Arizona weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1885-1903, 1900-05-02
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS
The president and wife are visit
lug their old home at Canton.
General Cronje's second son is il
command of a section of the Boe
army.
Forest fires in Wisconsin are de
stroying property the same as floods il
Texas.
BY vote of 81 to 33 the senate hai
decided that Quay is not entitled to hi
seat.
The Frankfort grand Jury has com
pleted its investigation of the murder
of Goebel.
\ Paris telegram says Turkey viii
pay the indemnity due the United
States.
The porte does not seem to care whaf
the United States or any other eountr!
thinks of it,
Thirty lives We're lost by the ex
plosion of a Turkish torpedo boat of
Brunt Syra-
General Gomez received a big Ova
tion on his return to his old home n
- Domingo.
1t is rumored that ". \. Clark Will
resign his seat in the senate before
that body acts on his ease.
hackett of New Hampshire has
taken the oath of office as assistant
secretary of the navy.
Marquis Polo Barnabo will succeed
the Duke d'Arcos the present Span
ish minister to Washington.
Panuca. Mexico. n town of 11.OOC
persons. was destroyed by fire April
II. Shed roof adobe houses and
wooden business blocks constituted the
city.
\ young man was killed by two foot
pads on the streets of Los Angeles
while walking home with his aged
mother The $50 reward offered for
dead robbers does not seem to prevent
the latter from plying their vocation.
Five men were killed and three in
jured by boiler explosion at the saw
mill of J. n Bray x Co.
y scaffolding collapsed at the Paris
exposition on Sunday. killing -four
workmen and injuring several others.
Governor Tanner. of Illinois, is a
very sick man and must undergo an
operation The doctors say he is
strong enough to stand it and will
come through all right
Louis McQuown, attorney for Beck
ham. the democratic governor of Ken
tucky, has filed his brief with the SUI
preme court in Washington. Lawyers
regard it as Il very strong exposition
of Beckham's case
Miller. who as the head of the Frank
lin syndicate in New York. gained
much celebrity on account of his eX-
Swindling operations. has been sent
enced to ten years Imprisonment.
He received the full penalty of the
law.
Honolulu is now reported entirely
free of the plague.
An attempt to smuggle through a
SIJO.oOO pneumatic tube appropriation
in the post office appropriation bill
was nipped in the bud by Congress
man Moody, of Massachusetts.
Tammany has made arrangements
to go TO Kansas City in force to at
tend the national convention. They
say the New York delegation. although
they may not be instructed will vote
for Bryan's nomination
r. w. Clark. night superintendent
of Davidson Brothers marble works
ut Chicago. was beaten Into insensi-
bility by three men, supposed to he
union working men. Clark's recovery
is doubtful.
Firing being heard ON Wednesday
between Zeastone and Wepener it is
believed that Generals Brabant and
Hart are in contact with the enemy
The Beers are so numerous that il
took them two days to cross the Gale
don river. Mt Bastard-s drife.
One man was blown to atoms. two
fatally injured, and eight men and one
girl received serious injuries by the
explosion of several cans OF blasting
powder and dynamite at Larimer, Pa
The disaster occurred in n large double
frame house. which was blown tC
pieces.
George W. Bean and his four sons
all of SOmerville. Massachusetts. were
AtNGlAiA AldSltI AldSOllS Oll TIT
same evening in Putnam lodge of thai
city. No similar event has ever oc
CURED in Masonic history.
Miss Italia Garibaldi. the grand
daughter of the liberatOr, now visit
ing in this country. is n most accOmp
lished young woman. She has consid
erable literay ability. reads the classic
and speaks four modern languages.
William r. Moody, eldest son OF
the late evangelist. is writing remin
iscences of his father. whom he ac
cOmpanied on many tours as secretary
and manager. He was graduated from
Yale in the class of 81
The crown prince OF Germany, now
is years old, has passed his abiturien
ten examination ut the POleon gym
nasium and will now serve for some
months in the army with the FRS
Prussian Foot Guard regiment n
POtsdam.
Great Britain is beginning to realiZ,
that maps and guidebOOks are of NJ
avail in dealing with the Beers on theil
own ground. If Uncle Sam had sucl
task on his hands he would senC
men to the front who were capabl,
of making a new map that wOulC
throw the enemy into confusion
Globe Democrat.
During the Coeur d'Alene investf
CATION Bartlett Sinclair gave the liz
to Attorney Robertson, representa-:
the miners. Robertson sprang 70
Sinclair, aiming blow ut his face
Several congressman interviewed an,
held Robertson and Sinclair from com
ing together.
Says Mayor Van Wyck. of New
York: L am tired of it all. and whel
my erm is up shall be glad to leav,
office" Mr.. Van Wyck, as is wei
known, wanted to be supreme judge
and it is understood he feels that h
has earned Il fourteen-year term Ol
the bench by his four years of servic
as mayor.
Davenport, Iowa, has Il population
which is very largely German. Th
municipal elections showed Il republi
can gain of 1,500 over the vote of las
year. The republican gains in Nil
waui,ee We're also very large. Thi
does not bear out the claim of tn
demo-pops that the German-Americal
vote is going for Blyan this year.
\ letter to Londcl from Il nurse il
Il hospital in South Africa says tina
it seems that Il number of the dea
found in the field have been wome
| in disguise, and worse tha
all. it is the women who have bee