Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-08-20
NEWS. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Gardner-Root prize fight at Salt Lake resulted in Root being knocked out in the seventeenth round. The fight was a hot and swift one and resulted in the spilling of lots of blood. Both contestants were game.
 The little island of Torishama, of the Japan coast, was overwhelmed by volcanic eruption between August 13 and l5, and all its inhabitants, numbering l50 persons, were un- doubtedly killed. The island is cov- cred with volcanic debris, and all the houses on it have disappeared. The eruption is still proceeding and is accompanied by submarine eruptions in the vicinity, which make it dan gerous for vessels to approach the island. Torishama is one of a chain of islands extending between the Bouin islands and Hondo, the big gest island of Japan.
 Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus of Chicago had d call to the pastorate of a church in London.
 Charles Holaday of Iowa City, Iowa, has made a confession in which he states that James Gallaugher was murdered by Mrs. Gallaugher, with his complicity, and that the crime was committed because he and Mrs. Gallaugher were in love.
 Complying with the request of the secretary of state, the treasury de- partment will detail an expert archi- tect from the office of Supervising Architect Treasy, to go to Pekin, China, to complete the plans and specifications for the new United States legation building there, and also to stay and superintend its con struction.
 i During the absence of the family 1 three robbers entered the home of 1 Dr. \. A. StOneburger of Valparaiso, Ind, bound and gagged Miss Hart, a servant, threw her in a bathtub, ! turned on the water and then robbed the house of S7, 900 in jewelry, money and negotiable paper. The burglars escaped, leaving no clue. The ser want was rescued half drowned by the members of the family on their return.
 The American forces in the Philip pines are now down to 2S,000 men and in few months the number will ! he further cut to D 0O0
 For the first time in its history the Grand Trunk railroad has entered the Pittsburg field to secure coal, having contracted for supply to April 1 from the Logansport Coal company, with mines on the Ale ghany Valley railroad.
 ! A recent report of the Weather Blu, reau says that the most dangerous place in an electric storm is under a tree. Prof. Langley. the electrical expert, says ''the middle of the room is the safest place" lie adds the m, teresting information that city people are safer than country people iron
 lightning, because city building, have tin and copper cave trough. and many of them metal. while wire: are everywhere, all of which thingt 2 are conductors. If" he says, ''al , the buildings in New York were con
 nected by copper straps, it would b, absolutely impossible for lightning
 to strike the city"
 Advices from Kharbin, Manchuria says that the inhabitants who ar ! able to do so are fleeing from tn town in consequence of the choler
 epidemic. Chinamen are dying lik
 flies, many dying even while at wor
 on the quays, on the docks or Il
 workshops. Deaths also among tn
 Russians are heavy. The averag y daily mortality at Kharbin and in it h vicinity is from l30 to l50. Railwa r. officials are quitting their posts witt I, out awaiting their pay, and thos
 who consent to remain treble the if usual salaries
 An investigation made by th
 Manila constabulary to clear up tl k facts in the killing of a Cebu coacl V ing party of four school teacher
 shows that the party was ambusbe n twelve miles from Cebu. I've teacl @ CTS were shot and killed at the fir