Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-01-22
NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Ed. Block sold 4,OOO shares of Mer- chants Mining company's stock at the depot yesterday to passengers on train during the brief stop made by it.
 Charles J. George of Los Angeles yesterday purchased the Fitzhugh Lee and Joe Wheeler mines on Big Bug for 1000. The properties have shaft 70 feet deep with a ten foot
 ledge carrying SIS ore.
 1. William Ridenour has given an ex-
 tension of time to the parties who are
 working his copper mines in the
 Grand Canyon. A cash payment of
 S10,OO0 was made, and the company
 have force of men at work, and are
 taking out some of the remarkably
 rich copper ore, for which these mines \ are famous.-Kingman Arrow. At the preliminary run being made
 by the Val Verde Copper Co. with
 their new AS inch circular jacket, cer-
 tain defects have developed in the
 method of water connections which
 were made at the factory on same.
 This threatened to cause serious trouble, making it advisable to put I the furnace out of blast early this
 morning in order to change the same.
 As soon as this change can be made
 the furnace will start up for pro-
 tracted run. The plant is in active
 operation receiving ore and briquet-
 ting concentrates.
 A Kentucky man by the name of
 Stubblefeld has invented and appar-
 ently successfully operated wireless
 telephone. If he makes it practical
 he will make stubble out of the rich
 fields that the telephone trust has
 been reaping for years.
 As the result of the sitting of the
 grand jury at Lisbon, Ohio, D. s.
 Brookman, manager of the Wellsville
 plant of the American Sheet Steel company, was indicted on the charge of discharging Leonard Shaffer, an employe of the local mills, who re- fused to surrender his "Union card"
 "The war might now be regarded as approaching its conclusion" were the words used by King Edward after addressing the officers and after reviewing a draft of 1,2O0 Gren- adiers, Gold Streams and Scots guards who starts for South Africa tomorrow.
 John and Henry Kander, aged re- spectively four and two years, sons of Stephen Kander, of East St. Louis, perished as a result of fire that de- stroyed their home. The parents had left the children alone in the house. l When they returned they found John who was stricken with scarlet fever | several days ago, in bed sufocated. The other child burned to death.
 The London Vanity Fairs cores pondent at Rome writes: ''The death | of the pope may be expected any day as his holiness can only be said to be | just alive. He takes little nourish- | ment and is generally half conscious. He suffers no pain, and simply dozes the hours away without comprehen- sion of what is going on around him."
 Though the wireless telegraph sys- tenn, the Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse, of the North German Lloyd line, just ! arrived at New York from Bremen, Southampton and Cherbourg, was for half the trip eastward and large | part westward of the voyage in al most constant communication with | other vessels or the shore. The ship was practically a floating telegraph . office. Captain D. Hogeman said: It was the most complete test of the Marconi system we ever had"
 Fifteen hundred quarts of nitro glycerine stored in two magazines owned by the St. Maryis torpedo com pany and the Empire Glycerine com pany in a ravine two miles and half southeast of Marion, Ind, exploded Wednesday at about 1:30 o'clock, shaking the entire northern portion of the state. Business blocks and dwelling houses swayed, as if rocked by an earthquake. A yawning hole the bottom of the rayine was all that was left to tell the story. It is thought the explosion was caused by a gas jet in a magazine setting fire to the buildings. As far as known DO one was injured. The nearest house was half mile away.
 As the result of a strange halluci- nation J. E. Sible, and old and trust ed engineer on the Wabash railroad, was fatally injured Wednesday night. Sible was at the throttle of a big locomotive on the limited which was laundering along at forty miles an hour. When the lights of the town of Satica appeared, the engineer shouted to Burt Prick, bis fireman: "Jump for your life, Burt, switch is turned; we will rush into" The sentence was not finished, for in an instant Sible had applied the safety brake, reversed the lever and jumped, to escape the spectre his harrassed nerves had conjured up. The fire man followed, but was not injured. Prick went back to find the engineer. He lay on the roadbed horribly injur- ed. His skull was crushed, arm and leg broken, ribs fractured and spine injured. Meanwhile an investigation showed there had been no danger. The signal lights of the switch show an unobstructed path. Sible had been more or less nervious since he was in a wreck at Lafayette some months ago.
 The American Indian lives to an older age than any other class of peo- pie on earth. Many of them attain the age of 125 years, while 100 year old Indian is nothing out of the ordi- nary.
 The same day Los Angeles cash fer fed with thirty and odd thousand dollars a trusted St. Louis employe escaped with a barrel of potatoes. Large rewards are offered and the de- tectives are busy.
 Mir. Grosvenor of Ohio comes out frankly and says he is not in favor of national aid to irrigation, because it would make new lot of farms to i compete in raising things with the farms of his constituents. If this is ths only argument the opponents of the measure can bring to bear, we are not much afraid they can beat it.
 Jeremiah Peabody, an aged and in- firm inmate of the Tipton County, In