Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-10

Last year Montreal shipped 2S6,OOO barrels of apples to Europe; the year before, 393,0O0 barrels. From pres ent appearances this years shipments will be at least twice as large as last years.
 Lightning has killed so many cat tie while they were standing near wire fences that it is proposed to di- minish the danger by means of ground wires, which will conduct the electricity into the earth.
 Wurtemburg has sent 5000 French harps to the German troops in China. The instruments bear Prince Bis marck's motto: "We Germans fear God and nothing else ill the world"
 Goods valued at S4331, which Mrs. Fuphemia Hall, a Chicago dress maker, is charged with attempting to smuggle at Hoboken, New Jersey, have been recommended for confisca- tion.
 An increase of about 100000 in the population of the United States in ten years will be shown by the census and only about 100000 of the num- Der is due to immigration.
 During the Galveston storm two women were carried out into the gulf, where they spent Saturday night Not till the next morning did the tide bring them back to where the rescuing parties could reach them.
 The whole population between Can ton and West River in China, is in a state of dangerous irritation in conse- quence of the circulation of bogus edicts telling of the defeat of the al | lies and through the machination of secret societies. Rioters are plunder ing villages, especially convertss' houses. British and French gun boats patrolling the waterway had a salutary effect, prventing attacks on steamers.
 The Russian legation has withdrawn from Pekin.
 The coal miners strike in Pennsyl- vania shows no signs of settlement
 Golden Rule Jones, of Toledo, will | accompany Bryan on his New York Tour.
 The population of Los Angeles is 102,479 as given out by the census bureau.
 About ASSOC voters have registered for the November election in Homo lulu.
 Twenty natives were drowned and thousands made homeless in the floods in India.
 The trial of Henry Youtsey for complicity in the GOebel murder is ill progress at Georgetown, Kentucky.
 Seventy-two new coal mines have been opened in Prussia this year, in creasing the output for 1900 by 2,500, 900 tons.
 Zachary Taylor has been nominated for congress by the republicans of the Tenth Tennessee congressional dis trict.
 The U. S. training ship Dixie sailed from New York few days ago on cruise which will last until next April.
 The furnaces of the Lorain, (O9 Steel company, which have been idle nearly three months, will be put in blast again as soon as repairs are made.
 B. L. Winchell, vice president and traffic manager of the Colorado and Southern Railway, has accepted the presidency of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad.
 The government of The Neither lands has notified Great Britian that compensation will be demanded for the expulsion from the Transvaal of employees of The Netherlands rail road
 Hundreds of land seekers from the central west are arriving at Brewster, Wash, to secure locations in the Col vile Indian reservation, which will be opened for settlement on October 10.
 The British steamship Eagle Point, just arrived at Philadelphia from Lon don, reports that she collided with the British steamer Biela, from New York for Manchester, England, and the lat ter vessel sank. All hands were saved.
 Four negroes were lynched at Pont chatoula, La, where they were taken from jail. The town has recently been infested with negro burglars, and the four victims were under ar rest, charged with robbery.
 The London Standard says it un- derstands that the British govern ment has already received offers for underground mining rights in the Transvaal, which will go long way toward meeting the cost of the war.
 The French warship Avalanche, which has been investigating the killing of Christians near Canton, re- ports that the crews of eight pirate junks have sought to destroy all Christian villages on the Canton Delta.
 The Pekin Gazette is the name of a paper that has been issued daily in China for the past 500 years. It has a limited circulation, being confined to one copy day, but it is very prom inent in the affairs of China. It con sists of sixteen pages, and is posted on the outer wall of the Forbidden City every day about noon.
 Germany has negotiated loan of S16,0O0,00O in New York, England one of S25,001.000 and Sweden one of Sl0OO0,000. It is mostly the money of poor men and women deposited in savings banks and insurance compa- nies. Bryan promises to prevent this as effectually as Cleveland pre- vented it. The democratic method of the suppression of banks is to keep the people from having any money on deposit in them. It works all right.
 Two Mexicans recently went to the ranch of Jose Marugez and Antonio Gut.errez in Doni AIa cJll. y. New Mexico, after darh, presumably for