Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-02-05
NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS.

'f A blizzard has been cavortlng 1T around large area of the east. U Ten men of the command of Capt
 David D. Porter, United States mar ' inc corps, who failed to return from 2 an expedition into the interior of Samar arestill missing and little hope
 of their safe return is entertained. a The ways and means committee of k Congress has entered upon the ques- D ton of reducing the war revenue t taxes. Tea and beer interests have ], been heard.
 While the six children of Robert !, Shield of Tacoma, Washington, were gathered around stove, water tank which had frozen as the result of a blizzard exploded, injuring all six. | MT. Carnegie has eclipsed all rec l ords for philanthropy, especially in his work of founding libraries. Up , to date he has established 177 librar- , ies in the United States at, a cost of S17, ,508,000.
 Thomas Middleton, chief account
 ant of Yukon territory cut his throat
 from ear to ear with razor when
 S10,000 dedication of his was dis
 covered.
 The extra session of the Colorado legislature, called by Governor Or
 man to pass new revenue law and employers liability law and to con
 slider questions affecting corporations, etc, met on Monday.
 Signor Lapponi, the pope's physi-
 clan. says the pope is in excellent
 health andis looking forward joyfully to the fetes which celebrate his 9
 years as pontifcate. These fetes will
 begin the last of March and continue
 a year.
 The banking business of Laidlaw
 & Company, of New York, the senior
 member of which, Henry B. Laidlaw,
 died January 8, will be continued un-
 der the old style by the surviving
 partners, Charles B. Laidlaw, al
 brother, James Lees Laidlaw, son,
 and Edward Roesler, son-in-law, of
 the deceased gentleman.
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 The announcement is made that H.
 c. Prick will build a new hotel in
 Pittsburg which will cost five million
 dollars and will surpass any in the country. This price is inclusive of the ground. The building will be thirteen stories high. Prick drew over S25, 100000 out of the Carnegie | company when it was sold to the steel trust.
 Philip Veidelburg of Madison county undoubtedly holds the record | in Indiana for marriages. He is 5S years of age and has been married twelve times. He is the proud father of thirty-two children. Itis said that Veidelburg hopes to live long enough | to marry his thirteenth wife. He was born in Germany and came from family whose ancestors settled in New York during the colonial period.
 Rear Admiral Kimberly, U. s. N, retired, died on Tuesday of heart dis ease. He entered the navy in lS46. |
 The senate committee on public lands has unanimously ordered fav orable report on the irrigation bill re- gently agreed upon by the senators and members of the house from the semi i-arid states. Senator Berry re- served the right to offer amendments.
 The management of the Santa Fe company has decided to establish at Albuquerque the largest archeologi- cal and ethnological museum in the United States. The purpose of the venture is to provide a novel attrac- tion at that place. The museum will contain collection valued at between S100,0O0 and S150,0O0. The collec- tion will be largely from the ruins of New Mexico and Arizona, but will in- clude exhibits from almost every country on the globe.
 Ten tramps, the majority of whom were armed with revolvers, took pos session of an east bound Denver & Rio Grande freight train, five miles east of Florence, Colorado, drove the brakemen into the caboose and held the train by force until Pueblo water works three and half miles of Pue- bio were reached. The Publo police officers, who had been notified by the railroad authorities, captured the en- tire gang. A charge of grand larceny will be made against the prisoners.
 A long dispatch from Lord Kitch- ener gives the details of military operations since January 2l, indica tive of continued activity on the part of the Boers. General Methuen's ]; Yeomanry got in trouble near Rie- toloi, Western Transvaal, and lost eight men killed, five wounded and forty one made prisoners. The weeks Boer losses were thirty one men killed, I twenty wounded, 322 made prisoners and fifty three surrendered. .
 Mrs. Melissa Emily Saxton, widow [ of James Saxton and cousin of Mrs. { Mckinley, died at St. Joseph, Mo-, Thursday night, aged S4. (
 Edward and John Riddle, awaiting execution in the county jail at Pitts burg, for the murder of Grocer Kha- ! ney, over powered their guards and :. escaped. The prisoners occupied ad :, joining sells on the second range. Evidently they had assistance from the outside, as both were armed with !! revolvers. The escape was cleverly I planned and executed with daring | boldness. The criminals first attack ed Keeper McGeary and threw him to the stone floor sixteen feet below. Then with drawn revolvers they over | powered the remaining guards, shoot ing Guard Reynolds and locking in {; a cell all three. Then taking the | keys from McGeary, they hastened to change clothing and passed into the street. There is strong suspicion ' that the Riddles escaped with the as- . sistance of the wife of Warden Sof- e fett. Both men are desperate crimi 2 nals. |
 In his message to the legislature t Governor Orman of Colorado recom- mends the re-enactment of the reve- V nue bill which corporations attacked ' in the courts, with an additional pro- t vision for the assessment of mining property, whether producing or non producing. The governor suggests O additional protection for miners; ad- h vises the passage of measure that will insure the Louisiana purchase .