The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-05-02

THE ARMY BILL PASSES THE SENATE. f,
 Washington, April 25-The Army bill G has passed the Senate. Yeas, Al; nays, 50. q A strictly party vote. |
 EDWIN BOOTHS LUNATIc. T
 St. Louis, April e5-Gray, who attempted | to shoot Edwin Booth in Chicago, is known here as 6 quiet young man, stage struck and somewhat cratic, claiming to come from ! family of actors. He has been heard to say that his father is alive but will not own him, and he would get even with him yet. | One of his friends thinks he believes Booth I is his father. THE TRAGEDLAS INTERVIEWS HIS AssAILAST.
 Chicago. May 25-Booth was this morn ing before the grand jury, where he gave his testimony. Repairing then to the jail he had an interview with Gray, who was brought from his cell to converse with him. Booth when questioned in regard to the in- terview, said: "Why, he wouldn't say any thing. I couldn't get any thing from him. said to him that if mad done him harm should be glad to make him reparasion for it, if he would tell me what it was, for was perfectly ignorant of any such thing, but he only looked at the floor and said: "He had nothing to say about 1t at pres ent" asked him if he was ever in N. |. He looked up at me, and that was the only time. by the way, that ne looked me straight
 in the face during the whole interview, and said, "No, sir; never was" Then asked him if he did not think he might have made a mistake-got the wrong Edwin. He smil- | ed slightly at that. Says l" continued the tragedian, Do stand in your way as an actorl Is that tho reason you would like to have me removedl but he only smiled in reply. | AcArHoLIc UNIVERSITY BURNED. Chicago, April 24th.- South Bend special says: Notre Dame Catholic University is en- tirely burned down. The Infirmary Old
 Mems Home, Music Hall and Mimm's Hall
 adjoining were also burned. No lives were
 lost The loss is estimated at from sl5O,0OO to $200,0O0. Insurance on the University
 building S60,0O0. The circulating library of
 q, 900 volumes valued at sl0000, seventeen
 pianos and other musical instruments Ill
 Music Hall were burned. The institution
 was one of the largest of the kind in the
 West, and was founded by Father Sorin.
 chef of the Order of Brothers of the Sacred
 Heart, headquarters at Paris. Emperor Ma DO. on was a warn friend of the institution | aa1 made 1t several fine presents, including :. a chIme of bells one of the largest in the con- tinent.
 RELIEF FOR THE CoLoRED REFUGEs. Boston, April 24th.-A large meeting was - held in Faueuil Hall to-day to provide relie ,- for the Kansas immigrants. Governor Ial- s bot presided.
 2 New York, April 24th-Lewis Clark, Jr., V President of the Louisville Jockey Club, = snd Pierre Lorillard, have arranged for a series of i've matches to be run at Louis , vile and Monmouth Park. Lorillard Is to N name three colts three years old, bred at i" " Rancocas stock farm, while Col. Clark i' = to have the pick of Kentucky. Much ex- ; citemeht exists over the matter in club circles, where it is claimed these two pro- , gressiye representatives are reviving the 70 sectional contests which in the past aroused e SO much interest.
 WELL KNOWN BROTHERS BURNED. 'a Pittsburg, April 24th The residence of - Alexander King was destroyed by fire this " morning. A stable containing ten head of '" valuable blooded horses and six colts was . also totally destroyed. Among the horses ," burned were the we'll known trotters Nellie ., Ellis, Nettie and Lady Alice.
 he FIeHF wTT4 sIouti in Chicago. April 24.=A telegram states at that Lieutenant Doner, with fourteen mer .,. of the Third and Seventh Infantry. had st brush with some Sioux Indians in Mussc Tn Shell Canyon, in which eight Indians were .ll killed and several wounded. He lost one vc friendly Indian, who was killed. ''' BODY -sNATCHISG.
 New York, April 23.-A Herald specia le, says that the body of Harry Rurpel waa sto bs .s len fsom the vault at Little Falls, New ,d York. on Monday night. Durrel was s' 1T, years old and worth $250,000.
 ,. FATHER potsoys HIMSELF and HIS Tw' ,~ CHILDREN.
 ;,; Nav York. April 2ih.-Albert c. Deffrag' ." A druggist, of 2j7 West Twenty,sixth stree. T, this morning tstellT poisoneu 'rsor m % o5'I, % D. will recover. Jealausy oi his wife Is st'Fihp lg ted as the cause,
 s Judge Archer, of San Jose, Gov. Irwin xo Hon. T. c. Phelps of San Mateo. 5. Sol l, id uoIl of Sacramento, R. E. Gardner and 1ll host of lesser lights are setting the State ll. California in & blaze of enlhasiasE in ia uk xor of the old as against the new constitu Ie. uou. from the srostrum in every county i ng the state.
 le- BURIED ALIVE.
 Inc Wilkesbarre (bal, Aptil as.-A cave c ng mine at Sugar Notch has imprisoned sl ne, men and boy. Two hundred men ar 'Ik working from the surface to rescue them. | viRK AT THE HONE OF EDWIN BOOTH ills Stanford, Conn. April 24th--A lArg
 part of the village of Cos Cob, where Edwi Booth resides was burned last night.
 CoNKLINo's SPEECH.
 Washington. April s5.-At o'clock ye'
 t.rdav CopklinV took the floor. He begA m, by saying that daring tue l4tt LtSsl }es his there V .s paid into the treasury, as revenu ug s2S4. .OOO, 900. Of this sum O' twenty states which did not go into the rebelllo "" psid two hundred and twenty-one miilio