Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-03-18

four hundred men are building a ne
 levee.
 Alden, Arabia, March 11.-Advic,
 from Somaliland say that during tf
 recent fight between the followers (
 Mad Mullah and the Abyssinia
 forces, cooperating with British, th
 former lost one thousand men. Ma
 Mullah is maintaining authority wit
 ruthless severity, cutting the throat
 of all male malcontents, and mutIlat
 ing women and children.
 Princeton, Ind, March 12.-Th
 White, Patoka and Wabash river vii
 all be stationary by Sunday if n
 further rains occur. All the lowland
 are entirely submerged. The town c
 East Mount Carmel has not singl
 person left in it, the water bein
 from three to fifteen feet deep in tn
 streets. Thousands of acres of grow ing wheat will be lost.
 Cincinnati, March 12-"CIOve
 Nook" the home of Alice and Phoeb
 Carey, sisters, whose poems are wide
 ly known throughout the literar. world, has passed out of the hands O | the heirs, and will become a home fo | the blind, under the management O the Trader sisters of Avondale. Vim A. Proctor, a wealthy citizen ha purchased the property and placed i at their disposal.
 Sringfield, .Ills., March 16.-Tele grams from Cardiff, Illinois, statt that another explosion occurred a that place last evening, entombins six men in the mine. One man ha been rescued, dangerously injured A later dispatch at noon today say: that third explosion occurred early this morning. Two dead bodies have been taken out. Three men are in tht mine whom it will be impossible tC rescue.
 Toledo, Ohio, March 16.-In a boil CT explosion which wrecked a large portion of the East Toledo mills oi the Republic Iron and Steel company today one man was killed. Two others were fatally burned. The top of the boiler was blown a distance of half a mile hurdling the tops of over twenty houses and finally gouging a hole twenty feet deep in the ground. The buildings in its flight narrowly escap- ed destruction.
 Omaha, Neb., March n--Flood reports are coming in today from a large number of towns along Elkhorn, Platte and Loup Erivers. The most serious situation is at Columbus and Fremont. At the latter place the water last night covered the lower part of town. Many people retired, ignorant of the danger and were awak- ened by the water rushing to their houses. All train traffic is delayed.
 New Orleans, March 1.-The river is rising slowly here. The contin- uance of rainy weather is softening the Ievees rapidly and all Louisiana is praying for a return of sunshine.
 Six hundred men are at work today sacking the weak places and raising embankments.
 Engineers report the Ievees in ex- cellent condition. Every foot of en- bankment along the river is under surveillance.
 Philadelphia, March l6.-The police have directed the opening of thirty four graves having secured evidence which leads them to believe that George Hossey. a negro herb doctor is for at least that many deaths.
 Hossey is already in jail as an acces- sorry to the murder of William G. Danze, whose widow is charged with having administered slow poison to her husband, the poison having been furnished by the negro.
 Wynne, Ark, March 13.-Consider- able excitement prevails here over the of an alleged gang of "white 
 Eleven men are under arrest charged with being members of the gang and in the killing of J. H. Brown, of Memphis, Monday night. The murdered man was here in the in- terest of a detective agency. The has been terrorized for past two weeks.
 St. Petersburg, March 12.-The cZar has issuud a decree providing for the freedom of religion throughout his dominions and giving to some degree local self government and making other concessions to village commit tees.
 The decree, which has just been issued. is in commemoration of the birthday of Alexander III, and is condsidered to be the most act of state since the em- ancipation of the serfs.
 Kansas City, Mo, March 14.-Ths Golden State limited train on the Rock Island railroad due in Kansas City this morning, collided head on, thirty miles west of Topeka at three o'clock with west bound passenger train from Kansas City.
 Nine cars on the limited were either damaged or derailed. Engineer Love of the west bound train was killed. The responsibility for the accident is not known.
 Kansas City, March 13.-At least eight additional transfer companies will ask the federal court for an in junction restraining their striking employees from interfering in the of their business. The petitions make the contention that the with the wagons lis vio- ation of the inter state commerce avs. The injunctions granted last light to the Kansas City transfer company was respected by the strikers oday.
 Cambridge, Mass. March 13.-An canass has been made mong the Harvard men on the ques- ion brought up recently by Prof. Hollis, chairman of the Crimson Ath-