Arizona weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1885-1903, 1900-06-13
THE PITH OF THE NEWS
Most Important Features Of the
Worlds Daily DOings Boiled
Down for Busy Men.
II is SpiCsd With Brief Comments of Men
and Their Actions, and Public Events.

No new developments in the plague
situation at San Francisco.
Wheat reached the highest point. in
the Chicago board of trade, ON June
II. since last October.
The Pennsylvania division of the
Sons of Veterans are holding their
annual encampment at New Castle to-
day. 1t will continue until Wednes-
day.
y dispatch from Tien Tsin says it
is reported that the Chinese dOwager
empress has fed to the Russian lega-
tiOn at Pekin.
The pope is reported seriously ill and
his relatives have been summoned.
Only his doctors. the domestic pre-
lates and Cardinal RampOlla are al
lowed in his private room.
The Beers are reported TO have
killed two British officers and fifteen
men and to have wounded five officers
and seventy men and to have captured
800 men at ROOdeville. on June Z.
Four persons killed and twenty-five
injured in Il railroad wreck at PrOvi-
dence. Rhode Island. Lieutenant- Gov
ernOr Kimban is among the injured
and is not expected to live.
A 3-year old child fell from the win
dow of Staten island train while
the latter was at full speed. When re-
covered the babe was unhurt save
for few scratches on its forehead.
An epidemic of black cancer rash
prevails at West Derby. Il suburb of
Newport. Vermont. About fifty houses
have been closed and everything pos
sible is being done to prevent further
spread of the plague.
The Rev Edgar NJ. Levy. of Phila-
republican convention in 1856. which
nominated Fremont for president. will
probably act as chaplain at the coming
republican convention.
NJ Danysz. of the Pasteur institute.
has found a microbe which will wipe
rats ont of existence. He has tried the
effect of his microbe in warehouses.
farms and other places. and in 20 per
ceslt of cases the rats completely dis
appeared.
: PalonOg. on Masbate island. south
of Luzon. was captured by military
and naval expedition on the Goth ult
The islanders were found suffering
from lack of food. owing to the block
ade and the American authorities are
endeavOring to relieve them.
1t is said in London that John Nor
ley. the author and politician. upon he
ing told that the Rev. Charles NJ. Shell
don had engaged passage from New
York to England, remarked: "One
would have expected the author of
In His Footsteps to have walked
across
Since the enactment of Wisconsin's 5
marriage license law the number of
marriages in Milwaukee has decreased
S3 per cent. In 1888 the number of
ceremonies performed in that city was
1906 and in 1899 there were but 2S10
weddings. Milwaukee had formerly
ben the "Gretna Green" for couples
from states adjacent to Wisconsin.
At the first performance of Sousa' $
band i'll the American section of the
Paris exposition the enthusiasm of the
great audience of Americans that gath
cred 10 hear it did not break all bounds
until the Cake Walk" and other rag
time pieces We're played. Then the
American colony became delirious.
The French present couldn't under
stand it.
The warning just sent out by the
state department against the swind-
ling advertisements relating to pre-
tended estates in England awaiting
claimants is only repetition of simi-
lar warnings. and it is not expected
that it will put an end TO these frauds.
The English attorneys who are engag-
ed in this business have apparently as
complete an equipment as the regular
dealers in green goods
Minnesota alone produces approx
mately about SS0.0O0.OO0 bushels of
the total production of the world. Of
this she is able to export twO-thirds
Of the DakOtas. not having begun to
reach their limit of productiveness.
North Dakota raised in 1899 $4,000
OOO bushels and South Dakota 42.0O0.-
COO. Oregon produced 24.000.000
Oregon produced 24,OO0,OOO bushels.
The German foreign office has re-
ceived dispatch from Pekin. dated
Sunday noon. saying the American
missionary house on the Tung Chow
river. ut Port Pekin, was burned by
natives The officials of the foreign of
flee supposed that this happened Sat
urday or Sunday morning. The dis
patch further says that the Interna-
tional club outside of Pekin has been
burned and the Belgian secretary of
legation attacked by Chinese soldiers.
The foreign Office expresses fear that
the German embassy will be next at
tackled. The German gunboat Tiger
has been ordered to sail for China.
Farmers of Nodaway county, Mis-
souri,. are complaining that cut worms
are destroying corn. and hundreds of
acres have been replanted during the
past two weeks.