Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-12-17

1 relleVeu or any gravity. Alter an eX , change of cable messages it has beer agreed to appoint a distinguished
 Spanish jurist as referee in thu
 Franco Venezuelan arbitration. Int
 name will be withheld till the arbi
 trators assemble at Caracas.
 Gloucester, Mass, Dec. 12.-Cap
 tain R. H. Summerville and his crew
 of six men of the schooner Belle
 Wooster were brought here today by
 the schooner Patriot by whom they
 were rescued. The men had been drift
 ing in an open boat during the re-
 cent blizzard and were nearly dead
 from exposure and cold.
 New York, Dec. 12.-Mystery sur
 rounds the death of fifteen year old
 boy whose corpse was found by po-
 liceman beside the bicycle path at
 Central Park. One jaw was lacera-
 ted, bearing the imprint of a long
 tooth. Bruises were also discovered
 on both sides of the lads neck.
 Washington, Dec. F. - Minister
 Bowen cables the state department confirming the report of release of all
 British and German prisoners at Car acas.
 La Guayra, Dec. 12-General Ferr,
 minister of war, has arrived here with two thousand troops. Eight hundred
 more, under Castro's brother are ex- pected. All the warships but the Bri-
 tish cruiser Indefatigible have left.
 Washington, Dec. 12.-The com mittee on judiciary by vote of to 9 today decided not to report to the house the senate resolutions to amend the constitution to disqualify from office all persons guilty of polygamy. Madrid, Dec. 12.-Senor Castillo, the Spanish ambassador at Paris, has resigned.
 Berlin, Dec. 12.-It is stated here that the British participated equally Nllh JhC SCA III lnO dCllOu Oll La Guayra against the Venezuelan yes sells, which resulted in their being sunk, and for which the English For eign Office disclaims all responsibil- ity.
 Detroiit, Dec. 12.-Ice cIogged the intake pipes of the city water works causing water famine here till noon today. A number of factories were compelled to suspend.
 London, Dec. 12-In the house of commons to day Under Foreign Secre- tary Cranborne confirmed the reports of the capture of three Venezuelan vessels at Laguayra, and the disable ment of the fourth, and the capture of the Venezuelan gunbOat Bolivar at Port of Spain and the sinking of two of the prizes.
 Berlin, Dec. 12-All the newspapers here, with the exception of Vorwaerts is in sympathy with the governments action toward Venezuela. The morn ing papers refer humOrously to Gas tro's Magniloquent manifesto which was made public in Paris last night
 Washington, Dec 12.-Minister Bo- wen today cabled the state department saying that Venezuela has requested him to propose to Great Britain and Germany that the difficulties arising from the claims for damages to British and German subjects during the civil war b o submitted to arbitration.
 Washington, Dec. PA joint res olution was offered in the house today authorizing the president to pro- pose to Great Britain and Germany to submit their claims against Vene- zuela to arbitration.
 Berne, Dec. F. - Vice President Deucher was today elected president of the Swiss Republic.
 Stockton, Dec. 12-At Bouldin early this morning five highbinders at the point of pistol robbed Gun Lee, a prosperous merchant of S1100 cash. i
 Cerlin, Dec. l3-President Castro's | reply to the ultimatum of Germany is | a refusal to yield on anypoint. The foreign office has received a bulletin from she German charge | d'affairs announcing his decision to that effect. Orders to blockade the | Venezuelan coast still stand. It Is 1 not thought likely that there will be a landing of troops in any force. No proposal to arbitrate has vet reached | Berlin through United States Minis ter Bowen, but such would be care fully considered here. Her Von Pil- grim Baltazzi. German charge d'af- fairs, is still aboard a British vessel in the harbor of LaGuayra.
 Washington, Dec. 13 Hearings On the antitrust bills were begun today before the house sub committee on judiciary. Representative Morreil, of Pennsylvania, who introduced the appropriating a quarter of a million dollars for the use of the attorney general in enforcing the Sherman antitrust law, told the con- mittee that both the attorney general and President Roosevelt are favora ble to the passage of the resolution. The bill on which the hearing was begun today provides for the seizure of any and all property, owned or under any contract, or by any trust or combination, or pur- suant to any conspiracy, forbidden by the laws of state and being Tn course of transportation from such state to another state. The maximum penalty is S20,000 fine or five years 
 Cleveland, Dec. 13-A furious northwest gale of the proportions of a blizzard is raging here, as we'll as throughout all of northern Ohio and the Lake Erie sections.
 Scranton, Dec. 13.-President Mitch ell was again witness to day before the strike commission. Attorney James Torrey, counsel for the Della ware and Hudson company, had inti- mated that Mitchell had juggled his figures, which the witness denied. Torrey tried to place on Mitchell the of the strike. Mitchell replied that he opposed the strike when it was inaugurated but favored