Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-07-30
HEWS. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The agricultural appropriation bill passed at the last session of congress contained a provision whereby the secretary was authorized to expend SlO,OOO for the purpose of making an investigation of the possibilities of silk worm culture in the United States.
 Mme Edmund Sempis of Paris, formerly Miss Louise Rutherford of Br3oklyn, \. Y., was set upon by two great Dane dogs, which were secured to guard her husbands country house at Annery lake. and so terribly injured that she died two hours after the attack.
 One hundred and twenty-four cases of cholera have been reported in Cairo, Egypt. The epidemic is most virulent. Many natives die in the streets.
 Another desperate battle was fought on Caddo county, Indian ter rilory soil, between Sheriff Jim Thompson and Deputy Sheriff Smith and band of horse thieves under the leadership of Charles Johnson, alleged to be the Mexican outlaw for whom a big reward is offered by Pre- sident Diaz. The officers raided the pasture where the horse thieves had rounded mp a bunch of stolen ami mals. The fight followed. Johnson and several Of his men were wounded and captured, their horses and guns being con6scated. The officers es- capped unwounded. The fight occur red on the South Canadian river.
 The Souferiere volcano on St. Yin cent island, has been slightly in eruption twice since last Monday. A severe earthquake shock, accompanied by tidal wave, affected the north eastern point of the island, washing the fireswept state. No further de- struction was done Many of the people, both of the wealthier classes and laborers, are leaving the city, fearing disaster.
 Earthquake shocks were experi- enced Sunday night and Monday at different points from California to Iowa. They were quite severe in Ne braska and parts of Dakota. From Sl2,000 to Sl5,000 damagei was done to an oil company's property in Cali fornia, and the course of the Santa Ynez river was slightly changed.
 W. H. Katzenstein, a Tucson po- lice officer, was brutally murdered on Saturday night about II o'clock by one Tendoro Elias. When taken into custody by other officers Elias said: T have killed him and you can kill me now Mir. Katzenstein was both a peace officer and assistant engineer of the fire department. 4 fire broke out and Mir. Kat zeustein reported there at once. He removed his belt and re- volver and then be went 10 remove a cap from a hydrant. While thus engaged Elias, who had probably observed that he was un- armed, approached and fired five shots at him from a 3S-calibre re- yolver. The fatal shot took effect under the right eye and entered the brain.
 The passenger department of the Penneylvania railroad has issued an official denial of the story that it had forbidden kissing at its Jersey City station. Officials of the road. so the story ran, had instructed the guards al the depot 10 prevent arriving and departing passengers from saluting friends and relatives with kisses. on the ground that the giving of the mark of affection served 10 delay pas sengers and caused blockades. Pas senger officials of the road investi- gated the story and declared that it was the fabrication of a reporter for a New York paper.
 / A Chihuahua. Mexico. dispatch. re- ports the robbery of the Wells-Fargo express car on the northbound Mexi can Central of S53.000. three Ameri cans are said to have heldsup the messenger and footed the safe The robbery occurred near Bermijillo. The bandits escaped but the rurales are in pursuit.
 Earl Fosdvke, nineteen years. old, of Matthews, Ind, who went to Wichita, Kas-, to visit his uncle, R. W. Ross, disappeared five days ago and was discovered Wednesday, liv- ing and feeding" with cattle in a pasture six miles south of Wichita