Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-03-25

s GreensvilIe, Miss, March 20.-The : protection dyke at Leland, Arkansas, is rapidly slipping into the river. It is now probable that the river will seek a new channel, leaving Green ' vile in the interior. The situation is } most grave.
 St. Uouis, Mo-, March 21.AFinal arguments in the Northern Securities case was concluded at 12:34 this after noon. The case was left with the federal court of appeals. Because of the l enormous mass of evidence and the voluminous arguments which the judges were called upon to consider it is doubtful if a decision will be possible within two months or pro- bably longer.
 Memphis, March 2O.-In spite of herioc work by hundreds of men, the levee near Bran point, forty miles north of here is reported to have given way early today. A vast col umn of water is rushing through the crevasse which is four hundred feet wide. The flood water is increasing but it is now believed that the reports of suffering in the Iowlands is some- what exaggerated. No trains are run hing.
 St. Louis, March 1S.-Dr. A. B. Mckee was found dead and his twin brother and comrade, Charles Mckee was found in stable of Dr. Mckee at Edwardsville today. The circum- stances indicate that it was a double suicide, to escape the disgrace that threatened the physician and which the brother dreaded as much as if it were his own. This explanation grows out of the arrest of Dr. Mckee few days ago.
 Death was caused by injection of morphine.
 San Juan, P. R., March 19.-Miss Alice Roosevelt landed here this morning from the steamer Como from New York. She was met by Governor Hunt and family and was immediately driven to the palace where she after wards held an informal reception. Extensive preparations had been made | to receive Miss Roosevelt and to en- | certain her. On Wednesday she will leave San Juan on an island trip, dur ing which she will visit the principal plantations and cities on the island. This journey will cover a period of several days.
 Buda Pest, March 21.-Two of the students who were injured during the rioting yesterday evening, on the occasion of the celebration of the anniversary of the birth of Louis Kossuth, died today.
 Many others were wounded with swords during the collision with the police, and are in very serious con- dition. This morning a thousand | students marched to the chamber of | deputies and demanded punishment from the authorities who are respon- sible for the attack on the students.
 Lincoln, Neb., March 2O.-A special from Fremont, Nebraska, says that man giving the name of John Bennett, surrendered to the sheriff there last night, asserting that he killed Norah Fuller, the girl found murdered in San Francisco a year ago.
 The man appeared at the jail door and begged to be imprisoned saying that the face of the dead girl haunted hIm. In his confession Bennett said he choked the girl to death but refused to state the reason for his crime. He is being held pending instructions from San Francisco.
 New York, March 2O.-James R. Keene and the city of New York are engaged in an interesting legal battle which may have far reaching effects on the question of the payment of personal taxes.
 Keene is to be the first man exam ined under the new method of sup elementary proceedings.
 The corporation counsel contends that Keene owes the city seventeen hundred dollars for personal taxes for 1901.
 Keene refuses to pay, claiming his residence was then at Hampstead in Nassau county.
 New London, Conn.,, March 2O.-In fog which descended upon Long Isl and sound last night, the big Fall River passenger steamer Plymouth, from New York for Fall River, with ! five hundred passengers aboard, and crew of twenty men was run down while passing through Race, by the steamer City of Taunton of the same line, bound for New York. Fully one hundred feet of the starboard side of the vessel was smashed in as if it had 1 been paper. The staterooms of the second cabin were cut away. In the hold most of the crew, asleep in the steerage, were drowned by the tor rent of water that poured through the gaping hole. The bow of the Taunton penetrated ten feet into the hull of the Plymouth.
 i The men were drowned like rats in their hunks. There is no way of tell ing how many perished. There are six dead certainly. It is believed that many more were drowned. The pas sengers all kept calm and none were drowned. The Plymouth managed to reach her dock by closing the collis- ] ion bulk heads.
 Washington. March 2l.-The report of the commission appointed by the president last October to investigate the anthracite coal strike was made public today. The report is dated March IS, and is signed by all mem bers of the commission. The report is to be illustrated and will be accom- panied by the testimony taken by the commission but thus far only the re- port has been printed. This alone covers eighty seven pages of printed matter.
 In brief the commission awards a general increase of wages, amounting