Arizona silver belt., 1901-01-03
GENERAL NEWS.
Brief Mention of Events of Interest
 Throughout the world.

Throughout the world.
 There has recently been very heavy
 buying of American stocks in Wall
 street on foreign account. It is estl-
 mated that in ten days purchases for
 London aggregated 750, GOO shares.
 It is estimated that a permanent
 channel II feet deep can be construct
 ed from St. Louis to Lake Michigan,
 by way of the Illinois river, for S,1,
 OOO,OO The figure is much less than
 was anticipated,
 In the neighborhood of Sl75, GOO, 900 in dividends will be disbursed in New
 York early in January, which is Sl0,- OO0. 900 in excess of the amount dis tributed at the beginning of 1900, and is far ahead of all previous records
 The startling announcement is made that there are no less than 30, 900 lapers in the Philippines, the major portion of these being in the Niscayas. A commission is now engaged in the work of selecting suitable island for the purpose of isolating all the lepers in the archipelago.
 AS near as We can make out, says the Boston Herald, the latest phase uf the legal contest over the Csstellane bric-a-brac debts, it is the contention nf the innnll atut. hat h., held responsible for the counts bric-a- brac extravagances, and that the stuff was not genuine, anyway. It other words, the defendant didn't borrow the pot, and it was cracked when he borrowed it.
 Russell A. Gardner, a vehicle manu- lecturer of St. Louis, has given SlO.- 900 tO his employees as a Christmas present When he balanced up his books for the year he found that his concern had earned sl0,0 more than he expected and more than he needed for his business or personal wants. He then distributed the sum in pro- portion to the employees years of service.
 There are now more than twenty treaties pending before the United States senate. Several of them have been hung up for three and four years, and cannot be ratified because some senator or another has discovered or suspects that the interests of his con. stituents are to be unfayorabiy affect ed, even in the slightest degree. This IS illustrated in remarkable manner by the attitude of the California sen ators toward the reciprocity treaty | with France. They oppose its ratif- cation for fear of competition in wal | nuts, and for that reason they are de- termined to prevent people in other parts of the country from enjoying the benefits which reciprocal trade with France will bring them.
 The judge of the United States court in Porto Rico bears the musical name of Sulzbacher and comes from New Mexico, where he learned spanish and became the friend of Senator Elkins, which accounts for his ap- Dointment, says the Washington cor respondent of the Chicago Record That Judge Sulzbacher is diplo- natst and man of ready resources a ittle incident in his judicial career VIII prove. Before the policy of con ,ress and the administration toward , 'ur new possessions was developed. ndge Sulzbacher prematurely de- ided that the constitution follows the lag. This judicial precedent might [ ave troubled other people. but it gave ' i'm no concern whatever, because the rst time any one questioned his de- |, ision he replied: "it is true that 1 ,i cid that the constitu ton follows the < az, but ] did not say with what speed c does the following" d