Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
THk PITH OF THE NEWS
Most Important Features uf the EorId's Daily DuiHgs Boiled
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It is spicsd With Brief Comments of Men and Their Actions, and Public Events.

\ hot wave Is reported ln the lnluule west
 The new battleship Kentucky has been put in commission-
 The St. Louis street car strike on the Suburban road has been settled The Filipinos lost 1.721 men in April This will cause anither groan from Bryan.
 ID to March 3lst the South African war had cost Great Britain $116.250,OO0 and yet the end is not in sight
 Fifteen hundred mules were shipped from New Orleans on May F for South Africa. for the British.
 During the existence of the Chicago strike five men have been killed and no men injured as a direct result Of At he.close of the year Of the Bry- an campaign the gold in the treasury amounted to S97.OOO,OO0. Now it is S426.000.OOO.
 The financial condition in the east is so easy that loaning institutions find 1t shard work distributing the funds they Lave on hand.
 It cannot be denied that the United - States is more prosperous under the present administration than at any time in its history.
 The St. Louis house of delegates has passed a bill to revoke the franchise of various street railroad companies in case they fail to run cars in compliance with the terms of the city ordinance. Fx-Oueen LiIioukalani has left Wash inston for her home In Honolulu. She k very much dissatisfied because con .rress has refused to grant her an annuity.
 The Indian relief committee of Lon don issued an appeal asserting that despite systematic aid furnished o'- O00.O00 people in India. at least b. O0a.OOO are starving.
 Tbos. King. aged 22. who was in crowd who stoned the Transit COIL nany's repair wagon on Olive and Twentieth streets, St Louis. was shot and badly wounded by man in the wagon.
 Still another claimant of the honor of heinz the oldest Mason in the WoriC has been heard from, this time in Den yer Col. He is Adna Adams Treat whC joined the order in February. 1SS2, anC who is now in his 103d year.
 The Omaha Gas company's tentl well drilled for oil. near Chanute. Kan saS. proved to be a tremendous ga' well IT has twice the volume of an! other arlSher there. flowing at the rat of 6.5OO.OO0 cubic feet day
 The grand viZier of Turkey geu twice the salary enjoyed by the Brit ish premier and has perquisites O about as much more
 More Boxer outrages have beel reported sixty miles north of Tsn Tsiu. China. where a number Of natlV' Christians have been maSSacred. Plants have been dying in Salinas California. from a small black fly work near the roots. The same kln' of fly has been doing damage 10 crop in some places on the coast.
 Wharton Barker came very near be ing chosen to a place in Garfield's cab per. That was as close as he will eve get to the presidency.
 The American plan Of gOvernmen can not be very distasteful to tn Spaniards. as nearly 5000 of them hay returned to Cuba within the past tiv months.
 Cyclone Davis says Colonel Brya is rbe only man who can throttle tn oppressOrs of the people. That s s' and the way to do it is to nip thel in the bud.
 Inspired by the spectacle of leak senate. Great Britain has appointe q commission to ascertain the rest the details regarding Uncle SamiS ne' armor-piercing projectle
 Dr. Sheldon announces that upon hl return from Europe this fall he wi take up the servant girl problem. Thl is something that he can not hope l settle in a single week as he did th newspaper problem
 Lady Sarah Wilson has wired to he sister. Lady GeOrgiana Curzon, frol NIafeking. under date of May $. sa. ing: Our breakfast consisted of horS sausage. and our lunch of minced mu and curried lOcusts. All well.
 The Chickasaw Indians have a la that compels white man to prove tn; he is of good moral character before can wed a Chickasaw maiden.
 The rise in the cost of building m terials and in the wages of labor h. led to the suspension of work on thir government buildings which are in va fOuS stages of erection in differe parts of the United States.
 Representative Jones, of WashingtO has introduced a bill providing that new forest reserves shall be create and that additions to existing reserv shall be made hereafter only by a of congress.
 Albuquerque is making preparatio ro celebrate Memorial day in a ye elaborate manner. The services W be participated in by Union and G federate and Spanish-Amerlcan so ierS.
 The Santa Fe railroad company | appointed a mining engineer who W Under the supervision of the industr commissioners of the company, ma a thorough investigation of all mini properties and mining districts alo the Santa Fe railroad.
 Fire destroyed the opera house, C hall and three business houses WeIlston. Ohio. last night. The fire of incendiary origin and is the sever within a week. Loss, SIO,OOO-
 General Joseph Wheeler will deli an address at the southern industT convention at Chattanooga, Tenness tonight on The South and Its Ike lion to the Trade of the Philippines Q rhe Orient"
 Populist headquarters will be est lished at Lincoln, where most Of political yagaries of the present c are generated.
 The great burden of responsibil resting upon Mir TOwDe will take cation immediately after the kani City convention
 Dom Paul Pingree can not conc his amaZement that a man like Roo velt should refuse an office like Il ol vice-president.
 The nomination of Bryan and Tow two. smooth-faced men, is a great bl to the bewhiskered style of pOpuli in vogue four years ago.
 Germany is still supplying the Fl pino iunta at Hong Kong with arr This may furnish a clew to the sou from which General AguinaldO deri his legs.
 If the paper trust has any such tn as a charitable instince, it ought to touched by the demand for tablets fhe use of the various committees resolutions.
 The Colorado Midland railroad been sold to the Colorado Southern
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