Arizona silver belt., 1900-10-04
GENERAL NEWS.
Brief Mention of Events of Interest Throughout the Known
 World

1t is estimated that the cost of talk
 ing and compiling the census willb,
 in the neighborhood of sl5, ,00O, GOO,
 Twenty-two thousand people heard
 Governor Roosevelt speak in the con
 vention hall, at Kansas City. last Sat
 urday night
 James Howard, convicted of com
 plicity in the assassination of Cover
 nor Goebel, was sentenced to be
 hanged on December 7,
 According to the latest edition oi
 Poor's Manual of Railroads for 1900 their total earnings last year were Sl, 336, ,O96,O 900 and their net earnings S447, Al ,O44.
 The jury that convicted James How ard of complicity in the Goebel assaS- sination and fixed the penalty at death, was composed of nine demo- crats, one republican and two anti. Goebel democrats.
 w. Bourke Cochran of New York, in opening his western campaign itiner- ary at Chicago Sept. 29, spoke to an audience that crowded the Coliseum, built to seat F, ,000 persons. The speech was made under the auspices of the anti-imperialist league and attracted thousands who were unable to enter the auditorium.
 A New York paper says that con seryatiye estimate of the total amount of relief sent to JOhnstown, Pa, after the great flood at that place was SS,- GOO, ,000 The loss at Galveston was undoubtedly much larger than at Johnstown. There is no danger that the contributions for the Texas city will be too great.
 With war costing 5000 ,0O0 in stead of S50,000,000; calling out over 200, ,000 men, instead of being won by 50,000; lasting year, instead of ending in three months, the outlook for the conservative party in Great Britain's parliamentary elections would not be so bright as it is were there any lib- eral party to speak of over there.
 Present indications point to the i'm migration of more than 50,c00 persons from the states in the east and central west to North Dakota, Washington and Montana within the next twelve months. The immigration will be at its height between Jan. l5 and May l5, and the northern railroads are prepar- ing to meet conditions that are ex- pected fully to tax their immigrant carrying capacities.
 Gen. Chaffee is quoted, in Pekin cablegram, as having expressed his opinion that recalling the army from China at this time is simply an out rageous desertion of immense mercan- tile and missionary interests in north China It is, in his mind, vitally nec- essary that the army should remain during the winter, until the mission ary work is safely re-es.abllshed and the American indemnities paid.
 Among the notable cases of recuper- ation recorded by the new census is the case of Johnstown, which was al most wiped out by the great flood in the Conemaugh valley eleven years ago. JohnstOwn had in 1880 pUpu- lation of S,3SO. The fatalities from the flood were 2,295. The population of the city was 2l ,s05 in 1890. This year it is 35,936, gain of nearly 65 per cent.
 Mrs. Ora Horsman, a pretty nurse of Lynn, Mass, is worth perhaps Sl,- GOO, 900. due to the beneticence of Mrs. William Porter of Boston. Mrs. Por- ter is S5 years old and feeble. She lives in the Back Bay, Boston, and there has been nursed and cared for 1 by Mrs. Ora Horsman. On Sept. 5 1 Mrs. Potter paid her nurse with SS0,- poo, and on Sept. 9 made a will leav- ing Mrs. Horsman all her property.
 For six years AliX has held the trotting record against time at 2:O3l. Many attempts have been made to take the laurels away from the lit 1 tie mare, but not until Sept 25 last, was the feat accomplished, when, on the famous Terre Haute track, The Abbot, the sensational gelding of the Hamlin stable, lowered it half sec Dnd, and it now stands 2:03i. Many caught it at 2;03 fiat, but the three men in the timers stand made It quarter of a second slower.
 A department store development in St. Louis is the addition to the many of branch postOffice. Such offices are to be established in six stores, not for the special benefit of the stores, but for the convenience of their patrons, especially the women, who will then be able to do their postal | business as part of their shopping Tine branch offices will have money order and registration departments, and women who now have difficulty in establishing their identity at the money order department in the cen tral DostOffice can be yOuchad for by |