Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-12-31

of the season with killing frost. At Tampa it is feared the young orange trees are killed or badly injured.
 New Orleans, Dec. 27.-The tenn perature registers 2S degrees with much ice in the streets. A general freeze is expected through the sugar reigons-
 St. Paul, Dec. 27.-St. Paul and the entire northwest is suffering the coldest weather of the present winter. The mercury is 19 degrees below zero.
 Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 27.-Thermom- eter here registered eight degrees below zero this morning.
 Des Moines, Dec. 27-Seven degrees below zero this morning. Much suffering is reported owing to a scarcity of fuel.
 Cleveland, Dec. 27.-Snow has been falling here for the past forty eight hours and northwest gale is drifting the snow. Much delay to trains is being experienced.
 Washington, Dec. 27.-There is now in progress an active interchange of notes between the allied powers and Venezuela and the United States re- specting the method of submitting the dispute to arbitration. Negotiations are in such shape that it will be ex I Ar Ir- ara1. ana< fA ,nlyn !, phase public. The part of the United States is to act a Good Friend" to all parties that are involved. The United States is not undertaking to draw up protocols or impose limita- tions on parties. It will not be found necessary for our government to pre- scribe how the Monroe doctrine shall | or shall not figure in the protocols.
 Washington, Dec. 27-Notes receiv- | ed from the governments interested i in the Venezuelan controversy, in cluding Venezuela. all agree to sub | init the question of difference to the | Hague tribunal. This government | heartily approves of this course. It is generally understood that the Monroe doctrine is not to enter into | the question of arbitration.
 Denver, Dec. 27.-J. M Herbert, | formerly manager of the Rio Grande | system will become vice president and | general manager of the Colorado and | Southern. Vice president of the Fort | Worth and Denver City railroads, | John A. Edison becomes manager of | the Rio Grande system.
 San Pedro, Cal, Dec. 27.-Fire this morning in the center of the business section of the town destroyed 575, 900 | worth of property this morning. Osn half of the most prominent block in the city was burned out. Two men were burned to death, w. B. Swift, a laborer, and N. O. Andfin6sen, retired | sea captain. Their charred bodies were recovered.
 London, Dec. 27.-A frightful col lision occurred last night between a passenger and freight train on the Grand Trunk railroad at Wanstead. According to the latest reports thirty persons were killed and eighteen in- jured. The passenger train was Pacific epxress west bound and was running at high rate of speed. The freight was proceeding east slowly and was to have taken the switch at Wanstead to allow the passenger train to pass. They came together with ap- palling results though, hardly pas senger in the smoker escaping injury. The wreck caught fire after the col lision. Heroic efforts of a brigade of passengers led by an old man sue ceeded in extinguishing the fire by throwing snow on the flames with hats and hands. The thermometer nearly reached zero and binding snow storm was in progress.
 Union, Mo, Dec. 27.-The bank of Union had its safe blown with nito- glycerine this morning by two rob- bers. The entire contents were stolen. Residents of the vicinity who heard the explosion were kept quiet by a display of revolvers firing shots. The vault doors of the safe and the in- terior of the bank were completely wrecked The cashier estimates the loss at S15, 900.
 Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 27.-Speed- ing at the rate of forty miles an hour, the coast limited, north bound South ern Pacific crashed into the Owl south bound this morning near Tropico on the outskirts of Los Angeles. That | no one was killed or injured seems | half. one car being derailed and shOrn , of it's forward trucks.
 Berlin, Dec. 27.-The German gov ernment is disappointed by Roose- | velt's declination to be arbitrator in | the Venezuelan dispute. In pursu ance of his decision Germany will cor | respond with Great Britain and Italy | on subsidiary questions such as rais- ing the blockade and definite form i of request whereby Venezuela on one | side and Germany and Great Britain on the other will ask the Hague tri- | bunal to adjudge the dispute.
 Paola, Kas., Dec 27-A head-on col | lision between freight .trains on the Missouri Pacific one mile south of | Dodson this morning resulted in the | killing of one man and seriously in turing three others.
 Louisville, Ky, Dec. 27.-A fast | passenger train on the Illinois Central | bound for Cincinnati from New Or leans, crashed into d work train at | Caneyville. Three men were killed l and two injured.
 California-Fair this afternoon, to- l night and Sunday. Light frost Sun day morning and light northerly winds.
 Automatically cloudy tonight and | Sunday with probably rain in the south and snow in the north.