Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-06-20

Nevada republicans will support Irving M. Scott for vice-president.
 Albuquerque has voted bonds 10 con struct a viaduct across the santa Fe railroad tracks.
 General Kelley-Kenny reports that his troops have defeated the Boers where they cut the British lines.
 Greenwich. Connecticut has just dedicated a monument to General Putnam. of revolutionary fame.
 The new Cunard steamer Ivernia, now plies between Liverpool and Bos- ton instead of New York as hereto fore.
 The president has issued the procla- nation formally announcing the estab- lishment of the reciprocity agreement with Portugal
 Missouri has twelve democrats in the house of representatives Eleven voted against the Nicaragua canal and the twelfth stayed away.
 The San Francisco board of health has decided to raise the quarantine against Chinatown on June -. which will be twenty days from the verified ton of the last case of plague.
 A careful perusal of the returns from the Oregon election will greatly Stimu- late Colonel Bryan in his determination To hold his tongue until after the Kansas City convention.
 At Livingstonia Polk county. Texas Bruce Pounds and Douglas Hinson fought a duel to the death with Dis rOlS. The duel was the result of quarrel Eleven shots were exchang- ed and both men died in their tracks
 The latest news from South Africa is To the effect that General Dewet. with 13.O0O burgherS. iS marching on Johannesburg. The BOerS have re- taken BloemfOntein. where President Steyn again occupies the presidency. The British sustained a severe defeat at Elandsfontein- They lost 7J0 killed and wounded and 150 prisoners in the fight at NeredefOrt
 News from China indicates that the gravity of the situation has in no way diminished. The news of the burn ing of French and British missions at Yun Nan Flu k regarded as extremely and points to an extension of the re- belIion to remote portions of the em- pire.
 The Yaqui war in Mexico is not ended yet These Indians occupy the
  range fifty miles in length II requires the utmost vigilance on the part of General Torres 60OO troops 10 hold them in check. In q brush Tuesday the Indians lost twelve and the Mexi- cans fifteen killed. Several were wounded.
 Dr. Robert Locke. son of Rev Dr. Locke. of Chicago. committed suicide q. n.=s ~nT by shooting himself through the heart Young Locke. who was physician returned from Manila last month. and has been in San Francisco since then. He has been in poor health. Locke was about 4O years of age and leaves q widow. who is believed to be in Paris.
 George H. Steedman. a countryman from Vandalia. Illinois. got even in Chicago with several confidence men. to whom he gave S16O0 few weeks ago. They had wire-tappins scheme. and Steadman fell in with it. A week after he returned home it began to dawn on him that he had been gold bricked- He consulted Judge Webb a friends. and the judge advised him to write to the confidence men and say he still had faith in the scheme and had a friend who had S1O.000 to invest The confidence men took the bait Webb and Steadman came to Chicago. i conference was arranged with the confidence men in a room at The Sherman house. While the in venrOr" was unfolding his scheme to Webb. Detectives O'Keefe and Morris sey stepped ill and made the arrests
 The body of Fred ClaySon. one of the victims of last winters Klondike trail murders. has been found. The news was brought 10 Victoria. E. C.. by Mrs FuSSel. whose husband kept a road house at Minto. eight miles above where the murder occurred. She served the last meal to the murdered man and fs acquainted with every par ticular of the crime. She believes that O'Brien. now held at Dawson. k guilty The body was found by the police on a sandbank just north of Selkirk- There were two bullet holes in the chest and head The felt shoes worn by Clayson and marks of bicycle pedals and the clothes with those Clayson is known To have worn. The body has been shipped to Dawson. where the trial of the alleged murderer will be held