Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-05-01

In Switzerland telephone in pri
 vate house costs S7.50 a year. Btu
 the state owns the telephones il
 Switzerland.
 The Albany Telegram says that the
 New York legislature adjourned after
 one of the most exciting sessions on
 record. Never before has the irrecon.
 cilable antagonism between New York
 and therest of the empire been brought
 out so forcibly.
 A revolutionary war claim for S400, ] the special value of which was S46.09,
 contracted under the act of l779, has
 just been liquidated by the treasury
 department. The interest and princi-
 pal amounted to Sl2,906.20.
 Tucson has assurance now that the
 railroad shops there are to be greatly l increased in size; in fact much more
 than doubled and will be made the principal shops on the line of the
 Southern Pacific railroad between
 Sacramento and New Orleans. The
 railroad company recently paid Sl6,
 900 for tract of land adjoining the
 city on which the erection of the new shops will begin soon. The new shops, it is stated, on good authority, will employ no less than 800 men.
 Prescott Hotel arrivals. April B: W H Smith, city; W J Hemphill, J Middleton, Jacksonville, III; Geo E Brown, c W Gibbs, Mayer; NJ R Riley, Minnehaha; F H Blake, Tue son; R s Sturmer, Jerome; F Hartford, Los Angeles; W \ Dill, Decatur, III; E A Merton, Kansas City; H NJ Samank, Topeka; H J Buckley, E c Barr, NJ F Robinson, Springfield, Mass; W D Smith, Massachusetts; c D Carpenter, Holyoke; E c Roberts, Hinsdale; F Carpenter, Holyoke; W P Fogg and wife, Springfield; L K Seymour, Hartford; H J Hendy and i wife, Maude Hendy, Torrington; J NJ Gooding, Portland; Geo Nightingale, Holyoke; B H Dingley, Lewistown; D W Judd, Holyoke; N c Webster, s. F., P. & P. Go.
 A special dispatch from Vienna says that the Car has signed the de- cree expelling Tolstoi from Russia and that the decree has been served.
 The greatest number of men ever on one structure was the Gizeh pyramid, where 100000 men were in forced labor. This pyramid is 450 feet high and covers an area of thirteen acres, twice the dimensions of any other building in the world, in one instance taking 2,000 men three years in bringing single stone from the quarry.
 The Cologne Volks Zeitung prints from a German mis- sionary in China saying that Boxers are preparing for another great up- rising especially in the districts of Kuang Ping Flu and Mai Ming Flu, where the population sympathizes with them because of the famine there. The populace consistently dis regards decrees issued by the authori- ties.
 Just after the last act of theatri- , gal performance at Washington, in ; which Bob" Fitzsimmons took part, , Mrs. EitZsimmons came across Miss Jessie Ralph, member of the com Oany, of whom she appeared to be I jealous, and struck her in the face, S olacking her eye and bringing forth T l shriek and flood of tears. Robert ( heard the commotion in his dressing z ,oom and immediately proceeded to [ he scene of the combat and gave his i wife well blackened eye by blow with his fist. Robert was arrested.
 Patrick A. McHugh, of Dublin, na- ( ionalist member of parliament for I north Leitrim and three times mayor l ,f Sligo, has been sentenced to four months imprisonment as first class | for publishing in the : Sligo Champion seditious libels. The comments complained of attacked urymen who found two men guilty r # intimidating persons who had T aken farms from which their former IT enant had been evicted. Policeman Charles Sweeney, of Jop- c in, Mo-, was shot and killed and off c CT Bert Brannon fatally wounded c while attempting to arrest five tramps 1 ound in a box car. Officers were a aking the men to the station when me shot both policemen from behind. 9our escaped. The fifth, Chas Roby, 1 yave himself uD.
 THURSDAYS DAILY \
 Boom the Fourth of July celebra- ' ion.
 J. H. Chambers, of Phenix, is in own. a
 A. J. Pickrell is in town from his t mining camp.
 Col. J. H. Martin, of Tucson, came f ID on this mornings train. 2
 Refreshments will be served at the T sale on Friday evening.
 Ice cream and cake will be served r 1t the rummage sale tomorrow night. f
 Ice cream and cake at the rummage a ale tomorrow, Friday. night. s
 E. NJ. Doe, the well known attorney q 'f Flagstaff, is in town today on legal ! business.
 The girls club will meet at the opera house from ' to s o'clock tomor- | 'ow Friday evening. (
 Col. J. T. Dougine came up yester- lay from Camp Dougine in the Santa I