Arizona silver belt., 1900-03-08
GENERAL NEWS.
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts and Happenings
 of the Universe.
THEY OCCUR WEEKLY,
A Condensation of Telegraph and Cable Messages, Giving Prefer rcd Space to the News of
 Our Own Land.

The statement lS SiVeu out Dy tht Mormon church authorities that they have 10000 missionaries at work in the south.
 The Denver post-ays The average salary paid lo Methodist preachers in the United States Is s473 a year. Whom el.oru luvetnHe chasteneth." '"
 New York proposes to hold a worlds fair in 1909 in commenoratlun of the 30Oth annive rsary uf the discovery of the Hudson liver by Hendrix Hudson.
 During the past 200 years England has spent over S6,000,U00, GOO in war, which now cost, sl00, 900. 600 year in interest. War |, good thing for the bondhoders.
 This year viii not be the frs, time that the democrats have held thelr na- tional convention on the Fourth of July. They nominated HoratiU SeS mour on the same day in 1868.
 Howard Gould offers to be one of the four men to contribute S25,000 each to the fund for perpetuating the Dewey arch, to be paid on Decem- Der 2l, 1900 provided up to that time the subscriptions amount to s4OO, ,o00
 More persons were killed and in- iured in the factories of New ! ork last year than were killed and wound ed in the war with Spain. These lig- ares come from state bureau, and suggest the necessity of reform some where.
 When all the warships under con stiuction are completed the United States will call for 3,O34 officers and 32,933 men. Ships now in commission are manned by l,062 officers and h. .996 men.
 The United States goye-nnsn. has assurance froni Costa Rica and Nica- rauga that they are willing to lease territory to the United States for 100 years, if necessary, for the cpnstruc- ton of the Nicarauga canal.
 At the annual meeting of the Giant Powder company in san Francisco on the 24th ult, the financial statement showed net profits of 500 s6s.O4 in fourteen months. payment of s1l9.. 97O in dividends, a net surplus of sS9,- s93.O4. and assets of sl, 269, ,s3S.1l.
 It only requires twelve days to go from New York City to Dawson. What change from few years ago when months were consumed in the trip. The city of Dawson has nearly IS 900 inhabitants and is up to date in every particular.
 The cigar output for 1s9o. exceed ing 5000, ,OOO, 900, surpassed all records. As compared with 1895 there was gain of nearly LOO, 900, 900, or Il per cent. and the production was greater by more than 25O,o0O, ,000 than in the best previous year, 1892.
 New Orleans has secured the largest floating drydock in the world. The dock is being constructed by the gov ernment It will be j25 feet long, 100 feet wide and 2S feet in draft, and IS capable of lifting any ship built. It will cost sl,00O, 900, and will be com pleted in the fall
 There were in Ladysmith at the be- ginning of the siege, l2,OOO troops, 2.OO0 civilians and 1000 natives. Be- tween casualties and sickness 5000 soldiers passed through the hospital. The total casualties were: Killed or died of wounds, l4 officers, 231 men; died of disease, six officers, 340 men; wounded, 70 officers, 520 men, eNclu- siye of white civilians and natives.
 Of the s1O,O0O, ,OO0, 900 of gold pro- ducsd in the world since the discovery of America. more than one-half has been found since 1860, and more than one quarter since 1885 or, to put it in other words, one-half of the gold mined in the last 100 years has been produced within forty years and one fourth within fifteen years. says the Scientific American.
 The Mexican government has on its hands 272 women and 362 children of the families of the Yaqui prisoners captured in the Mazocoba battle, few weeks since. They were sent to Man zanillo in the gnnboat Oaxaca, thence distributed to Guadalajara, lrapuato, Sjloa. Leon and other interior towns. These are apart from the 600 prisoners sent also to Manzlnillo some time since.
 One of the most remarkable eX- ampes of municipal ownership in the United States is shown by the town re- ports of Edinburg, Ind. Incandescent electric lights are furnished to resi- dents for r. cents q month for l6- candle power lights. Water works are also operated at an annual charge of >i to each customer, and complete and perfect telephone exchange is maintained with q monthly rental or 50 cents.