Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-06-05


 adopted pledging all present Co with
 hold their support from COnkling and
 Platt. Mccarthy offered a resolution
 that on Tuesday, May 31, the Senate proceed Q nominate candidates for the office of United States Senators.
 10 i'll vacancies ll the office.
 Adopted. Mccarthy also offered a
 concurrent resolution Ot joint meet
 ing of the Senate and Assembly d
 noon on Wednesday, June I, fo- the purpose Of eleCting Senators to fin
 vacancies In the office ot Senators from this State. Adopted.
 Decoration Day.
 ! NEW YORK, May 30.-Igis estimated | that JOOO men were iC line il today s | procession iu honor of Decorator f Day. lt included many organizations | of workingmen as well A Of the mi itary and the Grand Army of the Re | public. The decorations were CxIeu- sIve, especially those on the graves of , survivors of rebel prisons. One man was sunstruck during the parade. A dispatch from Gettysburg says | The appearance oi rlIs place was never before so lively since Lincoln | dedicated the national cemetery in | 1863. Fifteen thousand strangers, many of them very distinguished, l Were present. Governor Eaight and | stuH "ere absent. K. C. Burrows, of | Michigan, was the Ulalor Of tae day Preparing for StrusgIe-A Caucus
 Tizzle.
 MAsHINGTUE. May 90. In view of ! the condition of affairs aaICug the | Ctes, and the possibility that there may be trouble there, the War De parIment has decided that telegraphIc communication with the interior shall be established The nearest point from whence Washington and the general headquarters at LeaveuwOrth can now be communicated with is a hundred nit from the UunCom paghre agcr,.. Lieutenant Story. on duty wit .r Signal Corps, has been ordered .D proceed 10 Lake Citv, Col O. .o.u, uGd construct from there a gov -.umeE, line Ui telegraph 70 that agency. Lieutenant Story will leave Washington in a few days Ou this duty. The line will be iu W Orking or der In about three months. When it ia accomplished, General Pope, being promptly IntOrued of all matters of ImpOrt9uCe concerning the G les, can move his troops without delay, and the government can ac, without long waiting for intelligence, which did so much ?. a,Irge the former trouble with '.- Ltss.
 The attempt of the Conklug men 10 hold a caucus of Senators and As semblymen al Albany last evening , was Q tiZZie, much less tLau a major |. ity of the m 5crs of both Houses 1 being present. IA5clUcJs adJD-rued [ till $ O o'clock this evening.
 A Lame Flyer.
 DETROIT, June i-St. Julien was tO hs.-a .roit=d for the special pur- pose of beating Mud S.'s time, . 2:lOl., on Thursday, 6ud.nn Satur- , day he was given G trial. lie oc-' to the hR.!- mile pole 10 .Uj and was coming home at a BIO gait when he ! , stepped ID a hole and came near fall [ iug. To-day he was lame il one lore leg and HickOX decidei tLa. it would . be impolite To start him jhis week
 Shoots Two OHcers. '
 GALVESTON. June I.-The News GaHesvIl.cs sp,cial says. John ThOmp- son shot and killed deputy sheriff , Charles and Sam Meredith and l.. Knight, who attempted Co arrest, him i upon warrant for carrying concealed weapons. Thompson escaped iEto a the Territory.
 BalIoting for Senat"r-.
 ALBANY. May 3I.-Wheu noon ar- !, rived tte Senate proceeded 10 vote for i United States Senator in place of t Thomas C. P.a;t, resigned. Tue vote s stood as follows. T. C. Piatt 5, ] Chauucey NJ. Depew |. Francis J Herman ', Warner o, Miller ?, Sher- man :. Rogers 1, Eidridge Laphau | 2, Joseph Y Davis Z, Wm. A. Wheel f er 1. George A. Sharp l.
 The Senate then voted for succcS- q sOr tO til the short term in place of Roscoe COuklng. The vote stood a, P follows Roscoe COnkling5, Geo. E. c Bradley l, sherman ;. Roger ,, J. [. JacOos, 6, Chas. J. FOlger 2, Gov. Cornell 8, Tremain ?, Rogers |. The chair then announced that the house having failed Co give a majority ! or either candidate, it would be eu- {. cred so on the journal of the house. !, The Legislative business then pro- ,eeded. No candidates having re- n ;eIved majority the house u hen proceeded to vote Co fill 8 he vacancy oi Platt The vote stood ls follows: Depew II, Herman 41, . Platt 2l, FOlger 6, Lapham 6, Cor z nell l2. Francis 1, Pomeroy Wads- 7 worth 2. 4 l2 o'clock the Speaker Ii that under The order of II he House it would now proceed to 1ote for United States Senator ia C place of Roscoe ConEling. resigned n Each member, as his name Was called, q named his candidate. The vote stood ss follows: For COnkling 26, JacoB7 I. F, Wheeler f5, Crowley ., Cornell 6, ii WAdswOrth 2, Rogers 5, Miller 1. Ev- srts ?, Edick l, FOlger ,, White 2, e Chapman !, Butcher 1, Tremain ?, a FentOn l, Ward l, POmcrOy 1, Al Tord 2.
 GsVerno= Cornell Declines
 NEW YORK, June 1.-G0yernor Cornell has written a letter declining o be s candidate for the United ! States Senate, 10 be presented 10 the | Legislature tomorrow.
 Baggage Robbers Caught. ! ST. LoCIs, June 1.--JOhn T. FItz- r patrick, formerly messenger Of the :, Express Company, was ar 4 esled in Kansas City today, charged a with robbing the baggage of General D irani while on his way to Galveston (. ast spring. On his person were found ' ! large medallion in The form of a Russian bear. set with diamonds, pre- V, ented Co General Grant by the Elm 7 )eror of Russia, and a Maltese cross et with seventeen diamonds. four Of . which have been removed. II. King, .. Ormerly a baggage man on the Iron Mountain road, anu supposed Co be o .onnec,ei with the robbery, has been o