Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-08-13
NEWS. NOTES AND COM MENTS

NEWS. NOTES AND COM MENTS.
 Senator Platt advises the young politician never to give any one the opportunity to say he has broken his word
 The territorial board of health of Hawaii is to begin a series of expert ments to determine the value of the X-rays in the treatment of leprosy.
 Postmastar-General Payne has is- sued orders barring from the mails as second class matter, a long list of publications in almost every city in the country.
 Germany has 40 socialist papers, of which fifty-two are dailies.
 A two-year-old child of Martin Un- ger, of Logansport, Indiana, met death by hanging. The child climbed into rope swing, and, falling out, the rope was entangled about its neck, causing strangulation. It was discovered hanging in the swing by a four-year-old brother, who went to the house and told Mrs. Unger: Brother is asleep in the swing" She followed the child into the yard. and was mortified to find the babe dead.
 While King Oscar, of Sweden. was yachting near Marstrand bridge, the structure collapsed, throwing the occupants into the water. The king threw of his coat and assisted in the rescue of twenty-three persons, who were taken aboard the yacht.
 Advices received from Australia tell of terrible drouth in New South Wales and Queensland which has de- vastated the sheep ranches in that section of the southern colony. Mil lions of sheep have died and men formerly considered wealthy have been compelled to seek employment. Samuel McCaughey, the sheep king of Australia, lost over a million sheep of his herd of million and a quar- ter, and other large herders have been equally unfortunate. In one district the residents erected an arch of sheep skulls on the occasion of the visit of the visit of one of the cabinet ministers.
 An attempted assassination of Pres ident Loubet of France has been re- ported from Lambouillet. The great est precautions were taken to avoid publicity, by the presidents direc- tion, as ill the present state of public excitement it was thought general knowledge of the alleged attempt might bring on a terrible crisis.
 A Florence, Colorado, telegram says: A Rio Grande special pas senger train conveying 300 tourists to California was ditched today east of here. The wreck was caused by the rear of the train being struck by wall of water eight feet high coming down Peck creek, caused by rains in the mountains. A brakeman saw the torrent and warned the passengers in time for them to escape to the front of the train. Just as the last tourist left the rear coach the water struck the cars, breaking the coupling pins and hurling them forty feet from the track. No one was injured. The track was washed out for three miles and the passengers were penned in the partially wrecked cars still re- maining on the track.
 Queen Maria Christina, mother of King Alfonso, accompanied by the infanta Maria, has left Madrid for Vienna. Ever since the young king ascended the throne there has been a discord between him and his mother. His conduct toward her of late has become so disrespectful, not to say brutal, that it has given rise to stories of mental alteration as the only ex- plantation. It has been reported that he has utterly lost respect for his mother. and curses her if she tries to cross him in any way. He once went so far as to ring for an officer of the guards to eject his mother from his presence, when his confessor, who had been called, entered and sue ceeded in subduing him. Since then the queen mother has refused to see him except in public, and has passed most of her time in prayer.
 While cholera is increasing in Ma nila, the reports from the provinces show large number of cases and deaths. Last Saturday there were 605 cases and 525 deaths from cholera in the provinces. Since the outbreak of the epidemic there have been throughout the archipelago a total of 21 ,40S cases of cholera and 16,I05 deaths. It is believed that many cases were not reported. and the total number of cases Is estimated at 2S,- 900. Forty eight Americans and eighteen Europeans have died in Manila since the outbreak. Pablo Mauris, a bandit who had terrorized the island of Rombion for the past ten years, was captured by the native constabulary on the neighboring island of Sibuyan. With his arms bound, he was placed in a boat to be conveyed to Rombion, but sprang overheard in a dash for liberty and was drowned.
 A case of continuous sleep, one of the rarest, most mysterious and baf- fling of diseases, has been success fully coped with in Kansas City, and the patient, D. Leavitt, IS now up and about. He had been sleeping since April 26. Mir. Leavitt went to sleep at Parson, Kansas, and after ten