Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-07-23

I ing King Edward as their sovereign. A telegrm from Seattle states that
 the body of David Merrill, the es- capped convict was found just where Tracy said he had killed his . companion. Merrill was shot in the
 back of the head. No trace of Tracy can be had today.
 The boiler makers strike at Can anea has been declared on again. The men allege that the company did not live up to the agreement entered i into a week ago. The boilermakers worked week in the hope that the company would accept the terms of agreement, and then quietly walked out. No trouble is feared, as the strikers are peacefully inclined. . John Burgy, a miner, went to the powder magazine of the DaIly-West mines, near Park City, Utah, with a lighted candle in his hand. Result, an explosion in which thirty-five | lives were lost, including Burgy's, not a fragment of whose remains have been found. A horse was killed at the mouth of the Ontario tunnel two miles away.
 The Chicago strike is said to have cost S10,000,000.
 Kansas floods are subsiding and railroad traffic is again open.
 Ex-President Iglesias of Costa Rica has published a challenge to the author of certain anonymous ar ticles in the local press. A sensa- tional duel is expected to occur.
 Betting on the Jeffries-F -Fitzsimmons fight is five to two in favor of Jeffries.
 General Chaffee, who was recently relieved from hls duties as military governor, will start for home by way of the Suez canal, probably on the United States transport Mcclellan, which is due at New York early in December.
 Tremendous damage and. it is thought, great loss of life were caused by a terrific wind storm which swept in southwesterly di- rection from the international bound ary across the northeastern portion of North Dakota. Three towns, accord ing to meager reports which are ob- tainable at midnight, were totally wiped out. Telegraph lines are wrecked, and there is-no communica- tion with the section where the most serious devastation is thought to have been worked by the tornado. The little town of Burup was entirely wiped out.
 Marconi, who was on board the Italian flagship Carlo Alberto at Cronstadt, Russia, cables the London office that he has received wireless rignals from Cornwall station, about l 400 miles distant, partly overland. Complete messages were received as far as Skagen, Denmark, about $50 miles from Cornwall.
 Secretary Root has taken from Oyster Bay to Washington the case of General Smith, who was tried by court martial at Manila on account of 1 orders issued by him to Major Wal | Ter. Smith was found guilty of the charges by the court and sentenced | to be admonished by the reviewing authority. The president has so ad- | monished Smith and retired him under the law which provides that | officers having reached the age of | siXty-tWo may be retired at will by | the president.
 Nearly 100000 base balls year or about I2,O00 a day are manufac- tured by one Pennsylvania factory alone, and for a great many of these sl.5O apiece is paid.
 King Edward bore the journey from London to Cowes extremely | well and suffered no inconvenience in the process of moving. The king had a good night and his general con dition is excellent. He is much grati- fled at the change of air and scene. His majesty had his couch wheeled out upon the open deck, where he re- mained two hours.
 News from Jennings, La., says the fire at Jennings well No. is still raging. It is now planned to sur round the burning well with boilers and attempt to snuff the fire out with steam. Two tanks containing 24,400 | barrels have burned, and it is esti- mated 50,0O0 barrels from gushers have been destroyed up to this morn ing. If the steam plan is successful, it is believed the fire will probably be subdUed in four or five days.
 Two men attempted to hold up the south bound Rock Island passenger train between Saginaw and Newark, Texas. They placed huge pile of telegraph poles across the track. The engine struck them and came to stop. Two masked men attempted to climb up into the engine, but En- gineer Knight and Fireman Mosier opened fire on them, driving them back. The robbers escaped into the underbrush, and the train came on to | Fort Worth four hours late. Posses are securing the timber near the scene.
 John W. Mackay, of San Francisco, was prostrated by the heat in Lon don, and is now i'll at his home there. Mrs. Mary Wagner, of Chehalis, Wash, who found the body of David | Merrill, the Oregon convict, has ar rived at Salem, Oregon, and turned | the corpse over to the prison author ities. 4 reward of SI 800 was offered | for Merrill, dead or alive, and Mrs. | Wagner will demand the money.
 Judge Johnson of the district court. at Denver, has made a decree ordering the sale of the Brown Pal ace hotel to satisfy a mortgage for l S633, ,333, given by Henry C. Brown to the United States Mortgage and Trust company.
 A telegram from Black Diamond, Washington, says Tracy has again escaped. He succeeded in eluding the sheriff of King county and many picked men, who advanced on his hiding place three and half miles from here last night, under the best
 programme that has been formulated at any time during the chase The posse arrived at Tacy's hiding place six or eight hours after he left, He
 had taken a rowboat and gone to the east side of Sawyer lake, presumably about 2 o'clock this morning. accom-