Arizona silver belt., 1900-06-07
GENERAL NEWS.
Brief Mention of Interesting Facts and Happenings
 of the Universe.
ASTHEY OCCUR WEEKL Y.
A Condensation of Telegraph and Cable Messages, Giving Prefer red Space to the News of
 Our Own Land.

New Mexi o', new capitol at Santa Re was de,licated last Monday.
 Two women have been elected dele gates tD the republican national con. ventian, one from Utah and the other from Idaho.
 New York advices f on Jerome, Ariz. sly that the Equator mine, be- longing to Senator w. A. Clark, has s2,Uu0, eco worth of ore blncked out
 The Washington Post has special cab. gram from Paris, representing that Commissioner General Peck is m a state of collapse and is likely to re- sign.
 The senate has agreed to the amend meuts to the military academy OiH making General Miles lieutenant general and General Corbin major general.
 Ktn-as farmers, according to re- ports, have in sight the greatest wheat crop m its history, exceeding that Of 1892. when they harvested 1l,OOO,OOo bushels of wheat.
 In less than decade Mexico has doubled its revenues, doubled It's eX- ports, likewise it's factories, and tripled it's banking capital, and prosperity in thls rejuvenated republic is just as pronounced as ever during the decade.
 A bench warrant was issued, at Frankfort, Ky, May 3l, for the arrest of ". $. Taylor on the indictment charging him with being accessory before the fact to the wilfnl murder of William Gobel, Taylor is in h. dianapolis.
 W. s. Taylor, late claimant for Jhe Kentucky governorship thinks 1t IS healthier for him to remain in lndl- ana. and it is said will become an eX- ecutive manager for New York in- sur4nce company. with headquarters in Indianapolis.
 The locomotive engineer who ran the first railway train in this country, on the trip made between Albany and Schenectady on May 27, 1929, is living in New York city, at the age of 93 years. His name is Wood Benson, and his health is still good,
 The New York Times is disposed to point with pride to the fact that checks aggregating s35, ,OOO, coo, drawn on two banks in that city, were paid over to 2 trust company there on single trans action last week. with not even the f suggestion of a disturbance in the | money market.
 Chairman Babcock of the republican national congressional committee, has decided to move its headquarters from Washington to Chicago and begin bus mess immediately after the national convention, on the theory that the most vigorous campaign will be fought in the west.
 1he capital invested in the United States in manufacturing playing cards is 5,000,000 and the annual output 3O,- OOO,OO packs. Nine-tenths of these are made by two concerns, which send them to every country in the world. save France and Italy, where govern mental monopoly controls their manu- facture.
 Recent heavy rains threaten another
 
 serious flood in Texas. The Brazos river rose twenty-three feet on the night of May 90, and was still rising at the rate of six inches an hour. The Colorado river was reported to be ris- ing and the Trinity was out of its banks. Damage to the wheat and cot ton crops is reported
 Sir Edward Carson. who has just been appointed to the $50, ,000 solicitor generalship of Great Britain, is an Irishman from Dublin. He is a tall, lanky man, which justifies the remark of reporter, who, describing the dis tinguished lawyers appearance in court, said that he rose at great length to reply.
 A London cablegram says; The viceroy of India. Lord Curzon of Ken dleston, telegraphs that good rain has fallen in Mysore and that scattered showers have fallen elsewhere. The | cholera in many parts of Bombay and Raiputana has not abated. It is caus- ing much mortality and impedes the relief work. There are now }, 73O,0 | persons in receipt of relief.
 Samuel $. Cupples and Robert s. Brookings have transferred stock val u,d at S5,000,00O to the Washington university of St. Lotus, which will make it one of the best endowed edu- cational institutions in the world It already has an endowment of s2,OOO,- 900 and S2,0O0,O more is in prospect now that something big has been done in this line.
 The police commissioners of St: Louis issued an order directing the sheriff to swear in 2,500 deputies to