Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-02
Late Photographic News.

Charles M. Gorham was to-day nom- mated by the President to be eoiner of the mint at San Francisco.
 The colored journalists of the United States met in convention Wednesday and were addressed by Fred Douglass.
 The recommendation by the Secretary of War for an appropriation of S2O5,OOO for the erection Of barracks, etc, in Ari- zona was referred.
 Mary Ann Angell, young wife of tue prophet Brigham Young, died Tuesday night. Fifteen more sorrowiDg widows remain 70 follow him.
 The House Committee on Elections de- cided to give the seat now occupied by Gilman, of South Carolina, to Small, the contestant. In the Alabama case of Stroback against Corbert the contest was dismissed with leave to Stroback to with draw papers without prejudice.
 A brutal prize fight took place near Houtzdale, Carbon county, Pa, early Wednesday morning. Thos. Reese and Daniel Reese, local pugillsts, were prin- cipals. Forty-three rounds were fought m Iorty-nye mIuu1es, ,,s...I--s-.l-.s, a-- victory for Thos. Reese. The vanquished pugilist was terribly punished.
 A singular suicide occurred Tn Salt Lake Tuesday night. A discharged soldier by the name of John English, after ad- iusting a skunk trap around his neck in an unOccupied building, fastened the chain to one of the rafters and then let himself down. When discovered a few minutes after the trap had caught his life.
 The House has passed by yeas 127, mays 80, the bill to reduce internal reve- nue taxation. It abolishes the tax on bank checks, capital and deposits, per fumery, matches and proprietary medi- cines; reduces the special license tax on tabacco dealers and reduces to S4 the tax on cigars and cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per thousand, and to seventy-five cents the tax on cig- arettes weighing less than three pounds.
 Lord Chestor dead.
 The miners at Huntsville, Pa, have decided to strike.
 The Michigan Prohibitionists have placed a ticket in the field.
 Five men were drowned in the upper Missouri river at Mainland by the cap sizing Of a boat.
 Elijah Van KOnquet was hanged to- day at Kingston, Ontario, for the murder l of John Richard.
 The Democrats of the Sixth Ohio dis trict have nominated W. l.. Hill for l Congress.
 Redwood, Tenn, on the llne of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, is almost | depopulated by smallpox.
 Six business houses in Whitney, | Texas; were burned Wednesday night. Loss, S6OOO0; insurance, about S35,OOO |
 The fourteenth Illinois District Con. gressional Republican Convention, nominated J. H. Rowell of Bloomington.
 The freight handlers of the Boston, Lowell and Concord road in this city, numbering 45O, struck to-day for S1.65 per day. None of the placrs or the strikers are filled and business at the freight house IS at a stand.
 At Elizabeth, \. Nj. on Monday evening a young colored man, supposed to be the one who had struck a woman in the face for intefrrring to prevent him from entering a house with bur- glarious intent, was hanged after being brutally beaten. He is now believed to be innocent.
 A Las Vegas, N. NJ, dispatch says that yesterday, while R. II. Hotter was walk ing the sreet with his wife, he was lassoed by an Indian desperate named Navaioe Frank, who was mounted, and he was dragged for over one hundred yards by the neck. Hotter was terribly bruised and lacerated. The Indian was finally compelled to cut his lassO by a party covering him with guns. He made his escape but soon after was captured by band Of men who pursued him. Last night he was taken from the iall and hanged.
 The Captain and crew of the British ship Lammermoor, wrecked on BOdega reef, arrived in San Francisco Wednes- day. The Captain refuses to make a statement regarding the disaster. From a member of the crew it IS learned that the ship at the time she struck was booming along under full sail and leading the wind. He also stated that there was no lookout on dlty at the time. Three boats were launched and all hands were taken to schooner which was laying