Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-03-26

NJ. Santos Dumont, the celebrated aeronaut will visit the St. Louis ex- position.
 There have been four more cases of cholera and two more deaths from the plague are reported at Man fla. The health authorities believe that rigid precautions have avoided an epidemic. Five cases of cholera are reported from the provinces.
 Thomas E. Burns, manager of the Jersey City Base Ball club and an old time player, was found dead in bed at the home of P. T. Powers, president of the Eastern league. Death was due to heart disease. Burns was member of the Chicago National League club during the period in which that organization won the championship for several years in succession.
 Harry A. Garfield of Cleveland, son of President Garfield, has been offered the position of civil service commissioner to succeed William k. Rodenburg, who resigned. Mir. Gar field, declined the appointment. James R. Garfield, also a son of the late president, will be given the ap- pointment if he will accept it. The president at one time favorably con ] sidered the name of Harry Garfield 7 but the latter would not accept.
 By direction of the president Major General McArthur has been assigned to the command of the department ot the lakes, with headquarters at Chi cago, H.; Brigadier General Frederick Funston, to the command of the de partment of the Colorado, with head quarters at Denver: and BrigadieI General William \. Kobbe to the de- partment of Dakota, with headquar- ters at St. Paul, Minn. These changes will take effect on the 25th inst.
 Senator Mark A. Hanna has been selected to represent the striking ma chinists of the Southern railroad IT their attempt to settle the differences with President Samuel Spencer ol that road. NIT. Hanna has accepted the commission and will begin nego
 tiations at once. The strike of the
 machinists has been on for more thar
 eight months, and for a while the
 entire Southern system was tied uE on account of the strike. All effort; ] to reach a settlement have failed, a'
 President Spencer would hear t(
 nothing pertaining to arbitration.
 Lucille Wade, the central figure il
 romantic kidnapping case, has re
 turned to Fl Paso after an absence O
 eleven years. She is now IS, anc
 when seven years of age was kidnap ped by her father from whom Luclle'i mother, Mrs. Blanche Wade, of E Paso, had a short time before secured a divorce. The dramatic recital O
 the child's wandering in Chihuahua ' Mexico, in several of the common : wealths of the United States; the SC 2 cresv with which her whereabout , were concealed by her father an' , eventually the mothers finding he
 child in a fashionable boarding schoc
 at Bowling Green, Kentucky, are al
 highly romantic.
 p Senator Elkins of West Virginia ' the storm center of a fierce factiona I fight of leading colleges. The Sena h tor has a son at Princeton, another a
 Harvard and third at the Univel
 sity of Pennsylvania. These thre $ brothers are constantly at war ove the merits of their respective institu ' tions. They make bets with one an other on their football, baseball an a track teams, and, no matter what tn s outcome, the senator is always calie D. upon by the defeated brother $ pay. The senator the other day sai ,e that if was the greatest mistake | t. ever made to send his boys to diiTe e ent colleges. He remarked that if | T. had it to do over again he would sen B. them all to the same institution, tn, !. keeping peace in the family m
 money in his pocket