Arizona silver belt., 1900-05-17
GENERAL NEWS.
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts and Happenings
 of the Universe.
AsTHEY OCCUR wEEKL
A Condensation of Telegraph and Cable Messages. Giving Prefer red Space to the News of
 Our Own Land.

An American steam laundry is doing business in Shanghai, China.
 The Santa Fe railroad is rebuilding all their 2s foot box cars and making them "A feet in length.
 In the Corbett-,I effries fight on May II, in New York city. Cornett was knocked out in the 23d round.
 The president has signed .he Ha waiian government bill. President Dole has been selected as the first governor of Hawaii.
 The formal opening of the United States building at the Paris exposition took place last Thursday. President Loubet otficiated
 Mount Vesuvius has again been in a state of eruption the past three days. Explosions within the crater throw lava and masses of rock to a great height.
 W. 0. Thompson, formerly editor of the Black Range, at Chloride, N. M., has lately purchased the Sierra County Advocate, published at Hills boro, N. M.
 Last Thursday at Washington Major General John R. Brooke assumed the duties of commanding general of the department of the east, su ceeding Major General Wesley Merritt.
 The consul of Norway and Sweden. at St. Johns, N. F.. offers reward to any and all persons who may find ar ticles connected with the polar ex- pedition of Herr Andree the aeronaut
 On May x Governor Roosevelt granted requisitiOn for the surrender of Geo. w. Hull, the Arizona million aire mine owner, who is wanted in Providence, B. l., on charge of per jury.
 No less than fourteen funnel-sh shaped tornado clouds are reported to have been seen one day last week in cen tral Kansas. Over twenty people are reported slightly injured near Ellin- wood.
 At Wilkesbarre, Pa., on May 9, dur ing a riot between strikers and the workmen at the Buttonwood Coal company's mine, about twenty men were badly injured. including Super intendent W. T. Smythe.
 On May 10 the house, by very narrow margin of two votes, nnseated Crawford of North Carolina, a demo- orat, and seated Pearson of North Carolina. He is the third republican to be seated by the present house.
 There is one church for every 3S1 people in the United States. Boston has one for every l,600 of her popula- tion and Minneapolis one for every 1,054. Twentyfour million people at tend church in the United States every Sunday.
 Exclusive of Alaska, there are liv- ing in the United States today 263, 900 Indians, scattered over twenty-three states and territories on IF reserya- tions, these having an aggregate area of S3, 734, ,49 acres, most of it almost valueless.
 The state of Georgia is coming to the front rapidly. Not only are cot ton mills multiplying in the state, but gold digging has become lucrative business. It is said 5000, 900 has been invested in the enterprise in the state within the past eighteen months.
 The national populist convention concluded its session at Souix Falls, s. D., on May To- and adjourned sine die after nominating the Hon. W. J. Bryan for president and the Hon. Charles A. Towne for vice president. Both candidates were nominated by exclamation.
 One of the greatest strikes in the history of St. Louis was inaugurated on May when 3,325 out of the $500 employ es of the St. Louis Transit com pany went out to compel the accept ance of their demands formulated sever days before. Practically every streee car is tied up.
 Seven states will hold elections be- fore the vote for president in Noyem- Der: Alabama, Aug. 6; Arkansas, Sept. 3; Georgia, Oct. 3; Maine, Sept. 1C; North Carolina, Aug ,; Oregon, June 4; Vermont, Sept. 4. Of these states only Oregon and Maine will furnish straws.
 The conditions have materially i'm proved in the famine stricken districts of Madras and Mysore, India, in conse- quence of the recent rains. In the re- maining affected tracts the distress is increasing in intensity, owing to the want Of fodder and water and the in creasing heat. The number of persons now in receipt of relief is 5,6l7 ,OOO.
 The British admralitv has pur. cha ed 2,25O,O00 pounds of copper for nmadiate delivery from American