Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-03-19
NEWS. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

ing Of Mrs. Clara w. Castle Of Fl
 dorado, Kansas, about a year ago, hai
 been granted a new trial by the SUI preme court. The court held there
 was an error in empanelling the jury
 which tried Miss Morrison.
 Kansas has 600 more miles of rail
 road than New York has. In fact
 there are but three states in the
 union, Illinois, Texas and Pennsyl
 vania, that have a greater railway
 mileage than Kansas.
 Former Attorney General Eugene
 Engley, Lawyer J. NJ. Hodgison and
 George Wimberly have been arrested
 at Cripple Creek, Colorado, on
 capiases issued by Judge Seeds,
 charging them with subornation of
 perjury. Englev and Hodgison were
 released on S3,0O0 bonds each. Vim
 berley was locked up. A warrant is
 also cut for Andrew Sellars. The ar
 rests are sequel to the trial of
 Kerch Kuykendall and Hartley J.
 Lake for assaulting with intent to
 kill Lee Gleckner of the Indepen-
 dence mine during an attempt to
 steal high grade ore.
 Prince Henry has completed his
 visit to the United States and sailed
 for Germany March II.
 Eight soldiers were injured, seven of them seriously, at Fort Crook, at Omaha. by the derailment of the Bur lington coach on the train which brought the Twenty-Second Infantry to the fort.
 William H. Taft, governor of the Philippines, underwent a surgical operation in the Jewish hospital in Cincinnati, as he has contemplated ever since his consultation with an expert. The operation is regarded as serious, but was successfully per formed.
 General Hughes in his testimony before the Senate Philippine commis- sion, in reply to question by Senat- or Patterson, said the death rate among the Spanish prisoners was far beyond what it should have been. An investigation proved the prisoners were SO debilitated by reason of their long stay in the heat and military service that they were unable to rally from any illness which attacked them. He said he had urged the return of United States troops to this country after two years of service.
 The Chinese government has pres ented to United States Minister Con- ger a strong memorial against the re- enactment of the Chinese exclusion law by the United States. The gov ernment particularly objects to the exclusion of Chinese from the Philip pine and Hawaiian islands.
 President E. H. R. Green of the Texas Midland railroad, received a letter from the United States patent office at Washington announcing the award to him of patent on a system of wireless telegraphy. Mir. Green stated he will install the wireless sys- tem on the Midland.
 A windstorm at Omaha wrecked about fifty buildings. The Coliseum building is the worst wrecked of the larger structures. Nearly all sky lights are gone and the roof is badly twisted. Anderfon's match factory was badly wrecked, and a row of five flats across the street was twisted and all windows torn out. The storm aroused the entire population in the | north part of the city, who thought l the town was in the grasp of real twister. Nobody was reported in jured. The storm moved southwest 1 after leaving Omaha, striking Elk horn, a village of 800 people, ten miles away. A half dozen dwellings were badly twisted and several small buildings were blown down. The and cribs of the Omaha Ele- vator company received more damage than any other property.
 In a privilegrd statement in the senate Mir. Berry of Arkansas said he is constantly asked when the resolu- ton providing for the election of senator's by direct vote of the peo- pie will be voted upon. He desned to enquire of the chairman of the committee whether the senate could not have a vote upon the resolution during the present session. NIT. Bur rows of Michigan, chairman of the said report will be made by the committee in time for vote. MT. Hoar of Massachusetts made vigorous speech against the election 1f senators by a direct vote of the people, which he declared to be un- NIT. Dubois of Idaho, that the only point in the bearing on the question vas that each state should nave two senator's. The manner of their cleo ion was not a vital principle. NIT. Stewart of Nevada declared that the resolution embodied a movement 'atal to the equality of states in the senate. To his mind it meant the destruction of the senate.
 Senator Hanna is looking into the strike situation at Boston.
 Miss Alice Roosevelt is visiting Havana with Senator Platt and fam ly.
 A windstorm at Houston, Texas, damaged buildings to the extent of ;15,OO0.
 The Colorado legislature has been n special session forty days and has ( passed one bill.
 Safe crackers blew open the vault # the Farmers bank of Townville Ark., and stole SS,0O0.
 The Mississippi river steamer City ,f Providence was sunk at Davis | Bend, Mississippi, and the engineer, | Jerk and fifteen or sixteen negroes I drowned. '
 The Bank of New Castle, Ken lucky, was robbed of S4,5O0 in cash, ! lot of jewelry belonging to Isaak W. Kelly, its president, and $500 | worth of stamps.
 Mrs. Altgeld, widow of the former i governor. was prostrated by her hus- { ,and's death, and grave apprehension i $ felt, as she has been in delicate | lealth for two years. s
 Edward Singleton, son of Million ire John Singleton, one of the own ' ITS of the Yellow Aster mine at f committed suicide at Los : Angeles by shooting himself through | he head. I