Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-03-09

O Lacrosse, Wis, March 3.-A bliz t gard ragged in this vicinity all night o The temperature dropped 45 degrees - during the night and was at zero thI' a morning.
 Washington, March s.-The persons whose "influence" seemed good to tine
 postoff1ce department and embraced
 in the history of the cases reported @ yesterday in Chairman Overstreet' 6 b report include, G. D. Meikeliohn, Rep t resentatives Griggs, George, Smith, . Rodeburg, Warner and Prince, of H. f linois; Landis, Crumpacker, Watson, 8 Hemenway, and Overstreet of Indiana ; f Cousins and Smith, of Iowa; Miller,
 Bowersock and Calderhead, of Kansas ; Pugh, of Kentucky; Pearce and Jack son, of Maryland; Senters and Clay, of Georgia; Beveridge, of Indiana {; MaComas, of Maryland; Cullom, of
 Illinois; Ex-Senator Mason, Former Senator Henderson and others.
 London, March s.-Grand Trunk railroad shareholders, at meeting to-
 day, was ratified of the agreement of
 the Canadian government to the con- struetion of the Grand Trunk line to
 the Pacific coast.
 Vladivostok, March s. s.-Despite the appearance of the Japanese fleet of
 this harbor yesterday the inhabitants are in good spirits. Crowds promen- ade the streets as usual, including many women. Many suspected Japs
 have been arrested, but when exam
 ined proved to be Chinamen or Ko- reans. Snow has been falling two days here.
 Tokio, March S.-Marquis Ito is go- ing to Korea on a special. mission to the emperor. The purpose of his trip is profound secret. He carries an autograph letter from the Mikado Co the emperor of Korea. He will depart on the 18th inst. and will be absent three weeks.
 Bladaveschensk, East Siberia, March 5.-The last detachment of the Aigun Cossacks rifles has left bere for Tsitsi- har, Manchuria.
 Harrisburg, Pa, March S.-Harris- burg, today, faces the worst food in its history. The situation all along the Susquehanna is critical, and resi- dents of the lowlands are moving to higher ground. TEe river is gradually rising, and no estimate can be made of the final outcome of the flood.
 Washington, March s-Chas. F. Merrill, son of Apostle Merrill, was called to the stand in the Shoot in- vestigation, before the senate com mittee on privileges and elections to- day.
 He said that he is the son of his ! fathers third plural wife, and that he ] is himself polygamist.
 He said that he now had two wives | and is cobabitating with both. They occupied different homes at Rich mOnd, Utah, one mile part.
 Regarding his fathers family be | said that his father had six wives and | that he has twenty brothers and seventeen sisters. He did not know how many nieces and Dephews, but thought there were more than one hundred.
 He said that his father lived with his first wife, but that he came home to his mother, once a month.
 Merrill thought that three of his brothers had married plural wives, and that two of his sisters had mar ried into polygamous families.
 The witness said that he did not particularly hold to the doctrine of polygamy but that he practiced it.
 Francis NJ. Lyman, an apostle of the Mormon church, and the prospective successor of President Smith also tes- tified that he is polygamist. He said that be had had three wives and two are still living.
 Shanghai, March S.-.The mobiliza- tion of Japanese troops proceeds regu- larly but very much slower than was expected. On landing at Kornea, Manchuria, the Japanese forces will be divided into four armies. The points of concentration, selected by the Japanese of the general staff is not yet known.
 Manila, March S.-Lieut. John Wise , Morse, paymaster on the battleship Wisconsin, has been exonerated from , the charge of misappropriaticn of funds. He was however found guilty of neglect of duty, and sentenced to be reduced ten numbers in rank.
 Birmingham, Ala, March S.-The south bound limited express on the Alabama and Great Southern railroad, running sixty miles an hour collided l head on with a freight train near l Kewanee, Mississippi, today. The ( engineer, fireman, and two mail {, clerks were killed. (
 Port Arthur, March 8. Vice Ad- T miral Makarof, the ice breaking spe- ' cialist of the Russian navy, arrived at Dalny yeserday and is expected here , today. Complete tranquility prevails throughout this district and nothing has been seen of the Japanese for sev- eral days.
 Wilkesbarre, March S.-The water in the north branch of the Susquehan . na is still rising. It is now the high r est since 1892, when the entire city | was flooded. \