Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-09-10
NEWS. NOTES AND C0RssNTS

Another eruption of Mount Pelee occurred September 3 and 2000 peo- pie killed. Large numbers of people are leaving the island now.
 A Nit. Carmel, Pa, telegram says: Because her son was non-union workman, pail bearers at the funeral of Mrs. Martilla Wortulas of this place refused to bear her body to the grave this afternoon. The selected pail bearers were all union men, and when they were told that the woman had son now working at one of the collieries they refused to act. The funeral was delayed for some time until four other pail bearers were found.
 Grand Duke Boris, of Russia, who is visiting in the United States, was entertained by the president at luncheon on Thursday.
 The coal strike in West Virginia is practically at an end. At a mass meeting of the miners from all the coal fields along the Norfolk and Western railroad it was almost unani- mously agreed to end the strike, pro- vided the operators would take back all the old miners, and they have sig nified their intention of doing this. The miners agreed to return to work next Monday It. is reported that President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers advised the strikers to return to work. He real iZed that winter was near at hand, and that the miners in this field could not hold out much longer, as almost every one is dependent upon the union for food and clothing. It is thought the strikers of the New River and Kanawha fields will soon follow this action.
 At a meeting of the Peoples Ali amce at Hazelton, Pa. committee was appointed to draw up plan for terminating the strike, and reported unanimously ia favor of a special session of the state legislature to en- act the following legislation: Com pulsory arbitration; that the present legislation be revised so that the state may have more power over for eign corporations doing business within its borders; the passage of law ma aking it illegal for any person under 2I years of age to be employed more than eight hours per day, and that these art cles of the state con stitution which relate to the control vested in the legislature over char ters of corporations and giving the legislature power to annul, revoke or alter these charters if the public in- terests are endangered by the viola ton of the constitution, and forbid ding common carriers from being in- terested in the products of any in- dustrv be made effective"
 Seventy persons were drowned in Delagoa Bay during the storm which swept over Port Elizabeth Tuesday. Among the wrecked vessels is the British ship Inchcape Rock, Capt. Ferguson, which arrived at Delagoa Bay, August ,, from Portland, Ore gon. Part of her crew was saved.
 The democrats carried Arkansas at Tuesdays election.
 Geo. Durand, democratic nominee for governor of Michigan, has been stricken with paralysis and it is thought will die.
 Three lemonades and bag of pea nuts purloined by Policeman Wilson at Exposition base ball park stand, Pittsburg, resulted in his downfall. Wilson was knocked senseless by a I5-year-old boy, and after recovering his captain suspended him from duty. Wilson was assigned to the park during the games. Early in the afternoon he went to the refreshment stand conducted by John Harris and helped himself to lemonade without permission. Young Harris, brother of the proprie tor, remonstrated, and only got a sarcastic smile. After the theft of q bag of peanuts Harris ran around from the counter and de- handed their return. Wilson chuckled and the boy drove the big copper right on the point of the jaw. He dropped like log and was insensible five minutes. He was sent home in d wagon.
 A Boxer proclamation has been posted at Canton, melting the slaughter of foreigners. It is as- cribed to the commencement of work on the Canton -Hankow railroad and to the collection of funds for pay ment of the foreign indemnity.
 Giles w. Jackson, a negro, of Bir- mingham, Alabama, filed application in the circuit court of the United States for an injunction against the new state constitution of Alabama. The petition prays the state registers be enjoined from further refusing to put the names of himself and other qualified negro voters on the regis. tration list.
 Frederick Marriott, publisher of