Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-02-12
NEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS.

to be launched now.
 Admiral Sampson's condition is re-
 ported quite serious.
 The Keeley institute at Dwight,
 Illinois, was destroyed by fire few
 days since.
 Theodore Roosevelt, jr., is seriously
 ill with pneumonia in a Massachusetts
 town.
 A baby was abandoned recently on a Choctaw railroad train near Vel lington, Kansas. The company has adopted it and is caring for it in a
 Wichita hospital.
 Miss Helen Hay, daughter of the secretor of state and Payne Whitney, son of William c. Whitney, former secretary of the navy, were married in Washington on Thursday.
 Attorney General Knox has given it out that he will appoint John H. Campbell of Tucson, Arizona, assis- tant United States attorney for Ari- zona.
 Fire at the Cook and White coal mine at Madrid, New Mexico, which is operated by the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, caused the death of two Italians, one named Bruto and the name of the other unknown.
 The food value of peanuts is greater than of beefsteak. Ten cents worth of peanuts are more nutritious than any other ten cents worth of food. Two or three peanuts eaten in the night (always well masticated) will often cure insomnia.
 A telegram from Sofia says that during the negotiations with the bri- gands for the release of Miss Stone, the captive missionary, the house in which the American party lodged was burned down, but the inmates escaped with the money to be paid as a ransom.
 The coroner of Hackney, a suburb of London, has drawn public atten- ton to the terrible yearly record of 600 children burned to death in Lon don. As result of representations by the Coroner's society to the home secretary, the government is consider ing legislation to fine and imprison persons who leave children alone with fire, or with material for making a fire, if children are thereby burned to death.
 In a scathing charge to the St. Louis grand jury just empannelled, which will be ordered to continue the investigation begun by a previous body into the charges of bribery in connection with the St. Louis and Suburban railway legislation, Judge ONeill Ryan declared that the crime was menace to civic and political life. "It is anarchy" the judge said, ''for it strikes an insidious and deadly blow to the government"
 A telegram from Berlin says: Elm peror William has intervened to stem the spread of the faith healing cult in Germany. His majesty had long conferences with the chiefs of police for the purpose of devising measures to counteract the campaign here of the Christian Scientists, who have followers in the higher circles of Der lin society. It is claimed that the practice of Christian Science thera- peutics should . made illegal in Germany.
 A lockout in four big mills of the American Woolen company in Onley- vile, Rhode Island, took effect today | f,,Y nf Saf urday by company officials to meet the action of 150 weavers who were endeavoring to precipitate a strike against the double loom system. More than 6,5O0 operatives in all de- partments are idle. Preparations are being made to provide funds for those out of employment, as pro longed struggle is anticipated and plans are being formed to carry the strike to mills of the company in other cities.
 The kaiser gift to Miss Alice Roosevelt, in connection with the visit to America of Admiral Prince Henry is to be a gold jewel case, richly inlaid with diamonds. In the center of the lid is portait of the kaiser in enamel, with the imperial monogram in diamonds. Theittings and decorations of the kaiser's Ameri- can yacht are being made by Lon don firm of decorators and the chief artist has interviewed the kaiser, who said, laughingly: "I shall send a torpedo boat for my yacht some day before June IS, so you'll have to get her finished by then, as 1 want her to take part in the Kiel regatta"
 The Rev. J. E. Roberts, pastor of | the Church of This World of Kansas City, is to be the head of the Agnos- tic church, it is said, and assume the | mantle of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll if the plans of the trustees of the or ganization here are successful. They have decided to expand the local church so that agnostics all over the world will be included in its member ship, and Dr. Roberts is to be sent to every part of the United States to organize churches. Dr. Roberts was a close personal friend of Colonel In gerSol.
 Through the death of her daughter, Miss Susan McDaniels, Mrs. Mary Bryan Cobb, the oldest living daugh ter of the revolution, is alone in the world at Kokomo, Ind. At 100 years age she is left alone, having outlived all her family and near relatives. Mrs. Cobb is astep-great-great-grand- mother of Colonel w. J. Bryan, her first husband being Louis F. Bryan, a soldier of the war of 1872 and the Mexican war. She is granddaugh- ter of Rev. John Gano, a brigade chaplain in the revolution, and a daughter of Stephen Gano, also an officer of the continental army. Mrs.