sorts and sizes started from Hyde
Park, London, on Monday on jour
ney of Il thousand miles to Edinburgh
and return under the auspices of the
Automobile club. The trial is not in
tended as a race, but as Il test of the
utility and strength or the vehicles.
Thousands of persons witnessed the
procession. which was followed by
hundreds of cyclists.
\ romance of the Spanish-American
war eliminated at st. Joseph. Missouri
in the marriage of DR. Il. L. Brown,
| of WeStboro., and Miss Jeanne Raby.
of Philadelphia. DIR. Brown served
with the Fourth Missouri volunteers.
and while stationed at Camp Meade
Harrisburg. Pennsylvania. fell i'll with
typhoid fever. The faithful care be
slowed by Miss RaDy saved Dr.
Browns life. and he sought her hand
in marriage.
A physician in Scott county. Kansas
recently moved to another part of the
state because he could not make botl
ends meet in his practice; but his ser
vices were so badly needed in the oil
field that the citizens circulated peti-
ton asking the county commissioners
to appropriate n bonus of $500 an
nually to the doctor on condition that
he should return. The commissioners
made the appropriation, and the doctor
has gone back to his former home
The note handed to the sultan OF
Turkey the other day from the United
States demanding the payment of the
amount of indemnity due the United
States is said to have greatly i'm