Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-04-09

l A wealthy reSlQent or LOulSVllle nds
 been discovered to be afflicted with
 leprosy.
 A fire at Atlantic City, New Jersey,
 on Thursday destroyed S2,00O,O0G
 worth of property including eight
 hotels.
 Four thousand people participated
 in the hanging of a Rome, Georgia
 negro, who had attempted to commit criminal assault on a 15-year-old
 white girl.
 Of all the countries in Europe, with the single exception of Turkey, more leprosy is found in Norway and Swe- den than in all the others combined, a fact not generally known.
 Tommy White, the pugilist who was knocked unconscious on Saturday in bout with Tommy Markey, at the Knickerbocker Athletic club in Phila- delphia, dIed Thursday afternoon.
 Dock laborers at Plume, Hungary, have again struck for an increase of wages, and work at that port is prac- tically at a standstiIl. A number of vessels there are unable to unload their cargoes.
 Rufnio who spent S3O,0O0 in his eff forts to incite rebellion in the prov ince of Misamis, island of Mindanoa, now declares that he is tired of rebel lion and has offered to surrender with seventy-five rifles to the native con stabulary.
 General Chaffee will leave Manila April 10 on tour of inspection of the island of Samar. He will visit every port in the island and will witness the surrender there, April 15, of the insurgent, Gueyerra. After this sur render the American garrisons in Samar will be largely reduced.
 The governor and penitentiary board of Texas decided to erect a sugar mill on the state farm at Bra zuria county. A proposition was adopted for the erection of a 100-ton mill to cost $26S,5OO, and be com pleted by October 15. The state has 1000 acres in cane on the farm.
 Two boys, aged about If years, were indicted by the recent grand jury at Mayield, Kentucky, for kill ing horse, skinning it and selling the hide for'S 50. At this term of the circuit court there they were tried and sentenced to the school of re- form. There being no room there for them, the court ordered the boys whipped until they shed tears. Sheriff Harris was ordered to do the whipping with a new cowhide. The boys parents paid for the horse.
 A new speed record for the Wabash road was set recently in the run of the Continental limited train drawn by an Atlantic type engine, between Hilton and East Decatur. The dis tance between these points is Il miles, and this was covered by the train in question in exactly 61 min utes, twice slowing down to 15 miles per hour on the journey. For one stretch of twelve miles the speed of the train was maintained at a rate of so miles an hour. This record sur passed the best former run on that system for the same distance by three minutes, the run having previ- ously made in 64 minuter.
 William Lane, aged 35 years, a colored servant employed by Chas s. Furbush of PLilatclI -ia, shot and killed Mrs. Ellen Furbush, aged 42, and her daughter Madeline, aged 10, and probably fatally wounded Eloise Furbush, aged ', another daughter. He had been suspected of stealing from his employer and when the warrant was sworn out by Mrs. Furbush he committed the crime in revenge. Lane was captured a few hours later as he was leaving the city ] on the Camden ferry. He k said to be son of a minister in Burlington, N. J.
 Since 1898 a feet of battle ships, cruisers and torpedo boats strong ar than the two fleets that con 1uered the ships of Spain, has been added to the American navy. The new fleet contains thirteen battle ships, six armored cruisers, three semi-armored cruisers, six protected cruisers, four monitors, twenty-three torpedo boats, sixteen torpedo boat lestroyers, and seven submarine Ooats-in all seventy-eight vessels. Of these vessels five battle ships, .welve destroyers, twenty-three toPs oedo boats and four submarine" nave been completed and many of the ,ther vessels will be finished this rear.
 ''Three persons were instantly filled and another perhaps fatally injured Tuesday morning, two miles vest of Rosseville, Kansas, by west bound Union Pacific passenger train. The dead are Fred Smith Edward nd Miss Minnie Manley. Fred Smith may recover, although for everal hours he was unconscious and n a delirius condition. The young { ,eople had been to St. Marys to at end a dance and were returning Iome when the train struck the car iage. Both horses were instantly filled and the carriage completely plintered. i