Arizona silver belt., 1900-01-25
GENERAL NEWS HENS.
Brief Mention of interesting Facts
 and Happenings.

4 part Bufftlo COW weighing l.S6O pounds was lateiy sOuld at auction in South Dakota for sS0.
 There is shortage of beef in Klon- dika. Beef was retailing in Dawson xt s1 per pound on December
 The American flour seized in Della goa ha> has been re eas'd ny the Brit ish and indemnity promised
 Colonel George Randall has been appointed tu the command of the new military department of Alaska.
 General Shafter will escort to Wash ington the remains of General Law ton on their arrival at San Francisco, about June 27. -.- .r,
 The Italian government has asked that the persons guilty of lpnching Ave Italians at TaluIah, La., last spring. be punished.
 A steer from McPhersou, Kansas weighing 2.6iO pounds was sold at Kansas City lately at Si,50, the owner therefore realizing s1l7.45. 1.-The new l0-inch gun ar Sandy Hook is made of steel segiments wrapped with = miles or stsel wire and cov- cred with steel jacket outside.
 The red cross hospital train of seven ,ars has heen completed at Rrming- ham, England, and will start in few lays for south \frici.
 | Parliament will reaSsemhle January 30. and the government, 1t is said, will a.k for a further War credit of twenty million pounds.
 | Tho Rritish lnsg in the wtr with the South African republics ia now over : Ooo, approximately aa follows: killed. 1000; wounded, $500; missing. 2,6Oo.
 Drs Rsppi'ier and r"iehan't, Paris, claim to have found a serum which will cure the drink habit. It is ex .racted from the blood of an alcohol
 zed horse.
 MT. De Armnnd. nf Miss mri, has in troduced in the house bill for the re- peal of the bankruptcy law. with res eryation that proceedings now begun may be closed mp.
 An agreement has been reached in the United States senate to take the final vote on the pending bill, fixing gold as the standard of value the United States on February l5. Figures collected by the bureau o' animal industry show that the nun
 her of cattle in this country is now bu' 9, 800, GOO. there having been a reduc ton in the past year of over two m,l lion head.
 The real cause of the increased price of meats is that the country has now 1000. .0OO more neat eaters than Il had ten years ago, while the number of cattle has fallen off ll,0O0, 900 dur ing that period.
 House committee m election of th' president and president hasagreet an favorable report on the joint res nIutjon. for an amendment to the con stitution for election of United State'
 senators by direct vote of the people.
 Some strange things happen in Mex ico. The latest is 8 report that mar is to be shot in Suarez and an admis
 sion fee of g cents is to be charged al spectators, the money thus secured t' D. gwen 20 the wife of the condemned man.
 Ninety-seyen per cent of the oil
 bring of the deaf fathers and mother are deaf. The offspring of these dea
 persons generally possess the sens
 of hearing, the average deafness oeinl . 8 per cent. This fact is said to be il accordance with two well establishe' laws of heredity, viz, a physical anon aly tends to be transmitted to of spring, and that the offspring of thes D tends to revert to the normal type.
 While favoring resolution callln
 upon the president for information 's regard to the conduct of the Phllll u pine war, MT. Pettigrew, of Sout e Dakota, said he desired to address u u senate upon the resolution before 'o was passed. He favored the passat le of the resolution, believing that u ie information asked for was entire '- proper. He declared that he hi C. received information since the lntr
 duction of his resolutions that assure le him of the facts he had asserted. Fl ,d blood of every soldier, said he, VI ps had fallen since the war began, IS ,n the hands of the administration. TI e. blood of the sixty soldier boys of Sou d Dakota, who lost their lives after bell Id conscripted into an unwilling servl he after their terms had expired, lies
 the door of the administration, al ns there Is no escape for it. char Y, that the censorship of the press a ng the suppression of facts are for t Or purpose of advancing the polite n- ambitions of MT. Mckinley. If u