Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-05-07

bill providing for s100,000 public
 building at Albuquerque, N. NJ.
 After thirty years existence, the
 Hotel Bristol, on Forty-second street and Fifth avenue, New York, one of
 Manhattan's best known hostelries,
 has closed. A revaluation of the
 property, causing large increase in ground rent, is the cause. It is said that the building will be replaced by a modern hotel and office structure.
 At a conference between Ambassa- dor Meyer and Foreign Minister Prinetti it was arranged that the American naval officers of the cruiser Chicago imprisoned at Venice be re- leased upon payment of civil dam ages to the amount of S2,000. The king has pardoned the officers. They will, upon their release, be immedi- ately handed over to the United States consul, from whose charge they will be transferred to the Chi cago, which is ready to sail.
 A force of 100 men and 9 teams has commenced grading at Kennedy, New Mexico, for the Santa Fe Cen tral railway, which will be completed from Santa Fe to Torrance by Octo- Der lst, being the link between the Rock Island and the Denver & Rio Grande systems; also forming june tion with the Santa Fe system at Santa Fe and Kansas City. The road will be extended later to Ros- we'll from Torrance, and branches will be built to Albuquerque and to Salt Lake. Within ten days the con- struction force will be increased to 800 men and 100 teams.
 May Day was ushered in at Pitts burg with strikes in most of the building trades for a reduction of hours, more wages and an adjustment of trade conditions. It is estimated between 12.000 and 15,OO0 men are out, the trades involved being struc- tural iron workers, carpenters, brick layers, sheet metal workers, slate and tile roofers, inside electric wire work CTS, portable and hoisting engineers, and wood and metal fathers. A plumbers strike was averted by the master plumbers signing the ad- vanced scale on Wednesday night. | The strikers will tie up work on all | large buildings in the course of erec- ton.
 Sol Smith Russell, the actor, who | has been in impaired health for sev- eral years, died in Washington on Monday.
 Eureka, New, which once had a of 11,000, now contains less than 1000. Its mines have pro- duced about Sl40,O0O,000.
 Residents of Castle Loo say that Queen Wilhelmina is so far improved | in health as to be able to leave her | bed for few moments and the | queen mother is quite satisfied with | the progress made.
 Dr. Peter R. Thombs, one of the best known citikens of Colorado and 1 for a number of years superintendent l of the state insane asylum, died at Pueblo on Monday of a complication of diseases. He was 62 years of age and leaves wife and daughter.
 Dr. J. B. Rowland, of Herndon, Kas., was mvsteriously shot and killed on Monday in a small room ad- joining the general store of G. w. Dull. Rowland was found dead with 1 a bullet hole through the head and through the stomach. No weapon was found to carry out the | theory of suicide and there was no trace of a murderer Dr. Rowland | was prominent Mason.
 Pesants in Poltava and Kharkoff ! provinces, Russia, where 1900 are re- ported to be participating in the riots, l have already sacked eighty estates, where they destroyed everything that | could not be carried of. The land 1 owners and tenants are fleeing. The agitation at Moscow is so serious that the czar has relinquished his inten- tion of spending the Russian Easter there.
 Three people were killed at Patter- son crossing, on the Santa Fe road, just south of Joliet, Illinois, Monday night. A fast passenger train crashed into buggy containing Mrs. M. B. Mulock, her daughter, Ora, and a young man named Floyd c. Pearce. The man and young woman were killed outright, and Mrs. Mulock died shortly after reaching the hospi- tai. The watchman had the gates down, but the horses broke through, getting upon the tracks just in front of the train.
 Colin Park, a well known Santa Fe engineer, was killed Saturday morning at the Santa Fe bridge near Rivera, Cal, station between Los Angeles and San Diego. He was en- gineer of south bound passenger train and was leaning far out of his cab window looking backwards for hot box as the train rushed down the grade towards the Rivera bridge. He forgot that he was so near the bridge and his head struck one of the tim bers. He was knocked clear of his engine and the fireman leaped over to the right side of the cab and brought the train to a standstill. When Park was picked up he was un conscious but was still breathing and .l..,.1 Il