Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-11-06
NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS

Ex-Senator Shoup of Idaho, has re-
 signed as member of the republican
 national committee.
 The Venezuelan war is over.
 Col. Pat Grove has opened his typewriter again. This time he offers
 to surrender if the officers will prom
 ise to let him out on bail and make
 things generally pleasant for him.
 A safe in the town of Huxley,
 thirty miles north of Des Moines, was
 blown open by robbers during the
 night and S700 taken.
 A dispatch from Columbus, Miss,
 says that six negros were shot to
 death at Live Oak church, three miles
 from Balltown, La, one white man
 killed, another fatally wounded, and
 two negro women and child burned
 ed to death in Lott's rertaurant,
 which had been fired by the whites to
 dislodge Lott and the others who were
 firing at the whites from the counters.
 Lott had been running a restaurant at the camp meeting without a
 license and the constable and posse attempted an arrest; the blacks fired on the posse, and fight ensued with fatal results. Balltown was the scene of the recent burning of negro for criminally assaulting Mrs. John Ball.
 The state department has been ad- vised by its agents at Constantinople and Sofia that communication has been established with Miss Stone. No details were furnished.
 Commandant Botha had a narrow escape from being captured recently. Major Remington, of the English army, marched on the commander-in- chiefs quarters at night, only to find Botha had gone of with few hun dred yards start, leaving his hat. re- volver and papers behind. Ten pris oners, including Commandant Hans Botha and farmer Landrost Schutte, were captured.
 Conductor Mike Harrigan of the Pecos Valley, New Mexico, railroad, died suddenly on his train the other day of heart disease.
 Subscriptions aggregating Sl7,OOO have been taken in Albuquerque to secure the Albuquerque and Eastern railroad.
 A man in Missouri had five daugh- ters, four of them married to men named Short, Brown, Poor and Lit tie. The fifth was united last week to man by the name of Hogg. At the wedding supper the old gentle men said to the guests: q have taken pains to educate my daughters that they might act well their part in life and do honor to my family. I find that all my pains, cares and ex- pectations have come at last to noth- ! ing but Poor. Little, Short, Brown, Hogg."
 One of twelve bodies brought from Manila by the transport Meade was that of Corporal John A. Dolan of the volunteer infantry, who was captured and starved to death by the ladrones of Laguna province, sixty miles south of Manila. The remains are in a small box, for l all that was found of Dolan by his | after they had driven the Filipino bandits from their strong hold in that neighborhood, months after his capture, was only a portion of his body, with a ring still around 1ne of his shriveled fingers, which served to identify him. The remains will be kept at the Presidio, awaiting the claim of friends or relatives. Do an is said to have come from Tenne- see.
 Fort Leavenworth, the most beau- -iful of Uncle Sam's military estab- ishments, embraces 1000 acres of and, which, with the military estab- ishment upon it, represents an in 7estment of S5,0O0OOO Congress las authorized the expenditure of ap- other S5,OOO,OOO in improvements.
 An attempt was made the other lay to assassinate the empress dow lger of China.
 The rope of a captive balloon, in which there were eight men and one woman, broke in San Francisco on and the airship rose to a height of 2,0OO feet and soaIed away or a distance of about forty or fifty niles, when it returned to earth. The had thrilling ride and es- :aped uninjured.
 Missionaries in China who have lad an opportunity of guaging the emper of the people believe there { will be recurrence of the Boxer out { ,reak in China, certainly within five -ears. This is the alarming news LOW in possession of the state de- ,artment as a result of representa- { ions believed to have been made by 1 special Commissioner W. W. Rock , ill. [
 Beginning on Sunday a new coast 0 coast limited is to be run from New fork to San Francisco by the New York Central, Lake Shore and the Hartman lines west of Omaha. The rain will be fast one, and will have sclose Boston connection at New 'ork. The new service will be two l tights from New York and Boston to Denver, three nights to Salt Lake and our to San Francisco.
 A Paris telegram of Nov. 2, says: '. III three of the Castellane brothers ave made themselves conspicuous = his week. Count Stanislau, the !, who recently married Miss . 'erry, niece of Sybil Sanderson, z aused a great scandal yesterday by Z in a railway station, in he presence of his bride and several riends, Gabriel Paschaud, member [ f the chamber of deputies, who had Iritten an article entitled, "Barnum, , & O." in which be called C he Castelldne family crafty hum tugs, and severely analysed the re- . ord of each one, from the old Mar uis down. A duel is inevitable. )ount Boni announces that he will - ltroduce into the chamber of depu-
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